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SocialCoding4Good: Mobilizing Technology and Volunteerism for Transformative Impact

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Benetech, like many nonprofit organizations building open source software for social good, often relies upon the contributions of experienced software developers to help its solutions grow and scale. Often there's a mismatch between the skills of a volunteer and the skills required by our projects.

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Penpot inks $8M as signups for its open source spin on Figma jump 5600% after Adobe’s $20B acquisition move

TechCrunch

Now, a Spanish startup called Penpot — which is taking a new approach to design collaboration through an open source platform that brings designers and developers into the mix simultaneously — says that it’s been seeing a huge amount of adoption since the Figma deal. “Developers care about that.”

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Some frank advice for open-source startups seeking product-market fit

TechCrunch

He was previously an investor at Spark Capital, led M&A at AppDynamics and Cisco, and was an investor at The Blackstone Group. Successful companies such as Hashicorp, JFrog, Elastic, MongoDB and Gitlab have demonstrated the power of open source models. This enables open source companies to acquire a vast, free user base.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SocialCoding4Good We are very excited about our SocialCoding4Good project, one of our Benetech Labs initiatives, which is working to increase the engagement of the technology sector with social good initiatives beyond just the scope of our own programs. Martus is our free, open source, secure information collection and management tool.

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8 open source companies from YC Demo Day Winter ’22

TechCrunch

Wicked fast VPNs, data organization tools, auto-generated videos to spice up your company’s Instagram stories … Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 open source founders have some interesting ideas up their sleeves. And since they’re open source, some of these companies will let you join in on the fun of collaboration too.

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Sequoia backs open source data-validation framework Pydantic to commercialize with cloud services

TechCrunch

Pydantic , the popular Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one of Silicon Valley’s most storied venture capital (VC) firms. Pydantic Services Inc. emerges from stealth today with $4.7 Pydantic Services Inc.

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API platform Postman valued at $5.6 billion in $225 million fundraise

TechCrunch

Developers relied — and many continue to do so — on open-source CLI tools such as curl and HTTPie. The six-year-old startup’s product, which began its journey in India, is today used by more than 17 million developers and over 500,000 organizations, including Microsoft, Salesforce, Stripe, Shopify, Cisco and PayPal.

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