Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. Martus is our free, open source, secure information collection and management tool. In this update, I’m delighted to be able to share Benetech’s latest efforts to do both.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

First, the New York-based startup is open sourcing a set of developer tools it has built, called Fides , so that developers can build privacy tools and monitoring mechanisms directly into their codebases. Second, it has picked up an additional $7.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

And to remind you that there is still time to make a donation to A Day for Hearts Congential Hearts Defects Awareness Day or another charity of your choice. But I just couldn't resist " Open Source Your Love." Don't see your charity listed, well go promote over here.). Or send some geek love from NTEN.

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The Verge

APRIL 22, 2021

The possibility of bugs slipping through is well-known in the open-source software community. The university has put out a statement , saying it’s been made aware of the research and its subsequent ban from contributing.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2021

Kafka has existed as an open source tool for a decade. Today the company released its first product, Redpanda , an open source tool designed to make it easier for developers to build streaming data applications. As a Latino founder, Gallego is acutely aware of the need for a diverse and inclusive workforce.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

Matching Techies With Social Causes SocialCoding4Good began with the idea of building a sort of Match.com for tech volunteerism — an algorithmic platform that would match individual software developers to nonprofit organizations that were building open source software for socially good causes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2005

I came to Amsterdam yesterday to attend a summit meeting of open source foundations. There seem to be dozens of these groups, each built around one or more open source software project. Picture of the open source foundations summit. After the summit, I attended the BarCampAmsterdam Bar Camp being held here.

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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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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2022

That inspired Foxglove, which began in early 2021 as a fork of Webviz, an open source web visualization project released by Cruise three years ago. Foxglove creates cloud-based tools and libraries like the open source MCAP, which provides a standardized interface for companies to exchange data. Image Credits: Foxglove.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Its now parlaying its advancement of business AI into serving as an open-source tools hub for the technology community. With an open-source model fostering community-driven innovation, Airbyte has used AI to help a robust community of 20,000 data engineers develop 10,000+ user-built custom data connectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

The latter may help boost awareness of the topic or cause and in some cases get picked up by news and other sites that collectively increases traffic. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership. He outlines what each group can learn from one another.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The group’s for-profit motive has made it controversial in the modding and emulation communities, reports Ars Technica , because those communities tend to focus on open-source efforts and shy away from selling products that could draw the attention of both console makers and federal authorities.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Industry Leaders and Partners Safeguard AI With NeMo Guardrails NeMo Guardrails, available to the open-source community, helps developers orchestrate multiple AI software policies called rails to enhance LLM application security and control.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

MalwareBytes seems to be aware of the confusion; it updated its original post yesterday to be extra clear that the bad barcode scanner app was this one , which came from a company called Lavabird, not ZXing Team. T]his is such an old well-known app that I think anyone informed would guess it can’t be this app: it’s open source, for one.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

Although I often get snarky about this, I am aware that I am guilty of this, too. 3) Platform choice: Look at a number of things – if it’s open source – how many developers are there? Most nonprofits are not run by geeks. I mean average, normal features of most nonprofit organizations. How many people use it?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 14, 2009

Yet in addition to bringing greater awareness to that tool, the hype surrounding Moldova revealed misunderstanding of the value of of Twitter for activism and, even though the realists responded strongly, there was not a stand-alone resource which clearly defined how Twitter could be used by activists." Why not check out Penguin Day! "At

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DataRobot

DECEMBER 1, 2021

It has also promoted its Common Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) open source framework, which enables the use of GPUs for general-purpose computing. Consider swarms of flying drones that have social awareness. CUDA currently has more than 2.3 million developers. Even today, however, many activities are beyond AI’s reach.

