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Terms and Trends in DIY and Open Source Online Maps

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Online maps can demonstrate the breadth of large movements or highlight grassroots work at a very local level. The advent of HTML5, CSS3, jQuery, and other modern web technologies has paved the way for new, open source, cross-platform compliant mapping technologies to develop stylish and interactive maps.

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Open Source Donor Management Systems: Know Your Options

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Costs vary as well -- and there are even some Free and Open Source options. You’ll need someone familiar with installing and configuring open source systems on a Web server in order to get you up and running. If you use the installed version, access to the source code allows any qualified programmer to make modifications.

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Building Community with Open Source

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Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. With open source (specifically, in this case, Drupal ), all of the functionality is available already (except for the jet-packs and sinks -- those are still in beta).

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NetSquared Local Events: Week of July 8, 2013

Tech Soup

That’s what NetSquared Local is for! Manchester, UK: Open Badges and CiviCRM meetups. San Francisco, CA: Open Source Tech Can Improve Your City & Your Nonprofit, & A Conversation w/ SAP. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently?

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NetSquared Local Events in the First Half of August

Tech Soup

Find your local #nptech tribe by joining a NetSquared Local group. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Kevin Lo reports from San Francisco’s latest event, Open Source and Open Data in Action. Don’t be afraid!

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Big News at Benetech (and for me!)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Data for Inclusion: Enabling people with disabilities to provide firsthand reports on the issues they face to inform policy at the local, national, and global level. Helped environmental leaders design, manage, monitor, and evaluate global conservation projects and campaigns with the first open source conservation project management tool.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SocialCoding4Good brings together individual software professionals as well as corporate social responsibility teams from companies such as Cisco, Google, Hewlett Packard, LinkedIn, and VMware to volunteer their technical skills to nonprofit partners that develop and maintain free and open source software addressing critical social problems.