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Small Business and Big Unions
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | August 27th 2008 by Mike Gifford
Well, a year ago we decided to become a part of CFIB. I was convinced that there would be more financial benefits to belonging to a large body of small businesses, and I think those have been proven correct. I also have called to get some suppor read more
Free Community Building Through Flickr's Photo Sharing
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | August 24th 2008 by Mike Gifford
I went to the Ottawa Folk Festival last weekend and had a great time watching some amazing performances and meeting lots of wonderful people. Like many successful festivals it is filled with people who make this a regular event and where one can se read more
Developing Online Campaigners with Experience
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | August 23rd 2008 by Mike Gifford
OpenConcept has been developing web advocacy applications since 2001 when we developed a petition application for rabble.ca. We've been working on/off since that time to develop and enhance other ideas for advocacy campaigns that can be effectively read more
Getting Drupal in Libaries
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | August 23rd 2008 by Mike Gifford
I am quite excited to see Drupal adoption taking off in different verticals in our society. We're feeling a sudden surge of interest within government, but we have also noticed a big increase within libraries. There are communities of users sparki read more
PHP/Apache problems on a Debian mixed system
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | August 22nd 2008 by Mike Gifford
In recent months we have been transitioning from Fedora Core systems to Debian ones. Our standard install is Debian stable "Etch", and the standard slate of packages serves almost all our needs admirably. With one exception. CiviCRM 2.1, which is (b read more
Donating to the Drupal Associatioon
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | August 12th 2008 by Mike Gifford
So it was after contributing a patch to the Donation module developed for the Drupal Association that I finally decided it was time for OpenConcept to step up to the bar and become an organizational member of this group. It isn't much more than a t read more
Personalized Dynamic PDF's -- There Time Has Finally Come!
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | July 3rd 2008 by Mike Gifford
Well, I really din't do much out of the extrordinary, other than be one of 8,002,530 downloads within a 24hr period that got Firefox 3 into the Guinness World Records. So probably because I pledged to be part of this initiative before hand and ga read more
Private Wikis, WYSIWYG'S and What Really Is a Wiki Anyways?
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | July 2nd 2008 by Mike Gifford
The great news is hat wiki's are becoming mainstream these days and increasingly we are being approached by people particularly in government who want to adopt some type of collaborative and spontanious editing environment that made wiki's famous. U read more
Simple Content Creating Issues in Drupal
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | June 30th 2008 by Mike Gifford
We've had a couple clients recently have some trouble with some of the items that are hidden at the bottom of a Drupal node edit form. Depending on what modules you've got enabled and what content type you are editing there can be a lot of fields read more
Canadian Comic Book Hero's Fight for Fair Copyright
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | June 20th 2008 by Mike Gifford
Normally we theink of Russell McOrmond as an important part of our team and Laura Murray is a client engaged in one of many non-profits we host. However today they are both Canadan comic book heros thanks to a new publication put out to raise a read more
Our Plans for Drupal Upgrades
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | June 17th 2008 by Mike Gifford
We had some feedback from a client earlier this week who was worried about adopting Drupal now because she was told that there was going to be a new release out soon that would make the previous ones out of date. I figured that it was important to c read more
Political Trend Watching in Canada
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | June 13th 2008 by Mike Gifford
There are some interesting tools out there to quantitatively measure what people are interested in. What people put into a search engine is a good indicator of how much relative interset there is in a particular term. In reading the Wall Street Jou read more
Searching Unions & Aggregating the Movement
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | June 6th 2008 by Mike Gifford
Thought that it was about time to build a labour specific search engine using Google's Custom Search Engine (Coop). I've seen other sectors try to organize the information so that users can more easily find out what is happening or what is being dis read more
Panels2: Worth the upgrade and steep learning curve
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | June 5th 2008 by Mike Gifford
If you've used the panels module than panels2 is a logical upgrade. It lets you create a content pages which are divided into multiple areas which can include many kinds of content (e.g., nodes, blocks, views...) Here's what's new in read more
New Drupal 6 Gallery Site -- Steve Fick Fine Art
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | June 5th 2008 by Mike Gifford
We're proud to announce the launch of our latest Drupal site using Drupal 6.2. It's our first formal Drupal 6 launch and we're quite pleased about it. Drupal 6 has provided a great many advancements for the user community, however with some 2500+ co read more
