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Office clean-up Part 1 :Open-Source and the GPL

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

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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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Use the track trends option and set to track "Nptech" for nptech related twitters. Use the track trends option and set to track "Nptech" for nptech related twitters.

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The Five Best Tools For Quick And Effective Project Management

NTEN

GanttProject is an open source, cross-platform project management tool. Peter Campbell is currently the Director of Information Technology at Earthjustice, a non-profit law firm dedicated to defending the earth. Think of it as MS Project lite.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up

NTEN

So, it's due time to give shout-outs where shout-outs are due: Members converging online: Care2 , Allyson Kapin , and the National Women's Law Center , all NTEN members, offer a great case study on using Google Grants. Shannon Turlingtion blogs about wikis , Open Source, and changing the way we "manage" participation.

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Member Round Up: Numbers and Nominations!

NTEN

NTEN member and geographic web and mobile software developer Azavea, in collaboration with Temple University's Center for Security and Crime Science, just released ACS Alchemist , an open source tool that makes it easier to access US Census Bureau American Community Survey (ACS) data.

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Open Source Is Dead! Long Live Open Source!

NTEN

Open Source is Dead. What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" -- a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire. Long Live Open Source.

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From the Collective Desk of NTEN Discuss

NTEN

What I saw, introducing it to two law firms, was that the resistance faded quickly once the system was in place, and users had such better tools to find and work with their documents. Tags: discuss document management system knowledgetree NPTech NTEN sharepoint.