TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

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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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The company was growing fast and had a serious data problem. Part of the problem was just the sheer scale of Uber’s data, which made it difficult if not impossible to shift around using the data lake technology that was available at the time. What open source-based startups can learn from Confluent’s success story.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2022

A new company from the creators of the Godot game engine is setting out to grab a piece of the $200 billion global video game market — and to do so, it’s taking a cue from commercial open source software giant Red Hat. ” The open source factor. . ” The open source factor.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Current Trends.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2022

It is defined as open-source software that doesn’t require the support of a trusted intermediary and it has no governing body. By creating virtual worlds where their supporters can assist with projects they care about, nonprofits can inspire Gen Z to become advocates for their mission.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Supabase , a YC-incubated startup that offers developers an open-source alternative to Google’s Firebase and similar platforms, today announced that it has raised a $6 million funding round led by Coatue, with participation from YC, Mozilla and a group of about 20 angel investors. Some of them we built ourselves.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As a result, they are hedging their bets with a multi-cloud strategy, but this creates a new problem around finding a single tool for managing it all. That’s where Upbound comes in with its open source Crossplane multi-cloud management tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! Joomla does have an interesting history – it was the fork of a project (called Mambo). Mambo is way less popular than Joomla at this point. Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Chicago-based serial entrepreneur Dan Pinto has raised new cash and launched a new company looking to commercialize a years-old open-source project that purports to solve one of the web’s hardest problems — fraud prevention.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 25, 2023

Richard North developed an open source solution called Testcontainers in 2015 to help ease this problem for developers. Today, the open source project is used by companies like Uber, Netflix, Spotify and Capital One. Today, the company has 23 employees.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We’re thrilled that today’s rapid changes in technology are opening up tremendous new ways to address the problems they face. Within a short period, SocialCoding4Good has gone from a Labs pilot project to a growing community driving social impact. To do so, we definitely need your help. billion poor and unbanked.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

CloudQuery , an early-stage startup, wanted to make it easier, and built an open source tool to do the work for you. CloudQuery CEO and co-founder Yevgeny Pats said that on a high level, “We are an open source, cloud assets inventory [tool] powered by SQL.” Today, the company announced a $3.5

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

“I’d wager that the tech is the least of their problems.” Novices stack pitch decks with data points from Gartner studies, quotes from TechCrunch articles and outlandish TAM projections in the hopes that it will burnish their credentials. ” Which open source startups rocketed in 2022? .

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The group came together to build a company on top of Arrow to help companies that don’t want to deal with the headaches of managing an open source project on their own. The open source tool has proved amazingly popular, with the company reporting more than 42 million downloads per month.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2021

Enter Airbyte , an early stage startup that is building an open source data integration platform to help solve that problem. The company is providing the open source platform and an SDK to build connectors, and inviting the community to add their own connectors, while building some too. million seed round.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2022

In 2014, Østhus faced this problem of feature management at Finn, the company where he was working. He released Unleash as open source on GitHub the following year and nurtured the project for the next several years as he continued working at his day job as an engineer.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. Instead, we should put the problems first and invest in a project. We can’t only invest in a product.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 28, 2022

When users on websites and apps find they have problems, developers have various tools to record what they are doing in order to find out what went wrong. Meanwhile, developers are using open source solutions, but these have their drawbacks. OpenReplay is a great example of such an approach.”.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Helped environmental leaders design, manage, monitor, and evaluate global conservation projects and campaigns with the first open source conservation project management tool. My firm belief is that tech will play a key role in solving just about every social problem imaginable. I plan to stay involved at Benetech!

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 11, 2023

To alleviate these challenges, in “ ArchGym: An Open-Source Gymnasium for Machine Learning Assisted Architecture Design ”, accepted at ISCA 2023 , we introduced ArchGym, which includes a variety of computer architecture simulators and ML algorithms. learning rate, warm-up steps, etc.).

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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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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Exploring Open Source LMS Solutions GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Learning Management Systems (LMS) have become a mainstay in education and corporate training. Open-source LMS systems offer all of the above in a package you can modify as per your requirements.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Exploring Open Source LMS Solutions GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Learning Management Systems (LMS) have become a mainstay in education and corporate training. Open-source LMS systems offer all of the above in a package you can modify as per your requirements.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

Exploring Open Source LMS Solutions Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Learning Management Systems (LMS) have become a mainstay in education and corporate training. Open-source LMS systems offer all of the above in a package you can modify as per your requirements.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. I don’t implement much for them (although in a pinch, I’ll set something up, or fix a specific problem.) I have other kinds of projects as well – those that use my talents somewhat differently. I love learning new stuff.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Explosion , a company that has combined an open source machine learning library with a set of commercial developer tools, announced a $6 million Series A today on a $120 million valuation. Since then, that open source project has been downloaded over 40 million times.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The world’s problems are many, and we keep seeing opportunities for technologists to address those problems effectively. All interested nonprofits or social enterprises will be able to leverage SocialCoding4Good by posting their open source software development projects for social change and inviting volunteers to work on them.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

But it threatened the survival of countless old games and animations — a problem for web preservationists and anyone who fondly remembers platforms like Newgrounds. An open-source emulator called Ruffle will enable old Flash files through a desktop app or web browser. But Adobe is about to finally say goodbye for good.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? She encourages us, as sector professionals, to rethink our outdated problem-solving habits and stop making assumptions without acknowledgment and testing.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2021

Company co-founder and CEO Mark Grover says the product is actually built on top of the open-source Amundsen data catalogue project that he helped launch at Lyft to manage its massive data requirements. The problem was that with so much data, employees had to kludge together systems to confirm the data validity.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Architecture is, at its core, about problem-solving: balancing aesthetics, functional needs, and technical constraints to create effective buildings and environments. The firms Isla Intersections project in South Los Angeles closed a nearby street (a rarity in car-focused L.A.)

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 5, 2021

The two founders, CEO Martin Mao and CTO Rob Skillington, created the open-source M3 monitoring project while they were working at Uber, and left in 2019 to launch Chronosphere, a startup based on that project. Chronosphere launches with $11M Series A to build scalable, cloud-native monitoring tool.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Nonprofits face unique challenges that commercial enterprises often don't face: you have no IT staff, no IT budget, uneven levels of technical skills in staff, high turnover and volunteer staff, distributed teams with only the internet connecting them, no long term IT planning or vision, and project based funding models.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 8, 2021

That’s one of the problems that five ex-Google employees are trying to solve. Dan Lorenc, Matt Moore, Scott Nichols, Ville Aikas and Kim Lewandowski founded Chainguard in October after working together on building open source tools at Google.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

GitHub has reinstated an open-source tool for downloading YouTube videos, and it’s changed its policies to make similar copyright-related takedowns less likely. When we see it is possible to modify a project to remove allegedly infringing content, we give the owners a chance to fix problems before we take content down.”.

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