Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. From my perspective, the key is openness.

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APRIL 3, 2008

Venture capitalists are liking open source more and more. More $ toward open source is a tide that lifts all boats. Interestingly enough, lots of developing world countries voted against it. Interestingly enough, lots of developing world countries voted against it. There’s lots of great details on Groklaw.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2008

This is old-ish news, but the acquisition of companies behind open source software by big behemoths continues with the acquisition of Jabber by Cisco. Things might be shifting, though, due to both open source and SaaS as catalysts for change. Open Source, it can be SaaS and Open Source.

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APRIL 14, 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 #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. What’s new about MPower is that it has very recently been released as open source.

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MARCH 9, 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 #13: Flock March 9, 2008 I’m running behind, so I need to catch up in the next week or so. These posts on open source applications are so helpful. Be Helpful.

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FEBRUARY 26, 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 #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. Miro is basically a video player, which can recognize RSS feeds, and automatically download videos.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 13, 2011

I just spent a couple of days in Vancouver with the team at the Public Knowledge Project , a terrific example of an open source social enterprise. Their largest project is Open Journal Systems, software for running a scholarly journal.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

Any consulting shop that does significant amounts of implementation and development (as we do) needs a project management and ticketing tool. We also have been using Google spreadsheets for some elements of project management. And, in addition, the best tool does nothing without good human project management skills using it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 2, 2009

Any consulting shop that does significant amounts of implementation and development (as we do) needs a project management and ticketing tool. We also have been using Google spreadsheets for some elements of project management. And, in addition, the best tool does nothing without good human project management skills using it.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

The Social Actions project began in 2006. There wasn’t much scalability in the way I was pursuing the project. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. And what does “Linked Open Data” refer to? Defeated in fact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ). Overseeing the Accessibility Metadata Project , with which we led a collaborative effort to develop standards for accessibility metadata.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Top tech companies like Google, Facebook and IBM have figured out how to make vast quantities of money by giving away their core product, or building products on top of open source and free software. To the greatest extent possible, be open. Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Benetech, like many nonprofit organizations building open source software for social good, often relies upon the contributions of experienced software developers to help its solutions grow and scale. Often there's a mismatch between the skills of a volunteer and the skills required by our projects.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Its mission is strongly aligned with our own at our SocialCoding4Good project: build awareness of technology serving humanity, engage technical volunteers to contribute their time and talents to design and develop it, and foster cross-sector collaboration to amplify its impact.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2011

I’ve not had any experience with Springboard, but it’s important to understand that it is not open source, and is only maintained by one shop. Right now, there is an alpha release for Drupal 6, which is alpha in that very humble open source sense – it’s being used in quite a number of production sites.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

OpenOffice.org is a free and open source cross-platform office suite, which can read and write MS Office.doc,xls, and.ppt files. And the cool thing about open source software is that in situations like this, people can fork stuff. I hope that everyone reading this blog has heard of OpenOffice.org. And they did.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 23, 2010

I’ve considered myself pretty successful at both helping clients navigate the tough waters of web development projects, as well as accomplishing web projects for them. Recently, though, I had two projects that ended up, for wont of a better term, clusterfracks. I realized a fairly simple truth. It was all three.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2008

However, Songbird has emerged, like many open source projects do, as a mature, stable, and, in Songbird’s case, a truly awesome application, because of the incredible extensibility of the Mozilla framework (and the talent of the Songbird developer community.).

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2008

For a while, I’ve been watching MPower Open , the (not so) newly open sourced (but Windows-based) fundraising package. In general, I’ve been impressed by its feature set, and that they made the choice to go open source. This is not the sign of a healthy open source community.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups – whether nonprofit organizations or not – to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. Tendenci Released as Open Source by Schipul. “We are all cyborgs.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2010

A few months ago, in preparation for a couple of projects, and a big push into this area for our company, I was faced with a strategic choice – go it alone, and build our own integration module for client projects, or plunge into using and working with the contributed salesforce modules.

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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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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk. I’m sure that Four Kitchens, and most open source software developers agree with that perspective. More on that in a bit. But Plone was just that much better.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2011

CUBRID – Open Source Database Management System Optimized for Web. Open Source ETL designed to bridge the gap between business and IT. Kettle Project: Pentaho Data Integration. tags: CMS opensource report toblog. tags: opensource database toblog. Hudson Continuous Integration.

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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. It could also open the door to an open source project. Here my perspective.

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Gyrus

MARCH 11, 2015

Open source learning management systems have become increasingly popular, and on paper they always sound good. The term free is usually a misnomer; there is almost always a cost associated with using open source LMSs. How long will this project take? The LMS market is no exception. You view the demo and are amazed.

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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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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. Ensured that thousands of human rights activists could securely document human rights abuses.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 22, 2013

To further enhance the impact of Mobile Martus, we are partnering with The Guardian Project , leaders in mobile security and verifiable mobile media. At Benetech, one of our organizational truths is to recognize the importance of openness and transparency. And they need to be able to trust those tools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

CMSForce – This is an “open source&# (in quotes because although you can get the source code, do what you’d like with it, and contribute to the project , because it’s written on a proprietary platform, it’s not really open source.)

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