Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out. I stopped at the license agreement. Once Ubuntu finished booting, I clicked the wonderful “install&# icon at the top. A few minutes later, I had a Ubuntu install with KDE – but it was bare bones. I’ll understand points of pain, for sure.

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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. Ubuntu is based on Debian). But I think more is needed.

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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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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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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Whether it is on the desktop like Firefox and Open Office or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, or on servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and running CMSs and CRMs (like Drupal and CiviCRM). Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? Free and Open Source Software.

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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.) Get Ubuntu , and have done already. But if you really want to have done with stuff like this, get Ubuntu. How about this one: " You may not work around any technical limitations in the software."

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