Event Details

Allen Gunn of Aspiration http://www.aspirationtech.org and Social Source Commons http://www.socialsourcecommons.org will facilitate an interactive session about finding, utilizing and maintaining software for your nonprofit.

Where: TechSoup/CompuMentor

525 Brannan St. Ste. 300

San Francisco, CA, 94107

Event Materials

SPEAKER BIOS

**Executive Director Allen Gunn has over twenty years of software development and capacity building expertise. He has shepherded large software projects through all stages of development: from inception, design, development, and testing to deployment, support and marketing in environments ranging from start-up to large corporation to nonprofit. Drawing on engineering, senior management, and volunteer experiences, Gunner is a skilled communicator, trainer and facilitator in both the nonprofit and corporate sectors who is passionate about helping nonprofits and NGOs make better use of software technology. He has been closely involved with the US and international technology activist communities; the Silicon Valley engineering, venture, and funding world; environmental activists and organizations, and academic communities. He is a firm believer in melding hard work with serious fun.

**David Sasaki, Director of Outreach, Global Voices, will open the evening with a short presentation about Rising Voices http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org. Rising Voices is an international citizen media outreach initiative of Global Voices. By linking online media activists throughout the developing world and distributing microgrants of $3,000 to $5,000 to select projects, it aims to extend the benefits of participatory media to communities that are under-represented on the conversational web.