TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Now, another new company has entered the community-led growth fray with a slightly different approach to the existing players, one focused on developer communities and with open source at its core. The open source factor. Transitioning to an open source platform may hold other benefits, too. million ($2.2

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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

MAY 5, 2023

Everything needs a home, and Garima Kapoor co-founded MinIO to build an enterprise-grade, open source object storage solution. Perhaps the open source component helps drive interest from its target developer market looking for an alternative from the cloud giant. Register here. Along the way, Kapoor raised $126.30

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

Everything needs a home, and Garima Kapoor co-founded MinIO to build an enterprise-grade, open source object storage solution. Perhaps the open source component helps drive interest from its target developer market looking for an alternative from the cloud giant. Register here. Along the way, Kapoor raised $126.30

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Towards Data Science

AUGUST 19, 2023

Eventually, this led to me seeking out a different role that was more aligned with these new-found interests and skill sets. This role happened to be that of an analytics engineer. How I discovered analytics engineering Truth be told, I had no idea what analytics engineering was when I realized I wanted to switch data roles.

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TechCrunch

MAY 18, 2022

Heartex, a startup that bills itself as an “open source” platform for data labeling, today announced that it landed $25 million in a Series A funding round led by Redpoint Ventures. When asked, Heartex says that it doesn’t collect any customer data and open sources the core of its labeling platform for inspection.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

Everything needs a home, and Garima Kapoor co-founded MinIO to build an enterprise-grade, open source object storage solution. Perhaps the open source component helps drive interest from its target developer market looking for an alternative from the cloud giant. Register here. Along the way, Kapoor raised $126.30

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NTEN

MARCH 7, 2011

Chris Bernard, Senior Editor, Idealware Idealware's first report on Open Source Content Management Systems for nonprofits, published in March of 2009, covered WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and Plone. Drupal's latest release, 7.0, Plone Plone is a powerful and robust system suitable for organizations with very complex needs.

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Google Research AI blog

JULY 11, 2023

Computer architecture simulators and tools, such as gem5 , DRAMSys , and many more have played a significant role in advancing computer architecture research. Conclusion ArchGym is an open source gymnasium for ML architecture DSE and enables an standardized interface that can be readily extended to suit different use cases.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 6, 2013

Thanks for helping us find the right person for this key role at Benetech: it will make a difference to the global cause of human rights! Why You Do Want this Job: All the above. If you’re up for the challenge and want to change the world, or know someone who might fit the bill, please check out or share this job posting.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 24, 2022

In 2020, Chinese startup Zilliz — which builds cloud-native software to process data for AI applications and unstructured data analytics, and is the creator of Milvus , the popular open source vector database for similarity searches — raised $43 million to scale its business and prep the company to make a move into the U.S.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

First, the New York-based startup is open sourcing a set of developer tools it has built, called Fides , so that developers can build privacy tools and monitoring mechanisms directly into their codebases. Added to that, of course, is the role of the developer, or the organization itself, in the equation.

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Gyrus

JANUARY 9, 2025

GyrusAim LMS offers a predictable cost structure, minimizing hidden expenses often associated with open-source platforms like Moodle. While open-source solutions like Moodle are popular in academic settings, they fail to address the complexities of military training. Moodle lacks these core TMS functionalities.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Disclosures: I have clients that use both companies’ products, as well as products from their competitors, open source products, and homegrown solutions. Has an open API and flexible import and export tools. Has strong role-based security as well as strong protection against hackers. Here my perspective.

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NTEN

JUNE 8, 2021

NTEN is proud to be the new steward of The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest , elevating and celebrating open source development for social impact work. The Pizzigati Prize honors the brief life of Tony Pizzigati, an early advocate of open source computing. Open Source for Social Impact.

