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Can open source software save organizations money?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

One question that will inevitably be asked: can free and open source software save organizations money? Open source software is both free as in “beer&# as well as free as in “kittens.&# But if you have a migration planned anyway, now is absolutely the time to look at open source software.

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Thank You, Gerardo!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ). a11y accessibility Bookshare engineering executive Gerardo GoRead innovation open source Read2Go'

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Is Open Source Software Fair trade for nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

David Wilcox has done a terrific job of summarizing this conversation thread recently on the UK Circuit Riders list, " Is Open Source Software Fair Trade for Nonprofits? " Are there ethical reasons for voluntary and community organisations to consider using Free and Open Source Software ?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. Read/WriteWeb refers to the Google Apps vs Microsoft Office debate as evidence. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership.

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The Unrecognized Risk of Status Quo Problem-Solving Skills for Grantmakers

sgEngage

I can guess this happens in every community, and it is frightening. For example, I was working with a small community foundation and they put out a call for “innovative proposals.” Maybe our community doesn’t know how to think in bold, innovative ways.” Please help now.” You might say about the second organization, “Wow!

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Why Nonprofits Need a Values-Based Social Media Strategy

Non Profit Quarterly

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. Other marginalized networks, such as Black Twitter and Disability Twitter, are choosing to remain on the platform, where they’ve developed strong community networks that they can’t easily replicate.

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Social Actions API, Semantic Web, and Linked Open Data: An Interview with Peter Deitz

Amy Sample Ward

I remember sitting in a session by Kurt Voelker of ForumOne Communications, Tompkins Spann of Convio, and Jeremy Carbaugh of The Sunlight Foundation. API stands for Application Programming Interface, and refers broadly to the way one piece of software or dataset communicates with another.) They were talking about API’s.

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