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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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

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 ). Second, is bookmarking.

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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

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 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. I did a webinar for NTEN on it – ReadyTalk worked just fine. (If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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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

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

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 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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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

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

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

AUGUST 24, 2007

It reminded of the ngo in a box collection of open source video editing tools that I read about on the NTEN blog. 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. I also found a manual for Kino , a video editing program that runs on Linux.

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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). 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

" Gavin's idiosyncratic timeline of circuit riders, NTEN, and other things related to the NPTech community. The post on Twitter was Kurt Voelker's twitter@nten? So, here's NTEN's response. Here is an excellent screencast, an introduction to Linux (Ubuntu). Steven Cliff's Notes - Saving Internet 1.0 technologies.

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