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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

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On June 1, programmers, activists, and civic leaders participated in the first ever National Day of Civic Hacking (NDoCH) across 83 U.S. Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model.

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TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge Global Tweet Chat Recap

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As a nonprofit example, Ilie offered the 6-word story of an organization that helps the visually impaired: "Blind graduate works for National Bank." The answer for smaller organizations is to look for open source software as suggested in the Cambridge portion of the tweet chat. led the bilingual tweet chat.