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Salesforce and Amazon Web Services Partner to Help Nonprofits Accelerate Impact

NonProfit PRO

Data Lake for Nonprofit Cloud, Powered by AWS, is a new open-source solution designed to make it even easier for organizations to leverage their Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud data. As nonprofits emerge from pandemic-related challenges, data has become critical in preparing for what's next.

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Study the Data, But Eat the Cake—Put the Human Factor Forward

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Several providers offer open source or limited free access, which is a great way to test options. Free and Open-Source Apache Spark provides a powerful platform for large-scale data processing and machine learning tasks. RapidMiner is another open-source platform with a drag-and-drop interface.

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Amazon S3 for web server backup

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ve been getting to know Amazon S3 lately, and there are some great things about it. I think it is one of the long list of unpredicted successes that resulted from the near-ubiquitousness of open source software on the server side. Tags: CMS Linux amazon aws backup drupal s3.

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Salesforce.org’s Winter ‘23 Release Helps Nonprofits Create Powerful Experiences With Better-Connected Data

Saleforce Nonprofit

In this release, our open source offering, Data Lake for Nonprofits, Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) is generally available. Introducing Data Lake for Nonprofits, Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). We’re also enhancing our solutions in fundraising and program management.

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Top 20 Best WordPress Plugins for Nonprofit Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. Updraft Plus – make back up copies of your WordPress database, theme, plugins, and uploads to a cloud service like Dropbox, Google Drive, or Amazon; supports manual and scheduled backups.

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Alternatives to MySQL

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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.

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eBooks #2: So you want to e-publish? Mechanics…

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

If you want to put your book into formats that the widest variety of people will be able to read, think about these two important factors: Distribution avenues : Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Google and Apple, would be the ones I’d focus on, as well as whatever other avenues you want to use to get your electronic files out there.

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