Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Gender, Race and Open Source June 29, 2007 My session on Free and Open Source software and the US Social Forum went great yesterday. That speaks volumes to me.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The power of open source VOIP December 18, 2007 Today seems to be Asterisk day. Asterisk is the open source PBX application that works by using VOIP. What is Asterisk, you ask? Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Over 90% of the fastest-growing open-source companies in 2020 were founded outside the San Francisco Bay Area, and 12 out of the top 20 originate in Europe, according to a new study. The “ ROSS Index ”, created by Runa Capital , lists the fastest-growing open-source startups with public repositories on GitHub every quarter.

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ITPro Today

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More than a year after Broadcom acquires VMware, its impact is evident rising costs, strategic shifts, minimal layoffs, and a surge in open source adoption as former VMware customers seek alternatives.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2022

Supabase , which bills itself as an open source alternative to services like Google’s Firebase , today announced that it has raised an $80 million Series B funding round led by Felicis Ventures. Coatue and Lightspeed also participated in this round, which brings the company’s total funding to date to $116 million.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Airbyte is building an open-source data pipeline platform. An open-source alternative to Fivetran or Stitchdata is interesting because building and maintaining connectors require a ton of resources. The open-source approach is the right approach,” co-founder and CEO Michel Tricot told me.

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TechSpot

MAY 20, 2022

Available for Windows, Linux, and macOS, GIMP is a free photo editing tool with the ability to have masks, layers, color adjustments, and a huge library of plug-ins.

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TechSpot

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

There has been a lot of praise for Nvidia's DLSS -- a feature that, in games which support it, makes lower resolution images look as good or better than higher resolution images, thus enhancing performance. This works through a combination of AI, the use of information from previous frames, and.

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TechSpot

MAY 8, 2023

AGESA, or AMD Generic Encapsulated Software Architecture, has been performing platform initialization procedures on AMD UEFI-based motherboards since the first generation of Zen CPUs. AGESA "wakes up" the CPU cores, chipset, memory and other hardware subsystems, and is an essential part of the UEFI firmware installed on AMD-compatible motherboards.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Current Trends.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

With Together, Prakash, Zhang, Re and Liang are seeking to create open source generative AI models and services that, in their words, “help organizations incorporate AI into their production applications.” The number of open source models both from community groups and large labs grows by the day , practically.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The idea is that this would allow users to pay for individual articles from a variety of news sources. It’s an alternative, or a supplement, to paying for individual subscriptions to specific news sources. ” A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the open source Twitter alternative.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Today, CodeSee , an early stage startup that wants to help development teams understand the entire code base, released OSS Port , an open source project designed to help disparate open source teams do just that.

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TechCrunch

MAY 5, 2023

Everything needs a home, and Garima Kapoor co-founded MinIO to build an enterprise-grade, open source object storage solution. Perhaps the open source component helps drive interest from its target developer market looking for an alternative from the cloud giant. Along the way, Kapoor raised $126.30

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TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2022

Merchants building businesses on giant marketplaces often have to think inside the marketplace’s box, but Medusa , a one-year-old e-commerce startup from Denmark, is going after e-commerce platforms, like Shopify and WooCommerce, with its open source alternative aimed at the JavaScript developer community.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Everything needs a home, and Garima Kapoor co-founded MinIO to build an enterprise-grade, open source object storage solution. Perhaps the open source component helps drive interest from its target developer market looking for an alternative from the cloud giant. Along the way, Kapoor raised $126.30

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A new open source startup is setting out to help software development teams glean deeper insights from their codebases, using SQL to query all the data sources they use in the software building process. ” Being open source, of course, is also a big part of MergeStat’s flexibility promise.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Everything needs a home, and Garima Kapoor co-founded MinIO to build an enterprise-grade, open source object storage solution. Perhaps the open source component helps drive interest from its target developer market looking for an alternative from the cloud giant. Along the way, Kapoor raised $126.30

