Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

One of the best ways to gauge whether open source would work for your organization is to look at some actual examples. To read about how open-source software might benefit your nonprofit or public library, check out part one of this series. Making the Right Decision About Open-Source Software.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #2: Limesurvey January 4, 2008 I am in the process of writing a survey for NOSI, which you will hear all about next week. Limesurvey is actually quite powerful.

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sgEngage

APRIL 1, 2024

Cybersecurity on a Budget: Leveraging Open-Source Software and Trusted Vendors Presented by Don Rahn, Director of Security Operations, Blackbaud In the high-stakes world of cybersecurity, defending against threats is non-negotiable. Every manual process is an opening for human error, data loss, or outright theft.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. It’s a great replacement for text or word processing files. Be Helpful.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This article will discuss several key points to help you make an informed decision, covering topics such as open-source vs. closed-source platforms, software costs, licensing methods, and more. Many do not have open-source code, but some, like Umbraco, do. Nevertheless, choosing isn’t simply about popularity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

Gerardo helped Benetech dramatically increase our capacity to benefit larger populations by scaling our services, revamping our innovation process, and establishing a thriving network of industry partners and volunteers. a11y accessibility Bookshare engineering executive Gerardo GoRead innovation open source Read2Go'

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

By: Cori O’Brien, Senior Manager, Open Source Commons. This year, we are highlighting contributions made through Open Source Commons , a unique program that highlights the partnership between Salesforce.org and our community of customers and partners. Build Sustainable Apps to Meet Unique Community Needs.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I What’s next?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2022

DLRS is a community-built and community-maintained open source Salesforce solution. “Open source is nothing without a community, and I could not be more excited for the DLRS team and this release. Learn more about the history of DLRS, and Andy’s decision to join the Open Source Commons program.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 13, 2013

Indeed, there are impressive Open Source solutions that not only can easily be customized to meet the unique needs of virtually any nonprofit mission, but considerable talent and expertise to guide these organizations through the process.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

We realized that our humanitarian free and open source software (HFOSS) partners had important roadmap projects with tremendous potential, but in many cases lacked the resources to design, prototype and develop them.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In the process, we create spaces for us all to come together, collaborate, and share ideas and inspiration, enabling us all to work together as a Salesforce.org community to make lasting change. Impact Labs : Collaborate with a diverse group of experts across industries to co-design solutions for complex social challenges.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 13, 2013

Additionally, Carr Systems remains more committed than ever to Open Source solutions such as Drupal Gardens, CiviCRM, and WordPress. Lastly, we have worked hard to redefine our process, which follows four distinct steps: Planning – The thinking that goes into a technology implementation is as important as the technology itself.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 17, 2022

In this release, our open source offering, Data Lake for Nonprofits, Powered by Amazon Web Services (AWS) is generally available. Today, we’re thrilled to announce the innovations in our Winter ‘23 release — all aimed to help nonprofits create powerful experiences with better connected data.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Because of the challenges nonprofits face, they need to be at least as cognizant of the planning process as larger, more well resourced organizations. Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 1, 2022

Either way, you should start the CMS research process by defining your website needs. Both are open-source, user-friendly, and customizable. Drupal is a powerful open-source CMS noted for its customizability and security features. Use this process to help narrow down your consultant choice: Research top options.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

What a Typical Day looks like: We employ an agile-flavored software development process at Kindful. 7+ years of software development experience with an emphasis on Ruby on Rails is best, but we will consider other open-source backgrounds as well (Python, etc). You’ll use Jira, GitHub, and Slack.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

VRP Consulting also set the Ukrainian Red Cross up with Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud, which has helped them automate their processes: “Before implementing this system, we had a very small team, and the first month I had to work at least 18 hours per day, without any days off — and we still were not able to meet the requests from all our donors.

