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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. That speaks volumes to me.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0, What Is Web 2.0?

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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { This is very cool. Be Helpful.

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Software Coding Bounties

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via the 501-C3 Tech Club for Boston list, the Participatory Culture Foundation (Worcester, MA) has announced a new. website for listing free and open-source software coding. bounties: [link].

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Ideas to Open Government Data

Forum One

While it would not be as "raw" as initially envisioned, urging as many agencies as possible to produce actual queryable APIs with the data would have made more possibilities for truly creative visualizations and allowed new participatory applications to be built. Open Standards. Demonstration Projects.

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Nonprofit SXSW Goodness – Conference List Toppers, To-Dos and Topics of Interest

Connection Cafe

It's a discussion of bike and pop culture and socializing the good with these Interweb tools” 10. In code We Trust: Open Government Awesomeness panel Friday March 12 2:00 PM - "In Code We Trust" is the new motto for Government in the 21st century. But it wasn't here to enterain, no. Karaoke came to unite us in song.

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New Power & Social Good: Thoughts from Jeremy Heimans

Connection Cafe

And I love how everything is open source and they say here’s the logo and no, there aren’t rules for how you can use it. Rachel: They put it in the hands of the people. Change it, change it, do whatever you want with it, mess with the name, have fun. There’s a whole world that’s been created.

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