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Varied and sundry

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. I did a webinar for NTEN on it – ReadyTalk worked just fine.

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Linux, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and Me

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. My first step was to make sure the laptop booted. I stopped at the license agreement. I’ll understand points of pain, for sure. I got a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m. Good specs, cheap price. It booted fine.

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Linux desktops?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. I think it can also work for the folks who perhaps use laptops as their primary machines, and don’t do anything except email and web. And, guess what? I’m giving up. And, of course, always, for developers.

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Why is the Cloud Right for Your Nonprofit?

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Ironically, these cloud services are typically offered at costs that are more economical than traditional licensed software and internal support expenses combined. Everything you’re hearing tells you that SaaS is better than the old licensing model. Amy Sample Ward, CEO, NTEN. You Only Pay For What You Need.

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