Working With Open Source Software And Vendors

Gregory Heller, CivicActions @gregoryheller

Dave Greenberg, CiviCRM, @dggreenbergMargaux O'Malley, Grand Junction Design, @margaux_omalleySarah Davies, ACLU WA @sarahdavies

Session Code: 176

Gregory HellerStrategist, CivicActions@gregoryheller

Sarah DaviesInternet Operations Manager, ACLU of Washington@sarahdavies

David GreenbergProject Manager, CiviCRM@dggreenberg

Margaux O'MalleyPresident, Grand Junction Design@margaux_omalley

Who Are You?

Nonprofit Staff or Executives? Open Source Software Developers or Vendors? Proprietary Software Developers or Vendors? Non-Developer Consultants?

Gregory Heller

What Do You Know?

Are You Using Free and Open Source Software?

Gregory Heller

What Do You Know?

Are you sure?

Desktop

Gregory Heller

What Do You Know?Online

Content ManagementContact ManagementServer Stack

Gregory Heller

What Is Open Source?

Free Software or Free and Open Source Software (FOSS)

You have access to the source code You do not have to pay a licensing fee to use it You can build on the code, modify it and redistribute your improvements

Gregory Heller

Why Open Source ?

No License FeesNo Vendor Lock-In*

CustomizableCommunityMorality?

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Gregory Heller

Moral?

Basic argument: Non Profit $ should not go to licensing fees and

profits of proprietary software companies.

Investing in Free and Open Source Software advances a tool set available to those with the

least among us.

Watch Last Year's NTC Keynote from Eben Moglen

Gregory Heller

No Vendor Lock-In & Community

Signs of Good Open Source Software:

Strong Community Vibrant Vendor Ecosystem

Gregory Heller

About CiviCRM Designed by and for non-profits

Fundraising Events Membership Newsletters Case management Drupal and Joomla integration

Breast Cancer Research Fdtn, Wikipedia, Mozilla Foundation, Drupal Association …

Learn more at civicrm.org`

Dave Greenberg, CiviCRM http://civicrm.org @CiviCRM

Our Community Thousands of installed sites 16,000+ community members Online forum and IRC channel Local meetups “CiviCon 2010”

Dave Greenberg

Choosing Partner(s) Assess in-house resources (analysis + sys admin) Where do you need help?

Design, Configure and Customize Data Migration Hosting Ongoing support and maintenance (upgrades!)

Partner selection is critical Experience w/ open source + specific platform(s) Experience w/ organizations and implementations like yours

(features, scale, user profile …) Best practices approach to customization

Dave Greenberg

Participate and Contribute! Everyone can contribute regardless of skills and

background! Give and get help on forums and IRC Improve the documentation Join or start a local meetup Promote the project to other NPOs Share a case study Spec a new feature or improvement (and sponsor or develop

it) Review / test alpha and beta releases Report / help diagnose bugs

Dave Greenberg

Does open source matter?

“It may be time for organizations to think about rejecting the standard “every organization for themselves” mentality of software acquisition and development, and consider investing in open source tools that enrich the sector as a whole.”

Michelle Murrain - OpenIssue.com

Dave Greenberg

Open source makes the world a better place

Margaux O'Malley

Spirit of community and camaraderie

Margaux O'Malley

An ongoing investmentA way to give back

Margaux O'Malley

Relationships!

What makes a good…• client?• vendor?• RFP?

Margaux O'Malley

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