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Free Geek keeps costs low and in line with its values by sending computers out with the free and open source Ubuntu operating system (rather than purchasing Windows licenses, for example). Last week, during the quarterly staff retreat, NTEN staff toured Free Geek. Free Geek is a technology reuse, recycle, and education nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon. Several NTEN staff have been long-time supporters, and NTEN has always donated its old electronics to Free Geek. MORE
I use Ubuntu on a dual-boot (XP) machine. One minor point: have you tried Twhirl on Ubuntu? I’ve had one of the Dell 1420Ns sold with Ubuntu for a year now, and at this point all four of those things seem easy. Ubuntu, Fedora, Blag, Mandriva, Gentoo, and so on. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux desktops? MORE
Why Linux (in my case Ubuntu) sucks: I have to go through arcane (and luckily for me, fairly painless) procedures to get simple things to work ( like plugging a headset with a mic into my jack! ). I’ve been a user of a ton of operating systems over time. In the past ten years, I have been an everyday user of the big three, Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, for long stretches of time. MORE
I have been using the Linux version on my Ubuntu netbook, and it has been fantastic. In my personal experience, it’s much faster than either Opera or Firefox running on my small Ubuntu notebook. Apple has steered clear of supporting Linux (no Ubuntu browser, iTunes or anything) so I can’t compare, yet the Windows version is quite fast as well. Browsers have been in the news again lately. MORE
Windows-Mac-Ubuntu each have their proponents in this regard. Cloud computing is one of those buzz phrases that has come to mean everything and nothing depending on your perspective. Cloud computing is neither good or bad: it is increasingly an element of planning and strategy even for small to medium organizations. It is new technology that happens to correspond to, accelerate and enable us to respond to larger economic and social trends. MORE
Hopefully with nokia, openmoko, gnome, google, ubuntu, dell and some others, this gap will close. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Eating my own dogfood. It sometimes tastes yucky. July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. I tout the benefits of open source software. MORE
If the Ubuntu philosophy guides us as people on this planet, it shouldn’t matter how indirect or direct the impact of those injustices are because we are all connected to each other simply by virtue of occupying this world together The injustices in this world impact us all - it just forms in different ways. We all come from different backgrounds, live in different zip codes, have varying circumstances, and live different lives. MORE
Walmart was selling $200 PCs running gOS (no, that doesn’t stand for googleOS, but greenOS, based on Ubuntu 7.10,) and they sold out. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux Desktop Migration November 16, 2007 Linux has proven itself as a server platform – no one really questions it. A large chunk (the majority?) MORE
Here is an excellent screencast, an introduction to Linux (Ubuntu). Gavin's NpTech Timeline in SlideShare. It's The People Behind The Tags! Steven Cliff's Notes - Saving Internet 1.0 MORE
He replied with a blog post and screencast about doing screencasts with Linux and a screencapture tool called xvidcap and kino , a basic video editing package that comes with Ubuntu. At Penguin Day, one of the issues discussed was nonprofit adoption of Open Source software and the issue that there aren't enough technology stewards, translators, documentation, and training available to the end user to make adoption easier. MORE
In the relatively rare case where I need to use HTML/CSS for web pages (there are a few legacy sites I maintain for friends) I use Bluefish (on Ubuntu.). I’ve had a web presence of some sort since way back when most personal URLs looked something like: [link] In 2002 or so, I ditched HTML for a series of CMS systems for my personal stuff. I started out using the CMS I wrote in Perl, called XINA. Those were the days.) Anyway, that was then, and this is now. Here’s what I use. MORE
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and Me May 21, 2007 I’ve been a part of the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative for a long time, and I’ve been advocating for the use of open source software in the nonprofit sector for years. But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out. MORE
I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. I finally finished the first edited version of the scifi novel I wrote last summer. That feels good. MORE
My next step, after installing the basic Debian system, is to switch the install to Ubuntu. at 5:33 am Which Ubuntu? Then, I tried to install Ubuntu (Edgy Eft) via netboot. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program. MORE
If you use Linux, consumer-focused Linux variants like Ubuntu and Fedora will have current versions of these applications, properly configured. I've been doing a lot of work with the open source content management system Drupal lately, and thought I'd share some thoughts on how to get a new site up and running. Drupal, you might recall, got high ratings in Idealware's March '09 report comparing open source content management systems. MORE
