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! ). And it takes FOREVER to boot, even with Soluto. Internet Explorer. Hardware manufacturers ignore Linux for the most part.

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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. That’s not a problem I’ve been facing anymore.

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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. Ubuntu also has also focused a lot of effort on building community, and has, hands down, the most vibrant, helpful and deep community of any Linux distribution.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

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.

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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. {

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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). Since 2000, Free Geek has given away over 16,000 computers to community members, nonprofits, social good groups, and schools.

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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.). The annoying part is that it is one more wiki markup to learn (I wish SOMEONE would finally agree to make a wiki markup standard!!). I love how easy it is to use.

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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.). MariaDB is a true drop in replacement of MySQL!

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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 I figured it was time to give my final assessment. coming out in October.

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CauseVox

MAY 20, 2022

CauseVox’s campaign pages are easy to use right out of the box with a base template that can be customized to meet your specific branding needs: Ubuntu Football’s Donation Page. This means that you’ll be using an online donation platform to run your campaign and a free-standing form (separate from your website) to take donations.

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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.

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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. So I switched to the very standard ethernet PC cards that Gavin so thoughtfully included, and bingo – everything works. Edgy or a Feisty beta?

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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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.)

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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. 3 Seth Schneider 06.24.08 at 11:21 pm Nice post.

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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). Computers that now run Windows 2000 (there are plenty of them in nonprofit offices, I’m sure) probably can’t even run XP, let alone Vista.

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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. So if you are a hardware geek, expect to pay MS every other time you get a new motherboard. And since they seem to upgrade their OS every 6 years or so … I have a suggestion. But you’d still have to buy Windows.

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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.)

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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 ).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

This migration, unlike the Mac OS -> Ubuntu migration, has been completely painless. A few tweaks (mentioned in the previous post,) and I was up and running with all posts and comments intact. Add a few important plugins, and I’m back to where I was just a few days ago on Typepad.

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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 (..)

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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. Linux is more secure, more stable, and can be used on older hardware.

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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. Philosophically I support open source and free software, but I wonder if there is a userbase. I saw a post about nonprofits and video use here , but not much mention of open source tools.

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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. That sounded like good advice, since it might take me quite a while to get to step 1. (If, If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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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). Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. What's the most important trend in nonprofit technology for 2010? Free and Open Source Software.

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Tech Soup

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? As a manager, I don't care about the detail of the underlying technology.

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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. Linux has server market (check) Linux is working on the browser market (checK) Linux has apps that work for addresses and also integreates with other apps well (BUZZ!

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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.) Or rather, do you have xrandr? If so, try “xrandr –auto&# from inside your crappy-res GUI. 4 admin 03.01.08 I think, actually, the problem is more about the nvidia drivers, but xrandr is very good to know about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Here is an excellent screencast, an introduction to Linux (Ubuntu). Tobias Schonwetter, discusses the analogy between copyright law and culture in many regions of the world and an interview with Anna Badimo, chairperson of LinuxChix Africa. A post that uses the metaphor of UNIX permissions to explain open content.

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