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Tectonic: For Oxfam Volunteer-Driven Free Software Makes Sense

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 8, 2006

“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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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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