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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

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. By Dave Greenberg, CiviCRM Team.

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Steal My Idea, Please! Why An Open Source Attitude Can Make Apps Go Viral

Care2

Last week I got ripped off, but for the first time, I’m happy about it. They didn’t just steal my wallet and phone—they took something that me and a team of people spent months to create. Earlier this week, the world turned 7 billion. Yes, 7 billion people.

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

However, Michelle, your attitude is to not join yet another social network. I hate to tell you this but commercial social networking entrepreneurs LOVE your attitude. at 12:50 pm Well, I can imagine they might love my attitude right now. at 12:50 pm Well, I can imagine they might love my attitude right now. Be Helpful.

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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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Better marketing for nonprofits

ASU Lodestar Center

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. Will you use poll data in your area to assess attitudes? The great news is that you don't need to. Conclusion.

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Has Apple become evil? No, but they are getting stupid.

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The move of Apple to use software update to break hacked and unlocked phones is somewhat ironic, given the attitude of Jobs toward DRM , and the open source basis for OS X. I will not be buying an iPhone until they sell an unlocked version that doesn’t need to be hacked to use third party applications. Be Helpful.

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Penguin Day Reflections: OS as FairTrade, OS Feminism, and OS - the Next Generation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. What are the tactics for supporting online open source communities? What is the gensis of an open source community?