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February 2005
LinuxChix offers this nice little guide on the process and etiquette of contributing code to a project. It is written for programmers, as opposed to non-techy end-users. Some of the advice they give could apply to both, if you extrapolate a bit. Still, it would be great to have a similar guide specifically for non-techies wishing to contribute to OSS in ways other than writing code (writing documentation, user testing, etc).
I work at a small-medium sized non-profit. At our main site we have a windows network consisting of about 20 computers. The network has been setup as a peer-to-peer network. Because of this administration is decentralized and it is difficult to do tasks such as backups and sharing resources. I have decided to implement a samba server as the primary domain controller and move from a workgroup to a domain. So far so good. The server is up and running, no problems there. I have been slowly moving computers onto the domain one-at-a-time.
November 16-18: The World Summit on the Information Society Tunis, Tunisia. The first phase of WSIS took place in Geneva hosted by the Government of Switzerland from 10 to 12 December 2003. It addressed the broad range of themes concerning the Information Society and adopted a Declaration of Principles and Plan of Action. The second phase will take place in Tunis hosted by the Government of Tunisia, from 16 to 18 November 2005. More info at http://www.itu.int/wsis/
14 - 17, August 2005. The International Conference on Engaging Communities is an initiative of the United Nations and the Government of the State of Queensland, Australia. This unique event will explore all issues related to community engagement and address the experiences, challenges and research which effect all citizens, governments and organisations alike. The program is designed to interest representatives from community groups, academia, government agencies, corporations, associations and the like.
Thu, July 14, 2005 - Sun, July 17, 200, Chicago, IL USA Alliance for Nonprofit Management/National Council of Nonprofit Associations Joint Conference more info at http://www.allianceonline.org/
June 27–30, 2005, 26th Annual National Educational Computing Conference 'Join ISTE members and more than 18,000 teachers, technology coordinators, library media specialists, teacher educators, administrators, policy makers, industry representatives, and students from all over the world in the historic and revolutionary city of Philadelphia.' More info at http://center.uoregon.edu/ISTE/NECC2005/attendee_default.php
June 13-16: 2nd International Conference on Communities and Technologies, Milan Italy. The Second International Conference on Communities & Technologies (C&T 2005) conference provides a forum for stimulating and disseminating research about all facets of community and technology support for communities. More info at http://www.cct2005.disco.unimib.it/
March 30-31: F2C is where communications policy meets networking technology, network economics, networked applications, and network construction and operation. F2C is dedicated to the proposition that strong networks build strong democracies, and vice versa. F2C is for all who care about -- and are affected by -- network connectivity, economics, applications and policy. More info at http://freedom-to-connect.net/.
Software developers, activists,and nonprofits will meet at Penguin Day in Chicago to demystify open source software for social change organizations. This day-long event will explore open source software in plain language, serve to build networks among nonprofits technology users, and help socially-minded 'geeks' find ways to support nonprofit organizations.
If you regularly (or ever) build Linux back office servers for use inside an office (ie. not web servers that you maintain off site), I would like your input on a short list of questions about your practices (best or otherwise). I am hoping to write an office server case study soon, and would love to incorporate some outside input, but I am more interested in just getting some feedback on what other people do. I hope that I won't be the only one who finds the outcome of my surveying helpful. I will compile and publish results under any circumstances. Scroll down past the questions for early results.
Annual conference of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) of the Council on Foundations. Held 11/9-11/11 in Princeton, NJ. TAG is comprised mostly of foundation IT directors.
Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/17/2005 - 21:30
February Conference Call 2/11/05Present: Reuben, Rich, Amanda and John:Absent: Steve, Arif Report from Web sub comittee: Amanda wants to do a survey on the site. She wants to capture info that might later be part of a more comprehensive document. Amanda will write up some logic about why its needed: She wants to get best practices from people. She'll post to the list to make sure people know that there is a survey in progress.Rich likes the idea as well, and feels like it would feed into or work with Reg.
IL-TCE 2005, March 1-4, St. Charles Illinois. The conference has been designed to meet the needs and interests of administrators, principals, technology coordinators, curriculum specialists, special education instructors, classroom teachers, media specialists, business managers, school technical staff and support/clerical staff. More info at http://www.il-tce.org/home/home.asp
Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/10/2005 - 18:25
Nosi Fund raising sub committee Minutesminutes 2/4/05:Present: Reuben, John, RichReuben: [made some announcements which he will pass on to other SC members]Reuben: where are we going with fund raising. Has anything been done?Rich: recapped where we were with the IBM project, and said he handed it off to John. John: I have much less time to work on NOSI stuff than I originally intended do to job considerations. More like 8-10 hours of week. Therefore I have focused on stuff I could do easily i.e help build conversation on the list, work on the website.
Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/10/2005 - 16:04
Website Committee Call 2/8/05present: Amanda, Steve, JohnBig StuffWe really need a better looking site, no one has jumped up to take that on, though.(todo: John will try new tactics to pressure the NOSI list community to come through and offer help developing a theme for the site.)(todo: Amanda will reach out to the CivicSpaceLabs community to see if she can inspire anyone to help develop a theme for the site.)The site as a whole and the calendar separately are syndicated and available as RSS feeds.
February 18-20, 2005: Aspiration and Blue Oxen Associates will host a Software Usability Sprint at J. Fairchild in San Francisco, California. The event will bring together a diverse group of programmers, usability experts, project managers, and users to discuss methodologies for improving the usability of Free/Libre/Open Source Software (FLOSS) and to apply those processes towards specific software projects More info at http://www.flossusability.org/index.html.
The 25th Annual Convention & Exposition Feb 7-11, 2005, in Austin, Texas. We will be celebrating our Silver Anniversary and TCEA 2005 will be a special gathering place for all of us.Texas Computer Education Association is the largest state organization devoted to the use of technology in education. Founded in 1980, the organization has been very active throughout Texas supporting instructional technology. More info at
March 1-3: ICTs and Civil Society, Johannesburg, South Africa The Southern African NGO Network (SANGONeT) will host the 'ICTs and Civil Society' at the Indaba Hotel in Fourways, Johannesburg. More info at http://sangonet.org.za/conference2005
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