Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. I hope that they decide to go with an OSI approved license (they are currently using their own, which is a modification of the Apache license.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy. It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

NetSquared gathers together nonprofits and activists, tech leaders and funders, and everyone who's interested in using technology for social change. Activists and community leaders will see and be given the opportunity to present on successful uses of technology for social change. Monday, September 14, 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

The report is often an important piece of research designed to show leadership on an issue and attract the attention of the press and governments to affect social change. These reports, and others like them, represent a critical part of the work of social change organizations, think tanks and foundations. The Death of the PDF.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2016

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Your Nonprofit Website: Tiptoe Through the WordPress Templates. Port Harcourt, Nigeria: Shaping Port Harcourt for Social Change. Limbe, Cameroon: Shaping Limbe for Social Change. Buéa, Cameroon: Shaping Buea for Social Change. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Naples, Florida: Return to Basics: WordPress Walk-in Clinic. Washington, DC: Lessons Learned, Online Learning for Social Change. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Youth and Social Change. Vancouver, Canada: Small Changes for Big Results: How to Optimize Your Online Donations. Image Name: Author / License. HTML EXAMPLE.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

San Francisco, California: Mobile Apps for Change Demo Day. Los Angeles, California: WordPress for Nonprofits — Learn from an Expert! Kisumu City, Kenya: Netsquared Safer Internet 2017: Be the Change; Unite for a Better Internet. Lusaka, Zambia: Website Building and Designing Using WordPress for Nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested? Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org! :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

I’m not about to change that. But, Linux has changed, and I have changed. And, in some ways, NOSI has changed – we’re thinking more and more about talking about Linux on the desktop, which we thought was not ready for nonprofit primetime for a long time. I stopped at the license agreement.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

In fact, pretty much every open source project that has gone commercial, or had a change in license, caused a fork, pretty much killing the original (like Mambo, or XFree86.) They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

While young people and early adopters increasingly turn to the social Web not only to socialize but to communicate, explore new ideas and share new experiences, nonprofits and social change organizations are still generally stuck in the top-down, one-way world of Web 1.0. jazz and put it to work for your organization or cause.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

The three others are Democracy in Action , which is a SaaS that is open source, CitySoft says it’s open source, but I don’t know whether it is through an OSI approved license (since they don’t say. at 1:12 pm Aaron Antrim’s blog 01.01.08

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OCTOBER 6, 2010

Some segments are already well-established, including content management systems (Drupal, Joomla, WordPress), javascript libraries (Dojo, jQuery), and reporting engines (Jasper, BIRT). and licensing models. More recently, open source development has moved into the application layer. Concluding "Rant" :-).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. Without the s/w to install it (and strongly suspecting that doing so just to “check it out&# is a waste of time), I have to believe that their goal here is to get clients to buy services. Which is fine. 2 Tompkins Spann 03.21.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source. It’s “Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt&# all over again. Of course, the 800 pound gorilla doesn’t actually have to sue anyone.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

It lagged behind MySQL for years because of speed issues (it was much slower,) but that has changed with the newest versions, such that in fact PostgreSQL is faster and more scalable than MySQL. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

It lagged behind MySQL for years because of speed issues (it was much slower,) but that has changed with the newest versions, such that in fact PostgreSQL is faster and more scalable than MySQL. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Lusaka, Zambia: Website Building and Designing Using WordPress for Nonprofits. London, United Kingdom: Be Bold for Change — The Women Using Tech to Empower Others. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Modern Nonprofits Use the Cloud. Wednesday, March 8, 2017.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Baltimore, Maryland: WordPress 101 and Tech Help Consultations. Research Triangle Park, North Carolina: Crowdsourcing Change: The Social Web to Nonprofits. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. O'Fallon, Missouri: Learn How to Apply for a $10,000 per Month Google AdWords Grant. Friday, October 6, 2017.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

Which is unfortunate, and I hope it changes. And so the whole not-having-to-worry-about-licenses envy came up (in my head – no way I’d actually suggest this – I knew it was fantasy). Although they weren’t doing it when I made the purchase, Dell is now including licensed DVD playback software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. We’ll be adding in our e-advocacy platform as a future step because we’ll need to change what platform we’re using as the GetActive platform we’re on now is going away. So what’s the right strategy? 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How do we do make change if we keep doing things the same way? The new journal, the Journal of Information Technology in Social Change , is, I think, a needed part of our landscape of resources for the sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. Another free blogging platform is wordpress hosted. Such a culture would be, by default, permissive of efforts to improve upon, change, integrate, or otherwise remix. Here's how the Creative Commons licenses work. I'm nervous.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

It is a rock-solid distribution with what is arguably the best package management system. Ubuntu is based on Debian). It has a vibrant user community. Debian is the favorite of most serious Linux geeks. And, luckily, once you’ve learned some Linux, supporting other distributions isn’t such a big deal. {

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This is one of my favorite quotes from him: "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Marnie recommends Change By Design by Tim Brown, the CEO of the celebrated innovation and design firm IDEO.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

This is one of my favorite quotes from him: "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." Marnie recommends Change By Design by Tim Brown, the CEO of the celebrated innovation and design firm IDEO.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.) A company going in the other direction: Eudora is going open source (no, they are not open sourcing old Eudora code, they are changing direction to use Mozilla Thunderbird as the underlying technology.)

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 4, 2019

In this article, I’m going to break down my step-by-step process for building a beautifully designed WordPress website, regardless of your budget. Why WordPress For Nonprofits? Selecting A WordPress Hosting Provider. WordPress Website Design On A Budget. Why WordPress For Nonprofits? Article Navigation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2007

" The link will take you directly to the screencast , but I also went to the trouble of putting together some extensive program notes that will help you explore widgets in more depth and provides credits to all the wonderful cc licensed material I used in the screencast. I didn't want those to get lost. They follow below. Finder Lens.

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