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TechSpot

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Back in June, AMD launched its competitor to Nvidia’s DLSS tech in the form of FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR), an open source technology that works on both AMD and Nvidia hardware as well as Intel’s upcoming Alchemist GPUs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 3, 2023

Post , a Twitter alternative of sorts that’s rethinking how publishers should engage with social media — and how they should monetize their readership — has opened its doors to the public. That’s a promising number, but it’s still early days for this startup. “We just started the company in May.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Exploring Open Source LMS Solutions GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Learning Management Systems (LMS) have become a mainstay in education and corporate training. Open-source LMS systems offer all of the above in a package you can modify as per your requirements.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Exploring Open Source LMS Solutions GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Learning Management Systems (LMS) have become a mainstay in education and corporate training. Open-source LMS systems offer all of the above in a package you can modify as per your requirements.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Exploring Open Source LMS Solutions Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Learning Management Systems (LMS) have become a mainstay in education and corporate training. Open-source LMS systems offer all of the above in a package you can modify as per your requirements.

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Forum One

APRIL 22, 2010

" Where does that leave those of us who need a free-for-use Ning alternative? While these downloadable open source softwares protect you from meandering software company business plans, they require more technical time to install and support. Alternatives to Ning Document. We will phase out our free service."

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Open source LMS solutions: A great alternative to proprietary LMS systems. Learn more about the best options for 2023, their benefits, potential drawbacks, and more.

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

AppGet is a free and open source package manager for Windows, which automates installing software on Windows PCs. Other developers of open source software have found themselves in similar situations where Microsoft’s own software has been heavily inspired by alternatives that are free and open source.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Open Source Training Management System: Why Us? Why is Gyrus Systems the best Open Source Training Management System? An Open Source Training Management System comes easily on the budget and maintains the efficiency of the training programs. The work demands have become more complex and dynamic.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Open Source Training Management System: Why Us? Why is Gyrus Systems the best Open Source Training Management System? An Open Source Training Management System comes easily on the budget and maintains the efficiency of the training programs. The work demands have become more complex and dynamic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Then, throughout the ASPCA website, the sidebar alternates CTAs customized for that particular page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

I'm trying to embrace two ideas here - the idea of open source thinking and wikitation. Allison Fine 's book, Momentum, has a whole chapter on what she calls " Open Source Thinking ," and how it is key to successfully using these new tools. Open source thinking is sharing and remixing.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 13, 2013

Fortunately there are other alternatives available beyond the 800-pound gorilla in the space. 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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TechCrunch

MAY 26, 2021

That’s why Skiff published a whitepaper with technical details of how its technology works, and has begun to open source parts of its code, allowing anyone to see how the platform works.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Consumer interest in open source, decentralized social networking isn’t something that was only reflected in news headlines over the past year, it’s also apparent in the financials behind Mastodon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

David Wilcox has done a terrific job of summarizing this conversation thread recently on the UK Circuit Riders list, " Is Open Source Software Fair Trade for Nonprofits? " Are there ethical reasons for voluntary and community organisations to consider using Free and Open Source Software ?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

Friederike Grosse-Holz, a director at impact investment firm Blue Horizon, said lab-grown meat is “a little like a moonshot,” but predicts that 11% of the seafood, meat, eggs and dairy consumed globally in 2035 will come from alternative sources. “We Use alternative financing to fuel VC-level growth without diluting ownership.

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TechSpot

JANUARY 29, 2023

RISC V is an open-source instruction set architecture (ISA), a "free" alternative to Arm. First, some background. ISAs provide a set of common, important but unglamorous "blueprints" for processors. Every processor needs what an ISA provides to do some basic math. They take a lot of work to design and.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 20, 2009

It has to do with the fact that many, many nonprofit websites and web applications are built using MySQL, the most popular open source database management system. Of course, since MySQL is open source, there is no danger of MySQL going away, someone can always fork it.

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