Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

The most significant of an open-source LMS’s advantages are: Cost-effectiveness: Open-source learning management systems (LMS) are often more cost-effective than proprietary options as they eliminate licensing and maintenance fees. However, it’s important to note that open-source does not necessarily mean free.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

The most significant of an open-source LMS’s advantages are: Cost-effectiveness: Open-source learning management systems (LMS) are often more cost-effective than proprietary options as they eliminate licensing and maintenance fees. However, it’s important to note that open-source does not necessarily mean free.

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3rd Sector Labs

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Like their meteorological namesakes, data clouds can be life sustaining, or they can rain down havoc on your business, wash away your profits, and leave you in a state of emergency. Don’t let any high-priced consultant convince you otherwise. You can’t eliminate all technology risk from your organization.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2012

IT consultant Dr. Peter Flory wrote a two-part article series about why many CRM database projects fail – and some tips on how to get it right. Hosted by Peter Dijkema of Organon Consulting in Australia, the Understanding Microsoft Dynamics CRM webinar walks you through the basics of a CRM application and outlines its benefits.

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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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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

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

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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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

So what should non-profit tech folks be doing to prepare for the opportunities of "the future"? . Talk to folks using it, to consultants and to developers. and licensing models. I'd be surprised if there aren't several strong offerings available in the next few years. . Getting Prepared.

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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

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

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

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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

IT consultant Bryan Beaty volunteers at a small nonprofit. After trying Google's Chromebook for his personal use, Beaty suggested that the organization try it too : A small underfunded non-profit (I volunteer there) has 11 employees. Photo: slgckgc , CC license There newest computer is three years old.

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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

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

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

AUGUST 18, 2005

There is a new, interesting project under Creative Commons license. It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. { It looks pretty amazing – and a great testament to what open source licensing can do for creative work. {

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2016

The overall deal has to address not only licensing and servercloud services but must also consider design, implementation, support, modification, retraining, maintenance and upgrade—and it has to do this while respecting scale differences and various scheduling and operational constraints for all represented affiliates.

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Vancouver, British Columbia: Pints Not Profits: Field Trip to Vancouver Hackspace. Baltimore, Maryland: WordPress 101 and Tech Help Consultations. Edinburgh, United Kingdom: Salesforce Scotland Not-for-Profit User Group Meetup. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Thursday, September 28, 2017.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Special Office 365 Event for Nonprofits and IT Consultants. Portland, Oregon: Top Nonprofit Lessons from a For-Profit. Image Name: Author / License. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Cryptocurrency / Bitcoin. Naples, Florida: All about the Cloud and Technology. Austin, Texas. WordPress and Drupal Days #15NTC. Wednesday, March 4, 2015.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Baltimore, Maryland: Fundraising Tech 101 and Tech Help/Consultations. Vancouver, British Columbia: Pints Not Profits. IMAGE ATTRIBUTION GUIDELINES Image Name: Author / License. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: Designing Effective Public Engagement for Nonprofits. Thursday, August 17, 2017.

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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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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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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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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, a social media strategy firm for non-profit organizations and businesses. Nor a local organization.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

Consolidated Technologies Group Be sure to visit the Consolidated Technologies Group booth (#87) to learn more about their new on-line marketing communications solution designed specifically for non-profit organizations, and enter a drawing to win a free e-Book Reader. Curious to know what kind of emails are driving donations?

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2012

Efficient Elements The Program: Efficient Elements makes up to 100 licenses of its Efficient Elements for presentations software available to organizations per fiscal year. Plus: as a B-Corp , Dharma will return 10 percent of the gross annual processing profits from your merchant account in the form of an annual donation to you.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

Thieves stole personal data from Equifax, including birthdates, addresses, drivers’ license numbers, and Social Security numbers from 143 million people. It also makes good sense to earn more profits. . So, it was disturbing for the public to learn in 2017 that the company got hacked and their information compromised.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

The good thing is that since the business world seems to be moving ahead much more quickly on Linux and FOSS adoption, companies that work in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors are gaining Linux expertise – expertise that nonprofit organizations can benefit from. But I think more is needed. Ubuntu is based on Debian).

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This means that instead of adopting a for-profit system and “making do” with the non-specific features, CharityEngine is designed with your organization’s unique structure in mind. Nonprofits and for-profits alike find success on the platform when it is fully built out to meet the organization’s needs. Salesforce. Salesforce pricing.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Nonprofit legal consultants have helped thousands of nonprofits like yours successfully (and legally) fundraise online. Gambling or Games of Chance Licenses Certain types of popular fundraising activities such as raffles and auctions require your nonprofit to apply for a gambling or games of chance license. Legal Requirements.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

Even though I love promoting open source software and Linux among my non-profit clients, we’re not at the point where I could recommend Linux desktops for organization staff. 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).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ? Carnival Collaboration The Carvinal of Nonprofit Consultants and The Giving Carnival will join forces next week. There's lots more to digest and lots more to come.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

So, this particular organization came to us—as I said, their management team—and consulted with us. I think that’s probably a good question for your HR department, or a consultant or whatever, or legal counsel, to navigate those issues. He’s not going to consult anyone. But there definitely are issues to pay attention to there.

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