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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership. He summarizes his organization's experience with the plone community and larger reflections about the complimentary strengths and differences between nonprofits and open source communities.

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IWith.org - A Spanish Tech Social Enterprise

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

IWith.org - A Spanish Tech Social Enterprise I have just gotten back from a great family vacation (may post a picture or two) where we ended the trip up in Spain for five days. It reminded me of this cool social enterprise group I have been in touch with, founded by Jordi Duran (originally from Barcelona).

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Delhi University

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Dinesh has programmed for Freedom Scientific and now works for the Codefactory in Spain, and Madhu works for IBM. I quite enjoyed our discussions, which ranged from Bookshare to the need for open source screen readers. Jags and I then joined a blind technical/professional couple for dinner: Dinesh and Madhu Kaushal.