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An Open Source Website Personalization Tool for Mission-Driven Organizations

Forum One

At Forum One, we strive to provide solutions and tools that allow mission-driven organizations to make an impact in the world. 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.

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Is Your Organization Ready for Open Source Software?

NTEN

What does this mean when weighing your open source options? You know your organization needs to make a core technology change. Change Management Leadership Open Source Open Source tech leadership' Founder and Principal. BackOffice Thinking.

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Nonprofit CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Organizations use this tool to track donors, send out newsletters, track the success of campaigns, track who is engaged with the organization in what ways, etc. Because of this, the deck has always been stacked against open source tools in this arena. It’s got a great community of developers and users.

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6 Reasons Open Source Makes Sense

3rd Sector Labs

We talk a lot about Open Source technology (and we use it quite extensively too) so it might make sense for us to take a moment and explain why we are such advocates. Affordability – Open Source is free of licensing fees. Proven – Open Source platforms like Drupal, WordPress, CiviCRM, etc.,

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Web Server Software

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

On top of proprietary UNIX, people will generally run associated open source server software for web, database and development frameworks. On the open source side, Linux is by far the most popular, with BSD in second place. Both Linux and BSD come in several flavors (or distributions.)

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Open Source vs. Proprietary: Overview

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And I’ll highlight where the comparisons are interesting and compelling, especially for nonprofit organizations. Comparisons of open source vs. proprietary development environments (i.e. PHP vs.NET and that sort of thing.).

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Can open source software save organizations money?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Next year, given what is likely to be a grim funding year, nonprofit organizations are going to be hunting for ways to save money on technology. There are, of course, arguments that IT budgets should be, at least, level funded during slim times, but the reality is that organizations are going to reduce budgets across the board.