The Lights. Camera. Help Festival is happening again this year, and if you live in Austin or are visiting in the last few days of July, you should get some tickets and go. Why? First, altruism aside, it’s an interesting, engaging event. Last year just by sitting on my tookus for a few hours I [...]
I’ve spent the week in San Francisco at the heavily attended DreamForce conference of SalesForce.com, doing my best not to get sugar poisoning from drinking the company kool-aid. It’s a substantial event, an impressive system that keeps getting better, and my vocal cords and feet and hands are sore from networking, hoofing it between events, [...]
In November of 2009 we participated in the #npocamp – a fantastic event in the unconference or barcamp tradition. We came prepared to talk about beginning database theory and came away with priceless knowledge and wisdom from all the sessions.
All For Good launched very recently as an aggregator of service opportunities within the United States. Earlier this spring I got involved with Social Actions, which is an aggregator of worldwide service and micro-loan opportunities. Both offer APIs for creating apps and republishing their data, and both are open source projects of one form or [...]
This is my second post in a very short series about technical volunteers. This topic has been capably covered before, so really, these are just my thoughts on the matter. Jayne Cravens has some thoughtful content on the subject, among others. So, how do you make the best use of your technical volunteers and keep [...]
