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. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195. Odeo: Free [link] Copyright Free Music Podsafe Music Network. Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. Includes support for first year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested? Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org! :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 25, 2016

The evidence shows that an uncompromising commitment to be inclusive of all relevant parts of society, from employees, to customers, to NGOs, leads to the sort of engagement that generates 20 per cent outperformance in profits over average competitors in the course of a decade. Another example is the music streaming service Spotify.

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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. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

The three others are Democracy in Action , which is a SaaS that is open source, CitySoft says it’s open source, but I don’t know whether it is through an OSI approved license (since they don’t say. at 1:12 pm Aaron Antrim’s blog 01.01.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

In fact, pretty much every open source project that has gone commercial, or had a change in license, caused a fork, pretty much killing the original (like Mambo, or XFree86.) They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. Its move to becoming an open source DB with a development/community approach similar to MySQL, and 30 years of attentiveness to the Enterprise customer makes it a great resource for Non profits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. Its move to becoming an open source DB with a development/community approach similar to MySQL, and 30 years of attentiveness to the Enterprise customer makes it a great resource for Non profits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

I stopped at the license agreement. I might regret hosing the recovery media w/o getting them on CD later, but I hope not – I was in a purist mood – I would have had to have agreed to the license agreement for Vista and activated the product in order to burn the media, and I wasn’t about to do that.) It booted fine.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. Without the s/w to install it (and strongly suspecting that doing so just to “check it out&# is a waste of time), I have to believe that their goal here is to get clients to buy services. Which is fine. 2 Tompkins Spann 03.21.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

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. It’s “Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt&# all over again. Of course, the 800 pound gorilla doesn’t actually have to sue anyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing. John Haydon, who advises small non-profits, small businesses and social entrepreneurs on how to implement inbound marketing strategies with the social web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

I'm very interested in the whole notion of open content and creative commons licensing in the nonprofit space. She told me, "I probably don't have to mention this to you, but you are of course free to put this under a public domain, BY or BY-sa license." The higher your price, the higher your profit. Get tech saavy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

Even though I love promoting open source software and Linux among my non-profit clients, we’re not at the point where I could recommend Linux desktops for organization staff. And so the whole not-having-to-worry-about-licenses envy came up (in my head – no way I’d actually suggest this – I knew it was fantasy).

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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. Some take internal staff resources (especially the Manual strategy.) Others take developer resources (especially the Integration strategy.) So what’s the right strategy? That totally depends on a few factors. First, are you happy with your current CRM and CMS?

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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.

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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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Byte Technology

AUGUST 19, 2015

Staying financially sound and socially relevant in the non-profit world is no easy task. It’s a sad truth, but donors are less interested in hearing about a non-profit’s programs or cause: they want to know whether their support, whether monetary or in the form of time and talent, is making a serious difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

Alan Jordan posted the following : A constituency session comment re-iterated a line shared with me a long time ago from a concert hall manager in Concord, NH who passed away from cancer a few years back: the official moniker for 501(c)3s is not “non-profit,” but “not for profit.” And that’s a goal or objective too.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

But by and large, people were pushed into poverty wage jobs and forced to make profit for huge corporations, while not having any opportunity to improve the living standards for themselves or their families. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Thanks for listening.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

It's challenging, because it can spread us out, and we are, like most non-profits, understaffed, but it's very fulfilling in that way. If you liked the opening music, it was an excerpt from Kenya Masala's, "Mango Delight." You can learn more about Kenya's music, and his work by going to sourceconsultinggroup.com.

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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.) How about this one: " You may not work around any technical limitations in the software." " What else is it that us geeks do? This sounds quite different than the activation issue.

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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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