Edited Extract from 'Making Advanced Technology Work for Community Serving Organizations - Joint Statement'

VolResource comments in italics. See Specialist Software Intro page for context.

Appendix

Activities announced during or following the Ann Arbor Workshop (May 2000) to further the vision of the Joint Statement:

• Workshop Website (http://www.communitytechnology.org/asp-oss/)
• Planned program of presentations to representatives of foundations not at Workshop by members of Kellogg, Mott, and Omidyar Foundations
• Planned workshop sponsored by Red Hat Center for US Senators and senior staff on Educational applications of open source. An international conference on open source in 2001.
• TechSoup (a nonprofit tech portal developed by CompuMentor that includes ASP & OSS issues)

Business plan information for a nonprofit ASP for nonprofits

• "ChangeFrame" (under development by NPower.org, Seattle, Washington)

Sites for Experimentation and Research:

• Npower.org
• communityaccess.net
• Nonprofit Tech

Open Source Software development tools and project consulting on OSS for nonprofits:

• Collab.net (We couldnt find any nonprofit reference here)

Nonprofit Open Source Software assets

• PowerContacts (open source, available by request, full release schedule 1 Sept 00) See NonProfit Tech
• PowerContacts Pro (open source, available by request, full release schedule 1 Sept 00)
• smallGRANTS (open source, available by request, full release schedule 1 Sept 00)
• ebase version 3.0 (www.ebase.org - see also our membership systems page) will be developed as an OS application deployable on any number of ASPs that serve the nonprofit market. Priority is on developing relationships with ASP partners to position ebase as relationship management software for member- and volunteer-based social cause organizations, so that it can be integrated with other ASP service offerings. Preference will be given to working with OSS applications serving this market.