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Open Source
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 2 years old
A Fresh Way to Think About Your Next Site Build
Stuck with a slow-moving tech platform that’s struggling to keep up with the times? The secret to finding…
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GovernanceArticleOver 5 years old
Tech Talk: What Can Open Source Do for You?
Open-source software carries potential for associations … if they’re willing to go down a different road than traditional…
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Marketing / CommunicationsArticleOver 5 years old
Daily Buzz: Drupal’s Big Buyout
The company that primarily maintains the Drupal content management system was sold for a billion dollars last week.…
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Organizational StrategyArticleOver 5 years old
Linux Foundation Gets Ready for the Rise of Edge Computing
Through its LF Edge umbrella organization, the Linux Foundation is working to ensure that edge-computing tools are built…
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Do You Rely on Open-Source Software? Offer Your Support.
A recent scheme by a programmer to attempt to fund his open-source project through advertising drew heavy backlash…
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Open-Source Software Is Everywhere. What’s Your Maintenance Strategy?
For years, open-source software has had a rep for being risky compared with managed alternatives. But perhaps the…
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GovernanceArticleOver 5 years old
Google Shifts Governance Strategy for AMP Project
The mobile page project, largely associated with Google, will move to a governance model that will bring in…
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A Fresh Concern About Open-Source Software
While there is definite value when it comes to using open-source software, a couple of recent incidents highlight…
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Career DevelopmentArticleOver 5 years old
Need a Smart IT Hire? Look to Open Source
Even if your association’s main stack isn’t based on open-source software, you should still know the language. A…
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Business DevelopmentArticleOver 5 years old
Open Standards, Open Source Come Together With Partnership
The open-source-focused Linux Foundation is teaming with TM Forum, a communications technology industry group that has upped its…
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Marketing / CommunicationsArticleOver 5 years old
Nonprofit Launches Open-Source Take on Email Marketing
FreeCodeCamp, a nonprofit that offers coding help to fellow nonprofits, recently launched an open-source email marketing tool to…
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MembershipArticleOver 5 years old
Linux Foundation Gets a Surprising New Member: Microsoft
The software giant, which was once strongly opposed to the concept of open-source software but has since shifted…
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How the Tech World Turned Heartbleed Into a Net Positive
After a major exploit was found in a widely used piece of open-source security software, the tech industry…
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GovernanceArticleOver 5 years old
Let’s Embrace Our Open-Source Overlords
Proprietary software tends to be an easier sell than open source software, but that conversation is starting to…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Open-Source Projects Failing To Pass IRS Nonprofit Muster
Though organizations that produce nonprofit software have long received tax-exempt status, the Internal Revenue Service recently denied it…
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FundraisingArticleOver 5 years old
Life Support: Tech Coalition Hopes To Prevent Another Heartbleed
After the Heartbleed bug exposed the low level of funding the OpenSSL project was subsiding on, a tech-world…
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MembershipArticleOver 5 years old
The Association Behind Drupal’s Massive Install Base
The open-source CMS platform Drupal recently announced a footprint topping 1 million websites worldwide. And like many community-driven…
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LearningArticleOver 5 years old
Tech Memo: Open Sesame on Open-Source Software
Demystifying open-source software, a useful tool often surrounded by myths.
