I just found out that idealist.org is now doing Community Podcasts, and their latest one looks at "how people are building community through software." Specifically, they take a look at Ubuntu and the community of developers working on this free, open source operating system.

At the CiviCRM Users Affinity Group meeting this morning, there was a very interesting tangential discussion on how to create a space where people feel comfortable asking questions - and whether there are gender dynamics at play too. David Geilhufe, one of the presenters, stressed that the developers of CiviCRM want to hear the questions that end users and adminstrators (as opposed to the developers and programmers) have. However, many actual end users and administrators said they didn't feel like there was a space to ask those questions.

Well, maybe not quite by storm, but I am excited to participate in my first tech conference. In addition, as Tobias has said, the Kabissa team is finally joining the blogosphere, and what better way to start than by blogging from the Nonprofit Technology Conference?!