Converting a non-profit (was Looking for new business oportunities)

[Leslie Lewis]

I don't want to hijack an interesting conversation with my own issues, so I
thought I'd start another thread.


On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:38 PM, Robert Hodgins
<ehodgins at telusplanet.net>wrote:

>
> IANAL, but if you are a part of an organization using illegal stuff,
> aren't you not perhaps guilty of something else, as well?
>


> Here is an idea. Run away.
>

It's hard being a volunteer with no power. I've done what I can, in writing
(email, at least), to point out to them that they need to get legal; I have
no power to do more, but I think my behind is covered.

The FOSS on Windows approach is one I'm working on. I've got them using
Firefox; OpenOffice.org is installed on all their computers and I use it
when I'm there, so if they want to use anything I do they have to use it,
too (yes, I could save things in MS format, but then they wouldn't have to
use OOo). They're still using MS Office, though. It's hard to get away from
Excel and its macros.  I think they're hooked on Outlook for email, although
they don't seem to be using any of the rest of it - maybe they could be
converted to Thunderbird.

Biggest headache: They're about to get a (legal!) copy of FileMaker Pro,
which runs okay for me in a VirtualBox XP window but would make Linux a hard
sell  I don't know of a nice slick Linux database package - is there one?

Cheers, y'all
Leslie
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