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
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JULY 6, 2008
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology MPower Open keeps moving forward July 6, 2008 This is old news, but I’ve been busy. MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. Bad Blogger! (I
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
Last year, Google made an open call to organizations around the world to submit their ideas for how they could use AI to help address these social challenges. 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
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.
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. Don’t use Ning, use Elgg.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 20, 2019
Bullet Journal (BuJo) started as “an analog system to track the past, organize the present and plan for the future.” Diagnosed with learning disabilities early in life, he was forced to figure out alternate ways to be focused and productive. What is the Bullet Journal System? BuJo for nonprofit professionals.
Forum One
JULY 20, 2021
Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 20 years ago. What makes Drupal different and special from proprietary content management systems that also serve “enterprise” organizations is that it is supported by a community of ~1.4 Since then, there have been nine major releases.
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.
Forum One
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 21 years ago. What makes Drupal different and special from proprietary content management systems that also serve “enterprise” organizations is that it is supported by a community of ~1.4 Since then, there have been nine major releases.
Forum One
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 21 years ago. What makes Drupal different and special from proprietary content management systems that also serve “enterprise” organizations is that it is supported by a community of ~1.4 Since then, there have been nine major releases.
Byte Technology
JULY 4, 2017
It allows you to set a limit on the number of failed attempts a user can make before they’re locked out of the system completely. 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.
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.
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.
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. I agree with her that open journals are the future. Open-access is right. That’s super depressing. It’s time for change to happen! at 1:24 pm Hear.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JUNE 24, 2008
I’ve basically switched to using my Mac mini for just about everything except the bit of systems admin and coding I do, because it’s just so much easier to set up things on Linux for that type of work. 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
APRIL 3, 2009
The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. 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.
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.
3rd Sector Labs
APRIL 28, 2014
For example, one system may prefer that husband and wife are created as a joint account, while another may prefer that the two are individual donor accounts that are linked. The less work that you can complete through the import tool, the more work you will have to address alternatively. You can find a lot of help via Google searches.
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.
NTEN
MARCH 2, 2011
GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool. Worthy alternatives (and superior, because they're multi-user): Sharepoint or Open Atrium. Peter has been managing technology for non-profits and law firms for over 20 years, and has a broad knowledge of systems, email and the web.
Tech Soup
FEBRUARY 24, 2014
The Gear 2 and Gear Neo are smartwatches powered by Samsung's own Tizen operating system. In open source news, ZTE announced two smartphones that run Firefox OS 1.3, the Open C and the Open II. Check out Engadget's hands-on review of the ZTE Open C. Internet.Org: Mobile to the Masses.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 15, 2006
When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish. 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. Be Helpful.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 1, 2007
It’s a sharecropping system, but the sharecroppers are generally happy because their interest lies in self-expression or socializing, not in making money, and, besides, the economic value of each of their individual contributions is trivial. One of the fundamental economic characteristics of Web 2.0 at 9:46 am Web 2.0 2 admin 10.02.07
Care2
NOVEMBER 27, 2009
The user interface is clean and overall the system is intuitive to use. OpenStreetMap: If you’re looking for an alternative to Google Maps that is open source, check out OpenStreetMap.org which allows you to view, edit and use geographical data in a collaborative way from anywhere on Earth. I have 10 invites left.
NTEN
AUGUST 31, 2010
Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . When listeners called, they were able to choose their language.
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JANUARY 5, 2020
Use a top-rated Content Management System (CMS). According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Comparitech has compiled 300+ cybercrime and cybersecurity statistics.
Have Fun - Do Good
JUNE 24, 2009
Give voice to new and alternative actors. Using open source innovation platforms (she mentioned something about Kellogg, that I didn't quite catch--maybe the Kellogg Innovation Network ?). Trusting in the importance of new ideas. Accepting and championing failure and the learning that comes from failure.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
AUGUST 6, 2007
If nonprofits want to have a good fundraising platform that they can know won’t be bought and swallowed and changed so that they’ll have to shell out more, it’s time to invest money and effort in an open source platform. We have power and options in using open source solutions. We will fill the void.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 29, 2008
All of the free and open source options did quite well in terms of Quality, Usability, and Value. Only two proprietary CMS systems, Antharia’s and Ektron, had scores as good as the open source CMS.The CMS options from the big three (er, now the big two) didn’t score as well. Ok sorry for evangelizing.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
NOVEMBER 5, 2008
For pagination I understand you can have multiple paginators per page with ajax but from what I’ve seen the whole system asumes you’ll be paginating one thing at a time so it’s more of a workaround than anything else. The alternative would be to use 1.1 There are tricks like this [link] which I personally find ugly.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 8, 2007
I’ve emerged from this week’s frenzy of buzzwords like “blogging, “open API, “e-advocacy, “municipal wireless and “social networking not surprised at how much things have changed, really, but how much they have stayed exactly the same. . This was in the solidly web 1.0 Be Helpful.
Forum One
FEBRUARY 24, 2010
On January 21, 2009, the White House issued the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. The memorandum instructed the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to provide guidance to executive departments and agencies on implementing open government. A select group of these ideas are provided below. Vote for this Idea].
Tech Soup
MAY 14, 2014
" According to Wikipedia, the sharing economy (sometimes also referred to as the share economy, shared economy, mesh, collaborative economy, collaborative consumption) is a socio-economic system built around the sharing of human and physical assets. Let us insist on what is most transformative. Nonprofits need to speak up.
Non Profit Quarterly
AUGUST 10, 2022
The open and direct connections among individual users would allow for the efficient exchange of goods, services, and information. lower- quality homes), and job openings that the companies have deemed “appropriate” to their customers’ social position. Want to share your extra room with a traveler and make a few bucks? 9</sup).
Nonprofit Tech for Good
FEBRUARY 9, 2024
Alternatives to Substack: Substack may not suit everyone and before you add a platform consider these alternatives: Website Content: Focus on growing and building your organization’s website for SEO and engagement first. The authors aim to “clear out the gunk in the system and move the party left.”
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