Grassroots Power - Vote for CiviCRM Sessions at the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference

The Nonprofit Technology Network - NTEN - is holding it's annual conference in San Francisco next April. This is the largest annual gathering of the non-profit tech community in the U.S - and it's a great opportunity for folks in our CiviCRM community to connect and share and help promote CiviCRM. This year NTEN is using a new voting process to decide which sessions get included in the schedule. Three exciting CiviCRM-related sessions are on the "ballot" - thanks to David Geilhufe, Michelle Murrain (Non Profit Open Source Initiative), Sue Gardner (Wikimedia Foundation), Wes Morgan (Fund for the Public Interest), Rick Cohen (National Council of Nonprofit Associations), and Jeff Porter (Foundation for Prader-Willi Research). Even if you're not sure about attending NTC - help get these sessions on the schedule by taking a few minutes to vote for them. All you need to do is go to the linked pages below and click on the "stars":

• Anatomy of Open-source Fundraising - Wikimedia Foundation
• Events Management: Tales from the Trenches
• Selecting and Implementing Open Source Constituent Relationship Management: views from the trenches with CiviCRM, MPower & Sugar
• The New Peacebuilding Paradigm: Women in Connection x the Internet = Exponential Change

Take a few minutes and VOTE NOW. It's a quick and easy way to "give back" and help CiviCRM grow and thrive. You can also help promote discussion about open-source solutions in general by voting for some of these sessions:

• Building Powerful Community Websites With Drupal
• Open Source CMS modules for Nonprofits
• Comparing Open Source CMSs: Joomla, Drupal, and Plone
• Drupal for Dummies
• How Open Source Helps