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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 can assure you that I am not retiring.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Julian Egelstaff, Technical Architect, Freeform Solutions Who are our IT role models? Sometimes the engineer and the user/manager are the same person -- if a small organization is using some open source tool by themselves to build a website, for example. Defining the different roles helps avoid this.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 26, 2013

On August 1, 2013, I testified before the House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet on the subject “ Innovation in America: The Role of Technology.” We don’t create solutions from scratch: our innovation is adapting existing raw technology to meet the needs of the users in the social sector.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

We are proud that Flash had a crucial role in evolving web content across animation, interactivity, audio, and video. An open-source emulator called Ruffle will enable old Flash files through a desktop app or web browser. We are excited to help lead the next era of digital experiences.”.

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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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2008

(And, for the purposes of this post, I’m using “buy&# exceedingly loosely - including purchasing proprietary software, installing open source, or using SaaS.). First, the software available, whether it be open source, SaaS, or proprietary, is much better all round.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

It has been incredibly exciting to see how open source projects like Social Actions tend to grow in fits and bursts, depending on the demands and resources made available by users. Linked Open Data essentially refers to building connections between these repositories in a standard format not unlike HTML and hypertext.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. Disable Gutenburg – get the Classic Editor back and disable Gutenberg completely, or selectively disable for posts, pages, roles, post types, and theme templates.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The company has had an open source CI product for some time, but today it announced that is releasing a SaaS version, Earthly CI, which users can sign up for. The open source project can be downloaded for free, but he says it lacks the speed boost of the pay version, Earthly CI.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

It even showed its work through research papers and by open-sourcing its models. DeepSeeks breakthroughs caused some angst, but its fresh thinking and openness will likely spur bigger and faster innovations from the worlds top AI companies by this time next year. People downloaded variants of the open-source Phi-3 more than 4.5

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 18, 2021

Webiny , an early-stage startup that launched in 2019 with an open-source, serverless CMS, had also developed a framework to help build the CMS, and found that customers were also interested in that to help build their own serverless apps. Webiny announces $348K seed to build open-source serverless CMS.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

WordPress, the open source software behind the company, is now estimated to power roughly 42% of all websites on the internet. His tech hobbies, including open source software, were inspired by his father’s job as a professional programmer, but Mullenweg didn’t yet seem certain about following his father’s profession.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2020

It’s powered by magenta.js, the open source JavaScript API for using Magenta in-browser ( check out DrumBot as another example). Magenta is powered by Google’s open source TensorFlow system , part of an ongoing research project “explorting the role of machine learning as a tool in the creative process.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Our role as technologists is to provide the tools that empower them to do so. Our strong cryptography technology, Martus —a free, open source, secure information management tool-makes it easier for groups working with vulnerable populations keep the sensitive information they collect confidential.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins. Email and social media play a critical role in successful online fundraising, so your e-newsletter opt-in and social network icons should also be prominently featured.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. The exceptions to this in my experience have been very, very few and far between. However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Lukas Gentele is the CEO of Loft Labs , which builds open source developer tooling for Kubernetes. In a scenario of 100 developers, we calculated up to 78% savings by using open source virtual clusters. Lukas Gentele. Contributor. Share on Twitter. Virtual clusters are a great way to reduce costs.

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

It’s part of a larger effort among open-source developers who have been working to remove references to slavery from the programming community. Inclusive language plays a critical role in fostering an environment where everyone belongs.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

When DBeaver creator Serge Rider began building an open source database admin tool in 2013, he probably had no idea that 10 years later, it would boast more than 8 million users. The main difference between the commercial and open source is how the product tends to get used.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

All of the free and open source options did quite well in terms of Quality, Usability, and Value. Only two proprietary CMS systems, Antharia’s and Ektron, had scores as good as the open source CMS.The CMS options from the big three (er, now the big two) didn’t score as well. Next step — CRM.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 12, 2021

The DockerSlim open source project developed several years ago from a desire to remove some of that complexity for developers. Slim.ai , a new startup that wants to build a commercial product on top of the open source project, announced a $6.6 Culture and diversity to me are two sides of the same coin,” he said.

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