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February 2007
Submitted by admin on Wed, 02/07/2007 - 13:56
I listened in on the conference call about the merger of Get Active and Convio, because I was curious, and I wanted to find out what the lessons are in terms of both open source options, as well as openness of data. I was pleasantly surprised about how much was talked about in both of these realms. If this had happened a couple of years ago, I doubt much would have been said.
On the call: Gene Austin: Convio, Sheeraz Haji: Get Active, Tom Crackeler: Get Active, Dave Crooke: Convio
Submitted by admin on Tue, 02/06/2007 - 18:38
This is a call for participation in NOSI's varied activities at the next NTC in DC in April. If you're coming to NTC, here's what we're up to:1) Two NOSI-organized sessions:Choosing Open Source, connecting with project communitiesChoosing open source tools to solve nonprofit technology problems can be a daunting task. There can be different options, and choosing an open source project can seem not as straightforward as choosing a regular software vendor.
Submitted by admin on Fri, 02/02/2007 - 15:55
The Plone community is also a great source of nonprofit focused projects. A new one just came out called 'eCampaigning Tool.' It's designed, in their words, to enable 'the set-up and management of advocacy (campaigning) actions such as petitions, letters to targets, etc. It is designed around campaigning best practices and has a rich range of advanced functionality that allows for highly effective online actions'It's still in development - they are looking for feedback, etc.
Submitted by admin on Thu, 02/01/2007 - 11:53
One of the things we'd like to do at NOSI is keep track of nonprofit-focused open source tools. There aren't a lot of them out there, although there are an increasing number. One of them is CiviCRM. CiviCRM is a set of LAMP components that can be used with Drupal or Joomla/Mambo. In their words:
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