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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
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? December 12, 2007 I had a good look at NTEN’s CRM Satisfaction Survey (yippee for data!), at 1:24 am What was it, the question mark?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 14, 2008
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 18, 2005
Downhill Battle , which is an organization people interested in the whole "copyfight" issue should know about, has a new project, called Participatory Culture. There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. But I guess they won’t, given their position.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 6, 2008
It’s going to take some real elbow grease of reaching out to people who might begin to form the kernel of a development community to get that going. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. So my hope is that they really begin to use the platform.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 18, 2007
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. And, then, of course, helping to make other people afraid – afraid that an open source project or company will fold because someone sues them.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools.
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. Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. It booted fine.
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