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Gender, Race and Open Source

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. That speaks volumes to me.

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Net Neutrality Open Source Documentary

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He created the above "open source documentary" on Net Neutrality called Humanity Lobotomy. I'm seeing more and more examples of participatory media -- take for example WGBH's Video Sandbox. He's a talented filmmaker (as is Susan and the other folks at Four-Eyed Monsters). The project wiki is here and he has a del.icio.us

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What the Third Sector Can Learn from the Public Sector

NTEN

Participatory. Those are the values President Obama cited last December in his Open Government Initiative. Participatory. Their theory is that anything they build has to be built open source, so that the taxpayers can access and use any innovations. Flickr Photo: h.koppdelaney Transparent. Collaborative.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

which heralded a new, participatory web culture. To get going, they built the first NetSquared website using open-source Drupal. TechSoup was then called CompuMentor. The Iraq War was raging. Pope John Paul II died, and Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. The buzzword then was Web 2.0, What Is Web 2.0?

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IP Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { This is very cool. Be Helpful.

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Software Coding Bounties

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Via the 501-C3 Tech Club for Boston list, the Participatory Culture Foundation (Worcester, MA) has announced a new. website for listing free and open-source software coding. bounties: [link].

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Open Source Strategic Planning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Paul Connolly, who has been a guest blogger on this blog before , covered the session on Open Source Strategic Planning. After lunch, conference participants got to to choose two presenters to spend an hour with in a small group to ask questions and deepened the learning. Guest post by Paul Connolly.