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TechSoup Global at National Day of Civic Hacking

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Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model. ReWrite Oakland. Image 3: ReWrite Oakland, Caravan Studios. Honolulu Day of Civic Hacking. Image 2: Code for Hawaii, Bytemarks.

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7 LGBT Tech Projects You Need to Know

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Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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Tell Your Community's Story with NetSquared

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Or if face-to-face is more your style, join your local NetSquared group — NetSquared groups are holding digital storytelling events all month. Oakland, California: Office 365 for Nonprofits — Bay Area! Portland, Oregon: Secret Knowledge of Open Source. Looking for inspiration? Storymakers Events. September 23.

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13 Causes I'd Give to If Friday the 13th Was My Lucky Day

Have Fun - Do Good

People's Grocery Mission: "Our mission is to build a local food system that improves the health and economy of the West Oakland community." We are an open source project, to pioneer 'community funded reporting.'” People's Grocery blog, Brahm's Blog. Mission: "Spot.Us is a nonprofit project of the Center for Media Change.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

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The organization has a staff of 40 across three offices (Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). This theoretically frees up millions of offices from having their own local area networks with servers and IT staffs to run them. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

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Washington DC, New York City, and Oakland, California). This theoretically frees up millions of offices from having their own local area networks with servers and IT staffs to run them. We use nonprofit, open-source Drupal to manage our main website. org is already doing that. It requires very little maintenance.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As more and more politicians dive into the world of Social Media, the way we communicate and interact with our local and national representatives is changing. Lessons in Local Tech: Sustainable Food 2.0 Open Source Disability Gadgets: DIY for PWD submitted by Liz Henry, Blogher. Are you eating well? With snacks!

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