The Future is Community

Beyond customization, open-source software allows organizations to share the tools they’ve developed and then improve and share them again. For example, in the past, an organization that needed mobile access to donor data had four choices: 1.) build an application to allow access from mobile devices; 2.) pay someone to build the application; 3.) find, buy and integrate a commercial product; 4.) beg, even badger, a software vendor to develop the functionality and, if the vendor agrees, wait for a future product release.