Earlier this year Caktus had the honor of working with Sonnet Media and PBS’ Independent Lens on the documentary, Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Originally a best-selling book by Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn, the book adapted into a two part documentary series. The documentary ...
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I'm delighted to write that last Friday, we announced we'll be trying our first "ShipIt Day" at Caktus in October. ShipIt Days, also known as FedEx Days, provide a time for the team to set aside what occupies us most days—building fantastic web applications using Python and ...
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Caktus has had the opportunity to work on the infrastructure of RapidSMS, an application framework that allows data collection and logistics coordination using mobile phone text messages for communication. The BBC World News recently posted an article, "RapidSMS: Saving a life in 160 characters" detailing the effects of RapidSMS technology ...
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Yesterday evening I delivered a brief talk to the meetup members of the NCTech4Good meetup in RTP on the topic of interpreting a RFP.
The basic premise is that due to a disconnect from the people who help write and distribute RFPs and those who respond, the returned proposals often ...
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It's been one week since I posted my wrap-up of the first day at Djangocon, and although I didn't get the chance to cover each day individually I wanted to post a quick conference wrap up.
Overall ...
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