Agenda Brainstorm

CRM	Drupal	Wordpress	Metrics	Mapping	CSS/Responsive	Social Media	Mobile	Digital Footprint	Tech 4 Justice	Race	Gender	Digital Divide	Accessibility	Community Engagement	Organizing	Open Source Politics/Praxis/Theory of Change/Goals and Strategies	Economic Justice	Data Visualization
Salsa API	“Case studies” of how we've built the same or similar things with different CMSes: Drupal, Wordpress especially! (Joomla and Plone too)	Native WordPress themes vs. other themes?	How can I tell my tech project is effective	Useful tools for mapping realestate power structure to combat gentrification	CSS Frameworks: what are the pros and cons? When are they most useful?	Practical methods and tools for “big” listening on social media	How do we tear down the walled gardens of mobile so we can pwn it?	When to go beyond existing social media (twitter and facebook)	What gadgets do we want/need? (for movement building)	How can I make technology careers more accessible regarding race, gender, economics	We need to talk about gender in tech	“Digital Divide” - Is it a valid way to frame a debate?	We need to talk about best practices for accessible websites (e.g. color blindness, etc.)	How do you get communities to really, actually collabrate online?	How to build a socialized movement on a non-monetized medium?	We need an effective, practical evidence-based guide to social change: Historic analysis, roles, phases of change-inter and intragroup- “Doing Democracy” William Moyer	Do we need a truer/better economic awareness?	Want to hear horror stories about data visualization
How do you save nonprofits from Salesforce?	Learn Drupal in 3 days for end users	Wordpress tricks and best use	Measurement and evaluation strategies for tech interventions	I want to learn to do CSS in SASS		Trade-offs between usability of “spy on me” tools vs Open Source alternatives	Can the baseband vulnerability (in mobile) be realistically solved?	Is there an open source industry classification system?	How can the nonprofit sector get ahead of the technology curve?	What are the barriers for more women and people of color working in non-profit/social justice oriented tech?	Anti-oppression work in tech (internal)	How do we design technology to not widen the digital divide?	How can tech support those who are most dispossessed?	What are the best public engagement tools to activate constituents and move them to action?	Minimum viable platform for grass roots organizing	Open source options for “Contact your representative” advocacy		Visualizing a workflow
Different experiences in installing donor databases	Frameworks vs. Content managers for non-profit web stuff (i.e. Rails v. Drupal)	I want the easy path to wordpress theming	What are metrics for movement building?	Creating massive adoption of existing tech solutions (how do we?)		How do you increase visibility of your organization and engagement	When's it appropriate to build an app vs. a mobile website?	How can we support digital asset management for cultural organization			Gender justice in the tech world		How can we make useful tech tools available and useful to unpaid activists (without resources to pay for fancy things)	How to improve neighborhood communication	How to do effective, inclusive organizing for social change	Can code be used for revolution		Data visualization in strategy and planning
			Where are we going with web analytics?	Migrating to responsive web design		What is useful about issue-level Social Media monitoring?	How to use handheld devices' constant communications to better ends	Digital footprints, what to do			Feminism in tech		How to make websites more accessible? (for visually impaired users, etc.)	Were we wrong to cheerlead technology for activists?	We need an effective, practical, evidence-based guide to organizing a group: meetings, management, models,accountability, transparency, legal decision-making processes	Interoperability of platforms (Crosstalk)		How can graphic designers move to open source?
			When do you know your tech project is completed?	Responsive design: What are the best practices? Tools? Standards? Priority devices?				Does your organization NEED an app?			Patriarchy in tech		Making content accessible	Recruiting volunteers to help Oakland schools with technology	Crowdsourcing development of open source projects	How can we help organizations see connections of their values to technology choices?		What are some good free graphic design hacks for nonprofits?
