Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. What’s new about MPower is that it has very recently been released as open source.

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DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source CRMs – people like them? There were 6 open source (or sort of open source) tools that showed up on this survey. That’s pretty impressive.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open source your Open Social Apps? Which lead me to think about the idea of open sourcing OpenSocial apps. Anyone interested? Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org! Be Helpful.

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

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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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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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 10, 2007

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. Some vendors, such as MySQL, have a split model - a free license and a commercial license, for example. A few years back,Steven J.

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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! Salesforce.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

Open Source Zanby Announcement | Zanby.com – I'm so very excited to see this group/community platform go open source! We are also launching a community to encourage software developers to collaborate with us to evolve and improve the Zanby codebase. We hope you will join us."

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

Let's start with one from February's Software Development : Licence Overload , opinion by Warren Keuffel. 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.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

They need to build a digital experience that doesn't tie their hands with expensive proprietary licenses and high maintenance code. Invest in Open Source. Open-source software differs from other platforms in that it doesn't cost anything to license and use. How Can Nonprofits Make the Shift?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking of open social networks … August 14, 2008 I just joined identi.ca. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. Be Helpful.

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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!” from the majority of IP owners we approach.

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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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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. In the beginning, it was lack of software (I first tried this back in 1999), or printer drivers. I got a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2015

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. When it comes to web technology, there are solutions for just about everything.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 5, 2008

Technology News: Vendors: MPower CEO Randy McCabe: Open Source for Nonprofits: "'The nonprofit sector is a huge and vastly underserved market when it comes to CRM,' says MPower CEO Randy McCabe. MPower provides open source CRM software to nonprofit organizations, allowing them to download and use it without licensing fees.

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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 18, 2007

Microsoft this week has started saber-rattling against Linux and other open source projects, by suggesting that they infringe on 235 patents that they hold. Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

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. I think they are onto something.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

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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JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. There’s been some interesting activity in the realm of women in open source.

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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. If you could reduce software and systems costs by 40 percent or more over the next 12 months, you would have the freedom to reinvest those savings where they are most needed: donor retention or under-funded programs and services. The city of Washington, D.C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2011

Treesaver is a new open source web platform for publishing that uses the new HTML5 standard to create narrative experiences—with text, pictures and video. Treesaver is significant for nonprofits because it combines important trends – open source software, web standards and mobile applications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

I have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long. On the Windows side the hardware manufacturers make proprietary drivers for Windows, and very few make drivers for Linux, or open source their drivers so that Linux developers can use them.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Project management software helps organizations manage the complexities of. Check out this TechSoup article on figuring out which type of project management software fits your requirements. The best part, though, is that it is open-source, so anyone can host it on their own server and have unlimited capacity and full customization.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

MPower Open , an enterprise CRM, is both open source, and has great open APIs. Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. Which is fine. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 18, 2005

There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. {

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

We’ve run into IT departments that prefer a Microsoft tech stack, while others prefer open source. While we find that implementation costs are largely similar between systems (because the implementation work is quite similar between systems), licensing and hosting costs can vary widely between systems.

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 8, 2023

We’ve run into IT departments that prefer a Microsoft tech stack, while others prefer open source. While we find that implementation costs are largely similar between systems (because the implementation work is quite similar between systems), licensing and hosting costs can vary widely between systems.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

A great resource for finding your best fit is NTEN’s Consumer’s Guide to Donor Management Software. The essence of this program is that Salesforce donates 10 free Enterprise Edition licenses to qualifying 501(c)3 nonprofit institutions and other organizations.

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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. Very roughly, the percentages for Penguin Day look better than industry standards for both OS and commercial software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

There is a $10K license fee that you have to pay if you use the On premise or hosted versions. And, you’ll have an automatic $10K price tag tacked on that you won’t pay with the open source tools. Tags: Data blackbaud CRM Software Nonprofit Tech Web Tools CMS nptech. More on those later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2007

While there is much discussion about the promise of "Open Source" software, there is arguably more promise and potential in creation and utilization of "Open Content" for nonprofit needs. Pick tools, publishing license 3. Question: Is CC by/NC considered open content? or Why Not?

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