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Aspiration December 2009 Newsletter is Out!
Hot off the presses, our end-of-year newsletter is yours for the clicking. In this edition:
- Nonprofit Software Dev Summit Caps a Rich Year of Events
- eAdvocacy Mentoring and Capacity Building Enters 4th year
- Help Us Test the Answr Platform
- New Aspiration Book: Open Translation Tools
- Doing Our Part to Create Better Tools and Resources
And if you didn’t receive the newsletter by email, please consider joining our mailing list. It’s low-volume and targeted at people who care about improving the state of software for social change.
Aspiration is Capital-"F" Friends with Mozilla Service Week!
Aspiration is delighted to be working with Mozilla on Mozilla Service Week, taking place September 14-21, 2009.
We’ll be hosting trainings at the San Francisco Nonprofit Technology Center to train other nonprofits on essential online strategy and data security topics.
The driving force behind Mozilla Service Week is the strong belief that everyone should know how to use the Internet, have easy access to it, and have a great experience when they’re online. You can have a hand in helping organizations and people all over the world experience the joy of using the Web too!
Here’s how to help:
Technology for the Arts
"Technology in the Arts 2007 is now seeking session proposals for their conference held on the Carnegie Mellon University campus in Pittsburgh, PA, from October 12-13. The conference hosts arts service organizations, performing, visual and presenting organizations from across the U.S., from the local to national levels.
eRiders.net
Teresa Crawford writes, "The long awaited eRiders.net is nearing completion. We have done alot with the new site and I think you all will be happy with the mountains of new content we have added."
Ungana Afrika Research Project: Capacity Building and Tech Support in Africa NGOs
Rudi von Staden at Ungana Afrika is starting a research project looking into different ways that ICT students or recent graduates can be engaged to provide capacity building and technology support to NGOs and Small to Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Africa. If you are personally involved in one, or know of other projects that he can contact to participate in the research, please contact them via http://www.ungana-afrika.org/projects/sdp.htm , which also provides more information on the project.
Open Source in London: Social Source 2005
Our friends in London are hosting the second London Social Source event, in affiliation with the global Penguin Day movement.
Adrian from LASA writes:
Social Source UK 05 is for those interested in the potential of free & open source software and methods for the voluntary and non-profit sector.
Programme for SocialSource 2005:
- introductions for those who have had no hands-on contact with Free/Open Source Software (F/OSS)
- case studies
- details of projects going on within the sector using F/OSS tools.
- demonstrations of Open Source software in action
- opportunities for discussion.
All are welcome to attend, whether new to Open Source or already involved in projects, with key stakeholders envisaged as those:





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