2009 NTC Preview: Jon Stahl on Open Tools
Jon Stahl has some awesome pants: the front and back of each leg is a different color -- red, green, blue and yellow. I first saw them back in 2002, when the NTC was still the Roundup. Amazingly, he still fits in them -- and he's bringing them to San Francisco in April. Luckily for you, he's also bringing his decade-long experience trying to get nonprofit software to play nicely!
Jon is leading a session at the NTC called An Open Civic Engagement Platform: A new generation of tools that play nice together. He'll be talking about the variety of ways we can now make our donor databases, content management systems, and email tools talk to each other and share data, and what this means for us as a sector.
We talked about this -- and burritos -- a few days ago. Take a listen:
