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A hole in your license = no fly zone

Robert Weiner

I recently renewed my California driver's license. The clerk punched a hole in the license and gave me a paper "temporary license." " I didn ’t recall this procedure from my last renewal 10 years ago and assumed my old license would be valid until the printed expiration date several weeks hence.

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Do You Need to Register to Fundraise Online? A Crash Course

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Gambling or Games of Chance Licenses Certain types of popular fundraising activities such as raffles and auctions require your nonprofit to apply for a gambling or games of chance license. Choose your fundraiser carefully , as more activities require licenses than you might first assume.

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The ABC would wrap together efforts such as TIGAR as a sharing portal, capacity building efforts for countries trying to create accessible book services and looking at issues like licensing. So, in the meanwhile, we will need to rely on licenses: permissions agreements. So, the publishers weren’t against all licensing.

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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

There was tremendous optimism about the value of training engineers and scientists and how that would benefit all of humanity, especially in the southern California of a century ago which was reshaped through the wonders of technology. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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Bookshare to Convert Open Content Textbooks to Accessible Formats

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of the coolest meetings was with Under Secretary of Education, Martha Kanter, who headed our local community college here in California before getting the appointment. Accessibility is a huge asset of open content materials, which are frequently released under the Creative Commons licenses and are freely distributable.

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Non-Boring #Tech4Good Meetings for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Tech for Good Monthly Mixer. Los Angeles, California: Summer Social. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. . --> North America.

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Find an Awesome Nonprofit Tech Training Near You

Tech Soup

San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Los Angeles, California: Can We Measure Social Impact? San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California: Hack Your Desk: DIY Workplace Wellness.