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Nuggets of news from the open source world

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This is old-ish news, but the acquisition of companies behind open source software by big behemoths continues with the acquisition of Jabber by Cisco. Things might be shifting, though, due to both open source and SaaS as catalysts for change. Open Source, it can be SaaS and Open Source.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SocialCoding4Good brings together individual software professionals as well as corporate social responsibility teams from companies such as Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard, LinkedIn, and VMware to volunteer their technical skills to nonprofit partners that develop and maintain free and open source software addressing critical social problems.

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TechSoup’s Gayle Samuelson Carpentier Joins the NTEN Board

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She's built partnerships with Cisco, Symantec, Intuit, Dell, Seagate, Adobe and dozens of other socially responsible companies. It is also a good place for people in nonprofit technology startups, many of them open source projects, to meet with the nonprofit technology community. Gayle does other work as well.

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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rami shared how his organization works in a transparent way, open sourcing its program materials and processes. I then modeled creating a thank you video with each team sharing a few words about how they use the videos and saying thank you to Cisco and FLIP Camera in a fun way.

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

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TechSoup's catalog includes more than 375 products from over 90 companies like Microsoft, Adobe, Cisco, Intuit, and Symantec. Birmingham, United Kingdom: Open-Source Software for Charities. In collaboration with the TechSoup Global Network , our trusted partners give organizations worldwide access to the solutions they need.

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SocialCoding4Good: Mobilizing Technology and Volunteerism for Transformative Impact

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Benetech, like many nonprofit organizations building open source software for social good, often relies upon the contributions of experienced software developers to help its solutions grow and scale. In so doing, we launched Benetech’s newest program, SocialCoding4Good.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

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The DoGooder Awards recognize exceptional use of video to promote good causes and are sponsored by YouTube and TechSoup donor partner, Cisco. The SixthSense project is working on a set of open source instructions on how to make your own prototype augmented reality. Have a look at the four winning videos on YouTube.

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