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2012 SXSW Interactive – #nptech Highlights

Amy Sample Ward

Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups – whether nonprofit organizations or not – to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. At SXSW, there….

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Can open source software save organizations money?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Next year, given what is likely to be a grim funding year, nonprofit organizations are going to be hunting for ways to save money on technology. There are, of course, arguments that IT budgets should be, at least, level funded during slim times, but the reality is that organizations are going to reduce budgets across the board.

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Open Source Donor Management Systems: Know Your Options

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Costs vary as well -- and there are even some Free and Open Source options. You’ll need someone familiar with installing and configuring open source systems on a Web server in order to get you up and running. by Fund for the City of New York. Orange Leap MPX. by Orange Leap. Organizers Database (ODB).

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5 Questions: Working with Open Source Software and Vendors

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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). Speaker: Gregory Heller, CivicActions.

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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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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: This Week in NPTech

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Those familiar with Michelle's work in the nptech sphere understand that this non-open-source tool review is rare, so go take a gander and join the discussion in the comments! Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz nten members. The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management launched a new blog.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Funding Opportunities A recap of funding opportunities mentioned in previous NpTech Tag Summaries and are of interest to nonprofit techies: Razoo promotes social good. Make sure to read through the FAQ and look at last year's winners to get a sense of what they are willing to fund. How will these trends impact nptech?

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