Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Please take the NOSI survey January 7, 2008 In my work with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative,) I’ve become really interested in how FOSS is used in nonprofit organizations.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

The tech industry has made a full 180-degree turn with regard to open source in the 16 years since Matt Mullenweg founded Automattic , a major commercial backer of open source content management system WordPress. Even true believers can be shocked by the extent to which open source has succeeded. “To

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2011

The Ada Initiative is a nonprofit organization that works to support women in open culture (open source software, open standards, open content, etc.) Really great stuff. They have a new census that they are encouraging people to take. So please take it , and spread the word.

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NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

These insights were gleaned from over 3,500 respondents to a survey sent out by Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge. Open Source Software Takes Over #1 Spot for House Social Networks. I’m sure you’ll find all twelve insights interesting on some level. Two particular insights seem to be making the rounds initially.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 14, 2011

A decidedly biased survey by the folks behind PostgreSQL suggests that many people worry about the health of MySQL in Oracle’s hands. I’ve mentioned this before, and I do think the conventional wisdom is that open source software (which includes OpenOffice.org, MySQL and Java) will not flourish at Oracle.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2017

Source: State of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising 2017. Email and social media are the first apps opened. Source: ReportLinker. Source: GlobalWebIndex. Source: 2017 Charity Digital Skills Report. 46% of Americans say they check their smartphones as soon as they wake up, while they’re still in bed.

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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. The impact of a diverse dataset and dataset size on the normalized RMSE.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 3, 2023

To learn more about the opportunities they’re chasing and discover how climate change is shaping their investment thesis, he surveyed: Daniela V. Apply now to speak at TechCrunch Disrupt in September TechCrunch+ roundup: Ocean tech investor survey, AI and PR, L-1 visa options by Walter Thompson originally published on TechCrunch

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2009

' Open Source Is Dead! Long Live Open Source! What I mean is that open source, as we knew it, is dead. For the last decade, what we've been talking about when we say "open source" is "open code" — a set of zeroes and ones that we can configure to our heart's desire."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

May 29, 2008 NTEN just released their CMS satisfaction survey. Wordpress (which was not originally in the survey, they parsed this data out from the “other&# category) was at 2%. All of the free and open source options did quite well in terms of Quality, Usability, and Value. Ok sorry for evangelizing.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

An increasing focus on deploying AI into radio access networks (RANs) was among the key findings of NVIDIAs third annual State of AI in Telecommunications survey, as more than a third of respondents indicated theyre investing or planning to invest in AI-RAN.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

Earlier this week, I wrote a post on about the NTEN CRM satisfaction survey. The whole point of the post was to crow about how positive the open source results were. No concrete conclusions can be drawn about overall use of or satisfaction with CRM tools from this survey. December 14, 2007 I feel misunderstood.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

As a 10,000 footer, NTEN’s new Donor Management System Survey is of keen interest. Many of the CRMs also show up here, although there are quite a number of packages that did not show up in the earlier survey. By far the most popular DMS of the ones surveyed was … you guessed … Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2021

So when it comes to Automattic , the leading commercial complement to the open-source WordPress publishing platform, time and longevity have a rather peculiar meaning in an industry littered with the gravestones of media sites of yore.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2012

Unique about that report was that we also asked survey participants to grade their data ecosystems , which is what we call that network of tools organizations use to carry out their work. We re-visted this topic this summer for the 2011 Nonprofit Data Ecosystems survey, and are happy to release the report today (free for NTEN members). >

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

As a 10,000 footer, NTEN’s new Donor Management System Survey is of keen interest. Many of the CRMs also show up here, although there are quite a number of packages that did not show up in the earlier survey. By far the most popular DMS of the ones surveyed was … you guessed … Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge.

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The Verge

AUGUST 10, 2021

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi has unveiled a quadrupedal robot named CyberDog: an experimental, open-source machine that the firm says “holds unforetold possibilities.”. Spot went on sale last year for $74,500 and has been put to a range of uses, from surveying dangerous mines to helping doctors connect with patients remotely.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Enter: Grassroots Mobile Survey, now available to install. This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. Because Grassroots Mobile Survey was built for the community, by the community, I wanted the team to tell you about it in their own words.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

This is the first-ever survey reading from the Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project that exclusively examines Twitter users. In previous surveys, the Pew Internet Project had asked internet users whether they "used Twitter or another service to share updates about yourself or to see updates about others?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2008

They are doing a CMS satisfaction survey, and the more info that they get, the better. April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. and how they like them. So go rate your CMS ! { Be Helpful.

