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Your #NPtech Community Calendar for July

Tech Soup

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Boston, Massachusetts: What Nonprofits Can (and Cannot) Learn from Wikipedia. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License.

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The Deep Learning When Nonprofit Techies Get Together

Tech Soup

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. Beyrouth, Lebanon: SkillPill: Creating Wikipedia Articles. Image Name: Author / License. Or, apply today to start your own NetSquared group. Asia and Pacific Rim. Tuesday, March 24, 2015.

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Office clean-up Part 1 :Open-Source and the GPL

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. I know a lot of people in the in the non-profit community think of Open-Source software as "free", as not requiring a license agreement. Tags: nptech , FOSS , GPL You can find it online here.

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When Worlds Collide

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

The history, as Wikipedia explains it, goes like this. It's being provided under the GPL License. Tags: nptech , wiki , applications Considering Dan invented the entire idea of the electronic spreadsheet as we know it, we'd be fools not be interested. The generally recognized inventor of the spreadsheet is Dan Bricklin.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wikipedia has a great entry on PostgreSQL, including some history). Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I’ve been using it since it was called Postgres95 – before version 6.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

The charity pricing on it is is free for up to ten licenses with as much as a 75% discount per seat above that. The centerpiece of the philanthropic project is a cloud networking solution that’s free (forever) to 501(c)(3) organizations that need ten licenses or fewer. Larger nonprofits can get additional licenses at half off.

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