Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. to develop open source software. It’s designed as a basecamp clone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

With fundraising, especially in the non-profit sector, there’s always more work than there is time. This may almost seem like a foreign concept for the non-profit world, but trust me, it’s possible! Non-profit fundraisers are notorious for working on their days off. Every day in a non-profit there are big and little successes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free? 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.

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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. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. I stopped at the license agreement. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back. I got a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

MPower Open , an enterprise CRM, is both open source, and has great open APIs. Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. There will be way more on this in later posts.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Microsoft this week has started saber-rattling against Linux and other open source projects, by suggesting that they infringe on 235 patents that they hold. 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.

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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. { Be Helpful.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Open Data Day — Google+ Hangout. Special Office 365 Event for Nonprofits and IT Consultants. Portland, Oregon: Top Nonprofit Lessons from a For-Profit. Busia, Kenya: Open Data Day. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Netsquared Yaounde, Cameroon Open Data Day. Busia, Kenya: Open Data Day. Austin, Texas.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

IT consultant Bryan Beaty volunteers at a small nonprofit. After trying Google's Chromebook for his personal use, Beaty suggested that the organization try it too : A small underfunded non-profit (I volunteer there) has 11 employees. The first time you open a Chromebook, it's a disorienting experience.

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online. Its great to see the proliferation of APIs in the for-profit world, but what about nonprofits? Other providers, such as Blackbaud may follow their lead.

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MARCH 16, 2011

This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out nearly 100 exhibirors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. It's also the setting for the conference's Opening Reception. Just slide open the 3” widescreen to show your videos instantly to friends.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet. 5 Matthew Edmondson 06.25.08

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AUGUST 12, 2007

The good thing is that since the business world seems to be moving ahead much more quickly on Linux and FOSS adoption, companies that work in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are gaining Linux expertise – expertise that nonprofit organizations can benefit from. But I think more is needed. Ubuntu is based on Debian). Be Helpful.

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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. I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Open Content, Online Privacy, and Virtual Worlds Where Most Needed points out that few US Universities jump on MIT's Free Courseware Bandwagon. Deadline is March 2n.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

So you could actually learn, it's one of the few non-profits that trains people in how to teach others about gardening and composting. and if you liked the opening music it was an excerpt from Kenya Masala's Mango Delight. You can learn more about Kenya's work and his music by going to sourcecounsultinggroup.com. Thanks for listening.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

So, we're doing that in partnership with City Slicker Farms, and we now have a new opportunity through our urban agricultural program, to partner with an organization called Sustainable Agriculture Education Center, to open a small farm down in Sunol, which is kind of South Bay, Fremont, Union City area. Thanks for listening!

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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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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

So, this particular organization came to us—as I said, their management team—and consulted with us. And you do not want, obviously, to be having your data and your applications being accessed on an open network that is open to anyone in the vicinity essentially. They were never secured, and they weren’t password protected.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This means that instead of adopting a for-profit system and “making do” with the non-specific features, CharityEngine is designed with your organization’s unique structure in mind. Nonprofits and for-profits alike find success on the platform when it is fully built out to meet the organization’s needs. Salesforce. Salesforce pricing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

The newest Big Vision podcast is up , and it is an interview with Ilyse Hogue, the Global Finance Campaign Director for the Rainforest Action Network and one of the founders of SmartMeme , a non-profit collective of long term organizers, strategists, trainers and communications professionals. Thanks for listening.

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