SF group helps bridge digital divide with free tech support
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| In San Francisco's Tenderloin district, amid liquor stores and boarded-up
| buildings, a partnership of nonprofits earlier this month sponsored the
| first "Tenderloin Tech Day." The half-day workshop was open to anyone in the
| low-income neighborhood with a tech problem.
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http://opensource.sfsu.edu/node/442
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Open source tree tracker debuts in San Francisco
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| Crocker says that the new urban forest application is open source. "Any
| city that wants to manage its urban forest can download it and load it
| up," he says. "It's just a matter of managing the data. If you
| understand databases, all you have to do is make sure the mapping
| fields are consistent. The cool thing is that as this thing rolls
| out, more cities will start to use it and we're going to see that
| great feedback. FUF and BUF will start seeing bug fixes and code
| improvements."
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http://trends.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=07/03/08/1725222&from=rss
Dell Refunds OS Cost For Those Adopting Linux
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| Open source technology fans in the San Francisco Bay Area are reportedly
| some of the first who began campaigning to get refunds for Microsoft
| Windows software they did not plan on using.
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http://www.dailytech.com/Article.aspx?newsid=4990
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