at 2:57 pm As someone who started with an Apple II, then a Pineapple(clone), then a Timex-Sinclair 1000 & 2068, then Performa 450, then PowerComputing(clone), then PC’s with Win98 and now Ubuntu, I guess I understand. at 7:57 pm You make some very good points and I think I will “go Ubuntu&# too. have you thought about which laptop might be best to load Ubuntu up on? MORE
A lot of organizations of all types want support, and are willing to pay for it, and Red Hat is, at this point, built the best business model around this than any other distro ( Canonical , with Ubuntu , is sneaking up behind, but I’m not sure it has the “enterprise&# style some people look for.) In October I went to a presentation by Rick Clark, the Ubuntu Server Team Manager. MORE
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). Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions. MORE
October 18, 2007 Ubuntu Linux has a new release, version 7.10, called “ Gutsy Gibbon.&# (Really I don’t know where these names come from!) It seems that with Ubuntu, Linux is getting closer and closer to being a completely viable and usable desktop for everyone. { Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Happy Birthday, Gutsy Gibbon! MORE
While traveling around, my shiny new, lightweight Ubuntu netbook (a Dell mini 12) connects to the Internet, has Open Office, Remote Desktop, and enough other stuff that I am fine. I’m not here to sing the virtues of Ubuntu; I want to talk about the challenges of having data on more than one computer. It happens so fast, I generally don’t have to double check that something I worked on in Word on Windows will be there when I open it up later in Open Office on Ubuntu. MORE
I’m actually quite happy – I can run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and I like Android (and my Droid 2 phone) a lot. And, of course, using Ubuntu on the desktop is fun. I’ve been through a pretty interesting transformation in the last 2 months. I’ve gone from being a Mac/iPhone user, to being a ThinkPad/Android user, and not looking back. MORE
at 10:09 am It is the most recent version available for Ubuntu Gutsy (the distro I’m running now.) Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why sometimes eating your own dogfood makes you want to throw up! February 29, 2008 OK, so we all know that I have been eating my own dogfood (that is, using Linux on the desktop) for a while now. I even decided not to buy Leopard for my Mac Mini. MORE
In Kubuntu, the distribution of Ubuntu I had installed, the WPA-enabled Network Manager isn’t installed by default (or at least it seemed not to have been installed when I did it – could have been my fault.) Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Frustrations March 9, 2008 As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I ran into frustrations a few days ago with WPA. MORE
Unfortunately, the desktop app will not run on my trusted lightweight Ubuntu netbook, but the web interface is cool enough I might go back to it again. I’ve been thinking about task management lately. Seemed like a good thing to reflect on over the long weekend. If you are like me, the biggest problem about task management is just plain old too many. Some weeks I feel like I’m gliding through my lists until a loved one reminds me, I just have too many. MORE
What hardware, operating system, RAM, DRAM, SAN, UPS, NAS, SSD, IPV6, Ubuntu, Linux, Windows, SQL, MySQL, SAP, Oracle (and any other acronym you wish to come up with that I don't give a twopenny stuff about) do we need? During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. MORE
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Ubuntu open week November 26, 2006 Next week is Ubuntu Open Week , a series of events and classes about Ubuntu Linux , and for people interested in getting involved in Ubuntu. Ubuntu seems to be becoming the linux distro of choice for a lot of people, and so far, it’s my favorite. MORE
Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My wish for Web 2.5 MORE
The problem is that the major Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat) don’t yet have MariaDB in their repositories, so it will be a while before MariaDB is an easy apt-get or yum away from installation (there are some independent repositories and builds.). For those of us that depend on MySQL everyday, the buyout of Sun (which had bought MySQL) by Oracle did not bode well. MORE
EC2StartersGuide – Community Ubuntu Documentation. EC2 and Ubuntu – Alestic.com. The reason I post these is because 1) I think they might be helpful resources, and 2) you can get a feeling for what I’m working on, or thinking about (or wishing for.) For instance, the reason there are so many links about Amazon is that we are now beginning a project that uses amazon in earnest, with some others possibly on the way. PolicyTool for Social Media. MORE
August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop. I have no problem getting just about all of my work done using Ubuntu. I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux ready for the desktop? MORE
Ubuntu As this article states, Ubuntu is a very popular distribution right now, and Canonical is working hard to get Ubuntu in as wide a range of hands as possible. The basic philosophy of Ubuntu “Linux for human beings&# is certainly one that makes sense for a lot of nonprofits, and it also has made Ubuntu the easiest distribution to set up and use, especially on the desktop. Ubuntu is based on Debian). MORE
