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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

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A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects. Got an idea for an app or software solution, but don't know where to start? Serbia) in partnership with TechSoup Global and Zasto ne (Bosnia and Herzegovina).

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

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We are testing it out at hackathons this month in San Francisco and also in Sarajevo in Bosnia. The service requires no login or password and no special software or hardware, just use email from any type device. Hacker Helper is currently in beta. After that we hope lots of people will contribute content to it.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

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The way The Fog will work, as Christopher Mims describes it in the Wall Street Journal , is that our smart devices will send software updates to one another, rather than routing them through the cloud, a bit like how peer-to-peer music and movie sharing is done via services like Bittorrent.

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