Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

I spent 3 hours struggling with the Nvidia drivers (that’s the on-board video that my motherboard has) and my xorg configurations still don’t work. (X I’ll send off queries to the right mailing lists and forums, and probably eventually get it all worked out. No happiness for me. at 9:41 pm Linux desktops?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Cloud computing just doesn’t make any sense, or work in any reasonable way without it (have you ever tried to use Gmail on dial up?) Just wanted to mention that we’re working right now on a tighter integration service to Gliffy that should allow developers to embed Gliffy diagrams in a wide variety of applications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Any application written for OpenSocial will work on any partner social network – any OpenSocial “container&#. Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based. This breaks the whole thing open. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Open has 3 components, APIs, Database Connectors, and Extensions. They work by REST via POST, or JSON. Create and foster developer and user communities in the same way that Salesforce and open source communities do. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. If it had been, we would have done a lot more work on how to measure security. More on that in a bit. In fact, nothing could be farther from the truth. 6 David Geilhufe 04.07.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Understandably, it has come to be somewhat different than I designed it back then, but it still feels good that something that I worked hard on is still serving people. I sat for hours (or days) at a time in front of my screen without contact with the folks I was doing the work for.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

It is a noncommercial site that has ratings and reviews for movies, games, apps, TV shows, websites, books, and music. We recommend this resource to libraries and any charity that works with children of any age. One we like that is oriented toward open source and also advocacy is the Library Freedom Project (LFP).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

That's because Michelle was in the Science Building on one end of campus, while I in the Music Building way on the other side. She is also the coordinator for NOSI - Nonprofit Open Source Initiative. Like many of us out there, you work as an independent consultant - so you are paid for your expertise and knowledge.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2011

Furthermore, one of the things that actually one of my colleagues did that had to change was music and other sounds playing on a website designed for some of our clients; they could not easily locate the place to turn this music off and it disabled them from using a screen reader. " - from Tom Dekker via email.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2010

The lounge will be the place to meet the best and brightest socially-conscious Geekeratti at SXSW and catch some unplugged local music. While most non-profits are not known for technology, some are, and they are defying the traditional business models that drive technology.”

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JULY 12, 2010

Or build an open-source PCR machine for copying DNA. A documentary film crew might use Kickstarter to pay for travel costs, or a dance troupe to pay for recorded music so they don't have to hire musicians for their live performances. Tags: marketing fundraising business models. Or sail around the world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

I am thinking that this might be a good model for how we can do it with Drupal, but that’s a subject for another post. There is a Plone/Salesforce.com Integration group , that keeps working on this, and a number of organization, including ONE/Northwest , have invested huge amounts of time and resources to working on this integration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

For now, unless something strange happens, I’ll settle on Cake – although I’ll not be spending too much time on it, since I’m working hard to grok Drupal. I’ve really liked working with it for small to mid sized projects. They both have good documentation and active communities. 3 TJ Sondermann 11.06.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2008

As the author of a custom CMS (it did have the advantage that it was released as open source, but it never caught on, so it still counts as custom) I know what it is like to put my heart and soul (and time) into a CMS, and want my clients to get what they want. But, that was then, and this is now. But, that was then, and this is now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

I realized, in thinking about all of this, that the model of technology support that makes the most sense to me is to think of it similarly as a teacher-student relationship. Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. What is going on for them?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

You may post it to your intranet, so long as access to that intranet is restricted to those who work for your organization [emphasis mine]. As anyone who has followed my advocacy work over the last ten years will know, I am a fervent supporter of open licensing models as a profound public good. I’m really not sure.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 1, 2007

Thus, every single penny of their income comes from donations that nonprofit organizations raise to, theoretically, fund the missions of their work. How about some community-owned, community-driven free and open source options? OK, so I’m going to sound like a broken record. But, hey, why not? Look at it the other way.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

We’ve passed through Baltimore – which reminds me of a project I did once, way back when, to work with a group of mostly small and medium-sized organizations on technology planning. How does increasing use of networking technology, on-line presence, and internet communications facilitate or hinder work that is done face to face?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

depends largely on two things: open standards, and open source software. which is as technically transparent and open as it hopefully will be in actuality. Open Source software and open standards are the foundations of Web 2.0. It allowed people to get involved and helped motivate. Well, Web 2.0

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