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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Address on receiving Caltech’s Distinguished Alumni Award May 18, 2013 Caltech was founded to give back to society through science and engineering, to discover knowledge and apply that knowledge. To the greatest extent possible, be open. Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source.

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A new Foundation in my career

Judi Sohn

Two weeks ago, I joined the Salesforce Foundation in a new role as Open Source Manager. Does "Open Source Community Manager" mean that you're the official bff of Nonprofit Starter Pack users? However, Salesforce.com has a foundation where they give away licenses to qualified nonprofits! Completely free.

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BYU ESR conference on Social Entrepreneurship

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This practice was especially awarded at the ESR conference. Not the typical SROI calculation, but the dramatic point was that Flat World is making impact the center piece of their foray into Open Educational Resources (OERs). OERs are the open source equivalent of open source software.

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Tech Awards: An Annual Showcase of Challenges and Hope

Tech Soup

The Tech Awards , an annual event that honors projects which use "technology to significantly improve human conditions," just unveiled their laureates for this year. Most interestingly, its technology will be shared almost in an open-source manner to increase the impact and reach.

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Change the Web Challenge from Social Actions is Here!

Amy Sample Ward

Winners will receive cash awards of $5,000 (first place), $3,000 (second place), and $2,000 (third place). To be eligible for prizes, all submissions must 1) be fully functional by the time voting begins, 2) include an open-source license, and 3) make use of Social Actions API.

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News from NTC ‘08

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MPower Open , an enterprise CRM, is both open source, and has great open APIs. Convio keeps drinking the “open&# coolaid (although they have a ways to go.) Don’t forget to vote for the DoGooder TV Nonprofit Video Awards. There will be way more on this in later posts. There will be penguins!!

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Resources from NTC09 on Video, Blogging, and More!

See3

We unveiled our partnership with Kaltura, the first open-source video platform, to provide exceptional video solutions to nonprofits. DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards. We announce the winners of the 2009 DoGooderTV Nonprofit Video Awards at the closing lunch on Tuesday to a packed ballroom. You Made a Video, Now What?

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