Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

One of the best ways to gauge whether open source would work for your organization is to look at some actual examples. To read about how open-source software might benefit your nonprofit or public library, check out part one of this series. Project Management. Making the Right Decision About Open-Source Software.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Benetech has long been a pioneer in providing innovative services to people with print disabilities.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Their open source activity alone contributes more than $100 billion to the U.S. Nearly all software — 97% — contains open source components, which are often developed and maintained on GitHub. GitHub counts 17 million American developers on our platform — more than any other country. economy annually.

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InfoWorld

DECEMBER 21, 2023

But before you begin using LLMs and related tools for your R projects, there are a few important things to keep in mind: Everything you ask using these tools gets sent to OpenAI's servers. An ecosystem is forming around ChatGPT and R, making it easy to incorporate AI technology into your R language workflow.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

We've all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics "going viral" online before our eyes - the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. At SXSW, there…. Crowdfunding Social Ventures at SXSW.

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 27, 2025

It uses a low-code approach to prototype the dashboard using natural language prompts to an open source tool, which generates Plotly charts that can be added to a template dashboard. Finally, the generated dashboard code is added to a shared project that can be tweaked to improve the prototype.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Florian Rival first started working on GDevelop as an open-source side project. For instance, Vai Juliette reached the number 1 and number 2 spots in the top free download charts on the Play Store and App Store in Brazil. The team of six people is iterating on the open source game engine so that it gets better and better.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 21, 2022

Gina Lupu Florian: Our clients often choose us as their sole product and technical partner for their project, which means that we are highly involved in helping them with idea validation. The intake process can vary a lot depending on the particularities of each project and collaboration.

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DataRobot

MAY 11, 2021

These extensions are then easily injected back into DataRobot’s blueprints and can be shared across projects and reused by experts and non-experts alike. If you are not a current DataRobot customer, sign up for Zepl’s public trial here and see what you can do to 10x your projects. We will not force customers to use our hosted notebook.

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DataRobot

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Open Source vs. Cloud-Integrated Solutions. Let’s take a look at one of the open source solutions. Open source systems (OSS) are easy to love. Open source notebooks exist because most data science languages are a mix of object-oriented code, complex libraries, and functional programming.

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Towards Data Science

JULY 26, 2024

The main pain points I heard time and time again were: Not knowing why something broke Getting burnt with high cloud compute costs Taking too long to build data solutions/complete data projects Needing expertise on many tools and technologies These problems aren’t new. They eventually decided to break away from the project.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve grouped these solutions into the following categories: Donor Management Fundraising Project Management Communication Design Forms Marketing Events Website Content Management System As you assess each option, keep in mind that seemingly “free” platforms may still come with costs. transaction fee per donation.

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Towards Data Science

JANUARY 27, 2025

It uses a low-code approach to prototype the dashboard using natural language prompts to an open source tool, which generates Plotly charts that can be added to a template dashboard. Finally, the generated dashboard code is added to a shared project that can be tweaked to improve the prototype.

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Towards Data Science

AUGUST 10, 2023

2- Extracting insights from data and chart analysis Charting and analysis may soon be done by Gen AI. ChartGPT is a specialized product focused just on charting data. A select few might be playing around with some open source models and vector databases, but I think the tooling around it is fairly early on,” said Lior.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Ax Sharma makes his TechCrunch debut as a contributor today, delving into how some open source projects effectively sabotage their own software, as a form of protest. Zoox wouldn’t share projected range numbers but did say that the goal is to keep the vehicle in service for at least 16 hours.”. Did it make an impact?

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

Part 2: Product development and roadmap : experimentation, open-source efforts and expanding beyond DNS. Image Credits: shan.shihan (opens in a new window) / Getty Images. For successful AI projects, celebrate your graveyard and be prepared to fail fast. Image Credits: Wachiwit (opens in a new window) / Getty Images.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

The platform provides training and open-source tools and resources for climate activists, links activists to local groups and campaigns, provides a platform for rapidly evolving content, and also supports a Coal Tracker as the group seeks to end the reign of dirty coal in Africa. University of Massachusetts Amherst.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. Wouldn’t it be awesome if there was an open-source searchable database in which you could enter the idea you were having, say, “community garden,” and up would pop a treasure trove of learning?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

" The Ushahidi project was so helpful, it quickly evolved from a one-off web site to an open source "software platform" that any organization can download and customize for similar projects. The resulting website was named "Ushahidi" from the Swahili word for "testimony."

