So I picked up my first virtual volunteering opportunity. I found a volunteer posting on a website that I responded to. It turns out that the person who setup all of the web based systems for this particular non-profit organization likes to frequent Sourceforge just as much as I do. We have been emailing back and forth a bit now, and I keep learning about more and more open source software that they have installed and using to run their organization and internet presence. I was taken back a bit, because it seemed unusual. Non-profits have access to special pricing of software and hardware and typically don’t have someone like me on the payroll, or maybe they do.. but I doubt it. They also have the need not to profit, so expenses like paying for commercial software and support can be an easy way to quickly spend some profits [don’t worry I won’t mention any names]
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