Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

The Macintosh operating system has without question, the best, most intuitive user interface ever invented, built on top of the best OS invented, UNIX. I like building my own systems – I need a new desktop, and I like the idea that I can build my own easily, and get a fair bit of power fairly cheaply. So you could have done that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

One of the most admirable things about the people who run non-profits can also be their achilles heel: they love helping people. This is exactly why the practices of Design Thinking and Systems Theory has enjoyed such welcome from the social sector. They are speaking the language of people, and empathy, and systemic change.

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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 24, 2008

I’ve basically switched to using my Mac mini for just about everything except the bit of systems admin and coding I do, because it’s just so much easier to set up things on Linux for that type of work. I use Ubuntu on a dual-boot (XP) machine. One minor point: have you tried Twhirl on Ubuntu? at 11:21 pm Nice post.

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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.) Of course with my mac, I opened up the system preferences, checked a button, and, voila! Directories were shared.

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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

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

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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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. Figuring out a clear migration strategy that takes all of this into consideration. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

I wish all a holiday season full of fun, quality time with family (chosen or otherwise), and joy. { 1 trackback } Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 01.03.08 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

I used to have this great system where I used the Mac Addressbook, which would nicely sync with my cell phone. Hopefully with nokia, openmoko, gnome, google, ubuntu, dell and some others, this gap will close. As you might recall, I migrated from a Mac desktop to a Linux desktop a month and a half ago. One big one was my address book.

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TechCrunch

MAY 17, 2021

You’re working in R, writing in RStudio on a Ubuntu machine, and your data are such and such collected during an in vitro observation. That means other researchers move on, build their own thing, and further reinforce the silo system. The money will allow the company to further develop, scale, and promote its platform.

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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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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

I've sat through a lot of debates recently about whether not-for-profits should migrate to the cloud. 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?

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

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