Get Ubuntu , and have done already. But if you really want to have done with stuff like this, get Ubuntu. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied Technology Links (only a little zen) October 19, 2006 For you Windows types, IE 7 is out , and they found a vulerability 24 hours after release. MORE
The only person I recall doing video work on Open Source is James Davis who did this screencast with Ubuntu and wrote a post about it. David Saski from Global Voices and who is running the Rising Voices project will also be at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh next week. He's over in Thailand now, but was glad to see he had Internet access - looks like free wifi too. MORE
Michael Radke helps social enterprises to achieve the radical social change they envision through his innovation consultancy ION Studios , and is designing a new type of cultural institution dedicated to helping people understand people as co-founder of The Ubuntu Lab. Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice. MORE
But computers of that vintage can pretty happily run Ubuntu Feisty (the current Ubuntu version). MORE
As it is, I’m slowly transitioning to my Ubuntu Linux partition here and moving away from Win XP. MORE
This migration, unlike the Mac OS -> Ubuntu migration, has been completely painless. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Sweet tasting dogfood… July 15, 2007 Part of the process I’m going through of “eating my own dogfood&# that is, using free software (open source) tools whenever I can includes taking myself off of proprietary platforms whenever possible. MORE
How do we make change if we keep doing things the same way Platforms Break Open The Search for Good Web Conferencing Open Source Database Solutions, Part I Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants (November) Linux, Ubuntu, Fiesty Fawn and Me Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants (May) Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought Spirituality and Technology And, just to be fair, the least favorite post is What do you expect from a technology provider ? MORE
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Giving up, a little August 6, 2007 As you might know, I migrated from using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary desktop, to eating my own dogfood, as it were, and using Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop. MORE
Joanna , Production Specialist : At home, I was automatically upgraded to Firefox 3 beta when I upgraded to the newest version of Ubuntu Linux. Skip to content Clients Services Portfolio About Us Contact Blog Home > Blog Recent Posts 07/16/2010: The Wisdom of the Old Spice Man 07/12/2010: Is your online campaign going to succeed? MORE
My New T-Shirt Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. Yep, an open source t-shirt. One of the other meeting attenders was wearing one and I asked him where he got. Turns out a friend made it, but he offered me a copy MORE
Ubuntu Related Topics VolunteerMark
DECEMBER 29, 2014
If the Ubuntu philosophy guides us as people on this planet, it shouldn’t matter how indirect or direct the impact of those injustices are because we are all connected to each other simply by virtue of occupying this world together The injustices in this world impact us all - it just forms in different ways. We all come from different backgrounds, live in different zip codes, have varying circumstances, and live different lives.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 26, 2006
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Ubuntu open week November 26, 2006 Next week is Ubuntu Open Week , a series of events and classes about Ubuntu Linux , and for people interested in getting involved in Ubuntu. Ubuntu seems to be becoming the linux distro of choice for a lot of people, and so far, it’s my favorite.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 19, 2007
Watch a librarian install ubuntu in ten minutes
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 21, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and Me May 21, 2007 I’ve been a part of the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative for a long time, and I’ve been advocating for the use of open source software in the nonprofit sector for years. But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 17, 2007
He replied with a blog post and screencast about doing screencasts with Linux and a screencapture tool called xvidcap and kino , a basic video editing package that comes with Ubuntu. At Penguin Day, one of the issues discussed was nonprofit adoption of Open Source software and the issue that there aren't enough technology stewards, translators, documentation, and training available to the end user to make adoption easier.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 20, 2007
My New T-Shirt Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. Yep, an open source t-shirt. One of the other meeting attenders was wearing one and I asked him where he got. Turns out a friend made it, but he offered me a copy
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 18, 2007
October 18, 2007 Ubuntu Linux has a new release, version 7.10, called “ Gutsy Gibbon.&# (Really I don’t know where these names come from!) It seems that with Ubuntu, Linux is getting closer and closer to being a completely viable and usable desktop for everyone. { Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Happy Birthday, Gutsy Gibbon!
