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Open Source and the Promise of Sustainable Nutrition Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Jerry and I had a great conversation about open sourcing of agricultural scientific models, such as those used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in their climate change reports. As it turns out, these models were originally developed decades ago and many are written in Fortran !

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An Open Source Website Personalization Tool for Mission-Driven Organizations

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As we work primarily with open source CMS platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, our tool is effective in its ability to integrate within the CMS as well as be flexible for organization-specific needs. What is website personalization? The content relevant to them is served to them directly. We look forward to sharing an update soon!

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Benetech Closing Statement on the Marrakech Treaty

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

That support includes the sharing of best practices in accessible book production, model agreements for readers with disabilities, and open source access technology for reading the books. That is the miracle of a robust website: it doesn’t cost much more for it to serve twice, or even ten times, as many people.

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How an Effective Partner Ecosystem Strives for Collaboration Over Competition

Saleforce Nonprofit

OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Serial entrepreneur and co-founder of the luxury chocolate brand, Green & Black’s, Jo Fairley is an inspirational businesswoman who paved the way for others to follow her sustainable business model. She has a B.A.

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Highlights from the Salesforce.org Nonprofit Summit

Saleforce Nonprofit

The event kicked off with opening remarks by Joan Garry , an industry veteran and champion for the nonprofit sector, which led directly into the first panel discussion on the topic of climate. . When the pandemic hit, BGCA quickly realized they needed to rethink their entire service delivery model in order to continue making an impact.

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Defining Your IT Roles: Project Management as a Process

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Julian Egelstaff, Technical Architect, Freeform Solutions Who are our IT role models? The IT industry is overwhelmed with companies and courses and products aimed at the commercial world. Open source software is often an important ingredient for the engineers to consider, and not just because of the low acquisition cost.

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The Nonprofit Common Data Model as an Equity Tool

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Enter the Nonprofit Common Data Model (CDM) , originally stewarded by Microsoft as a founding creator and ongoing community sponsor. For nonprofit data, creating this language is becoming a self-organizing necessity in the same way that the Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESGs) criteria are for the corporate world.

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