Salsa Scoop

What Two Years in Nonprofit Tech Has Taught Me (If Anything)

 Yesterday was the two-year anniversary of my first day at DemocracyInAction, and it got me reflecting on the many strange and wonderful things I've learned, from the many strange and wonderful fellow-inmates of the nonprofit tech asylum. I came by the nonprofit tech space quite accidentally, as happens to many in it -- development (fundraising, not tech development) turned accidental owner of a web site turned e-pamphleteer turned buyer/user/customer evangelist of scrappy startup do-gooders turned employee of aforementioned scrappy startup do-gooders. I've been learning on the fly since those first stomach-fluttering support calls, and with luck a few of those lessons were even the right ones. At any rate, these are a few of the dominant delusions I'm nursing as a result:  

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10:16 AM Mar 02, 2007 - 69 comments permalink

DIA Plans to Integrate with Drupal, PHP, and more

 Democracy In Action is building a Salsa connectivity module for the open source CMS Drupal, but that's only part of the picture. We are actively collaborating with our user and developer communities to provide open APIs and libraries so that external systems can leverage and integrate the open structure of Salsa and DIA's high-performance CRM services. This collaboration has already yielded a number of successes -- DIA tools have been integrated with Drupal and Plone, and a comprehensive set of PHP libraries is close to release -- but we want to work with our community to provide tools for all of the languages that they use. If you are a developer hoping to integrate Salsa and DIA services with Ruby on Rails, Python, Perl, .NET, or anything else, let's work together to keep growing the progressive community's best set of online engagement tools!  

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03:49 PM Mar 01, 2007 - 231 comments permalink

Public Inquiry Poetry

 Every word that follows is excerpted from a message received -- in some context -- from our contact form or as a general message to our info e-mail address...
I am a graduate student I'm a student in New York that has becaome very passionate about the animal cloning situation I am a Geologist I am a mother to be I CALLED AND LEFT A MESSAGE EARLY THIS MORNING. Stop quoting Eisenhower, that goddamned asshole. Your creditability is in Question!!! I wish to point out the treatment of the people of North Korea as a major under reported atrocity.  

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05:47 PM Feb 28, 2007 - 179 comments permalink

DIA Salsa Poised to Release March 15

 And in characteristic DIA style, you're invited to the party. Please join us after hours, and deep into the wee hours, at Rumberos just a block north of the Columbia Heights metro on the Green Line. (map) Users current and prospective, friends, consultants, and interested parties of every stripe (and attendees of the Politics Online Conference, which kicks off that day ... and for which you can register at the DIA-discounted rate of $250 using the code polc031507) ... come join us at the christening.  

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05:49 PM Feb 27, 2007 - 125 comments permalink

Mashup Congress for Fun and Profit. Mostly Profit.

 The Sunlight Foundation is sponsoring a contest for data mashups that display information about Congress for "Sunlight Week" Mar. 11-17. Click here for the details. Not geeky? Try this out ... they've got their own contest which might score you an iPod into the bargain. 

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10:53 AM Feb 27, 2007 - 55 comments permalink

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