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Gender, Race and Open Source

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday.

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So where is open source in the nptech ecosystem?

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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology So where is open source in the nptech ecosystem? I know that surveys only get small subsets of the communities they are trying to assess. Also, we have been accused in creating a biased survey.

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What’s A Learning Experience Platform? The Essential Guide

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But, what really is an LXP and how is it different from your typical LMS? LXPs accomplish this by aggregating a variety of learning materials from different sources and providing artificial intelligence-assisted recommendations to each learner based on their past interests. Even further, should you invest in one?

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What OpenSocial Means

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It’s aimed primarily at developers. OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) Basically, if the more social network sites that adopt OpenSocial, the more open the whole thing gets.

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Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments

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The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

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Even if they do, it takes developer time to write the code to do the integration, and that may be resources that a nonprofit doesn’t have. And because of this, it makes sense that integration of these two is something that is a need to be filled. What’s involved in this? First, the what – what to integrate? All-in-one.

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Technology providers and Linux

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Several years ago, they were very few and very far between – mostly individuals who focused solely on Linux. Now, there are many more, and traditional Windows shops are beginning to either add staff who know Linux, or learn it themselves. But there still isn’t a lot out there. But I think more is needed.

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