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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It creates an opportunity to have public benefit being balanced with business interests. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point. Jimmy and I spent an hour trading music together. I had never heard of it.

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Keeping the Rich History of Virginia Preserved and Secure

Tech Soup

There is a $5 fee to use the library, but it is open to the public for history and genealogy research. The library gets a mix of both general public visitors looking up family history as well as graduate students, writers, historians, and other professionals. Keeping History Protected.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

Through TechSoup Japan, KnK received a donation of 15 Microsoft Office 2007 licenses and Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium. According to Kyo Shimizu, KnK ‘s public relations officer, who also takes care of the computer network in the office. The remaining students must hold classes outside underneath trees, if weather permits.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I promise (!)

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I promise (!)

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Abby Rosenheck, Urban Sprouts, Interview Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

Abby Rosenheck: Urban sprouts is a school garden program where we support middle and high schools in San Francisco to build school gardens at their school, so the students grow, prepare, eat--the whole thing. Britt Bravo: Do you have any stories about how this work has impacted individual students' lives?

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Twenty "Fearless" Changemakers

Have Fun - Do Good

In addition to winning grants and prizes, the winners will compete for additional awards, which will be decided in a “Fan Favorite” public vote, so vote away! provides a 12-week afterschool program and 4-month paid apprenticeship wellness program for low-income high school students. Twitter: @dcsocialinnov ) 3. Miami, FL Youth L.E.A.D.