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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. Provide a recommendation in this quick survey and we’ll share the results with everybody. Many developers give much of their time to open source projects.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2021

As with any open source project, the goal is to popularize the community project and turn a small percentage of those users into paying customers, but Docker’s problem prior to 2019 had been finding ways to do that. . He indicated that the company added 1.7 million registered users on the community edition.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

"OpenMRS® is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system framework. " Nonprofit Social Network Survey | Common Knowledge - "Learn how commercial social networks and house social networks fit into your nonprofit's online ecosystem.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 1, 2022

When we published our last low-code/no-code investor survey in August 2020, the former president had decided to ban TikTok, Epic was filing antitrust cases against Apple and Google, and movie theaters around the U.S. were shuttering to slow the spread of the then-novel coronavirus. Seems like a long time ago.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Fill out the survey. { Fill out the survey. { Fill out the survey. { NTEN is trying to get a handle on all of this, and find out what people use, and how much they like what they use. I can’t wait to get my grubby little fingers on the data on CiviCRM and Salesforce. So, let your voice be heard! Be Helpful.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2022

According to a 2021 survey from John Snow Labs and Gradient Flow, 60% of tech leaders indicated that their NLP budgets grew by at least 10% compared to 2020, while a third said that their spending climbed by more than 30%. Fortune Business Insights pegged the NLP market at $16.53 billion in 2020. ” With the new financing secured ($15.6

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2009

Perhaps that's why there are so many choices when it comes to CMS (oodles of which are rated in our CMS satisfaction survey ). I spoke with her about her session at the 2009 NTC , " Comparing Open Source CMSs: Joomla, Drupal, and Plone ", and why CMS seems to be the area where open source has really taken off in the sector: .

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2012

Unique about that report was that we also asked survey participants to grade their data ecosystems , which is what we call that network of tools organizations use to carry out their work. We re-visted this topic this summer for the 2011 Nonprofit Data Ecosystems survey, and are happy to release the report today (free for NTEN members). >

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

. “Redpanda has nothing to do with streaming, but when we sent out surveys, people loved the name and it just kind of took over,” Gallego told me. They combined that with low-cost cloud-native storage solutions and WebAssembly, an open source approach to running high-performance web applications.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

"The survey revealed the dramatic lack of trust Americans hold for sources of election news of all mediums. – Very interesting new infographic helping dissect data from a national poll examining whether or not Americans trust the media during political peaks. "The

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

By: Cori O’Brien, Senior Manager, Open Source Commons. This year, we are highlighting contributions made through Open Source Commons , a unique program that highlights the partnership between Salesforce.org and our community of customers and partners. Build Sustainable Apps to Meet Unique Community Needs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

Nancy Schwartz, of Getting Attention tells us how best to get people to fill out surveys. Kivi, of Nonprofit Communications tells us why organizations should pay attention to how we want to be listed. It makes sense that can make a difference in how people respond to appeals. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 24, 2007

at 7:21 pm What did you get out of this survey? [poll=2] { 1 trackback } Roundup for November 2007 « Nonprofit Blog Exchange 07.09.10 at 12:09 pm { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 11.10.07 2 admin 11.10.07 at 9:00 pm Well, for one thing, I should have used mutually exclusive questions instead of checkboxes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Write and run statistical analysis in R, including survey estimation, geospatial analysis, and general linear model fitting. We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix.

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TechCrunch

MAY 16, 2022

Co-founder and CEO Hong Wang says that the funding will enable Akuity to expand the size of its workforce while contributing to the open source community. Kubernetes is open source software for deploying and managing these containers. Wang, Jesse Suen, and Alexander Matyushentsev believed there must be an easier way.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2023

TechCrunch+ TC+ subscribers get access to in-depth commentary, analysis and surveys — which you know if you’re already a subscriber. But is it possible for a smaller open source project to find its way into this land of commercial opportunity? If you’re not, consider signing up.

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