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Neon CRM

MAY 19, 2023

Key Engagement Features of Association Management Software With the right association management features, you can control all parts of member engagement and improve your processes and communications with the information you gain. An integrated member database will allow you to use all of the features effectively.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

Hugging Face, the largest open-source AI repository, provides guidance on reading and creating model cards. For those building AI tools, keeping harm reduction in mind at every stage of the development process is critical. This reflection should generate criteria by which to establish ethical guidelines.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. Gravity Forms – build basic to very complex forms with conditional logic; supports processing donations through Stripe or PayPal but you need to purchase their Pro plan and add-on.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2010

Truth is, it wasn’t really a choice for me – I’ve got using and contributing back to open source projects in my DNA somehow. What we lose: Complete control over development process and direction. Tags: Consulting Development Open Source CMS drupal opensource salesforce.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2011

I just spent a couple of days in Vancouver with the team at the Public Knowledge Project , a terrific example of an open source social enterprise. Their largest project is Open Journal Systems, software for running a scholarly journal. It was great to see another social enterprise successfully meeting the needs of a community!

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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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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Even platforms with no recurring monthly or yearly fee may require a transaction or processing fee to process donations. The Bloomerang Payments processing fee is 2.2% + $0.30 Our platform also gives donors the option to cover processing fees, which they choose to do about 70% of the time. for ACH transactions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2010

I’ve also been keeping track, a bit of how the development process is going, and what things will look like. A note: the standard process for deprecation of old Drupal versions is that when a new version of core comes out, the one two versions back stops being officially supported. But some may well not make it.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Pricing starts at $69/month + “competitive processing fees”. Open-source SMS/messaging tool that helps organizations create messaging applications and visual flows for messaging. Open-source SMS platform focusing on data collection. Pricing starts at $0/yr + 3.95% + $0.30 per transaction. donation + $0.30

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2022

So how might we develop the “connective tissue” necessary between organizations around the world to automate processes and provide access to real-time insights that we could use to target resources more effectively? It’s a crime that thrives on poor international cooperation and weak collaboration.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

In an ideal world, organizations can be aggregating these data points to build a comprehensive marketing strategy; but in reality, most organizations aren’t fully utilizing basic data sources to make informed decisions about their marketing. Here’s how you can start small and work your way to an advanced personalization approach.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. First, a simple metric relating to security reports, and second, what processes are in place in the communities to deal with security. More on that in a bit.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

It was there that I realized my RSS-based process for aggregating actions could be so much more with a robust distribution component. I wrote a blog post called, Mashups, Open APIs, and the Future of Collaboration in the Nonprofit Tech Sector. In fact, the name of the session was “APIs for Beginners.&#.

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AccelEvents

JULY 16, 2021

RTMP ingest is a highly technical process, and all you really need to know is that this protocol operates a swift-moving sequence to quickly, efficiently, and with minimal buffering process your video data for you. Open Broadcaster Software (OBS; Application-Based Program).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2009

It turns out that in the process of creating Cloudkick, the folks there came up with libcloud – a library that service providers could use to give developers access to the services needed by the servers – list, restart, create, destroy, etc. Libcloud has become it’s own open source project, and is under active development.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2009

It turns out that in the process of creating Cloudkick, the folks there came up with libcloud – a library that service providers could use to give developers access to the services needed by the servers – list, restart, create, destroy, etc. Libcloud has become it’s own open source project, and is under active development.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

First is the wholesale movement toward the three major open source CMS platforms/frameworks, Drupal , Joomla and Plone. Providers seem to be surviving (or thriving) with this model, free and open source software projects are getting the support they need, and clients are getting the software solutions they need.

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Forum One

JULY 20, 2021

Drupal is an open-source content management framework that was initially released 20 years ago. Prior to Drupal 8, “major version upgrade” usually meant a long tedious process. Drupal is in the process of moving toward vanilla JS solutions rather than continuing to depend on jQuery. million members. million members.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

“ Google Editions &# is the process by which you get Google to sell your book. In fact, Google and Apple seem to have the same exact back-end process to get books sold, whether you are a big regular publisher, or little ol’ me sitting in my living room…). In that case, you need to upload an ePub version. MobiPocket.

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