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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. agriculture CIMSANS climate change CSR food security Gerald Nelson open data open source SocialCoding4Good'

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Nonprofit CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Because of this, the deck has always been stacked against open source tools in this arena. However, Salesforce in particular has a leg up that most other proprietary tools don’t have, because of their open APIs and their incredibly robust development platform. It’s got a great community of developers and users.

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Open Source Means Strong Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

“Your secure software is open source: doesn’t that make it less secure?” We strongly believe not only that open source is compatible with digital security, but that it’s also essential for it. The analogy of the strong safe with an open design is directly applicable to secure software design.

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An Open Source Website Personalization Tool for Mission-Driven Organizations

Forum One

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. Moreover, online users gravitate towards simplicity. How is personalization accomplished? Potential and growth of our tool.

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Study the Data, But Eat the Cake—Put the Human Factor Forward

.orgSource

Several providers offer open source or limited free access, which is a great way to test options. Free and Open-Source Apache Spark provides a powerful platform for large-scale data processing and machine learning tasks. RapidMiner is another open-source platform with a drag-and-drop interface.

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Drupal/Salesforce Integration

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

A bit over a year ago, I wrote a post about the status of Drupal/Salesforce Integration. At the moment, if you want to integrate Drupal and Salesforce, you have three options: Use the contributed modules (or have a developer install and configure them for you). Salesforce/Ubercart – provides integration for Ubercart.

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Integrating WordPress with Salesforce

Saleforce Nonprofit

Together they are a powerful set of tools for nonprofits, especially with integrations to automatically sync data between them. The initial investment to integrate your website with your Salesforce instance pays off through better data quality and consistency with less staff time spent on data administration. Formstack.

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