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The non-developer’s guide to hiring software developers

The Next Web

Embrace open source. I’m absolutely amazed by the number of non-technical hiring managers and CEOs who are still wary of open source developers. Open source developers aren’t lazy thieves. The same should be true for open source developers. Here are some tips to get you started: 1.

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When Flexibility Becomes an Operating Principle: Lessons from a Nonprofit

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

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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Social Network Management Systems?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

What do these tools allow you to do? at 8:46 am Your readers may be interested to know about an NLE – Network Learning Management. Scholar360 is an LMS-SN (Learning Management System and secure Social Network), also called an NLE. tools (blogs, wikis, etc.). They allow you to create stand-alone social networks.

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Varied and sundry before a brief break

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It’s new and updated for the realities of the nonprofit technology and free and open source worlds of 2007. The primer, which will show up in just electronic form, also has a very cool implementation of a great open API that we’ll be crowing about soon (my lips are sealed right now.) One of which is called Elgg.

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OpenAI can translate English into code with its new machine learning software Codex

The Verge

AI research company OpenAI is releasing a new machine learning tool that translates the English language into code. One application users found for GPT-3 was generating code, but Codex improves upon its predecessors’ abilities and is trained specifically on open-source code repositories scraped from the web.

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How startups should budget in uncertain times 

TechCrunch

Issac Roth is a seasoned entrepreneur who advises founders on open source technology and keeping communities engaged. Take online learning tools: Everybody needs online learning at the moment. Isaac Roth. Contributor. Share on Twitter. More posts by this contributor. The ‘right’ way to downsize.

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Predibase exits stealth with a low-code platform for building AI models

TechCrunch

. “Machine learning projects today usually take six months to a year at most organizations we’ve worked with. We want to drastically reduce that [by bringing] a low-code but high-ceiling machine learning tool to organizations” Molino continued.

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