Gregory Heller, CivicActionsNot long ago, open source software was seen by most as the choice of fringe geeks with political motivations. Either the Grammys and the White House are now run by fringe geeks, or there's been a groundswell of open source adoption. Gregory Heller and I know it's the latter. Grammy.com and Whitehouse.gov are Drupal sites. CiviCRM got great scores in NTEN's Data Ecosystem Report.
Open source is now mainstream.
Of course, mainstream as it is, working with open source software is different than working with proprietary software. There are challenges -- and benefits -- which Gregory Heller, a strategist at CivicActions, will explore in his session, "Working with Open Source Software and Vendors" at the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference.
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