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Palante participates in May Day 2012

Palante Tech will be running at limited capacity on May 1st to allow us to participate alongside our client organizations, allies, and the thousands of others across the United States and around the world organizing for the Occupy general strike and International Workers' Day. We're happy that as a worker-owned cooperative, we were able to bring our shared values and beliefs to this consensus-based decision.

While we intend to be out in the streets, we're also committed to maintaining our support for clients who are integral to the struggles and movements we'll be participating in that day. Therefore, we will still be working on a very limited basis and responding to emergency support requests. We ask for our clients' understanding for any delays in responding to requests that come in that day.

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Welcoming Benjamin Doherty to Palante Tech

Benjamin DohertyPalante Tech is excited to announce Benjamin Doherty as the newest member of our cooperative! Benjamin, aka bangpound on Drupal.org and elsewhere online, is a longtime Drupal developer and contributor to Drupal core and modules. Benjamin has great experience working with progressive nonprofit organizations; he's also a blogger at the Electronic Intifada. Benjamin brings his ace skills and extensive experience to Palante's web work and is already elbow-deep in Drupal site building for some of our awesome clients. We're thrilled to welcome Ben to our team and we're excited about how this growth will allow us to provide better services and support to more progressive and movement organizations.

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Techniques for troubleshooting backupninja/rdiff-backup

This is a writeup of our internal process for troubleshooting rdiff-backup/backupninja errors. Please note that it's a work in progress!

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It's official! We've incorporated!

Palante Tech signing papers

Palante Technology has been together for a while, and for months we have been working towards this moment. Last Friday, thanks to the help of the wonderful lawyers at the Urban Justice Center's Community Development Project, the four current worker-owners of Palante Tech signed the papers to officially become Palante Technology Cooperative, Incorporated! We are now an official New York State Cooperative Corporation. We're proud to have our official name reflect our commitment to collective organizing, and to supporting an alternative economy where all workers have respect, stability, and agency in their workplace. ¡Pa'lante!

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New Drupal site for Social Justice Leadership

It's been the usual state of affairs on the Palante website for a while (the cobbler's children have no shoes and all), but don't let the inactivity fool you – we've been plenty busy! One awesome example of what we've been up to is the recently launched Drupal 7 website for Social Justice Leadership, an amazing organization that works with other grassroots organizations across the country to develop and implement a transformative organizing framework for social change.

Screenshot of sojustlead.org

The site was built by us at Palante Tech along with Michelle Murrain on development and Claudina Sarahe on theming. The design is by the talented folks at Hazan + Company. We also created an integrated and highly-customized CiviCRM implementation for SJL so that they can seamlessly manage their communication and relationships with their contacts in one place. We worked closely with SJL throughout the project and developed a great relationship with them in the process, so we were thrilled to see the site launch and look forward to continuing to work with them.

Soon to come: an actual portfolio so that we can show the world more of what keeps us so busy!

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Palante Tech at the Allied Media Conference

I'm currently en route from Minnesota, where I helped the Progressive Technology Project train community organizations on using PowerBase, to Detroit for the 2011 Allied Media Conference. This will be my second time in Detroit (I was here for last year's US Social Forum) but my first time at the AMC, and I'm thoroughly excited, not only because the entire event is sure to be amazing, but also because I'm presenting! Josue Guillen of the Progressive Technology Project and I will be presenting "From Open Source to Community Source: Collaboratively Created Tech for Movements."

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Backing up Google Docs to Linux using gdatacopier

Today I successfully set up backing up all of our company's Google Documents to our own server in OpenOffice formats. Here's how I did it.

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DrupalCon Raw Notes: Tools of the Trade

with Aaron Pava (CivicActions), Jody Hamilton (Zivtech), Eric Gundersen (Development Seed), Lior Kesos (Linnovate) View the session video on Archive.org

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Raw Notes from DrupalCon and CiviCon 2011

Jon and I attended CiviCon and DrupalCon in Chicago this past week. We learned TONS from both and we're all about sharing the knowledge. We've added notes from both DrupalCon and CiviCon to our Raw Notes series. Hope you enjoy them; please comment and share if you find them useful!

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CiviCon Raw Notes: Social CRM (integrating CiviCRM with Facebook)

Facebook API exposes all sorts of useful information – though apparently this changes on a very frequent basis.

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