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How not to treat an open source user community

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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. to develop open source software. at 2:40 pm That’s sad.

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I Need a Good Lawyer

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Nonprofits and transparency: Who’s walking the walk?

NTEN

Building a movement through innovative open source tools. Tools are licensed as open source, available for anyone to use and improve.” The more we know about what’s currently happening, the better job we can do this year. million in one day. Now it’s your turn.

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When Should You Use an Existing Tool/Service and When Should You Build Your Own?

NTEN

Do you need CRM, online fundraising, discussion forums, social networks, or job listings? You can likely find a SaaS (Software as a Service) solution to sign up for, a license to purchase, or open source solution to download all that offer complete working solutions to use "out of the box" to address your need.

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BYU ESR conference on Social Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Not the typical SROI calculation, but the dramatic point was that Flat World is making impact the center piece of their foray into Open Educational Resources (OERs). OERs are the open source equivalent of open source software.

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MPower Open keeps moving forward

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. “I I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations.

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Unlocking Data for Philanthropy: Notes from Global Philanthropy Forum Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, they have some predictable analytics on how people use their mobile phones and this helps understand whether or not they have jobs. He suggested the need for open source licenses for data and research should be available openly within a year. IssueLabs is a great start.