TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Botpress , a Montreal-based early stage startup, wants to make it easier for developers to build conversational-based apps, meaning humans interact with the app by speaking instead of typing, clicking or tapping. Today it announced an $15 million Series A from Decibel and Inovia Capital.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. Schipul, a web marketing agency based in Houston, Texas, announced yesterday during the 2012 South by Southwest Interactive festival that Tendenci, a content management system (CMS) will be released as an open source solution. This topic was especially relevant….

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Forum One

MAY 12, 2021

As we work primarily with open source CMS platforms, such as Drupal and WordPress, our tool is effective in its ability to integrate within the CMS as well as be flexible for organization-specific needs. In the commercial sector, the primary goal of personalization is to increase conversions and drive sales.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

As Meltano CEO and GitLab veteran Douwe Maan told me, the original idea behind Meltano was to build an end-to-end data platform, but then the team narrowed its focus back to ELT again between 2020 and 2021, with the Singer open-source ELT tool as its core component. Now, with this new funding as a basis and the launch of Meltano 2.0

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Freemium products are everywhere, but unless companies revisit and optimize their strategy, there’s no effective way to optimize conversions. The Team Slide is the most important slide in a startup pitch deck Which open source startups rocketed in 2022? ” Which open source startups rocketed in 2022? .

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VentureBeat

MARCH 17, 2025

Baidu has also announced plans to integrate ERNIE 4.5 and ERNIE X1 into its broader ecosystem, including Baidu Search and the Wenxiaoyan app. Read More

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TechCrunch

MAY 12, 2023

Given the tremendous barrier to entry, is it worth considering whether open source foundation models could level the playing field and also address concerns about privacy and bias?

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

Botpress , a Montreal-based early stage startup, wants to make it easier for developers to build conversational-based apps, meaning humans interact with the app by speaking instead of typing, clicking or tapping. Today it announced an $8 million Series A from Decibel and Inovia Capital.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 23, 2023

” The company’s roots are in open source, and it still runs a popular open source version of the software (the community for which has 19,000 members, it says) that helped it gain its initial popularity and traction in the market.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2021

Almost by default, open-source developers get very little insight into who uses their projects. In part, that’s the beauty of open source, but for developers who want to monetize their projects, it’s also a bit of a curse because they get very little data back from these projects. ” Image Credits: Scarf.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

million, funding that Xabi Uribe-Etxebarria, Sherpa’s founder and CEO, said it will be using to continue building out a privacy-focused machine learning platform based on a federated learning model alongside its existing conversational AI and search services. The company has closed $8.5

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

It depends on your platform, your budget, and your technology skillset: epub-tools : an open source, command line set of tools for conversion to epub format. Calibre : a cross-platform suite of tools for ebook management, conversion, etc. Jutoh : another cross-platform program that does multiple format conversions. ($).

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TechSpot

AUGUST 16, 2024

A developer has created a new web-based "conversion" of Diablo, allowing both old and new fans of the genre to (re)play the ARPG PC classic. This open-source project builds on the reverse engineering efforts of the Devilution team, incorporating modifications to make the game run efficiently on modern browsers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 9, 2009

It’s a day dedicated to conversation and community around nonprofits and open source software. There’s some great stuff on the Agenda , like: Introduction to Free and Open Source Software. Free And Open Source Online Advocacy: Tools And Best Practices. Fundraising with all free software.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

We tried to think about how we could take this overwhelming number and steer the global conversation towards something about individuals. This milestone was a global event, so we knew that changing the conversation would be a challenge for a small nonprofit in Washington, D.C. We called the app “What’s Your Number?”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 29, 2009

Hashtags allow your organization to participate and inspire conversations (and in the process get new followers) and organize the Twitterverse around campaigns ( #climatechange ) and events ( #openwebawards ). If you use hashtags too often, then you dilute their usefulnesses by fragmenting the conversation. That said: 1.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

It’s geared toward a for-profit audience, but it certainly has some reasonably useful lessons for nonprofits, and it has been a topic of conversation in the #nptech world today. How about lowering the costs of software by using open source and collaboratively developing software? Can it be demoted now?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

The goals of the DEI Open Source Commons team center around leveling the playing field for everyone in tech by increasing diversity and inclusion at Salesforce community events, in addition to creating and modeling a toolkit that groups can use towards their own diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. “I

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

The concept, its UX implementation, and underlying technology surfaces challenges that, in my conversations with Meta’s designers, dont seem to have any clear, categorical answer. The design also requires users to include a link, adding a layer of credibility to the note (although the link may not be a reliable source).

