The Nonprofit Software Development Summit will take place in Oakland, California from Nov 15-17. It is a high-spirited, fully-interactive festival of folks who are passionate about developing software tools to support the work of social change organizations and community activists.

So it's been a long road to this long blog post; I've had lots of good discussions about this year's Net2 program with lots of great folks, including my fine friends at CompuMentor. And now I want to share my concerns with the Net2 community and hear what others think about the structure of the N2Y2 agenda.

Teresa Crawford is a strategic technology consultant based in Washington DC who I met at the Aspiration Tech Nonprofit Software Development Summit yesterday. She has been working in the field of NGOs and technology since 1998. Over the last few years she has worked in 30 countries with organizations both large and small to help them make better use of information and information technology in their work.

You can listen to the interview on the NetSquared Podcast, and a transcript will be up in about a week.

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How many tech conferences do you go to where you aren't allowed to use your laptop, text on your cell phone, or chat on an IRC channel during sessions?  Where you are encouraged to truly listen and pay attention to what people are saying?  Where a Waste Reduction Consultant is brought in to create a green event?  Not many I bet.

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