Planet SoC

The Future of Social Enterprise
Authors: V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard, and Susan McDonald cfc39bbb3dbf4c0e50806eee1296413a

This paper considers the confluence of forces that is shaping the field of social enterprise, changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure performance. The authors trace a growing pool of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from an intergenerational transfer of wealth and new wealth from financial and high-tech entrepreneurs. They further examine how these organizations can best access the untapped resources by demonstrating mission performance, and then propose three potential scenarios, outlined below, for how this sector might evolve.

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personal, technical, gnustep, gsoc
16:05 -0400

Recent window managers have a feature called “focus stealing prevention”, which
is wonderful in theory. But in practice… well, do a Google search, and see
how many people don’t like it. The problem is that it’s a whole bunch of
guesswork, and so it may cause problems when it guesses wrong.

It’s nice to be somewhat ahead of the roadmap that I gave myself, especially since all kinds of problems that I hadn’t thought about are cropping up. However, I finally have the analysis portion of the plugin more or less ready to go, despite a few bumps along the way related to threads and subprocesses. Those are pretty much ironed out thanks to the help of Jonathan Matthew and my mentor Philip Van Hoof, and I learned a fair bit along the way. That’s what this GSoC thing is all about, right?
One thing that took me a while to decide was how to control the song analysis. It is a fairly processor intensive and time consuming process, so I didn’t want it to just run whenever, but I didn’t think it deserved its own toolbar button. I settled on a pop-up window that runs when Rhythmbox starts if it detects that the library is out of date (from a gconf key). It looks like this:

Hi! The last of my mid-term goals (The actor animation regression) got nailed this week.
Here are my recent achievements:

• Implemented resetGfxEntityEntry function in r32848
• Fixed addAni function in r32850
• Fixed and implemented the rest of processSeqListElement function in r32874

And I’ve been documenting the Operation Stealth’s disassembly generally along the way a bit too.

personal, technical, website
08:39 -0400

As of some time last week, my server got IPv6 connectivity via a
SixXS tunnel. Now my website, email, Jabber,
etc. are all accessible via both old-and-gungy IPv4, and shiny-new IPv6. What
does this mean? Right now, not a whole lot, since hardly anyone is using
IPv6. But it does allow me to test out IPv6, seeing as IPv4 will be running
out of addresses in a few years.

technical, debian, gnustep
20:25 -0400

Finally, after prodding the release managers, we’ve received the
go ahead to
start the GNUstep transition. GNUstep gui is still
stuck in the NEW queue,
after originally being REJECTED due to a
silly licensing issue.
So, hopefully the Debian ftp-masters will ACCEPT gnustep-gui soon, all the
GNUstep packages will get rebuilt quickly, and maybe we’ll have a GNUstep
release in Lenny that’s less than a year old. <crosses fingers> The freeze for

technical, debian, gnustep
20:25 -0400

Finally, after prodding the release managers, we’ve received the
go ahead to
start the GNUstep transition. GNUstep gui is still
stuck in the NEW queue,
after originally being REJECTED due to a
silly licensing issue.
So, hopefully the Debian ftp-masters will ACCEPT gnustep-gui soon, all the
GNUstep packages will get rebuilt quickly, and maybe we’ll have a GNUstep
release in Lenny that’s less than a year old. <crosses fingers> The freeze for