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Aspiration and The Nonprofit Open Source Initiative (NOSI) Announce Plans to Join Forces
25 September, 2008
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Aspiration and NOSI announced today that NOSI will become a project of Aspiration (see press release).
Since 2003 NOSI has provided the nonprofit sector with information and education designed to help nonprofits leverage the benefits of using free and open source software (FOSS) in their work. As the author of the groundbreaking “Choosing and Using Free and Open Source Software: A Primer for Nonprofits,” NOSI provides nonprofit staff and decision-makers with both tools and information, allowing them to assess free and open source software’s capacity to support the needs of their organizations.
The merger will allow the two organizations to focus their collective energies on growing free and open source capacity in the nonprofit sector, working with developers, integrators, and end users. A number of open source tools, including the Firefox web browser, the CiviCRM platform, and a range of open source web publishing systems, have reached a state of maturity that makes them excellent options for nonprofits. But much work remains to be done in supporting the creation and sustainability of FOSS options in a number of other mission-critical software categories. Aspiration and NOSI welcome the challenge.
Penguin Day is Coming to Washington DC on April 7th!
2 April, 2007
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 2nd, 2007
Allen Gunn
Aspiration
415-216-7252
gunner@aspirationtech.org
www.aspirationtech.org
San Francisco, CA — Aspiration, PICnet and NOSI will host Penguin Day DC, a fun-filled and interactive gathering of nonprofit technology staff and Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) developers. Penguin Day DC will allow nonprofit staff to discuss and explore FOSS, while both addressing the challenges of developing open source tools for nonprofits and celebrating the strengths and successes of FOSS in the nonprofit sector.
Software Developers and Passionate Users Gather for First-Ever Nonprofit Software Development Summit
21 February, 2007
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Allen Gunn
Aspiration
415-216-7252
press@aspirationtech.org
www.aspirationtech.org
Penguin Days in Texas: Open Source for Nonprofits Goes South
19 October, 2005
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Jon Lebkowsky
Polycot Consulting, L.L.C.
512 762-6547 or 512 482-0715
jonl@polycot.com
www.polycot.com
Contact:
Katrin Verclas
Aspiration: Better Tools for a Better World
413-687-9877 or 413-884-0094
katrin@aspirationtech.org
www.aspirationtech.org
Austin, Texas, October 14, 2005 Software developers, activists and nonprofits gather at Penguin Days (www.penguinday.org) in Austin and San Antonio to demystify open source software for social change.
Penguin Days explore open source software for nonprofits and help socially-minded 'geeks' find ways to support public interest organizations.
MobileActive: Cell Phones for Civic Engagement
6 September, 2005
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PRESS ADVISORY
CONTACT: Katrin Verclas, Aspiration
413-687-9877 or 413-884-0094
katrin [at] aspirationtech.org
Activists from Around the World Gather for First-Ever “MobileActive” on Use of Mobile Phones in Human Rights,Emergency Relief, and Democracy Campaigns
Washington, DC, September 6, 2005 – Ring, ring …Social Change is Calling: Green Media Toolshed and Aspiration, two US-based nonprofit organizations, are convening technologists and activists using mobile phones and text messaging for advocacy, human rights work, democracy campaigns, and mass mobilizations.
MobileActive: Cellphones for Civic Engagement will take place in Toronto, Canada on September 22-24, 2005.
“Call me on my cell phone — Send me a text message — You can get me on my cell when you need me. These are not just words among friends anymore. Now that power is being used by activist working for mass mobilizations, human rights campaigns, environmental protection, and democratic elections,” says Katrin Verclas of Aspiration: Better Tools for a Better World.
Marty Kearns, one of the organizers, says: "Email is dead. The cell phone is the real tool for moving voice and connecting on the go. In a world on the move, we need to connect the voice of the people to civil society campaigns. The voices of the world are on mobile devices and the leaders of social change need to be there to engage and mobilize.”
MobileActive.org and the MobileActive strategy meeting bring together campaigners, technology experts and communications strategists to reconnect campaigns, issue work and civic engagement to people on the street. MobileActive will help speed the dissemination of innovative practices and technology by skill and knowledge-sharing among activists. Attendees will explore strategies and tactics for the use of cell phones as an organizing tool, and develop useable guidance for practitioners, donors and campaigners to be disseminated widely. The overarching goal is to help civil society activists capitalize on the global wireless phone infrastructure for advocacy communications and organizing.
Activists and technologists from the Philippines, England, Canada, Argentina, Mexico, South Africa, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and the Congo representing Greenpeace, Amnesty International, Fahamu, Working Assets, txtpower.org, WorldChanging.org, the Open Society Institute, MacArthur Foundation, MIT Media Labs, EchoDitto, Association de Defense des Droits des Prisonniers, Txtmob, Mobile Voter, Movement Strategy Center, Surdna Foundation, Mobile Reporter, 160Characters, ACORN, and many others will attend.
Strategists and activists interested in participating, please go to www.mobileactive.org.
About Green Media Toolshed: Green Media Toolshed is a nonprofit environmental organization that provides communications tools to our members, environmental nonprofits, so that they can more effectively project their messages to the public and decision-makers. We provide tools and membership services to more than 165 environmental groups across the U.S. — www.greenmediatoolshed.org
About Aspiration: Aspiration, www.aspirationtech.org, connects nonprofit organizations with software solutions that help them better carry out their work. We want nonprofit organizations to obtain and use the best software to maximize their effectiveness and impact so that they, in turn, can change the world. We identify what is available and what is missing in NGO software arena, and foster relationships, delivery systems, and sustainability strategies between NGOs around the world.
Developers and Activists Gather for AdvocacyDev II
7 July, 2005
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Katrin Verclas
Aspiration
413-687-9877 or 413-884-0094
katrin@aspirationtech.org
www.aspirationtech.org
Developers and Activists Gather for AdvocacyDev II: Open Source Software for Campaigns, Advocacy and Mobilization
San Francisco, California, July 7, 2005 — Aspiration, a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting better software for a better world, is convening programmers and activists developing free and open source advocacy tools to share skills and knowledge at the second annual Advocacy Developers Convergence. AdvocacyDev II will take place in Oakland, California on July 11-13, 2005 – www.advocacydev.org
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