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| '''How can we use open-sourced technology to mitigate purchases for common, simple products?'''
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| Not all of these ideas necessarily relate to the major questions poised, but rather they tend to lead into and inspire each other.
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| '''Drupal'''
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| 1) Healthcare - upload patient records onto CMS's that's used by hospital networks
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| 2) Schools - managing grades, times, events, files, etc.
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| * Revising University CMS, such as Blackboard which costs thousands of dollars a year
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| 3) Veterans networking website
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| 4) Homeless shelters negotiating needs
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| 5) Nonprofit food/shelter organizations communicating about needs
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| 6) Organizing taxes and tax return forms for governments
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| 7) Managing parks around the country
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| 8) Cities, government websites
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| * Tourism - Build a central platform for tourism websites, perhaps using the [[http://www.notfortourists.com/ NFT model]]
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| 9) Public Transit Info
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| * Organizing schedules, train arrivals, logistics
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| * Put wireless networks in buses, tunnels, trains, tracks in order to communicate instantly
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| 10) News media
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| 11) Employee logistics
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| * Clocking in hours
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| * Using a touchscreen to clock-in
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| * Clock-in's can immediately be mapped onto a spreadsheet
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| ** Employers no longer have to deal with data entry, but data manipulation
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| This reminded me of a phrase, '''"Less tech, more human"'''
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| '''Twitter for Companies'''
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| Instead of tedious one-sentence emails, have sound-bites delivered instantly
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| *Removes dependence on IM programs or conference calls
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| **Perhaps there are open source programs for IM and Conference Calling
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| I decided to sharpen my focus a little:
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| '''Why do organizations need to pay developers/professionals to personalize their product and train their employees?'''
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| There is no reason to train your employees in things that don't directly relates to your organization.
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| * '''Less tech, more human'''
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| 1) Open-source projects of open-source projects
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| * Make a project to simplify Drupal
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| * Make a project to specify Drupal
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| ** Drupal for education
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| ** Drupal for healthcare
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| 2) Hire firms to streamline them
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| 3) Make simple instruction manuals
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| 4) How-to pages
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| 5) Videos
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| 6) Ready-made versions
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| 7) Simple-English
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| '''8) Simple Content Management''' : Simple English meets How-to
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| People record and file data abstractly - NO ONE knows how to properly organize. Although it is natural for us to record information in our brains, we never consciously organize it because our brains do it for us.
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| * Why should people organize? Let them do their jobs
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| We can write software that allows people to abstractly record information, but it automatically organizes it.
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| * No more hiring temporary professionals
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| * No more training periods
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