Saturday, May 31st, "green geeks" will get together at GreenDevCamp at the Green Building Exchange in Redwood City, CA to talk about:

* How can companies, big and small, make their operations, code, practices, etc. more sustainable?
* In what ways can technology make our lives more green?

They are also hoping to walk away with concrete projects:

Last year, NetSquared Featured Project, FamilyFarmed.org received the Yahoo! Green Award for its potential to use Web 2.0 tools to benefit the environment by connecting everyday consumers with their local farmers.

This year, Yahoo! is looking for innovative “green mashups” that will inspire people to use social technology to help the environment.

Yahoo! will review the project submissions included in the “Environment” Cause Area of the NetSquared Project Gallery. Using Yahoo! APIs is a plus, but not necessary. The most innovative green mashup will receive a $5,000 Yahoo! Search Marketing award.

Each week in the Net2 Newsletter I try to share links to jobs that use the social web for social change. People often ask me where to find these kinds of jobs. The main places I find them are:

NTEN's Job List
New Organizing Institute Job List
Idealist
TechSoup's Job Listings
Social Edge's Job Listings
Nonprofit Tech Jobs Yahoo Group
Progressive Exchange List

Is there anywhere else people who are looking for nonprofit technology jobs should look?

Flickr photo credit: Need a Job? by Doug Bowman.

Research Triangle, NC Net Tuesday will have its first meeting on May 22nd. For those of you (like me) who didn't know where the "Research Triangle" was, here's Wikipedia's definition:

"The Research Triangle, commonly referred to as "The Triangle", is a region in the Piedmont of North Carolina in the United States, anchored by the cities of Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill."

Ruby Sinreich, Co-Director of Communications, Fellowship of Reconciliation will present. RSVP for the first Research Triangle, NC Net Tuesday on their Meetup page.

May 27 and 28 at the NetSquared Conference (N2Y3), social changemakers and web innovators will gather to network, socialize and help the 21 Featured Projects from the NetSquared Mashup Challenge take their ideas to the next level.

We'll also have sessions like, "Using Flickr to Make Your Existing Community More Amazing, or to Create a New One," and "Investing in Social Networks: Where Are They Going and What Can/Should Nonprofits Put Into and Get out of Them?"

For more information, check out our N2Y3 Working Agenda.
Public registration will be open until May 16th.
To get the special room rate at the Hotel Santa Clara, book your room by May 9th.
Questions? Email net2@techsoup.org

Allison Fine, author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age, has authored a report for the Case Foundation called Social Citizens about "Millenial" activism.

The paper describes how, "the largest living generation, out-numbering living Baby Boomers 77.6 million to 74.1 million," is changing the meaning of civic engagement with its interactive, collaborative, entrepreneurial and social networked activism. (For purposes of the report, Millenials are defined as people born between 1978-1993).

On the Social Citizens Blog, Fine asks one of the key questions that arose from the report:

Is our tendency to connect only with like-minded people using our online and on land social networks a good thing for activism or a critical bottleneck to the effective scaling for causes?

Sun Microsystems web development, Drupal, PHP, MySQL experts, Product and Project Managers want to help bring your mashup for social impact idea to life!

This Sunday, May 4th, from noon until 5 PM at San Francisco's Moscone Center, NetSquared, in partnership with Sun Microsystems, invite you to bring your best thinking to help accelerate the development of your mashup for social impact.

All participants will have an opportunity to work with people who want to help you (a) think through your idea, (b) answer questions, (c) give advice, and (d) contribute to the development of your mashup for social impact.

If you've been looking for technical resources to help crystallize your thinking around how mashups could accelerate your group's mission, this Hackathon is for YOU!

You vote, right? But do you use Congresspedia, Wiki The Vote, the SuperDelegate Transparency Project, OpenSecrets.org, FedSpending.org, or PublicMarkup.org to be an informed voter? They are all projects whose creation was facilitated by the Sunlight Foundation to educate citizens and increase transparency in politics.

On March 28th, I talked on the phone with Ellen Miller, the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Sunlight Foundation, about their work. Ellen is also a NetSquared Advocate. Below is an edited transcript of our conversation. You can also listen to it on the little player below, or on the NetSquared Podcast.

Ellen Miller: The Sunlight Foundation is a two-year-old organization that is a combination of a grant-making, and operational institution that focuses on creating greater transparency for the work of Congress.

NetSquared recently received a $600,000 grant over three years from the Surdna Foundation, a long-time supporter of TechSoup. While at NTEN's 2008 Nonprofit Technology Conference in March, I sat down with Vince Stehle, the Program Officer for the Nonprofit Sector Initiative at the Surdna Foundation. We talked about philanthropy, nonprofit technology trends, and Surdna's support of NetSquared.

Hey all you do-good bloggers!

Ben Rattray of Change.org wanted me to let you know that they are hiring bloggers. Positions are part-time, paid and start in June.

To apply, go to http://www.change.org/bloggers. I've pasted the blurb below: