[Commcomp] November 15th, DANEnet hosts the Nonprofit Technical Round Table focusing on backup

[Eric Howland]

DANEnet hosts the Nonprofit Technical Round Table focusing on backup

What:    People working with technology in Nonprofits come together to 
share experiences and solutions.
Where:   RSVP board room. 517 N. Segoe Road,  Suite 301.
When:    November 15th from 8:00am to 9:30am

The Nonprofit Technical Round Table is a gathering of people concerned 
about technology in the nonprofit world. Every other month interested 
people gather for information sharing and discussion. The hour and a 
half will be roughly equally divided into presentation, case 
study/discussion of the focus topic and an open discussion of current 
technical issues.

In this session we will be talking about backups. We will talk a bit 
about the difference between disaster recovery and archives as well as 
the role of off-site backups. Discussion will include how 
labor-intensive participants find backup procedures and the important 
issues of cost.

Other notes:

1. Thank all of you that participated in DANEnet's 10 year Anniversary 
and Day of Service.  Thirty five volunteers were able to get over 100 
computers to agencies. We do have more 17" monitors, if your agency 
would like monitors feel free to contact Blake Hall (hall at danenet.org)

2. The widely anticipated Open Office 2.0 is now available 
(openoffice.org). A couple of reviews are available from PC Magazine 
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1851001,00.asp) and  eWeek magazine 
(http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1874157,00.asp).

Since nonprofits can get inexpensive copies of Microsoft Office from 
TechSoup (techsoup.org) cost is not as much an incentive for nonprofits 
as it is for government or commercial groups. We use Open Office when 
the computers end up in homes such as our Earn Your Own Computer program 
for young people.  Open Office may also make sense in cases where you 
want volunteers to work at their homes on your projects. The 2.0 version 
has a database built into it, although early reports suggest that it is 
not as polished as the other parts of Open Office.