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How Open Source Sparks Innovation and Advances Social Good

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Adopting an open source philosophy has proven to be quite effective for us at Benetech in our work furthering technology-for-good. I recently had the opportunity to give an interview for Red Hat’s online magazine, Opensource.com , and discuss Benetech’s culture of “open.”

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Open Source Feminism: An Intervention with Wikipedia

NTEN

B h Magazine. The internet is powered by open source technology—exciting software that's built collaboratively from the bottom-up. Open source is meant to be free and equal, but then why do men continue to dominate open source sites like Wikipedia? Sarah Mirk. Online Editor.

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Benetech, Bookshare and Google Summer of Code

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Many thanks to Thushan Ganegedara for this guest post about his summer open source project. Bookshare has a rich collection of books, newspapers and magazines. It has not yet been extended to newspapers and magazines. My interests are Mobile Development and Computational Intelligence.

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

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

And what happened is I ended up sitting on the floor all day, reading through the piles magazines that have come in over the last few months and just stacked up. This is a musing on the current state of the Gnu Public License, which governs a preponderance of open-source software projects. You can find it online here.

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Nonprofit Newsletter: Free Tools to Create and Merge PDFs

Wild Apricot

One small nonprofit I work with has chosen to publish its monthly membership newsletter as a magazine-style document in Portable Document Format (PDF), rather than as an email blast. Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Non-profit Communications collaboration PDF open source application software newsletters. read more ).

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Blog shout outs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wireframes Magazine - I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. The Open Road - Matt Asay has some interesting insights from the Open Source biz world. Flowing Data - OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek.

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Blog shout outs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. Flowing Data – OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek. RoughType by Nicholas Carr – really smart dude, really interesting stuff. 2 homefreeorg 05.01.09 Be Helpful.