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  • Bonnie Bogle
    Jun 22, 2010
    Open Data for Nonprofits: Q&A Session with NTEN
    Open data can improve efficiencies, collaboration, and decision making for nonprofits
    Tomorrow Eric will lead an Ask the Expert session on open data and what it means for the nonprofit sector with NTEN, the Nonprofit Technology Network. Open data can drastically improve efficiencies within organizations and fuel collaboration between...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Jun 18, 2010
    Open Data Featured at the Democracy and Governance Workshop Today at USAID
    Open data is about improving operation efficiencies on the ground
    Today Eric and Robert are participating in a day long workshop with USAID's Democracy and Governance unit that will give program officers concrete approaches to improve efficiency, transparency, and evaluation of their on the ground programs. They...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    May 13, 2010
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    Step by Step Presentation on Building Custom Open Atrium Features: DrupalCamp Philadelphia
    Presentation showing how you can bend Open Atrium to your will
    Tomorrow Jeff, one of the co-maintainers of the Open Atrium project, will present on best practices for building custom Features for Open Atrium in his session Bending Open Atrium to Your Will! at DrupalCamp Philadelphia (aka Drupaldelphia). Jeff...
  • Tom MacWright
    Mar 31, 2010
    Can Moving Open Data to the Cloud Help Accessibility?
    Where 2.0 presentation on clearing up the Cloud and making openness real
    Later today I'm presenting at Where 2.0, talking about how cloud services improve data accessibility. The audience is government agencies and NGOs embracing the open data initiative, and us, the developers trying to work with the data. I will share...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Mar 19, 2010
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    The Efficiencies of Open Data at Sunlight Day at the Center for American Progress
    Presenting on justifying open data and showing examples of open data projects
    This afternoon as part of Sunlight Day at the Center for American Progress there will be a discussion on Building Transparency in Government focusing on how government led efforts to open up data - including the Open Government Directive and Data....
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Mar 15, 2010
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    Drupal4Gov Presentation on Features and Exportables in Drupal
    How you can save time and drastically improve your Drupal experience with the Features module
    Tomorrow Drupal4Gov is holding their monthly meeting, bringing together developers and IT managers who work in the federal space to talk about Drupal best practices specifically in the U.S. government space. This is a new group, led by Kirsten...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Mar 12, 2010
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    SXSW: Selling Your Milk When the Cow is Free
    Looking at Open Atrium in the light of open source business models
    This afternoon I am speaking on the SXSW panel Selling Your Milk When the Cow is Free about what it has been like to make the transition to selling products with Open Atrium. We only have one way to sell milk right now, and it ain't scaling, but...
  • Jeff Miccolis
    Sep 2, 2009
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    Open Atrium at DrupalCon Paris: Thursday, September 3
    Presentation on Open Atrium, building a product with Drupal, and the power of decentralized features
    DrupalCon Paris has been great so far. There is a lot of fantastic work being done by the community as always, some really interesting conversations, and of course it's great to catch up with everyone in person. A lot of people have been talking to...
  • Bonnie Bogle
    Jun 12, 2009
    Making Open Data Useful and Usable for Disaster Relief: Ignite Talk Tonight
    Tonight Tom MacWright will lead an ignite talk on how open data can be made more usable, and he'll show how we did this with TIGER mapping data - which includes shape files of school districts, voting districts, county boundaries, and more - by...
  • Eric Gundersen
    Dec 9, 2008
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    Decentralized Data Collection and Real Time Mapping with Drupal
    Overview of Our Mapping Session for the Do It With Drupal Conference
    How can you get real time data from food security organizations operating on the ground in Africa into the hands of decision makers working to prevent famines based in Washington, DC? I’ll talk about how you can do this with Drupal tomorrow at...