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Because of this, the deck has always been stacked against opensource tools in this arena. Two of them (Convio and Blackbaud) are even publicly traded companies, which says a lot about the profit potential of this vertical. CiviCRM is a web-based opensource nonprofit-focused CRM/Donation management tool.
Victoria Melnikova Contributor Share on Twitter Alongside fellow Evil Martians , Victoria Melnikova builds devtools and commercial opensource products and writes about her journey in tech. But is it possible for a smaller opensource project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity?
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenSource Feminism? She’s got some great video blogging, including a short one on “ opensource feminism.&# Let’s get together! of women in FLOSS? Be Helpful.
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Opensource has become a major force in the world of IT, and today a startup that has built a profitable operation by developing business management software on the principle is announcing a sizable secondary investment on the back of that growth. What is also notable is how Odoo pitches itself.
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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and opensource tool #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos.
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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and OpenSource Tool #16: CiviCRM April 21, 2008 In honor of the webinar that is happening in a couple of weeks, I figured I’d talk a bit about CiviCRM. Be Helpful.
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Opensource your Open Social Apps? Which lead me to think about the idea of opensourcing OpenSocial apps. Anyone interested? Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org!
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and opensource tool #1: Thunderbird January 3, 2008 Before the holidays, I promised that I’d do 100 posts this year on free and opensource tools. Be Helpful.
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenSource Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology OpenSource Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).
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Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and opensource tool #9 : Pidgin February 5, 2008 While I’m on the subject of chat, I figured I could talk about Pidgin. Pidgin is a multiprotocol IM (Instant Messenger) client. Be Helpful.
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and opensource tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and opensource tool getting a lot of good attention.
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and opensource tool #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. Because of Zotero I’m nearly 100% converted to Firefox. Be Helpful.
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The “OpenSource Software is Free&# myth July 14, 2008 I had a startling realization a few days ago. No one would think that anyone thought that implementing opensource software was without cost.
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology So where is opensource in the nptech ecosystem? at 9:57 pm Hey Michelle- I think that the conversations about opensource technology in the nonprofit sector is really still beginning.
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and opensource tool #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. I’ve always liked wikis, and I have used MediaWiki a lot in the past, and I do like it.
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and opensource tool #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.
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Jorge Torres is CEO and co-founder of MindsDB , an opensource AI layer for existing databases. Adam Carrigan is a co-founder and COO of MindsDB , an opensource AI layer for existing databases. Open-source software gave birth to a slew of useful software in recent years. Contributor. Share on Twitter.
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and opensource tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year. Be Helpful.
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How busy is it? Make sure that the features that it outlines there match your requirements. See if they have good documentation. Check out the forums of email list archives of that project. How easily or quickly does it seem that questions get answered? Look at the “download&# page (or “releases&# ). When was the last release?
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The free services disappear, for business reasons. Are they free because the company behind them is an ad revenue machine and uber profitable (Google)? Is it free because it’s opensource (Drupal, Elgg, Word Press)? Or is it free because it is a start up in search for a business model (Ning)? Nothing at all.
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Just a few months after buying fellow robotic software firm Vicarious , Alphabet-owned Intrinsic has acquired several divisions within Open Robotics , the company behind the widely-used robotics software packages Gazebo and Robotic Operating System (ROS). doors and elevators). doors and elevators).
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Businesses across every industry are rolling out AI services this year. Cost-Effective User Throughput Businesses are often challenged with balancing the performance and costs of inference workloads. Reducing Response Times With Recurrent Drafter (ReDrafter) Open-source research advancements are helping to democratize AI inference.
Our goal is to make four critical supporting points: • The term “Social enterprise” is descriptive. • “Social enterprise” is generic. • “Social enterprise” is in wide use in Trademark classes covering computer software and services to business and society. • The subject application is against the public interest.
IBM is splitting into two public companies, with a spin-off handling the firm’s legacy IT infrastructure work, allowing IBM to focus on new high-margin businesses, particularly cloud services and AI. The 109-year-old company announced the news this week, which follows CEO Arvind Krishna’s longterm plan to streamline the sprawling business.
According to sources cited by the Financial Times, SoftBank is planning to significantly increase its investment in OpenAI. The AI company, which transitioned from an open-source research initiative to a for-profitbusiness, is now seeking new investors beyond Microsoft's influence. Read Entire Article
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. companies,” Brian C.
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