NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

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. Current Trends.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

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. That speaks volumes to me.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 22, 2015

For this reason, nonprofits are good candidates for open-source software (OSS), which can offer the functionality they need, without the glitz, glamor, and high price point of commercial systems. Of course, many of these points are open to interpretation. OSS Open Source Software open source nonprofits'

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

One of the best ways to gauge whether open source would work for your organization is to look at some actual examples. To read about how open-source software might benefit your nonprofit or public library, check out part one of this series. Making the Right Decision About Open-Source Software.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

session, Open Source Mobile Apps for Social Change. Why Open Source? Open source is not just about software distribution. Open source as a philosophy also promotes accessibility, transparency, inclusivity, open data, and integration with other tools. Example: FrontlineSMS.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Costs vary as well -- and there are even some Free and Open Source options. You’ll need someone familiar with installing and configuring open source systems on a Web server in order to get you up and running. by Fund for the City of New York. Orange Leap MPX. by Orange Leap. Organizers Database (ODB).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Minor releases are, for example, when a project goes from 2.2.3 0 release – for example from 2.x When was the last release? How much time generally passes between major or minor releases? Depending on project, going from x.2 3 might be a major or minor release. Going to a x.0 is always major.) Be Helpful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I What’s next?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

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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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

We'll take a look at how to handle integrations between Salesforce and a trio of open source CMS solutions -- Plone, Drupal, and Joomla -- at our upcoming webinar, " Salesforce + CMS Integration Showdown: Plone, Drupal, and Joomla ". > Each system will be presented by experts in the field who’ve been there and done that before.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. With open source (specifically, in this case, Drupal ), all of the functionality is available already (except for the jet-packs and sinks -- those are still in beta).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

By: Cori O’Brien, Senior Manager, Open Source Commons. This year, we are highlighting contributions made through Open Source Commons , a unique program that highlights the partnership between Salesforce.org and our community of customers and partners. Take, for example, the Summit Events App.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

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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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2022

DLRS is a community-built and community-maintained open source Salesforce solution. For example, you can use DLRS when you want to display the sum of paid payments related to an Opportunity, or count the number of student applications or current board members at your organization. Built by the Community, for the Community.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 10, 2007

Independent Software Vendors (ISV's) have been wrestling with this for years, as the success of the Open Source movement places a downward pressure on the value of software. Some vendors, such as MySQL, have a split model - a free license and a commercial license, for example. image posted as [link]

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

OpenOffice.org is a free and open source cross-platform office suite, which can read and write MS Office.doc,xls, and.ppt files. And the cool thing about open source software is that in situations like this, people can fork stuff. I hope that everyone reading this blog has heard of OpenOffice.org. And they did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2006

He created the above "open source documentary" on Net Neutrality called Humanity Lobotomy. I'm seeing more and more examples of participatory media -- take for example WGBH's Video Sandbox. He's a talented filmmaker (as is Susan and the other folks at Four-Eyed Monsters). feed where he is tagging resources here.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 14, 2011

I’ve mentioned this before, and I do think the conventional wisdom is that open source software (which includes OpenOffice.org, MySQL and Java) will not flourish at Oracle. It makes sense – Oracle has never had a culture of fostering open source software, and it seems unlikely to obtain one.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

For example, I was born on May 21, 1971, when world population was about 3,810,167,922. Each of us is, after all, a piece of that grand calculation. If people went to a site and entered their birthday, we could show them on a graph what the world population was when they were born and where they fit in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

I'm trying to embrace two ideas here - the idea of open source thinking and wikitation. Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools. Open source thinking is sharing and remixing.

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Forum One

JULY 6, 2021

For example, you can make use of Optimizly as a cloud-based solution, or Smart Content as a CMS-specific approach. As Forum One works primarily with open-source software platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, we created a tool that allows administrators to utilize the benefits of a CMS.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

Your email platform, for example, likely allows you to customize your messages based on: Location Topics of interest Past actions taken Other behavior history data. This stage of personalization doesn’t require automation, and you can test and gauge impact by simply monitoring opens and click-through rates. What are your goals?

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

For example, when presented with a grant description describing programs serving low-income populations, the system would often also predict that the grant was serving “People of African Descent.” Hugging Face, the largest open-source AI repository, provides guidance on reading and creating model cards.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2011

I just spent a couple of days in Vancouver with the team at the Public Knowledge Project , a terrific example of an open source social enterprise. Their largest project is Open Journal Systems, software for running a scholarly journal.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 20, 2006

This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. But first, let's talk about what open-source means for a minute. This is what has permitted such widespread commercial adoption of the open source idea.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

For example, I was working with a small community foundation and they put out a call for “innovative proposals.” They opened up the same mechanism in year two and received a stack of proposals with bold and innovative ideas. In year one, they received a small batch of submissions, and they were terribly disappointed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

So, is your personal knowledge network like open source software or is it under lock and key? Is this another example of hold your breath, set it free, and hope that something comes good comes back? t put my connections number in my ???name??? I agree that point that with networks size does not matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Her blog, Susie's Blog - Winning hearts and minds over to FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is an excellent example of how professionals in the nonprofit technology field use blogging for professional development. Susie has a great sense of humor.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Allied Airlift is made up of veterans and volunteers who scoured open source intelligence reports to provide Afghan allies with critical information necessary to find a place aboard one of the limited U.S. Air Force aircrafts evacuating people from Afghanistan.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions. The quality of the search results were limited by our querying capabilities and relevancy ranking.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Another good reason for nonprofits to use FOSS January 6, 2008 This is an amazing example of the kinds of flexibility that is difficult or impossible to get with proprietary software. Be Helpful.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 23, 2022

This is such a very specific example, but it’s one that has a big impact for us and our community. A Better Website : A visually appealing and responsive website, which was built on the open-source Drupal Content Management System (CMS), allowed us to better serve all of our audiences.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

In addition to the case studies NTEN has compiled , here are some more examples the Communities of Impact and I have spotted: Children’s museum data informs health policy. Building a movement through innovative open source tools. Tools are licensed as open source, available for anyone to use and improve.”

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

He identifies the efforts of World Wildlife Fund and the UNEP/GRID-Arendal's OCEANIDS project as good examples of this. Open Data for Social Change. We Need Open Data To Change The World. In this post, Lucy Bernholz describes how sharing open data in the social sector can increase impact.

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Neon CRM

MAY 19, 2023

For example, a new member registration might schedule a series of welcome emails or an approaching renewal deadline could trigger a reminder message. CiviCRM CiviCRM is one of the few open-source solutions on the market—which means that the source code of the platform has been made publicly available.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, and its Direct Relief and its bot builder, Mind Heros , have open-sourced their model. While there are lots of stats about chabots, we don’t know exactly how many nonprofits are deploying them, but we do have some great examples.

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