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Need Hands-on Help? NetSquared's Free Workshops Are in Your Community

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Bagels and Bytes "Open-Source Summer Fiesta" San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. Saint-Étienne , France: Rencontres Mondiales du Logiciel Libre 2017. Saint-Étienne , France: RPLL: Rencontres Professionnelles du Logiciel Libre.

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Data Digest: Moneyball Giving, Data and Philanthropy, Data for Africa

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For example, France Telecom-Orange has made anonymized records of five million mobile phone users in Cote d'Ivoire available to the research community as part of the Data for Development Challenge. Open Source philanthropy data big data' Private companies are also testing the concept by actually sharing data.

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TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge Global Tweet Chat Recap

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Paris, France & Manchester, United Kingdom: Camilla Burg of Wiser.org , an online platform to connect those working on sustainability issues, and Steven Flower of Manchester NetSquared. The answer for smaller organizations is to look for open source software as suggested in the Cambridge portion of the tweet chat.

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

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Birmingham, United Kingdom: Open-Source Software for Charities. Besançon, France: Besançon, Innovarc: Technologies Innovantes et Services Numériques. Oxford, United Kingdom: The Open Data Event. Transformer Nos Rêves en Réalité Saturday, November 12, 2016.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Free Ranger Rick, Green Geekery, and Blog Day is Next Week!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NpTech Tools Sounds like Gavin of Gavin's Digital Diner had a great time sipping Burgundy wines in France, but even better wrote a detailed description of his damn DAM system. And if you're looking for some fabulous manuals for open source software, check out the Floss Manuals. See 1,010 Favorite Tools on the TechSoup Blog.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

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The Mifos X Platform is free open source cloud software for running a microfinance organization that provides small loans, savings accounts, and micro insurance to very poor people. The name is an acronym of "micro finance open source." The First Universal Software Platform for Financial Inclusion Launches.

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