2024-04-08

• [[Listened]] to [[Should the UK stop arming Israel?]]

  • Drone strike killed seven aid workers. (Some of whom British).
  • While Israel says it was a mistake, suggestion is that this is in line with Israel’s current rules of engagement.
  • UK sells a small amount of arms to the UK. Sunak threatening to stop this unless more aid allowed.

• [[Nonprofits should (almost) never write their own software]]

  • From the [[Aspiration Manifesto]].
  • Being the tech lead for a non-profit that develops our own software - I fully agree. We are currently going through a process of trying to divest as much bespoke code as possible to pre-existing (FLOSS) software.
  • One alternative I see, where no other software exists for the desired purpose, is for non-profits to perhaps be incubators for the software, but always with an intention to [[exit to community]] / exit the software to cooperative.