Technology never stands still. It’s tempting to think of technology investments as discrete expenditures that permanently solve a problem, but that would be a mistake. A new website that costs ...
If it’s fall, it must be time for the Plone Conference. This year the annual gathering took place in Ferrara, a beautiful small city in the north of Italy. The weather was perfect, the streets ...
https://blog.jazkarta.com/2019/11/11/essential-plone-add-ons/
At this year’s Jazkarta sprint we decided to invest some time in creating Pyramid learning resources. We are fans of the Pyramid web framework, and we felt that it would be nice to work on some...
https://blog.jazkarta.com/2019/05/09/using-glitch-for-pyramid-learning/
This year Jazkarta’s annual sprint was held in the city of Los Angeles, graciously hosted by Alec Mitchell who lives a block away from LA’s City Hall. We had fun exploring the city – Union ...
This year I helped organize the annual sprint in Sorrento called the Plone Open Garden. Plone is a highly secure and feature rich open source content management system written in Python. Plone ha...
As I reported back in May, at our last Jazkarta sprint Witek and Alec began work on a Plone add-on, collective.siteimprove, that provides integration with the Siteimprove content quality checkin...
https://blog.jazkarta.com/2018/09/12/announcing-collective-siteimprove/
We returned to my house in rural Massachusetts for our annual sprint this year and had a great time sampling local beers and ciders, eating big meals together, admiring the Milky Way, and working...
https://blog.jazkarta.com/2018/05/17/rural-sprinting-two-new-plone-add-ons-and-progress-on-python-3/
I’ve just returned from Pycon where I had a great time staffing the Plone Foundation’s booth. It was fun to see old friends and introduce new people to Plone, Python’s open source, enterpri...
Some non-profits fund raise for major technology upgrades, then breathe a sigh of relief and ignore technology until things start breaking. Rinse and repeat. Other non-profits avoid this feast-or...
https://blog.jazkarta.com/2018/02/22/the-mountaineers-keep-climbing/
Jazkarta is pleased to have recently sponsored the North Cascades Institute‘s Northwest Youth Leadership Summit. This event is intended to empower Cascadia’s future leaders in conservation by...
https://blog.jazkarta.com/2017/12/07/jazkarta-sponsors-northwest-youth-leadership-summit/