Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

When we use AI to help draft a grant proposal—in a tool currently under development—we must consider the potential that AI-generated language could be harmful and offensive. Additionally, there is a risk that language AI systems can misunderstand special vocabulary or cultural language.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2014

Founded nearly a decade ago, CiviCRM is now being used by more than 10,000 nonprofits worldwide, with over 15,000 members that help to generate the software’s development, and has been translated into over 20 languages. civiCRM community Community CRM Open Source Open Source IT Staff'

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2010

Programming languages and I have issues. As someone who has managed to learn some Apex , which is, frankly, somewhat of a monster of a programming language, it’s pretty clear that it’s not super easy to build complex apps using it. I have yet to manage to pick one early. So why would Salseforce.com buy it?

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Some users are migrating to new platforms, like Post, or to decentralized, open-source services, like Mastodon. Center language justice in your content strategies. Language justice is the fair and equitable use of language in all aspects of society. Prioritize accessibility and disability justice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

I came across this one for Khmer Open Source Project. We envision, in 2007, a country where Cambodians can learn and use computers in their own language, a country that does not have to change to a new language in order to use computers!

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Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

Overall, Composable Architecture allows developers to use efficient and popular modern frameworks, tools, and languages. That said, because of the decoupled nature, like with all things Composable, you can easily utilize open-source JavaScript libraries that aren’t tied to any specific CMS or back-end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

There are many chat bot authoring platforms that make it easy for anyone to create a bot without requiring the technical expertise in natural language programming. Direct Relief , a humanitarian aid organization, and its Direct Relief and its bot builder, Mind Heros , have open-sourced their model. Does your nonprofit use a bot?

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2009

Here's the official low-down: Get up to speed on dozens of free and open-source projects driving innovation in cloud computing, Web application development, social and collaborative technologies, and more. Web Platforms - Dynamic languages, databases, and Web servers. Register today! developers.sun.com/events/communityone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2005

Noy Shoung also predicts that by 2006 more computer users in Cambodia will be using Open Source software versus Microsoft. This came from an article in the Phnom Penh Post, an English language newspaper, published in Cambodia and was excerpted by Tharum's blog. distribution that is currently being translated into Khmer language.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

The native capability of something called “Sites&# – which is a publicly facing version of what’s called “VisualForce&# – a markup language that includes HTML as well as APEX code (Force.com coding language). But there is a lot there.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

On its website, the Wikimedia Foundation describes Wikipedia in bold terms and five languages as “the essential infrastructure for free knowledge.” The overwhelming majority of editors on the page, according to Wikipedia’s own breakdown , work in English, and a full 20 percent of editors live in the US while no editors live in Africa.

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Wikipedia Knowledge Ratio Foundation 52

Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Our first task was to create an efficient solution that would allow us to accept all donations in any currency, and which could support many different languages,” Yaroslav said. They needed to quickly and effectively find a solution to manage the inflow of support from abroad. Making the World Better, Together.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The updates introduce Semantic Analysis and Natural Language Processing (NLP) capabilities to the Social Actions API and begin to connect Social Actions to the wider Linked Open Data community. What do “Semantic Analysis” and “Natural Language Processing” mean, and how do they make the Social Actions API better?

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Whole Whale

APRIL 6, 2022

Here is the exact language as of April 2021 from Google’s announcement: Universal Analytics will be going away. For nonprofits, Google Ad Grant may be at risk if it isn’t connected to a working Google Analytics property. Can you just ignore this and hope the problem solves itself: nope Yes, this is as annoying as you think it is.

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University Analytics Google Grant 59

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Also helpful: Interest in and comfort with languages other than English, especially Spanish, French, Russian, or Arabic.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. Has an open API and flexible import and export tools. Supports multiple locations or chapters, multiple currencies, multiple languages, and multiple character sets.

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Byte Technology

JUNE 7, 2016

Additionally, WordPress-related keywords get 37 million searches each month; the program is available in 40 different languages; and 22 percent of new U.S. Awe-inspiring to say the least, given the free and open-source content management system (CMS) is just over a decade old.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow. One of the fascinating things to me is how quickly the CRM space is evolving. Be Helpful.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Rather than reaching out to the other agency and referring people to them, they were using this increased demand to their advantage and had tweaked their funding solicitations to use the language, “For every one community member we support, three more are waiting for services. Please help now.”

