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Thoughts on the Future of Open Source and Nonprofits

NTEN

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. and licensing models. By Dave Greenberg, CiviCRM Team.

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How not to treat an open source user community

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In fact, pretty much every open source project that has gone commercial, or had a change in license, caused a fork, pretty much killing the original (like Mambo, or XFree86.) They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere.

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Guest Post by JD Lasica -- Socialbrite: A new sharing & learning hub

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

jazz and put it to work for your organization or cause. We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing. You won’t see marketing flackery here.)

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Internet Strategy on the Cheap: Tools and Resources

Have Fun - Do Good

You have to set it up yourself and pay for web hosting) MovableType.com: [link] (Higher Education & Non-profit license for 5 authors, $195. Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths. Hosting included) WordPress.org: [link] (Free software. Includes support for first year.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll be doing a fair bit of experimentation with Derby (’cause I’m curious.) Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. Ease of recovery from standard crashes (e.g.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll be doing a fair bit of experimentation with Derby (’cause I’m curious.) Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. SQLite – a small footprint C library that implements an ACID compliant DB engine. Ease of recovery from standard crashes (e.g.

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NpTech Tag: Socially Responsible Idol, Nptech Meebo Chat at PDF Conference, and Personal Fundraising

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Rory Gale has a nice post called " Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause " BrandtobeDetermined posts about a UK outfit store that ripped off someone's flickr photos and the community response. The Non-Profit Tech Blog interviews Scott Crowder, Kintera CTO. (If without leaving the virtual world!

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