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Rewarding open source for social good

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Do you know a software developer building open source tools with the potential to positively impact communities around the world? If you do – or you are one – then read on. The Tides Foundation is now accepting nominations for this year’s Pizzigati Prize. The Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest annually awards […]

Matt Mullenweg on the state of WordPress

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Matt Mullenweg on the state of WordPress from JD Lasica on Vimeo. At WordCamp San Francisco a few weeks ago, I managed to get a few minutes alone with Matt Mullwenweg, co-founder, chief coder and “Head of Bug Creation” for WordPress. (I self-host Socialbrite and Socialmedia.biz with code from WordPress.org; others use WordPress.com to host […]

Open source’s growing influence

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Guest post by Renee Blodgett CEO, Magic Sauce Media At this week’s AlwaysOn Stanford Summit, the open source video company Kaltura organized and participated in a SaaS Goes Open Source panel (SaaS as in Software as a Service). In this video interview, Kaltura CEO Ron Yekutiel says open source is disruptive but on the rise, […]

Symbian: Going open source has made huge difference

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Symbian goes open source from JD Lasica on Vimeo. Probably few people have noticed that Symbian, the operating system that powers nearly half the world’s smartphones (compared with the iPhone’s 1.1% overall market share), is opening up its platform and going open source. “Being open source has made an incredible difference in how we interact […]

How open standards can benefit nonprofit tech

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Guest post by Peter Deitz SocialActions I don’t know about you, but I am a big fan of open standards, particularly when my bladder Direct Messages me with the hashtag #urgent. Open standards (see picture below) guide me to a place where I can @reply in a hurry. In the nonprofit technology community, open standards […]