1830 on Friday, and I haven't even cracked a beer yet. Perhaps that would be a good place to start, and go a little on the light side as we're going into tax weekend. What with the extended voting deadline, I guess I can slack off a bit. So, for this second-to-last installment of the voiting slate, I'll revert back to the Common Geek. So far I've talked about:

1. Genocide Intervention Network
2. FamilyFarmed.org
3. Hear our Pain
4. Hooze
5. and of coure the Grassroots.org toolbox.

Good to see the old brain-bone still remembers things occasionally. On to today's choices.

SourceTree

This is trully geek-meets-world.The social and charitable world of course. You've heard about this thing called Open Source Software, right? Where a bunch of geeks make some really cool stuff and give it to the world for free? Now, imagine if all these geeks could interact more, and all the really cool stuff they make could somehow have this cosmic technological mind meld and weird open-source orgy. And poof! New cool stuff comes out to satisfy new needs. Wow.

Well, OK. It's not really all that simple. But that's why we have open source geeks: They can figure out the complex stuff and make their geek love in SourceTree Commons. To the rest of us, it's just cool shit spawning! Vote for these guys, and try to get that image of The Spawn of Open Source out of your head!

Now, how do I top that? Leave it to Gunner:

Social Source Commons

Like, I'm in this mailing list? And there's a whole bunch of non-profits there? And some of them are, like, geeky? And some are not? And every week? Someone is all like, "Yo, what do yous guys use for sending out seventeen thousand emails to get money from your peoples?". Or some other thing that's been asked last week. Like, twice on Fridays. And I'd reaaaaaaaally like to read this list and help out and stuff. But you see, I already did that like seventeen million times. And it gets old. And I get old. And grey. And start getting upset at peoples' grammar and rather than help them find a tool I tell them that they should "use" and not "utilize" these tools. If only someone could take all this information about all these tools that we keep telling people to use or not to use every time they ask, and put it up in something new and cool, like a wiki, and then I can feel young again. If only, instead of finding every list that Mickey subscribes to and cross posting to every one of them, people could just go on this website that already has the information a non-profit needs. If only someone...somewhere...somehow...

Oh! Hi, G-man! You say Aspiration is putting together a list of software non-profits use? And it's public? on the web and stuff? and we can search it? and not have to send the email to the list and stuff? Gosh. I love you.

You should love these people too. Go vote for them.

That's it. I'm going to get a beer.

mickey