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 9, 2007
August 9, 2007 It’s been 7 weeks of using Ubuntu 7.04 (better known as Feisty Fawn) as my primary desktop. I have no problem getting just about all of my work done using Ubuntu. I’m looking forward to Gutsy Gibbon, Ubuntu 7.10 Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux ready for the desktop?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 9, 2008
In Kubuntu, the distribution of Ubuntu I had installed, the WPA-enabled Network Manager isn’t installed by default (or at least it seemed not to have been installed when I did it – could have been my fault.) Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Frustrations March 9, 2008 As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I ran into frustrations a few days ago with WPA.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 7, 2010
EC2StartersGuide – Community Ubuntu Documentation. EC2 and Ubuntu – Alestic.com. The reason I post these is because 1) I think they might be helpful resources, and 2) you can get a feeling for what I’m working on, or thinking about (or wishing for.) For instance, the reason there are so many links about Amazon is that we are now beginning a project that uses amazon in earnest, with some others possibly on the way. PolicyTool for Social Media.
Idealware
MARCH 14, 2009
While traveling around, my shiny new, lightweight Ubuntu netbook (a Dell mini 12) connects to the Internet, has Open Office, Remote Desktop, and enough other stuff that I am fine. I’m not here to sing the virtues of Ubuntu; I want to talk about the challenges of having data on more than one computer. It happens so fast, I generally don’t have to double check that something I worked on in Word on Windows will be there when I open it up later in Open Office on Ubuntu.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 2, 2011
Why Linux (in my case Ubuntu) sucks: I have to go through arcane (and luckily for me, fairly painless) procedures to get simple things to work ( like plugging a headset with a mic into my jack! ). I’ve been a user of a ton of operating systems over time. In the past ten years, I have been an everyday user of the big three, Windows, Mac OS, and Linux, for long stretches of time.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 12, 2007
Ubuntu As this article states, Ubuntu is a very popular distribution right now, and Canonical is working hard to get Ubuntu in as wide a range of hands as possible. The basic philosophy of Ubuntu “Linux for human beings&# is certainly one that makes sense for a lot of nonprofits, and it also has made Ubuntu the easiest distribution to set up and use, especially on the desktop. Ubuntu is based on Debian).
