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Help us celebrate software developers who create open source apps and tools that nonprofit and advocacy groups can put to good use

Charity Village

The Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest honours the life and legacy of Antonio “Tony” Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing. Tony never had a chance to fulfill his computing dreams, so the prize was created to help others realize theirs.

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6 Reasons Open Source Makes Sense

3rd Sector Labs

We talk a lot about Open Source technology (and we use it quite extensively too) so it might make sense for us to take a moment and explain why we are such advocates. Affordability – Open Source is free of licensing fees. Proven – Open Source platforms like Drupal, WordPress, CiviCRM, etc.,

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An Open Source Website Personalization Tool for Mission-Driven Organizations

Forum One

As we work primarily with open source CMS platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, our tool is effective in its ability to integrate within the CMS as well as be flexible for organization-specific needs. We look forward to sharing an update soon! Potential and growth of our tool.

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Open Source Means Strong Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

“Your secure software is open source: doesn’t that make it less secure?” We strongly believe not only that open source is compatible with digital security, but that it’s also essential for it. The analogy of the strong safe with an open design is directly applicable to secure software design.

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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. Other web applications. 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.). CRM/ERP more generally.

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Introducing a New Community-Built Application Supported by Salesforce.org Commons

Saleforce Nonprofit

DLRS is a community-built and community-maintained open source Salesforce solution. For example, you can use DLRS when you want to display the sum of paid payments related to an Opportunity, or count the number of student applications or current board members at your organization. Built by the Community, for the Community.

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Senior Full Stack Web Application Developer

Kindful

A typical day as an application developer at Kindful involves about 75% independent focused work and 25% collaboration. 7+ years of software development experience with an emphasis on Ruby on Rails is best, but we will consider other open-source backgrounds as well (Python, etc). You’ll use Jira, GitHub, and Slack.