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TechCrunch

JULY 7, 2021

This morning r2c , a startup building a SaaS service around the Semgrep open-source project , announced that it has closed a $27 million Series B. On the OSS point, r2c works with Semgrep, which the company likens to a “code-aware grep.” Per r2c CEO Isaac Evans , however, the project failed to attract much awareness.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

Against this backdrop, Deepset , the startup behind the open source NLP framework Haystack, today announced that it raised $14 million in a Series A investment led by GV with participation from Harpoon Ventures, System.One, Lunar Ventures, and Acequia Capital. Fortune Business Insights pegged the NLP market at $16.53 billion in 2020.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Anysphere For giving developers a coding partner with contextual awareness Cursor AI has emerged as a standout in the growing field of AI code editors. Cursor acts like a coding partner thats aware of the context in which code is being created. Read more about Glean , honored as No. Read more about Anysphere , honored as No.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 19, 2009

Ad-Aware — Anti-spyware and malware tool for PCs: [link]. Faxes arrive as email attachments: [link] (Be aware that they do things like periodically changing your fax number to induce you to pay. PHP and MySQL -– Really good open source code for building dynamic web sites: [link] and [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

But it is useful to be aware of what’s happening on the bleeding edge, because at some point (probably soon) that stuff is going to be pretty standard. As a nonprofit worker, I don’t think that being an expert on the bleeding edge is important because I’m unlikely to be using most of those technologies, anyhow. Be Helpful.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

The Day aims to raise awareness of disability issues with a focus on the rights of persons with disabilities and the benefits derived from their integration in the social, economic, cultural and political life of their communities. The annual observance of the International Day of Persons with Disabilities (IDPD) is today, December 3rd.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Thankfully, we have some incredible nonprofits on the ground who continue to tackle these issues everyday, raise awareness and mobilize people into action. One of the worst humanitarian crises continues to escalate in the Horn of Africa, where famine, war and drought are threatening 13M+ people.

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The Verge

MARCH 1, 2022

In a statement to PCMag , Bloomberg , and VideoCardz , the company says it became aware of the breach on February 23rd, and that it does “not anticipate any disruption to [its] business or our ability to serve our customers as a result of the incident.”. Lapsus$ claims to have around a terabyte of data from Nvidia, according to PCMag.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

Every major browser that uses the open source Chromium project has declined to use it, and it’s unclear what that will mean for the future of advertising on the web. Google Chrome is built on an open source project, and so FLoC was implemented as part of that project that other browsers could include.

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The Verge

MARCH 17, 2022

And a lot of it’s just going to be open source — which I fully support: the sharing of science, the sharing of data, the sharing of models. And then, if you were to search for toxicity datasets, there’s a large number of open-source tox datasets. By then, our technology may have progressed even beyond what we can do now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

Generative Transformation talks about what leadership is , and means – particularly that it means self-awareness. Amy Kinkaid, of Fundraising Breakthroughs , has some great advice about asking for money without shame. A Girl’s Guide to Managing Projects has a nice post about what Project Managers do all day, anyway. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I am pretty instantly aware of when the person I’m talking with knows what they are doing. And I’ve come to understand what I value about some development shops, and what I don’t value about others. I like proposals that focus more on the project, and show clear understanding of the project. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Common Fate, an Australian startup from a couple of former cyber security consultants, wants to help with an open source tool and an early access cloud service. The company has an open source tool called Granted , and it’s launching an early access program for the SaaS version of the product. million seed investment.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Universal CMS You’re likely aware of traditional open source CMS platforms like WordPress and Drupal or traditional enterprise and SaaS-based content management systems such as AEM and Sitecore. Universal CMS represents the next evolution, combining the benefits of both open source and headless platforms.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 23, 2025

NVIDIA Triton Inference Server, one of the companys most popular open-source projects , allows users to package and serve any model regardless of the AI framework it was trained on. Reducing Response Times With Recurrent Drafter (ReDrafter) Open-source research advancements are helping to democratize AI inference.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

And if you live in a country that is affected by those changes, you are now well aware that you’ll get a consent popup or banner whenever you visit a new website or open an app for the first time. With today’s funding round, the company wants to make its product even more developer friendly with open APIs and open-source SDKs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

I recently because aware of this academic lockdown. To all of the academics out there, I beg you to help me make this change reality. Let’s stop being silenced by academic publishers. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Kevin Mark 02.08.08 at 1:24 pm Hear. Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2021

The open-source Starling Framework for Data Integrity was launched to protect the veracity of online content using blockchain technology, creating “birth certificates” for photos and videos and tracking any changes made to them. Capture App was created to allow wider access to the same technology.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The 10/10-rated Log4Shell flaw in Log4j, an open source logging software that’s found practically everywhere, from online games to enterprise software and cloud data centers, claimed numerous victims from Adobe and Cloudflare to Twitter and Minecraft due to its ubiquitous presence.

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