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 11, 2010
I’m actually quite happy – I can run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and I like Android (and my Droid 2 phone) a lot. And, of course, using Ubuntu on the desktop is fun. I’ve been through a pretty interesting transformation in the last 2 months. I’ve gone from being a Mac/iPhone user, to being a ThinkPad/Android user, and not looking back.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 14, 2011
The problem is that the major Linux distributions (Ubuntu, Debian, RedHat) don’t yet have MariaDB in their repositories, so it will be a while before MariaDB is an easy apt-get or yum away from installation (there are some independent repositories and builds.). For those of us that depend on MySQL everyday, the buyout of Sun (which had bought MySQL) by Oracle did not bode well.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 6, 2011
In the relatively rare case where I need to use HTML/CSS for web pages (there are a few legacy sites I maintain for friends) I use Bluefish (on Ubuntu.). I’ve had a web presence of some sort since way back when most personal URLs looked something like: [link] In 2002 or so, I ditched HTML for a series of CMS systems for my personal stuff. I started out using the CMS I wrote in Perl, called XINA. Those were the days.) Anyway, that was then, and this is now. Here’s what I use.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 1, 2007
at 2:57 pm As someone who started with an Apple II, then a Pineapple(clone), then a Timex-Sinclair 1000 & 2068, then Performa 450, then PowerComputing(clone), then PC’s with Win98 and now Ubuntu, I guess I understand. at 7:57 pm You make some very good points and I think I will “go Ubuntu&# too. have you thought about which laptop might be best to load Ubuntu up on?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 29, 2007
My next step, after installing the basic Debian system, is to switch the install to Ubuntu. at 5:33 am Which Ubuntu? Then, I tried to install Ubuntu (Edgy Eft) via netboot. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 8, 2007
A lot of organizations of all types want support, and are willing to pay for it, and Red Hat is, at this point, built the best business model around this than any other distro ( Canonical , with Ubuntu , is sneaking up behind, but I’m not sure it has the “enterprise&# style some people look for.) In October I went to a presentation by Rick Clark, the Ubuntu Server Team Manager.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 19, 2006
Get Ubuntu , and have done already. But if you really want to have done with stuff like this, get Ubuntu. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied Technology Links (only a little zen) October 19, 2006 For you Windows types, IE 7 is out , and they found a vulerability 24 hours after release.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 15, 2007
This migration, unlike the Mac OS -> Ubuntu migration, has been completely painless. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Sweet tasting dogfood… July 15, 2007 Part of the process I’m going through of “eating my own dogfood&# that is, using free software (open source) tools whenever I can includes taking myself off of proprietary platforms whenever possible.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 23, 2007
But computers of that vintage can pretty happily run Ubuntu Feisty (the current Ubuntu version).
NTEN
JULY 3, 2014
Free Geek keeps costs low and in line with its values by sending computers out with the free and open source Ubuntu operating system (rather than purchasing Windows licenses, for example). Last week, during the quarterly staff retreat, NTEN staff toured Free Geek. Free Geek is a technology reuse, recycle, and education nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon. Several NTEN staff have been long-time supporters, and NTEN has always donated its old electronics to Free Geek.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 24, 2008
I use Ubuntu on a dual-boot (XP) machine. One minor point: have you tried Twhirl on Ubuntu? I’ve had one of the Dell 1420Ns sold with Ubuntu for a year now, and at this point all four of those things seem easy. Ubuntu, Fedora, Blag, Mandriva, Gentoo, and so on. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux desktops?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 28, 2006
Unfortunately, the nptech world hasn’t yet caught on to the “Planet&# phenomenon of the open source world (see Planet Ubuntu Women.) These are sites that are simply aggregators of the blogs of those involved in a particular open source project (like, in this case, women involved in Ubuntu ). Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My wish for Web 2.5
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
DECEMBER 20, 2007
How do we make change if we keep doing things the same way Platforms Break Open The Search for Good Web Conferencing Open Source Database Solutions, Part I Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants (November) Linux, Ubuntu, Fiesty Fawn and Me Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants (May) Time to find a fundraising solution that can’t be bought Spirituality and Technology And, just to be fair, the least favorite post is What do you expect from a technology provider ?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 16, 2007
Walmart was selling $200 PCs running gOS (no, that doesn’t stand for googleOS, but greenOS, based on Ubuntu 7.10,) and they sold out. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux Desktop Migration November 16, 2007 Linux has proven itself as a server platform – no one really questions it. A large chunk (the majority?)
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 9, 2007
Hopefully with nokia, openmoko, gnome, google, ubuntu, dell and some others, this gap will close. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Eating my own dogfood. It sometimes tastes yucky. July 9, 2007 So I talk a lot about both open source software, and the preciousness of one’s own data. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. I tout the benefits of open source software.
