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Free and open source tool #12: Miro

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. There are channels for everything. It can download videos via Bittorrent as well. Be Helpful.

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Free and open source tool #8:XChat

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #8:XChat February 5, 2008 This is, really a post both about a tool ( XChat ) and about IRC (Internet Relay Chat.) XChat is one of quite a few IRC clients. I use IRC every day.

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Free and Open Source Tool #11: Azureus

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source Tool #11: Azureus February 15, 2008 Azureus (now called Azureus Vuze) is the best bittorrent client I have ever used. It’s quite amazing. It’s got a lot under the hood.

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Summit invests $215M into Odoo, an open-source business management software developer, at a $2.3B+ valuation

TechCrunch

Open source 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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It’s a Sign: AI Platform for Teaching American Sign Language Aims to Bridge Communication Gaps

NVIDIA AI Blog

Signers of any skill level can contribute by signing specific words to help build an open-source video dataset for ASL. Most deaf children are born to hearing parents. And knowing that professional ASL teachers have validated all the vocabulary on the platform, users can be confident in what theyre learning.

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MergeStat channels open source and SQL to bring ‘operational analytics’ to software engineering

TechCrunch

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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Orkes, founded by the creators of Netflix’s open source Conductor workflow orchestration tool, comes out of stealth with $9.3M

TechCrunch

million in funding to fuel the mission, as well as to support the continued growth of the open-source Conductor community. The rise of Orkes underscores a very common route these days for open source tools. “ Orkes has the right team to bring enterprise-grade support and cloud services to this thriving community.”