Tectonic: For Oxfam Volunteer-Driven Free Software Makes Sense

"In a carefully-planned operation that took more than a year to complete the British charity Oxfam switched three thousand users from using its proprietary collaboration platform to one which is closer to their mission: volunteer-created Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS).

"Oxfam's deputy international support manager Fran Boon explained to Frederick Noronha how the switch-over was achieved over the past two years..."

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