Beth Kanter
MAY 5, 2017
Michael Radke helps social enterprises to achieve the radical social change they envision through his innovation consultancy ION Studios , and is designing a new type of cultural institution dedicated to helping people understand people as co-founder of The Ubuntu Lab. Note from Beth: Several years ago, I was got trained in design thinking facilitation methods using Luma and have incorporated these techniques into my consulting and training practice.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 1, 2007
I’m on week 3 of my Ubuntu laptop migration – things are smoothing out – I’ve got audio working, I can listen to mp3 and audio streams. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. I finally finished the first edited version of the scifi novel I wrote last summer. That feels good.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
FEBRUARY 29, 2008
at 10:09 am It is the most recent version available for Ubuntu Gutsy (the distro I’m running now.) Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why sometimes eating your own dogfood makes you want to throw up! February 29, 2008 OK, so we all know that I have been eating my own dogfood (that is, using Linux on the desktop) for a while now. I even decided not to buy Leopard for my Mac Mini.
Idealware
JANUARY 24, 2010
I have been using the Linux version on my Ubuntu netbook, and it has been fantastic. In my personal experience, it’s much faster than either Opera or Firefox running on my small Ubuntu notebook. Apple has steered clear of supporting Linux (no Ubuntu browser, iTunes or anything) so I can’t compare, yet the Windows version is quite fast as well. Browsers have been in the news again lately.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 24, 2007
The only person I recall doing video work on Open Source is James Davis who did this screencast with Ubuntu and wrote a post about it. David Saski from Global Voices and who is running the Rising Voices project will also be at the Cambodia Bloggers Summit in Phnom Penh next week. He's over in Thailand now, but was glad to see he had Internet access - looks like free wifi too.
Idealware
OCTOBER 5, 2009
If you use Linux, consumer-focused Linux variants like Ubuntu and Fedora will have current versions of these applications, properly configured. I've been doing a lot of work with the open source content management system Drupal lately, and thought I'd share some thoughts on how to get a new site up and running. Drupal, you might recall, got high ratings in Idealware's March '09 report comparing open source content management systems.
Idealware
NOVEMBER 15, 2009
Windows-Mac-Ubuntu each have their proponents in this regard. Cloud computing is one of those buzz phrases that has come to mean everything and nothing depending on your perspective. Cloud computing is neither good or bad: it is increasingly an element of planning and strategy even for small to medium organizations. It is new technology that happens to correspond to, accelerate and enable us to respond to larger economic and social trends.
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). Note: As we prepare for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we wanted share a wee bit of the wisdom our speakers will be serving up, so as not to overwhelm you when you get to Atlanta. We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions.
Idealware
SEPTEMBER 7, 2009
Unfortunately, the desktop app will not run on my trusted lightweight Ubuntu netbook, but the web interface is cool enough I might go back to it again. I’ve been thinking about task management lately. Seemed like a good thing to reflect on over the long weekend. If you are like me, the biggest problem about task management is just plain old too many. Some weeks I feel like I’m gliding through my lists until a loved one reminds me, I just have too many.
Tech Soup Blog
OCTOBER 3, 2011
What hardware, operating system, RAM, DRAM, SAN, UPS, NAS, SSD, IPV6, Ubuntu, Linux, Windows, SQL, MySQL, SAP, Oracle (and any other acronym you wish to come up with that I don't give a twopenny stuff about) do we need? During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign.
Beaconfire Wire
JUNE 29, 2008
Joanna , Production Specialist : At home, I was automatically upgraded to Firefox 3 beta when I upgraded to the newest version of Ubuntu Linux. Skip to content Clients Services Portfolio About Us Contact Blog Home > Blog Recent Posts 07/16/2010: The Wisdom of the Old Spice Man 07/12/2010: Is your online campaign going to succeed?
Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director
MARCH 20, 2008
As it is, I’m slowly transitioning to my Ubuntu Linux partition here and moving away from Win XP.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 16, 2007
Here is an excellent screencast, an introduction to Linux (Ubuntu). Gavin's NpTech Timeline in SlideShare. It's The People Behind The Tags! Steven Cliff's Notes - Saving Internet 1.0
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