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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Overview

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Comparisons of open source vs. proprietary development environments (i.e. I’ll write a series of posts, and cover the following topics: Desktop software (OS, Office Suites, browsers, utility software, and other good stuff.). PHP vs.NET and that sort of thing.). Non-profit CRM (including “SaaS&# in the proprietary camp).

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Desktop Productivity

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

For the purposes of this blog entry, at this moment in time (early 2011,) LibreOffice and OpenOffice.org are the same. I’ve been using this tool since it actually was StarOffice, more than 10 years ago, when it was first open sourced by Sun in 2000.

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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders. Our support of groups advancing LGBTI rights is opening up new opportunities for helping many more such groups around the world. In my Fall 2011 President’s Update , I mentioned PBS NewsHour’s two stories, and complete press coverage of our work is listed on our website.

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2012 SXSW Interactive – #nptech Highlights

Amy Sample Ward

Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. This topic was especially relevant….

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Open Data Kit: Mobile Phones for Social Change

NTEN

That's why we were particularly pleased to learn that Yaw Anokwa -- a lead developer on Open Data Kit , a modular set of tools helping nonprofits around the world collect data, via mobile phones, on everything from deforestation to human rights violations -- has won the fourth annual Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest.

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Get Even More out of Your Time in DC: Events Before and After the 2011 NTC!

NTEN

CiviCRM Training Details: Date: March 16 - 17, 2011 Location: Pew DC Conference Center, 901 E St. Penguin Day DC 2011 is organized by Aspiration and PICnet. There's plenty on the calendar but we want to be sure that a few special events make it to your calendars, too: Innogive, CiviCRM Training, and Penguin Day.

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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

This week have a look at the just completed Open Data for Africa platform and learn more about the brewing open data revolution in the MENA region. There is some great insight into the need for the Open Data movement to be more inclusive as well as explanations of why big data gathering should be more strategic.