Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

It wasn’t too many years ago when our pharmaceutical industry more or less argued that people with AIDS in Africa should die rather than to license their medicines for low cost manufacture. To the greatest extent possible, be open. Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source.

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NTEN

JULY 3, 2014

Last week, during the quarterly staff retreat, NTEN staff toured Free Geek. Free Geek is a technology reuse, recycle, and education nonprofit based in Portland, Oregon. Several NTEN staff have been long-time supporters, and NTEN has always donated its old electronics to Free Geek. community Community free geek'

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. They also have a free version, I started with this one, than upgraded.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 10, 2007

They suspected they could significantly increase their visability by posting content for free on the internet - but this would destroy their sustainability. Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) have been wrestling with this for years, as the success of the Open Source movement places a downward pressure on the value of software.

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Judi Sohn

MAY 3, 2015

Two weeks ago, I joined the Salesforce Foundation in a new role as Open Source Manager. Does "Open Source Community Manager" mean that you're the official bff of Nonprofit Starter Pack users? However, Salesforce.com has a foundation where they give away licenses to qualified nonprofits! Completely free.

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NTEN

MARCH 10, 2010

Session: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors. Free and Open Source Software. Whether it is on the desktop like Firefox and Open Office or the Ubuntu Linux operating system, or on servers (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and running CMSs and CRMs (like Drupal and CiviCRM).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

I'm trying to embrace two ideas here - the idea of open source thinking and wikitation. Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools. Open source thinking is sharing and remixing.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. Software that is released without copyright or license is termed Public Domain software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

He created the above "open source documentary" on Net Neutrality called Humanity Lobotomy. ve (Four Eyed Monsters + Caliblog) put a creative commons license on the video so that you don?t He's a talented filmmaker (as is Susan and the other folks at Four-Eyed Monsters). t want to make it a big story.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

Open Source Hardware: can it be done ? Open-Xchange just got a bunch of $. The Free Software Foundation revised the GNU Free Document License (GNU FDL) to allow public Wikis to relicense their content (by August 1, 2009) to the Creative Commons By-SA 3.0. The CC By-SA is the most FDL-like of the CC licenses.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. We rely on free licenses to proprietary content and software, and typically get a “Yes!” We serve human rights activists in more than 100 countries.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Each month, more than 70 groups hold free events in 24 countries. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Cleveland, Ohio: Tableau Tutorial: Free Data Visualization for Nonprofits. Wednesday, June 7, 2017.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free? No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

More lately, I’ve been working to focusing my advising practice on helping people implement open source software (mostly server-side) in their organizations, providing advice and training. I stopped at the license agreement. Because I’ve decided that no matter what, I’m not going back. Good specs, cheap price.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

A Free Photos Directory , Free Video Directory and Free Music Directory that offers nonprofits, cause organizations and Web publishers a guide to hundreds of online resources for adding legal, high-quality content to their own Web sites, blogs, podcasts, newsletters, printed materials or online presentations.

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Care2

MAY 25, 2011

Registering a domain, purchasing hosting, installing an open source CMS like WordPress , and setting up a basic design theme can all be done affordably. Salesforce for Nonprofits is often looked to as a good choice because of their grant program that includes 10 free licenses.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

The essence of this program is that Salesforce donates 10 free Enterprise Edition licenses to qualifying 501(c)3 nonprofit institutions and other organizations. It also provides deep discounts on additional licenses, products, and services. Visit our website to learn about all of the services and resources we offer.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2005

I came to Amsterdam yesterday to attend a summit meeting of open source foundations. There seem to be dozens of these groups, each built around one or more open source software project. Picture of the open source foundations summit. And, the desire for peer learning was strong.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Navy have been broadly adopting open source software. recently switched all of its desktop computer applications from Microsoft Office to Google Apps and Open Office , two open source (free of charge) solutions that can open, modify and save documents in the Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other formats.

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2010

Their theory is that anything they build has to be built open source, so that the taxpayers can access and use any innovations. All of the content produced and published by the New York State Senate is published under a Creative Commons license. Will it be problem free? Is it worth striving for?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Let’s look at some of the free and low-cost. Cohuman is one of several project management platforms that offer free accounts to nonprofits. Manymoon was bought by Salesforce recently, but will supposedly continue, in both free and paid versions, as a separate product. They offer a free plan that includes three projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2009

Earlier this week, I wrote a post called " What happens when you set your content free using Creative Commons Licensing? " I explained why I set my own work free, provided some examples, and pointed to a new tool. The First Giving Blog has a post " Riffing On Creative Commons License ". And how do you respond?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Our volunteer community leaders are holding free events across the US (and the globe). Kitchener, Ontario: Promoting Open Source. Birmingham, United Kingdom: November Meetup: Open-Source Tools. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. , and the leaves are starting to change color.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Social Media: What's Working Vs. What's Distracting | MCN (Free). Detroit, Michigan: Office 365 Setup Event — FREE Email for Your Domain! Austin, Texas: CiviCRM: Free, Open-Source CRM for Nonprofits and Startups. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

Open Source bid for Third Sector Innovation Exchange. million invitation to tender for a third sector innovation exchange has prompted an innovative response - an "open source bid" under which people are invited to share ideas with one team that is preparing a proposal. The Government's ??1.2

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Open Source Feminism - Click to Play. Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. What are the tactics for supporting online open source communities? Penguin Days.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Our mighty army of volunteers hosted over 500 free nonprofit technology trainings last year, and we're on track to reach even more organizers this year. But what that really means is that nonprofits in more than 75 cities have access to free training and networking events every month! You like numbers? Wednesday, May 17, 2017.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Honolulu, Hawaii: Free Ruby on Rails Workshop for Women (and Their Friends). Portland, Oregon: Secret Knowledge of Open Source. Image Name: Author / License. Monday, September 29, 2014. New York, New York: Crowdfunding for Nonprofits. Tuesday, September 30, 2014. Wednesday, October 1, 2014. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing. especially Dennis Yu, Chad King and Austin Stierler — who took us under their wing and agreed to host us for free.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

One we like that is oriented toward open source and also advocacy is the Library Freedom Project (LFP). LFP also points to a free basic class on online privacy that is hosted on the Internet Archive. The tutorial also links to a free password strength checker. Online Security for Libraries. That estimate still stands.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

But since most Linux distributions are free (as in beer), that’s not really quite the way to look at it. I’m really interested in helping technology providers get up to speed, so that the amount of support available for nonprofits using Linux (and open source in general) increases. It has a vibrant user community.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

Click & Pledge Free I-POD ClientTrack by Data-Systems International Stop by our booth for a demo of ClientTrack™Online Case Management and Reporting Software. Demo participants are eligible to receive up to 4 free iPads® if their organization purchases ClientTrack by July 31, 2011. Ask for details during your demo. Informz It’s St.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

She is a favorite on TechSoup for Libraries because she is always open to new technology. For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. 1 USB Hub.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

She is a favorite on TechSoup for Libraries because she is always open to new technology. For instance La Conner has been using thin clients since 2008, and recently installed an open-source integrated library system. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. 1 USB Hub.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. Open Source Software is Fair Trade ! Zen and the art of nonprofit technology wonders about Open Source Feminism. Join the Conversation and Debate On Open Content for Nonprofits.

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