09/03/2021

Tech Talk: What Open Source Can Do for You

Open-source software carries potential for associations

Open source, the concept of building software collaboratively based on freely available licenses, has long been popular among developers (and is a fairly common tech term as a result). In the world of associations, however, it has faced a bad rap over concerns about the costs and complexities of managing development.

But open source isn’t necessarily incompatible with associations—far from it, in fact. The association management system (AMS) platform Tendenci is actually built as an open-source tool, complete with its own repository on GitHub.

It wasn’t always open source, says Tendenci President Nicole Davis. For the first decade-plus of its existence, it was a proprietary tool, but the team decided to convert it to open source to help its users and expand its development reach.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Associations Now.