Creating customizable, professional PDF posters, certificates and…
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | June 2nd 2008 by Mike Gifford
Would you like to provide the members of your organization with professionally designed posters, certificates or documents while giving them the ability to tailor them to their particular situation? OpenConcept is developing a tool to make this a sim read more
Building Awareness, Community & Opportunities
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | May 29th 2008 by Mike Gifford
This past weekend I rushed down to Toronto to Drupal Camp Toronto where I was a guest presenter with Eric Squair, Make Poverty History, & Joe Murray, JMA Consulting. I also initiated a BoF (Birds of a Feather) discussion on designers and develop read more
A Summary of Drupal Camp Toronto 2008
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | May 28th 2008 by Mike Gifford
Mike, Charlotte, and I spent the weekend in Toronto, attending the 2008 Drupal camp. It was a very enjoyable time and I'd like to thank the organizers for putting together a great event. I only arrived in Toronto midday Friday, so I missed both the m read more
Celebrating Six Years of Good Discussions
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | May 13th 2008 by Mike Gifford
OpenConcept has been loosely involved in this community for a while now, but we're pleased to announce a party to celebrate the 6th anniversary of GOSLINGs (Getting Open Source Logic INto Governments). The full details of the event are on thei read more
Citizenship in the Age of Google
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | May 12th 2008 by Mike Gifford
I don't write about podcasts I listen to unless they are particularly interesting, and One Nation Under Google certainly fills this need. Taped by CKUT and available through Rabble Podcast Network, Darren Barney's done an excellent job to ch read more
Building Drupal the Community in Eastern Canada
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | May 2nd 2008 by Mike Gifford
Earlier this week Ottawa had it's first ever Drupal meetup. I started talking up the idea after coming back from the Boston Drupalcon and found that there were a few folks I knew in my network who were interested. Turns out that there were mor read more
Post to Blog Through Ecto
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | April 29th 2008 by Mike Gifford
The email (or heck blackberry) to blog functionality we've implemented for some of our clients in the past is good too. Nice that there is the spell check functionality within Ecto that Flock seems to be missing. So far Ecto's the nicest of the mac read more
Blog Posting Through Flock
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | April 29th 2008 by Mike Gifford
Well, I am a fan of a nice little WYSIWYG editor like TinyMCE, but I must say that it is still slower adding information through a web browser than it directly through a desktop application. In considering a response for a RFP I decided to give a fe read more
How to Successfully Incorporate Designers into Theming Drupal
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | April 25th 2008 by Mike Gifford
I've had a few too many conversations with good design firms lately who understand design well, but whom I have to assume are used to working with a client base who can afford to pay quite a lot more for their Drupal themes than most non-profits read more
A Campaign with Too Many New Ideas to Ignore - Catch The Flame
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | April 16th 2008 by Mike Gifford
I had to write a quick note about the new Catch the Flame campaign since it's done a good job of incorporating some ideas from the mobile community and mapping communities that were innovative enough to draw attention to. That and it's a gr read more
Badware Prevention and Website Security
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | April 7th 2008 by Mike Gifford
So everyone knows that the Internet has people out there looking to gain control of your computer using some innovative new malware program that they developed. There are all kinds of reasons to do this, most recently I heard of malware that was t read more
Day Two Summary - DrupalCon Boston 2008
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | March 5th 2008 by Mike Gifford
Once again we've been learned a lot, met a lot of great folks and explored some excellent opportunities for the future. The optimism of the conference participants about working together is certainly contagious. Well, it is amazing how valuable ba read more
Day One Summary - DrupalCon Boston 2008
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | March 3rd 2008 by Mike Gifford
Well, it's been a long day here in Boston. Lots of great conversations have been had. Listened to some great panels, and before I fall asleep (and wander into yet another busy day tomorrow), I wanted to jot down some quick observations. Photos bei read more
Domain Name Grabs - Modern Snake Oil Salesmen
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | February 29th 2008 by Mike Gifford
We are continually getting emails and phone calls from our clients who aren't really sure if they should act on communication from the outside world about their domains. People tend to get email, but snail mail isn't all that uncommon eithe read more
Open Source Boot Camp & a Drupal Deck
OpenConcept's Blog - open source software for social change | February 28th 2008 by Mike Gifford
This fall we've gotten more involved with the Talent First Network and some of their initiatives to promote open source in Ottawa. We've got a part-time intern through them and are quite interested in the opportunities being generated by th read more
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