			How do we measure the impact/success of hard to measure/hard to quantify stuff?	How to create responsive websites on a budget							How can we challenge patriarchy in tech spaces		Making the workplace more accessible to all	Managing tech volunteers	Applying community organizing techniques to online organizing (It's not just PR)	Storytelling		How to tell stories with data to make people care about your cause
			Useful measures of engagement especially online “metrics”	How to approach design and development of “responsive” websites							Build solidarity among women and gender queer people in tech		What does access to technology in the US (local) mean?	Story-telling for social justice
											Gender and identity inclusive tech culture – How to get there?		User-centric design	Sustaining community online after a face-to-face event
													How can we be better at listening to the communities we serve?	Post NPDev
													Establishing ongoing face to face knowledge/socialising expertise sharing beyond NP Dev Summit
													How to move our work into multiple languages

Business / Work Models & Methods	?	Worker Owned Cooperatives	Networks & Wireless	Sustainable Livelihood	Environment Sustainable	Funding	Experts and Non-experts	Failure	Organizational Culture	Organizational Learning	Educating NP Folks about tech
contracts/grants for a future that doesn't suck (creative commons, sharing, IP, competition) documentation	What is the nptech topic of the moment?	How does effective project management work in worker owned shops	People's open network free wireless internet in the Bay Area – Or, anywhere?	When to use volunteers? When to contract?	How can companies develop their economies while be environmentally aware of?	Potential projects for funding by the awesome foundation	How can we start moving non-techie users to Linux as a primary operating system?	Successful failures. How can we learn from failures?	Effect of organizational culture on its technology	Boot-strapping knowledge within organizations	What are the best practices for NP humans to learn tech?
How can we build more resiliant labor sharing networks?	Does index investing reinforce the status quo?	Best practices for coops who work for nonprofits	Building de-centralized communications networks	How to find your inspiration and keep working long term?	What do we do with our tech hardware when its outdated? What is our responsibility to it?	How can we fund speculative/R&D/side projects for great justice?	Breaking down the walls between “techies” and “non-techies” to create more accessibility	How do we document our failures so we actually learn from them	How do we communicate well over well-defined role boundaries	Where is the Khan Academy or MOOC for facilitation of movements and internal organizational processes	What should be a MOOC for nonprofit tech? Should there be one at all?
Tech worker union? Maybe IWW wobblies?	Influence government policy from the inside	exploring the tech coop model and its variants	Federation? Syndication? Distributed networks?	Preventing/managing burnout	What are the ecological, international labor and energy costs of computing?	How to use crowdfunding platforms for change, (new funding paradigm?)	What are good platforms for non-techies to launch a website?	Active listening in discovery processes	The implication of specialization of knowledge within organizations	Adopting lean techniques in NGO tech space	How do we access the resources (expertise, tools). We need when we don't know where to look?
Stories about using mobile in operations vs communications	How can we leverage physical computing in this movement?	Can we build collaboration among cooperative design & development shops & how?	Federation	What does sustainable right livelihood look like for individuals in nonprofit/ social justice tech?	How to help non-profits hack smarter, not harder	How to distribute effort & funding for shared problems	Barely on the WWW, how do we get on and ready for tablets		Enablers and blockers of cultural/technology change	Who is doing what in tech development? Overlaps?	How to provide sustainable support solutions on a small scale?
What are other financially sustainable besides nonprofits while working for social change		How can tech worker owned cooperatives collaborate more effectively?		Nourished bodies for sustainable activism	Getting popular buy-in for reducing impact on planet	Tell us ideas for funding movement tech we haven't heard of	Demystifying data analysis: narrow the gap between community and “data scientists” who parachute in and bestow insights		Cultivating introverted leadership	How to apply design thinking everywhere?	How do people learn technology skills? Why THOSE people?
				How to make our work sustainable and not drive people into corporations		Get your affluent tech-sector friends to donate money				What are the next generation techniques for evaluating tech?	What are best practices and processes for getting staffs to adopt new technologies?
				I want to hear about good examples of sustainability		How do we adapt foundation funding model to tech development				Discuss: Everyone should learn to code vs. no they shouldn't	Training techniques. What works?
				Support for people to stop working “normal” jobs		Alternative sources of start-up/product/service capital $?					Educating non-techies about the mission impact of technology
				How to make your nonprofit sustainable		Securing resources for tech in small non-profit budgets"
				What is the salary distribution in NPO tech sector?		Funding for supporting growing new non-for-profit ventures"
				Recruiting people and keeping"
				How & why we should do digital detox?"
