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Reader solicitation

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Here’s my list of upcoming topics: Has Open Source won or lost, or is the struggle still going on? Updates on Open Content and Copyleft of things other than code that nonprofits might be interested in. A beginners guide to NoSQL. Ruby on Rails (varied topics). Drupal Provisioning. Cloud development platforms.

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Technology providers and Linux

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One of the interesting dynamics of any technology provider of any stripe is the way they choose the technology they will focus on and support. I think this is something that many nonprofits, especially those without in-house technology expertise aren’t that aware of. But I think more is needed.

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It Takes A Village: Joining and Participating in the WordPress Community

Byte Technology

After all, the platform is open-sourced, meaning anyone and everyone can contribute to it in the form of updates, new themes, and custom plugins that help create more functionality and give the program greater versatility and, in turn, greater popularity.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. In fact, the name of the session was “APIs for Beginners.&#. The enhancements effectively put Social Actions back on the cutting edge of social technology.

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Useful Hacks, Tricks & Tips for WordPress Users: Part 1

Byte Technology

That said, the folks at WP Beginner have compiled an impressive list of creative shortcuts and work-arounds that can really up a user’s game and make the process of designing, launching and administering a WordPress site infinitely more seamless and easy.

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DrupalconDC Report #1

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Themers Toolkit - I’ve only done a few themes, and modified a few, but I guess that was enough for this panel to be too beginner for me. Tags: opensource Open Source drupalcon CMS nptech drupal. I went to three pretty intro talks (two of them were a bit too intro for me, but I got a few good tips) and one advanced panel.

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Raspberry Pi for Educators

Tech Soup

The Raspberry Pi was designed to help educators and students understand technology better. Raspberry Pi Beginners takes you from opening the box it comes in to configuring it to starting basic projects. Power source. hardware open source' Programming with Raspberry Pi. Power ratings. 300 mA (1.5 700 mA (3.5