Exploring Open Source LMS Solutions
Gyrus
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Open source LMS solutions: A great alternative to proprietary LMS systems. Learn more about the best options for 2023, their benefits, potential drawbacks, and more.
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Gyrus
NOVEMBER 22, 2023
Open source LMS solutions: A great alternative to proprietary LMS systems. Learn more about the best options for 2023, their benefits, potential drawbacks, and more.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 7, 2011
I’ve been using this tool since it actually was StarOffice, more than 10 years ago, when it was first open sourced by Sun in 2000. (funnily enough, for both packages, the executable is still called ‘soffice’ – for ‘Star Office.’).
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
SEPTEMBER 24, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. From my perspective, the key is openness.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 14, 2011
I’ve mentioned this before, and I do think the conventional wisdom is that open source software (which includes OpenOffice.org, MySQL and Java) will not flourish at Oracle. It makes sense – Oracle has never had a culture of fostering open source software, and it seems unlikely to obtain one.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
DECEMBER 18, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The power of open source VOIP December 18, 2007 Today seems to be Asterisk day. Asterisk is the open source PBX application that works by using VOIP. What is Asterisk, you ask? Be Helpful.
NTEN
OCTOBER 6, 2010
Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Current Trends.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 29, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. That speaks volumes to me.
3rd Sector Labs
JUNE 13, 2013
Fortunately there are other alternatives available beyond the 800-pound gorilla in the space. Indeed, there are impressive Open Source solutions that not only can easily be customized to meet the unique needs of virtually any nonprofit mission, but considerable talent and expertise to guide these organizations through the process.
Forum One
APRIL 22, 2010
" Where does that leave those of us who need a free-for-use Ning alternative? While these downloadable open source softwares protect you from meandering software company business plans, they require more technical time to install and support. Alternatives to Ning Document. We will phase out our free service."
Wild Apricot
SEPTEMBER 16, 2009
Sure, the code is going open source — inevitably, a new tool will come along — but what alternatives to TwitApps are out there right now? That’s what some 4000 users of TwitApps are wondering, now that the Twitter-to-email tool is being dropped by its developer. This kept me off twitter 24/7.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 6, 2007
David Wilcox has done a terrific job of summarizing this conversation thread recently on the UK Circuit Riders list, " Is Open Source Software Fair Trade for Nonprofits? " Are there ethical reasons for voluntary and community organisations to consider using Free and Open Source Software ?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
DECEMBER 27, 2010
I decided it was time to do a roundup of the discussion and collaboration alternatives that exist at this point. I’m focusing on tools that are free and open source – tools that you would install on your own server, or your own private cloud. 2) Elgg: Elgg is a powerful open source social network tool.
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.
NTEN
JUNE 19, 2014
For others, it’s about taking a thought leadership position and leveraging that position to speak at prominent tech conferences, or embracing a set of ideals and finding open source alternatives to address your technical needs. digital inclusion equity Leadership tech leadership'
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 20, 2009
It has to do with the fact that many, many nonprofit websites and web applications are built using MySQL, the most popular open source database management system. Of course, since MySQL is open source, there is no danger of MySQL going away, someone can always fork it.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
If technical expertise is needed to scope an AI project, reach out to organizations or individuals with that expertise to pressure test whether there is a faster, simpler, cheaper alternative. . Identify owned datasets that can be safely open-sourced or shared through data governance structures such as whitelists and data trusts. .
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 11, 2010
There are some tools that our team uses that I need to use that have no Macintosh version or alternative – and collaboration with our team using MS Office tools has become so much smoother. It does feel a bit weird to use Windows sometimes, considering my years as an open source advocate.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
DECEMBER 26, 2008
They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. Having been bogged down with my own open source CMS tool before 2005, then having taken a break from development, I missed out on the prime years of Drupal’s development. WordPress. I like it more and more. SaaS Tools.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 21, 2008
As many of you know, I have been using OpenOffice.org , the free and open source office suite since before it was OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice.org has been a great alternative to Microsoft Office for Windows users (and really the only full-featured office suite for Linux users.) That would be when it was Star Office.
Wild Apricot
APRIL 22, 2010
Recent changes in Ning’s business model (see News & Views About Change for updates) have Network Creators wondering whether to pay to keep hosting their online communities on the Ning platform, or to start looking at alternatives.
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. . The customer only hits a down side if Mpower does a poor job as a vendor and there is no alternative vendor to switch too since the ecology is small.
