Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 4, 2014
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.” You can read the complete interview on Opensource.com.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 7, 2011
I’ve been using this tool since it actually was StarOffice, more than 10 years ago, when it was first open sourced by Sun in 2000. (funnily enough, for both packages, the executable is still called ‘soffice’ – for ‘Star Office.’).
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 16, 2011
Because of this, the deck has always been stacked against open source tools in this arena. From my perspective, open data (via ope APIs) can sometimes be more important to consider than whether or not a tool is open source – since integration with other tools, as well as using external tools of various sorts is critical.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 7, 2011
On the open source side, the projects that stand out are GIMP (a Photoshop replacement) and Inkscape (a vector graphics program – like Illustrator). One doesn’t have to pay for these, so it’s a bit hard for open source (or other products, even) to compete. It has a bunch of other features as well.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 25, 2011
Microsoft has web server software called IIS , and it’s database server product is MS SQL server , which people use for far more than just serving web site data. On top of proprietary UNIX, people will generally run associated open source server software for web, database and development frameworks.
Forum One
MAY 12, 2021
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. Why is personalization important? Personalization is important because it helps your website stand out.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
FEBRUARY 26, 2009
Mpower Open, the vendor who took their high-end CRM/DMS product, MPX , open source last year, has adopted a new name, Orange Leap. They have also released two new products, called Orange Leap and the Guru. Both new products are based in Java, and are going to be released as open source.
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