The Penguin Day came to San Francisco on Saturday, April 25, 2009, right before the NTC. A great crowd turned out to discuss open source for nonprofit needs, and educate participants about the rich array o

Full details are at penguinday.org. The event was generously sponsored by Google.

The final agenda can be found at

http://pd.aspirationtech.org/index.php/Penguin_Day_Agenda

Sessions included:

* Introduction to Free and Open Source Software
* Introduction to Free and Open Source Desktop Applications
* Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices
* Online Fundraising With All Free and Open Tools
* Introduction to Linux
* Making sense of Free and Open Source Content Management Systems
* Introduction to Blogging with Wordpress
* Intro and Advanced sessions on Joomla! and Drupal
* Intro to CiviCRM 2.0 + CiviCRM 2.0 - Advanced Topics
* CiviCRM vs Salesforce.com: What Are the Differences?
* Increasing Access with Community Broadband in SF
* Learnings from Google Summers of Code
* Mobile Volunteering: The ExtraOrdinaries Project
* Healthy and Sustainable Free and Open Source Communities
* Helping Techies and Non-Techies Communicate and Cooperate
* Creative Commons And Open Content
* Free and Open Source Firewalls

Penguin Day San Francisco took place at the Odd Fellows Hall at 7th and Market Street, in the heart of downtown.

Penguin Day SF was organized by Aspiration, NOSI, PICnet, and CiviCRM.

Proprietary database systems, particularly for the desktop, such as Access and FileMaker Pro, have been ubiquitous in nonprofit organizations. But there are other options. This webinar will focus particularly on OpenOffice.org Base, a quickly developing open source alternative for desktop databases. We'll also cover open source server database systems, such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, and talk about how they can be implemented in nonprofit organizations.

Tuesday December 16, 2008, 11:00 am PT / 2:00 pm ET

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Plone is the open source CMS you don't hear a lot about, but is very powerful, and has a vibrant developer and user community.

Come hear Jon Stahl, one of the Nonprofit community's Plone gurus outline the requirements for Plone, tell you about setting up a Plone site, and give you the information you need in order to make your new Plone site a success.

Tuesday November 25th, 11:00 am PT/2:00 PM ET

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The next webinar in the NTEN/NOSI webinar series is on Drupal. Drupal is quickly becoming one of the most popular CMS systems. This webinar will take you through the features of Drupal and what you'll need in order to make your new Drupal site a success.

The webinar will be co-presented by Michelle Murrain, of NOSI, and Jack Aponte, of Palante Technology.

Tuesday October 28, 2008 at 11:00AM PT/2:00PM ET

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Joomla is a very easy to use, and quite powerful CMS system. This webinar, which is the first of the series of webinars on open source CMS systems, will take you through the basics of Joomla, and what you'll need in order to make your new Joomla site a success.

This webinar is co-presented by Ryan Ozimek, of PICnet, and Michelle Murrain, of NOSI.

Date: Tuesday September 23rd. 11:00 Pacific/2:00 Eastern

Go to the NTEN site for registration.