				We should talk about mental health and activist sustainability"

Open Data	Data	Data Management	Ethics of Tech	$	Mobile crypto	Anonymity	Crypto	Crypto Privacy	Privacy	Open Ecosystem	Alternative education and tech development and creative communities and collaborative learning	Collaboration	Project Management	Local above Global	Development tools and practices
How to access open government data?	Does impact data really tell us about impact?	Data management for healthcare and HIPAA orgs	Is “the Internet” evil and can we do anything about it?	How to provide affordable services to nonprofits and still make a living?	Encrypted communication for mobile devices (do people think about it, what do wee need?)	How can we encourage free speech?	PGP Applications – what's out there?	What are the biggest privacy concerns with nonprofits?	Security in plain language	Supporting/Growing the open ecosystem	Role of hacker spaces in Npdev	Secure options for productivity and collaboration tools	Project Management Tools and techniques	How important is localization and when to think about it	Continuous Integeration and automated testing techniques
How to take abstruse data and make it accessible and organize-around-able?	How to find data	Building a database to fight corporations	All technology/tools should have a theory of change		Security when using the cloud	Is anonymity attainable?	Are the “safe” places to put data?	Practical plans for email encryption implementation for small organizations	I want to learn more about data privacy	How the CSA mode can inform open source tech development	Social justice hacker schools	Open source tools to replace dropbox, google, and basecamp	Collaborative development tools (github, pariing, etc)	Localization of content	Pros/cons of different development frameworks
How does data get between cities and residents/citizens	Tools, techniques,strategies to collect impact data?		Should we be enforcing and discussing limits of technology use?		Online security for undocumented communities	How can we fight mass surveillance	Host your own cloud with things like Docker and Flynn	How can we encourage crypto adoption?	What's the current state of FLOSS replacements for Google Apps? (Calendar, Webmail, spreadsheets, contact management)	How can social sector organizations contribute to open platforms?	Hackerspaces creative communities, what theyre about and how to collaborate	How do visual designers and programmers work together successfully?	What are good project management practices?		Take your first steps with Python Programming
	Should we use shady data scraping/is it necessary to be shady to “win”		How does tech concentrate power?			How to live with the NSA	Want to roll my own DropBox. How?	Can we give tools that protect privacy to the people who dont understand privacy issues?	Why is it so hard to even talk about privacy?	How do you build organizations capacity of technology success?	What tools help to create an environment that 'co-teaching' (staff educating each other) [Yammer, Quora]	How can we work across organizations to develop shared tools?	How does content strategy integrate with agile processes?		Pair programming to improve yr skillz
	What would be in a “weather report”* for the climate movement *on the movement, not the 'weather weather...		How does information science theory drive tech/web development				What are NPO folks thinking about using (or opposing)? Google Glass as a tool in your work?	Should nonprofits/activists use Facebook, and Twitter, Etc.?	How to HTTPS (Websites) effectively and with TLC configuration confidentiality?	How can I get my hands on (or contribute to) open hardware devices		How do folks structure work/projects to encourage growth and mentorship?	What does open source systems monitoring look like?		Learn regular expressions
	Metadata? Microformats? Why?		How is the tech industry complicit with gentrification?				Clouds? Are these safe? Non-google? “Good”?	We need to build in security/privacy more fundamentally	What should our sector's response to the NSA be?	What does a 'Peoples' Technology' look like		Effective cross cultural collaboration	what makes it work?		Using Github to manage open source projects
	I want to talk about BIG data. What can we do with them?						Crypto Parties at Sudo Room, wherever	What 's next for encrypted email?	Explain the 'data privacy' threat. Why should I care that Google knows me?	Combatting the gentrification (corporatization) of FOSS		How to trick you all into working together	Best practices for working with tech volunteers		Your lack of continuous integration server physically hurts me (and you)
							Making secure communication easy	Simpler PGP	How to HTTPS (Websites) effectively and with TLC configuration confidentiality?	How to create tools to teach open source methodology and value		I want to hear about open source collaborative tools that work	What would you need to do software development driven by activist end users?		Best practices for web development for small nonprofits with small to tiny budgets
									Hardening websites	How do we ensure that tools we're building support missions (not convenience)		How to create a community based on listening	How can tech reflect democratic organizing principles?
									Crypto and its use in activists tech	How we explain the alignment of NGO's and Open Source		How do we learn from working with other geographic regions
										How do we increase the development of opensource software?		What are the alternatives to Google Apps?
										How do we define values for our organization's use of tools and wean ourselves off tools that dont fit with our values?
										Stepping out of proprietary thinking