Byte Technology
JULY 4, 2017
Inside the widget add the HTML code “<img src=”Paste image URL here” alt=”Alternate text” />” Now save the widget settings and preview your site before making the change permanent. First upload the image to your site using the media uploader and make a copy of its URL.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 19, 2013
Of course, we talked about data entry and QA testing, but also less obvious and exciting alternatives that have great potential both to revitalize the South Bronx and address the problem of the loss of American manufacturing jobs. Brainstorming what these jobs might look like was one of the highlights of our conversation.
Forum One
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 21 years ago. Review upgrade paths : Find out which contributed modules don’t have Drupal 10 releases and find alternatives. Since then, there have been nine major releases. million members.
Forum One
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 21 years ago. Review upgrade paths : Find out which contributed modules don’t have Drupal 10 releases and find alternatives. Since then, there have been nine major releases. million members.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Diagnosed with learning disabilities early in life, he was forced to figure out alternate ways to be focused and productive. Also, in a way, BuJo is an open source movement with its basics, many versions and user community. Basically, you take a notebook and a pen, and make it your calendar, journal and planner.
Forum One
JULY 20, 2021
Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 20 years ago. Review upgrade paths : Find out which contributed modules don’t have Drupal 9 releases and find alternatives. Since then, there have been nine major releases. million members.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 15, 2012
This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. The teacher could then add alternate image descriptions and download the book again when they are done.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 25, 2008
In many ways for me, the most important aspect of free and open source software is that it does just that – it levels the playing field so that people and organizations with few resources can have access to quality tools to do what it is they need and want to do in this software-driven world. Be Helpful.
Wild Apricot
AUGUST 15, 2008
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 16, 2010
open source: Gizmodo has this post explaining how to export your bookmarks and a pointer to an old Lifehacker post with some alternatives. So, I’m half hoping his tweet isn’t tongue in check. Alyson Kapin has a better idea – to petition Yahoo to make del.icio.us
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 19, 2008
It does make me think a lot about this whole space, and wonder if the fast moving train of Salesforce, and the slower moving trains of the open source alternatives, are beginning to bear down on the old guard, and how they will respond to them (or not, which would spell doom.) Time will tell. { Time will tell. { Be Helpful.
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. If you're drawn to the power of Salesforce integrated featureset, Convio's Common Ground CRM which is built on the Salesforce platform may be a good alternative.
Amy Sample Ward
DECEMBER 15, 2010
Shareable: The Open Source Guitar – So many good pieces to think on from this post (thanks for sharing it with me, Billy!) However, these two alternative structures of human organization can interact in a variety of ways, both mutually beneficial and destructive.
Robert Weiner
APRIL 19, 2009
Google Talk — An alternative to Skype, but only for 1 to 1 calls: [link]. PHP and MySQL -– Really good open source code for building dynamic web sites: [link] and [link]. But that’s why it’s free.). Glary Utilities — Another Windows registry cleaner: [link].
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 13, 2008
Of course, I’ve been a wiki fan since the very beginning, and I haven’t lost the desire for true data portability , and open source alternatives to the current social networks. however, as you all know so well, I’m a realist. { at 10:54 am Recent Links Tagged With "millenials" - JabberTags 12.04.08 Be Helpful.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 24, 2008
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. And, of course, designers need software that just don’t have high enough quality open source alternatives yet.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 6, 2007
» Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07 Be Helpful.
ASU Lodestar Center
MAY 20, 2016
Join the open source culture. The open source culture allows many organizations to use the innovations and labor of others and in turn contribute your own organizational strengths and capabilities. Make your organization's blog a true resource for anyone interested in the issue. The great news is that you don't need to.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
FEBRUARY 8, 2008
Nor will you get to see the cool articles on alternate reality gaming, crowd-sourcing, convergent mobile media, and video game modding that are also in this issue. Even if you read an early draft of my article in essay form , you’ll probably never get to read the cleaned up version. That’s super depressing. Be Helpful.
3rd Sector Labs
APRIL 28, 2014
The less work that you can complete through the import tool, the more work you will have to address alternatively. For Open Source and custom databases, you can usually get directly to the database if needed. Unfortunately, based on our experience, the quality of these tools varies.
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 15, 2011
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. is an open-source alternative that is based on many of the same. What features are most important in making your selection — price, open-source, cloud-hosted?
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 15, 2006
why Ruby on Rails rocks (or doesn’t), what’s a good alternative port to run SSH, when we’re going to implement IPv6 or … there’s a whole lot of testosterone, and not a lot of estrogen hanging about. When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish. Be Helpful.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 3, 2009
You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. As a quick comparative look between a small number of open source systems, it’s hard to argue that it contributes no information. More on that in a bit.
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