Jeffrey and I are attending the Non-Profit Development Summit in Oakland Nov 17-19th.
http://aspirationtech.org/events/devsummit08 Are you a developer writing code to support nonprofit needs? Are you a nonprofit user with strong opinions about what software you need developed to empower your programs and operations? Are you someone who just cares about seeing better technology developed to address the broad range of issues we face as a global community? The 2008 Nonprofit Software Development Summit will be the second annual convening of people and organizations developing software tools, web applications and other technology to support social justice causes. Bringing together a diverse range of developers, technologists, managers, eRiders, integrators, users and other practitioners who self-identify under the umbrella of roles around “developing nonprofit software”, the 2008 DevSummit will provide an opportunity both to gather as a community and to take stock of the field, while building connections and capacity. We've been asked to propose ideas for a couple of sessions. Here's some options: 1. Lead a discussion on what tools people are using to collaborate today, specifically aimed at extracting where the pain points are in people's workflows, followed by a demo of Chandler and a general discussion of how it might address people's needs as well as what's missing. 2. Short presentation on Chandler's user community: It's make-up, what tools we use. More specifically, what we've done to invest in it: what's worked, what hasn't worked. Where we'd like to see it go. 3. Short presentation on re-architecture project? Perhaps also an opportunity for developers at the conference to brainstorm with non- profit folks about how Chandler could be extended to meet custom needs? (Might be to early for something like this.) More ideas welcome! Mimi _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Open Source Applications Foundation "chandler-dev" mailing list http://lists.osafoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/chandler-dev