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Long Live Open Source! What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 11, 2013

Matching Techies With Social Causes SocialCoding4Good began with the idea of building a sort of Match.com for tech volunteerism — an algorithmic platform that would match individual software developers to nonprofit organizations that were building open source software for socially good causes.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 16, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of May 16th).

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NVIDIA AI Blog

JANUARY 16, 2025

Topic control NIM microservice that keeps conversations focused on approved topics, avoiding digression or inappropriate content. With our recent deployments of NVIDIA NeMo Guardrails, we ensure AI-generated responses are safe, secure and reliable, enforcing conversational boundaries to deliver only relevant and appropriate content.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 8, 2025

DeepSeek is open source, and other companies can host it. But DeepSeek can have serious conversations, too. To be clear, Im not recommending you use the official DeepSeek app, which will send your inputs to a server in Chinawhere there’s no telling how the data might be used. Ask whatever you like and see what happens. (As

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The Verge

MAY 28, 2020

AppGet is a free and open source package manager for Windows, which automates installing software on Windows PCs. The conversations eventually led to Clinick inviting the developer to interview for a role at Microsoft that would see him working on improving software distribution in Windows through his work on AppGet. “And

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

DeepL Voice for Conversations does the same thing, but for one-on-one conversations happening on mobile devices. a system that trains LLMs and the RAG ystem together, resulting in Contextual Language Models that are tuned for specific purposes for which they outperform leading commercial and open source models.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

His areas of interest include open source software security, malware analysis, data breaches, and scam investigations. If combating attacks and hijackings of legitimate software on open source registries like npm weren’t challenging enough, app makers are increasingly experiencing the consequences of software self-sabotage.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Lorna Mitchell is head of Developer Relations at Aiven , a software company that combines the best open source technologies with cloud infrastructure. It’s also harder to check if someone is doing all right when there is no watercooler conversation. Many developers give much of their time to open source projects.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 9th).

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The Next Web

NOVEMBER 16, 2013

With the growth of open-sourced platforms and advent of ‘freemium pricing models’, the time to try is now. Step 4: Validate ideas – improve conversion. The ability to drive user demand for your product through data analytics and testing to improve its conversion rate. The ability to scale it (infrastructure).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Let me give two specific examples that came up in my first conversation with a lawyer about the proposed bill: 1. We develop free and open source software to help groups capture the stories of human rights abuse, and store and back them up securely in another country. Endangering Human Rights Activists. Wonderful stuff.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

I got to see lots of people that I only see once a year (or even less often,) I got to meet a lot of new people, I had interesting and deep conversations, and I got to hear a lot about what people are thinking about the nonprofit technology field. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

DonorsChoose: open source philanthropy from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Charles thought up the site during a lunch conversation with colleagues at a public high school in the Bronx where he was a social studies teacher for five years, and his students volunteered to help start the organization.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Gather with folks and spend an exciting day peer-sharing about free and open source software in nonprofit organizations. And lots of conversations on the side.). And email me if you want to have coffee, or lunch, or a side conversation in the Science Fair. April 26-28: NTC. I’ll be involved in two panels this year.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. "Open source software exists in the computer industry. Open architecture exists in the construction industry.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. As a funder, you can put up RFPs (at a cost), and people can apply directly online. It looks interesting, and potentially useful. I wonder how many foundations will go for it, though. It looks very promising. Be Helpful.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of October 11th).

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