Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 14, 2008

is a microblogging service based on an open source project, Laconica , and all of the updates are copyrighted by a Creative Commons (Attribution) license. You can log in using OpenID. All really great stuff. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

They expect to make up the difference in revenue that they got from licenses from services sold to a greater number of organizations that would not have been customers otherwise. I hope that they decide to go with an OSI approved license (they are currently using their own, which is a modification of the Apache license.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

No administration fees, no license checking, no running out of licenses for larger organizations, nothin’ Download it and put it on every desktop and get rid of that license manager thingy. It’s stable, feature rich, uses open standards, reads and writes MS files, and, did I mention it’s free?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 19, 2006

Also, for you Windows types, here is a plain english interpretation of the Windows Vista EULA (End User License Agreement.) How about this one: " You may not work around any technical limitations in the software." " What else is it that us geeks do? This sounds quite different than the activation issue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 1, 2007

I had a brief conversation by email with Cory Doctorow , a science fiction author who is also a copyleft activist, who releases everything he writes with a CC license. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. If, perchance, you might want to read it, drop me an email.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

It’s peer reviewed (good), but it’s got a rather restrictive license, and the content is not freely available. The licenses are as follows: Personal License: If you have purchased a copy/subscription to the Journal with a personal license, this means that it is for your personal use.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Can we build a library of OpenSocial applications that have open source licenses? It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested? Maybe this is the use for opensocialorg.org! :-) { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Devdas Bhagat 11.22.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It would not be as cost-effective (and thus, not produce as much profit) if these SaaS developers had to pay license fees for the software they use (besides the fact that these are the most stable and robust platforms to build upon.) It’s my understanding that none of the major non-profit SaaS players use open source tools.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 9, 2020

License payments – Do you want a “perpetual license” in which you pay more up front and save in subsequent years, or a “software as a service” solution, in which you spread payments out over the lifecycle of the system by paying a fee per user per month? Blog] 4 tech facts Executive Directors need to know about AMS platforms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

The three others are Democracy in Action , which is a SaaS that is open source, CitySoft says it’s open source, but I don’t know whether it is through an OSI approved license (since they don’t say. at 1:12 pm Aaron Antrim’s blog 01.01.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

MPower Open is now on Sourceforge , they released their product under the GPL v3. These are good steps forward. “If we build it they will come&# only works in the movies. { 1 trackback } Bookmarks about News 11.09.08 at 3:45 am { 4 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 07.07.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

I stopped at the license agreement. I might regret hosing the recovery media w/o getting them on CD later, but I hope not – I was in a purist mood – I would have had to have agreed to the license agreement for Vista and activated the product in order to burn the media, and I wasn’t about to do that.) It booted fine.

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Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

If you need actual legal advice, please consult a lawyer who won't make as many jokes.* You've got until December 31, 2024 (mark your calendar, set seventeen alarms) Started in 2024? File Your BOI REPORT NOW!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

We listened, and you can read a detailed write-up of the Salesforce Foundation’s Nonprofit Starter Pack, available for free to qualifying organizations for up to 10 licenses (and there is a discount on licenses above that number). The 2013 Consumers Guide to Donor Management Systems is free to download!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I’d argue that PostgreSQL is a better choice, but for most nptech applications, it doesn’t matter – what matters is what your tech/consultant knows, and that’s much more likely to be MySQL.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain. I’d argue that PostgreSQL is a better choice, but for most nptech applications, it doesn’t matter – what matters is what your tech/consultant knows, and that’s much more likely to be MySQL.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

But I’m sure that their services pricing has been adjusted to account for loss of licensing revenue. Without the s/w to install it (and strongly suspecting that doing so just to “check it out&# is a waste of time), I have to believe that their goal here is to get clients to buy services. Which is fine. 2 Tompkins Spann 03.21.08

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 4, 2023

The first ten licenses for NPSP are free, providing small nonprofits with several out-of-the-box tools and a standard storage amount. Large nonprofits using NPSP can purchase additional licenses, storage, and applications as needed. Consulting. Many CRMs have in-house consultants and training options.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source. It’s “Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt&# all over again. Of course, the 800 pound gorilla doesn’t actually have to sue anyone.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

