Jumo is open-sourcing their product of their labors since Jumo’s inception

Today, we are excited to announce that Jumo is open-sourcing their product of their labors since Jumo’s inception. 

The technology behind Jumo.com is now available and open to all, including data and functionality designed to connect individuals with the issues and organizations they care about. You can access the Jumo codebase here.

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Things here at Jumo are moving quickly as we begin the transition to the GOOD platform. 

Today, we are excited to announce that we are open-sourcing the product of our labors since Jumo’s inception. 

The technology behind Jumo.com is now available and open to all, including data and functionality designed to connect individuals with the issues and organizations they care about. You can access the Jumo codebase here. 

We’ve long been committed to making it as easy as possible for everyday people to contribute to the world in meaningful ways. Today, the community will have access to functionality that enables users to create and curate content and actions around more than 250 issue areas, from human trafficking to childhood obesity. Jumo’s Solr-based search application provides users with advanced search capabilities to easily navigate all organization and issue content.

And for organizations and developers interested in using and redistributing our source code, we’ve included a dozen sample organizations and a complete set of all issue-specific data on Jumo.com.

Tell us what you’re building at contact@jumo.com and stay tuned for more on the Jumo and GOOD platform!

The Jumo Team

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Source: ARAZ's TEN Blog 

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What is Open Source?

Where did open source come from?

Originally coined in 1998, the term open source came out of the free software movement, a collaborative force going strong since the dawn of computing in the 1950s. This early community was responsible for the development of many of the first operating systems, software and, in 1969, the Internet itself.

The open-source community is thriving and today boasts some of the best brains in the business. The aim has not changed: free systems and software should be available to everybody, wherever they are.

Without open source, many of the systems and applications we take for granted simply would not exist. All the big players in computing come from, or owe a huge creative debt to, the open-source community, and continue to rely on its talent and expertise when developing new products.

In the spirit of open source, Ubuntu is absolutely free to download, use, share and improve however and whenever you like.

What is open source?

There are 10 core principles of open-source software:

Software must be free to redistribute.

The program must include source code.

The licence must allow people to experiment with and redistribute modifications.

Users have a right to know who is responsible for the software they are using.

There should be no discrimination against any person or group.

The licence must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field.

No-one should need to acquire an additional licence to use or redistribute the program.

The licence must not be specific to a product.

The licence must not restrict other software.

The licence must be technology-neutral.

Take a look at the Open Source Initiative's definition of open-source software for a more detailed explanation.

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Drupal 7 Launched - New Features of Popular Open Source CMS

Drupal 7 is a hot topic of discussion these days and all active Internet users are talking about recent release of this Content Management System. To be on the wave of all modern approaches and technologies we've decided to sum up all advantages of this CMS system and make a short review. So, why should we use this CMS script and why it's better than Drupal 6 or other CMS systems. In the overview below we've presented new top features that have been made in Drupal 7.

Let's start from the beginning, from the installation. Drupal's installation script makes launching of the system much easier and it automatically populates database tables and configures the correct settings you need. It runs natively on MySQL but also supports a wide range of other databases. If you are not aware how to install Drupal 7 you can find out it in this detailed guide.

Three are better than one! Three core layouts instead of the default Garland theme! New amazing trio which includes Bartik, Seven and Stark themes can be easily downloaded and installed from Drupal.org or you can create your own custom theme!

If you want to have a full control over the look and feel of the site you’re building - Drupal7 is the best solution for this. The main change in updated Drupal 7 is the generalization of common data structures into entities. You can put fields almost on everything: on nodes, terms and even users. You are able to do CCK (Content Construction Kit) stuff to comments and vocabularies. This CMS system enables to create new content types, such as an article, blog post, or even music album. And this wholesome feature is used by default in Drupal7.

One more build-in to the core Drupal 7 installation feature is - image styles. It enables to set picture styles, such as scaling, cropping and even turning your images grayscale. It is perfect for people who want to build a portfolio website, cause they can specify different image styles for thumbnails and full-view images. Just upload one image, and Drupal creates all the other pictures for you!

The Toolbar gives you a quick access to administrative functions from any part of the site. When you click on one of the toolbar items you are not taken to a back end area as you may expect. Now the administration pages load on the top of your website as a light box. With the improving administration interface, the appearance of the Drupal 7 has been also sophisticated. And its new look is really cool, we are sure, you'll appreciate it!

The shortcut feature is also very useful and functional. Now you can add items which is used more often and get immediate access to them. It's possible to add custom shortcuts to the admin menu navigation and create several different ones for different users. The admin menu tools can be fully customized for different responsibilities such as admins, editors, authors, designer and site builders.

Drupal 7 has plenty of modules by which it's easy to achieve pretty much any functionality! This is an open source Content management system which is absolutely free of cost. Drupal CMS platform is very comfortable in usage and anyone can without efforts install it and have their own website up and running within minutes.

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