Mad Penguin: Penguin Day: Bringing It All Back Home to the Non-Profits | Linux Today

Mad Penguin: Penguin Day: Bringing It All Back Home to the Non-Profits

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jul 14, 2005

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“If you thought that free open source software is a natural tool
for non-profits, you were half right. The potential is there, but
as this series of Mad Penguin interviews with the co-directors of
the non-profit group called Aspiration Tech will show, we’re really
only about half way there in the journey to complete Tux’s
domination of the non-profit sector (and then the rest of the
world). There’s still a whole lot of teaching and learning that’s
gotta be done as the non-profit and free open source communities
get to know each other better.

“And teaching is what Aspiration Tech is all about. In this
series of two articles, Mad Penguin talks with the two co-directors
of Aspiration Tech, Katrin Verclas, and Allen Gunn, aka ‘Gunner,’
about the apparently mysteriously weak presence of free open source
software in the non-profit sector (at least in North America) and
what Aspiration Tech is doing about it…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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