Hey Jenny,
We're excited to continue building tech capacity, strategy, and movement power with you all this coming fall. Below are some ways we can connect, share space and collaborate in person and in the virtual realms:
Join us in Oakland for Dev Summit Nov 6-8
Our 16th annual Nonprofit Software Development Summit will be held 6-8 November, 2019, at Preservation Park, Oakland.
Join a diverse community of nonprofit staff, developers, capacity builders, and grassroots activists to share knowledge, build capacity, and collectively envision the future of free and open technology to support social justice efforts.
We invite you to bring your stories, ideas, questions, and knowledge to share.
Get all the details about this year's Dev Summit and join us!
Register Now
OpenNews Scholarships to help folks attend Dev Summit
OpenNews is offering ticket+travel scholarships to help folks who are working in journalism and technology to attend gatherings like the Dev Summit to connect with others in the community, build skills, and collaborate.
OpenNews is aiming to support the following folks:
- Anyone who is part of the journalism-code community, such as developers, designers, and data analysts working in newsrooms.
- Anyone interested in learning more about the journalism-code community, such as people working in other areas of technology who want to share their development, design, or analysis skills with journalists.
- People of color, women, and other under-represented groups in journalism and technology are strongly encouraged to apply.
The scholarship covers registration and $500 toward travel to Oakland. The application form is open through Friday, Sept. 13. OpenNews strongly encourages people of color, women, and people from other under-represented groups in journalism and technology to apply. If you or folks in your community want to attend #NpDev, and could use some help getting there, you can learn more and apply here.
Thanks OpenNews for this great opportunity and for helping us support more folks in the community to participate!
Aspiration also has limited travel support available, so if the OpenNews scholarships don't look like a fit, drop us a line!
Get involved & spread the word about #NpDev
Connect and participate at our upcoming Virtual Learning Sessions
This fall, we will be offering a couple of Virtual Learning Sessions in response to requests from folks at this year's CA Nonprofit Technology Festival. Thanks to everyone who submitted requests! Join us and learn how you can increase your anonymity and privacy online and how you can better manage and protect your organization's online identity. We welcome everyone who is interested in sharing, learning, and exploring how to make better use of technology to support organizing and movement work with us.
Online Anonymity, Privacy, the Tor Browser and More
Tuesday, September 17 at 2:00 PM PT
As platform companies, phone companies, advertisers, governments and others surveil all aspects of our online activities and interactions, concerns frequently turn to how individuals and organizations can increase expectations of privacy and anonymity online. In this interactive learning session, we'll explore different meanings of "privacy" and "anonymity", and discuss several tools to limit who can track you online, including virtual private networks and browser plug-ins. We'll specifically focus on the Tor Browser, which is designed to inhibit all attempts to know your identity or location when you visit web sites. Come with your questions and ready to learn about how you are watched as you live online and what you can do about it!
Join us on Tuesday, Sept 17 at 2:00 PM PT.
Register here
Managing and Protecting Your Organization's Digital Identity
Tuesday, October 1 at 2:00 PM PT
A nonprofit's online identity has arguably become as central and essential to success as their offline identity. Domain names, social media handles, critical cloud accounts, representation and depiction in online spaces: all these elements contribute to how social change organizations are perceived by the vast majority of the world. But holistic and comprehensive management of organizational digital identity is an under-studied practice area. Rapidly evolving technology categories continually create new categories of institutional vulnerabilities for nonprofit organizations. And too few organizations apply security and sustainability best practices when managing their online identity - from ownership of domains and hosting of web sites, to safeguarding remotely stored data, to managing virtual relationships. This workshop will share and explain in managing organizational online identity, and demonstrate processes, tools and rules of thumb for effectively safeguarding and protecting the virtual side of your nonprofit organization.
Join us on Tuesday, Oct 1 at 2:00 PM PT.
Register Here
If you would like to request a virtual learning call on topics that could better support your organizing and movement work, please let us know by replying here or emailing us at learning@aspirationtech.org.
We hope to see you in our online sessions and at the Dev Summit this fall!
With love & solidarity,
Evelyn and the Aspiration team
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