The primary investment components of AMS “Asking how much an AMS costs is like asking how much a house costs,” said Tirrah Switzer, Senior Director of Product Marketing. As you research new AMS platforms, consider these four factors to inform an accurate price for your next AMS: 1. There are a ton of factors that go into pricing a home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

As communications consultants, we often fight the thud factor. It gives us license to experiment, knowing we will have hard facts to evaluate the results. Nicole Lampe is Digital Strategy Director at Resource Media. But we can’t afford to operate on hunches when there is real data available to inform outreach efforts.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

By Steve Spiker, Director of Research & Technology, Urban Strategies Council As more and more people are bombarded with maps from every media source, many nonprofits find themselves asking “How can we use maps in our work?” – followed by, “Just how hard can it be for us to make maps for our work?”

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Jason Samuels is the director of innovation and technology at the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) in Minneapolis. This story was written by Jim Lynch, director of green technology at TechSoup. NCFR is a professional association for the multidisciplinary understanding of families. Sign up for Office 365 Nonprofit.

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fusionSpan

MAY 10, 2024

On April 30th, Rose Palipalli, Director of Consulting at fusionSpan, and Nicole Adair, Principal Solution Engineer at Salesforce, provided an in-depth look at the current and future capabilities of Nonprofit Cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Also, the game is licensed under creative commons - which means folks are welcomed to use as long as share and share like (with attribution). This was really important – hearing colleagues talk about their posts being read by EPA officials or members of international negotiating teams made the point in a way no consultant could.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 31, 2011

This is a topic of particular fascination for me as someone who has worked as an external consultant/provocateur/risk-encourager and is now in the director's seat for the first time. Risk-takers need "space-makers" to provide them with the support, the creative license, and the encouragement to try new things, fail, and get up again.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

If you've ever worked with a consultant or collaborated with a colleague in another organization, you probably hit a roadblock when you realized that that person didn't have access to an internal system. Photo: Simon Webster , CC license According to Gunner, part of what makes these tools just work is their air of neutrality.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Qualifications are areas someone might have been educated in, licenses awarded, or a broad set of experiences that would make them well versed or an expert in a particular subject. A position might require a license, which would be considered a qualification for the role.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2015

Search comes with a few nifty features like filtering by BPM (beats per minute, or the tempo of the song), duration, or what kind of license is associated with the track in question. This page lists stuff from all over the FMA that is appropriate for use in video — in terms of licenses and cinematic quality. Be adventurous!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

It is a rock-solid distribution with what is arguably the best package management system. Ubuntu is based on Debian). It has a vibrant user community. Debian is the favorite of most serious Linux geeks. And, luckily, once you’ve learned some Linux, supporting other distributions isn’t such a big deal. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

And so the whole not-having-to-worry-about-licenses envy came up (in my head – no way I’d actually suggest this – I knew it was fantasy). Although they weren’t doing it when I made the purchase, Dell is now including licensed DVD playback software. And that’s just so stupid. 5 Matthew Edmondson 06.25.08

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

When they're well crafted, RFPs can introduce an organization to high-quality vendor-partners and consultants from outside their established networks and ensure that a project is completed as planned. Photo: Joe Athialy , CC license. Read more to learn how to write a winning RFP. How Much Should a Website Cost?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Jason Samuels is the director of innovation and technology at the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) in Minneapolis. This story was written by Jim Lynch, director of green technology at TechSoup. NCFR is a nonprofit professional association for the multidisciplinary understanding of families. Sign up for Office 365 Nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2011

When they're well crafted, RFPs can introduce an organization to high-quality vendor-partners and consultants from outside their established networks and ensure that a project is completed as planned. Photo: Joe Athialy , CC license. Read more to learn how to write a winning RFP. How Much Should a Website Cost?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

Generic license There is no such thing as a local business anymore. at [link] by Debra Askanase: Debra is a former community organizer and executive director, and the founder and lead consultant at Community Organizer 2.0, Nor a local organization. Consider the local mini mart, the most local of all types of stores.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Depending on the CRM, some require additional license fees for forms or APIs. I generally see consulting firms serving the top couple percent of the market using APIs to do interesting edge cases. Some take internal staff resources (especially the Manual strategy.) Others take developer resources (especially the Integration strategy.)

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