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Problem Skills Proposal Grant 75

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. She received both a Bachelor’s in Spanish Language & Literature and a Master of Public Administration degree from Binghamton University.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Excellent data tools will continue to get cheaper and easier to use… This trend has been going strong for a while now, particularly as more and more of the data landscape has shifted to using open source tools. …which will make communication even more important.

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Byte Technology

JULY 4, 2017

CSS or Cascading Style Sheets are wonderful for working on a document written in a markup language, but what if you don’t know anything about CSS? Indeed, message boards teem with useful information that WordPress users, designers and administrators at every level of knowledge and skill share and disseminate.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them. We also want to enable effective information sharing among agencies about what does and doesn’t work.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 2, 2008

In my last post, I was talking about platform choice, and although to some extent, I can appreciate the argument that Python is a better language than PHP (just like in 1999, Perl was a better language than PHP was at the time.) It’s also the basis for Joomla, a CMS I appreciate. So PHP it is, starting with Drupal.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. It is actually pretty mind-boggling. Lots of food for thought for NOSI and the future. {

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 7, 2013

Jungle light speed: Tracking Epidemics with Natural Language Processing and Crowdsourcing In this post Robert Munro discusses his views on the need to use data in a way that preserves individual rights. He says that open-data-idealists wrongly and dangerously believe that once information is shared more widely problems will be solved.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2013

Blumenfeld also suggests that organizations move from classic corporate-speak to more natural, emotional language. Getting to natural, emotional language is possible by asking staff about their proudest moments fulfilling your organization's mission. Creating a storytelling culture begins with getting leadership buy-in.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2016

Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Semantics are defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as "the meanings of words and phrases in language." The web inspector feature is symbolic of the open-source culture surrounding web development. " Why Do We Need Other Languages Besides HTML? JavaScript (JS).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 20, 2008

The language (especially in this table ) seems to suggest that the privacy they are providing is better than HIPAA. And note: this application is not HIPAA compliant. Here’s why. They do have a point – since they don’t provide health services, they don’t need to comply with HIPAA. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I know when a vendor knows their technology, and when they are blowing sales language at me, and might not be up to the technical task. I’d also love to consult with for-profit vendors who are thinking about dipping their toes into offering support for open source projects, or open sourcing their software.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 4, 2021

Comply with web accessibility guidelines — Anyone should be able to engage with your site, no matter their location, language, or ability. Anne is an advocate for open source and co-organizes the Bay Area Drupal Camp. Make sure you have an easily navigable menu, fast loading times, and intuitively organized content.

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Channel Websites Tips Fundraising 72

Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

The hub has lots of helpful information on understanding Linux and how to write code for it in popular languages like C#, Java, JavaScript (via Node.js), PHP, Python, and more. Power source. hardware open source' Beyond Learning to Program. The real beauty of the Raspberry Pi is its extensibility. Power ratings.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2011

After providing more than 600 schools with solar-paneled radios, students are able to tune into courses on subjects such as math and language. Treesaver is a new, open source web platform that uses HTML5 to create narrative experiences with text, words, and pictures.

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Sudan Technology Chicago Linkedin 59

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2004

Imagine if you will, a group of free/open-source software internationalization/translation/localization evangelists gathered in an artist's studio in snow-covered Warsaw, heated by a wood-stove, but with high-speed wireless internet access! We're actively translating Martus into roughly ten languages.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I’m made comfortable by folks who speak what I think of as a good mix of development-speak and normal language. I am pretty instantly aware of when the person I’m talking with knows what they are doing. I’m turned off instantly by sales-speak. I hate to be pushed. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

I know that’s one more thing in a long list of considerations (and it’s generally more important to think about for the CRM – the CMS, if it is modern, and especially if it is open source, will provide few barriers to integration.) at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 7 Jon Stahl 01.20.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 26, 2009

CiviCRM was the first nonprofit-focused open source CRM (one of only two, at this moment.) It is a great tool for small to medium-sized organizations who are looking for a CRM to track members and donations, register people for events, and do mass mailings. I do agree with Jon to some extent.

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