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. But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back.
NTEN
JULY 3, 2014
Last week, during the quarterly staff retreat, NTEN staff toured Free Geek. Free Geek is a technology reuse, recycle, and education nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon. Several NTEN staff have been long-time supporters, and NTEN has always donated its old electronics to Free Geek. community Community free geek'
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 17, 2007
At Penguin Day, one of the issues discussed was nonprofit adoption of Open Source software and the issue that there aren't enough technology stewards, translators, documentation, and training available to the end user to make adoption easier. Thanks James!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 24, 2007
He's over in Thailand now, but was glad to see he had Internet access - looks like free wifi too. I found out that thanks to Adam Hyde of FlossManuals.net , he will be distributing free printed guides to open-source software and he will also be giving out digital cameras to up-and-coming Cambodian photobloggers.
NTEN
MARCH 10, 2010
Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. Free and Open Source Software. Whether it is on the desktop like Firefox and Open Office or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, or on servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and running CMSs and CRMs (like Drupal and CiviCRM).
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 11, 2010
I’m actually quite happy – I can run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and I like Android (and my Droid 2 phone) a lot. Once I sell my iPhone (fairly soon) I will be free of Apple hardware for the first time in 25 years (yikes! And, of course, using Ubuntu on the desktop is fun.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 12, 2007
But since most Linux distributions are free (as in beer), that’s not really quite the way to look at it. I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases. Ubuntu is based on Debian).
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