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[Piotr Szotkowski <chastell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Holbach:

>  - who you are

Piotr Szotkowski, an assistant professor at the Warsaw
University of Technology and core CiviCRM developer.

>  - which NGO or other organisation you work for

CiviCRM is an open source, web-based (Drupal/Joomla
module) contact and relationship management system
for NGOs, non-profits, etc.: http://civicrm.org/

I also help several Polish NGOs with their
technical problems (on an on-and-off basis).

>  - where your organisation is involved

CiviCRM itself is located in San Francisco, with development
teams in Mumbai and Warsaw; the software is used by a couple
thousands orgranisations thorough the world.

>  - how you make use of Ubuntu there or would like to use Ubuntu

To the best of my knowledge all of our development non-Apple laptops
run Ubuntu, as do both our servers. In the long run, packaging CiviCRM
might be a good idea (for ease of installation on Ubuntu servers).

>  - what you see as biggest stumbling blocks in terms of using Ubuntu

I don’t think our developers have any issues with Ubuntu; what
I see among non-developers that use it – unfamiliarity with the
app installation workflow (‘I just went to some-app.com and tried
to download their .exe and I can’t make it work’) and incompatibilities
(‘OpenOffice.org keeps messing up my documents’).

— Piotr Szotkowski
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Clojure Creator Admits Unfortunate Spelling Error in Original Whitepaper
                                                        [Patently False]

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