New to the sector, our intrepid reporter gets the goods on ‘open’ and ‘open source’ technologies for nonprofit fundraising. Did you even know there was a difference?

By Melissa Busch

Finally, Quinn suggests, find out how actively the package is being developed. “When programmers create new software and release it and then two years go by and nothing else is released, there is a problem,” she says. “Then the trajectory of the software is going down. You want a package that actively is being developed.”