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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Current Trends.

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Furthering Your Nonprofit Career: 3 Tips for Development

Bloomerang

The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide on the subject explains that you have an option to choose between open-source and paid courses. While open-source can be tempting due to the inexpensive price, they often only offer a limited amount of information before requiring payment or they simply lack high-quality content.

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Benetech, Bookshare and Google Summer of Code

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Many thanks to Thushan Ganegedara for this guest post about his summer open source project. Go Read is a free e-book reader that people with print disabilities can use to read Bookshare titles. Go Read searches for books based on title, author, etc., or gets the latest/popular books using the Bookshare API.

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Steal My Idea, Please! Why An Open Source Attitude Can Make Apps Go Viral

Care2

” We felt so confident that I even spammed my entire personal address book with it (sorry, mom). 111% open rate, 80% participation on the site, 1/3 forwarded it. Its reception blew away any of our previous metrics. At this point, we knew we were on to something.

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Great reads from around the web on December 15th

Amy Sample Ward

' Open Source Is Dead! Long Live Open Source! What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" — a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire."

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Great reads from around the web on November 25th

Amy Sample Ward

That a growing number of consumer brands are transforming their existing static Web sites into interactive online communities is a trend that is not only recent, but also rapidly accelerating." "Open source software exists in the computer industry. Open architecture exists in the construction industry.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was an open-source searchable database in which you could enter the idea you were having, say, “community garden,” and up would pop a treasure trove of learning? What if the unexpected wasn’t seen as failure but as lessons to be shared?

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