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DataRobot

DECEMBER 1, 2022

With digital marketing spend projected to reach $692.3B You can upload all these datasets in our AI Catalog and start a project from there. As DataRobot starts building predictive models, a large repository of open source and proprietary packages will experiment with various modeling techniques.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 4, 2022

It allows you to tag paragraphs, sections, and charts with labels that correspond to the type of project, philanthropic opportunity, and — post-submission — degree of success. The solution is a set of modules that allows these organizations to quickly assemble applications for philanthropic support. About the Authors.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

After all, 2048 was supposed to be a weekend project — one of many he’d started — intended to help Cirulli practice his JavaScript skills. So he re-created 2048 from scratch, to better learn how a developer might structure a project like this. It allowed him to start two different game studios, and keep working on projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Via Laura Quinn at Idealware comes a pointer to a research paper titled " Technology Motivators and Usage in Not-for-Profit Arts Organizations " that comes from the Systems Synthesis Project course at the H. Couldn't resist this one, Screencast-O-Matic (with some wikis thrown in) from Bamboo Project. Do you have advice?

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Interactive charts. As Founder and CEO of Kanopi Studios , Anne helps create clarity around project needs, and turns client conversations into actionable outcomes. Anne is an advocate for open source and co-organizes the Bay Area Drupal Camp. Consider incorporating the following multimedia elements into your content: .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

But now that Prop 22 is projected to pass, this lawsuit has far less legal ground to stand on. Calm’s hilarious CNN ad campaign sent the meditation app flying up App Store charts. YC-backed nonprofit VotingWorks wants to rebuild trust in election systems through open source.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. It can inform members of a community of critical information as it happens, and tell an event's story visually with maps, interactive charts, and other visualizations. These folks do astonishing work. Check out Ushahidi Surveyor.

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DataRobot

MARCH 10, 2022

With, now, native Python support delivered through Snowpark for Python, developers can leverage the vibrant collection of open-source data science and machine learning packages that have become household names, even at leading AI/ML enterprises. Deploying a Model and Consuming the Inferences.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Nairobi, Kenya: Mobile Solar Computer Classroom Project in Kenya. Birmingham, United Kingdom: Open-Source Software for Charities. Monday, November 7, 2016. Tuesday, November 8, 2016.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

Musk confirmed the company’s plans in response to a user’s tweet which claimed the Twitter Notes project had recently been rebranded as “Articles.” Pavel Zoneff, director of strategic communications at the Tor Project, told TechCrunch that the site “is no longer available seemingly with no plans to renew.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

We are now directly participating in the DAISY Consortium’s Transforming Braille project, which seeks to dramatically lower the cost of braille cell technology, the fundamental technical building block of a braille display. This is important here in the U.S., and critical for the inclusion and empowerment of people in developing countries.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

workers (and a majority of all millennials) participating in the gig/ platform economy as their first or secondary job; “freelance” workers like these were projected to be a majority of all workers by 2027. Uber Technologies Revenue 2017–2022 | UBER,” Macrotrends, accessed May 24, 2022, net/stocks/charts/UBER/uber-technologies/revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. There's also the DiSo Project , an umbrella for a group of open source implementations of distributed social networking concepts. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. And if you???re

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Towards Data Science

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Think of Docker Compose as our toolbox, letting us efficiently put together JupyterLab (our navigation chart) and MinIO (our storage deck). Fetching data with Python : Now, it’s time to chart our course. We’ll start a new project in an Integrated Development Environment (IDE). We’re using the open-source Rest Countries Project.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Boston by the numbers The chart below shows Boston fluctuating between third and fourth place in overall venture capital investment over the last several years, moving back and forth with the Los Angeles area startup scene. IBM acquired Lotus 1-2-3 , an early spreadsheet company for the PC for $3.5

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The Verge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Project Brazen and Audiation ordered to release audio recorded for Fat Leonard. We disagree with this ruling and believe it sets a bad precedent for media freedom in the US,” tweeted Project Brazen co-founder Tom Wright. But the way Mullenweg sees it, open is still going to win. We here at Hot Pod agree.

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