開源非開源

by Michael D. Johnson

邁克爾·約翰遜(Michael D.Johnson)

開源為善 (Open Source for Good)

We’ve spent two years coding for a cause, one nonprofit at a time. And now Free Code Camp’s pushing ahead to help organizations at scale.

我們花了兩年的時間為事業編碼，一次非營利組織。現在，免費代碼營正在推動大規模幫助組織。

Today I’m thrilled to announce Open Source for Good.

今天我很高興宣布開源為善 。

The premise is simple: all nonprofits should benefit from our pro bono code, and all campers should contribute to open source projects. Open Source for Good achieves these two goals at once.

前提很簡單：所有非營利組織都應從我們的公益代碼中受益，所有營員都應為開源項目做出貢獻。開源公益會同時實現這兩個目標。

I’ve personally evaluated hundreds of grant proposals from nonprofits. Time and time again, these nonprofits ask for help with the same basic problems.

我親自評估了數百個非營利組織的贈款提案。這些非營利組織一次又一次地尋求有關相同基本問題的幫助。

They hope to leverage technology that either doesn’t yet exist, or is prohibitively expensive. And in many cases, we’re able to build it for them.

他們希望利用尚不存在或昂貴的技術。而且在許多情況下，我們能夠為他們構建它。

But why should these tools continue to benefit just one nonprofit at a time?

但是，為什么這些工具應該一次又一次僅使一個非營利組織受益？

Pro Bono大規模 (Pro Bono at scale)

Take the app we built for Chasdei Kaduri — a food bank in Toronto.

請使用我們為Chasdei Kaduri(多倫多的一家食物銀行)開發的應用程序。

We built this tool for Jonathan and his team to help them minimize administrative overhead, reduce errors, and ultimately increase their efficiency.

我們為Jonathan及其團隊構建了此工具，以幫助他們最大程度地減少管理開銷，減少錯誤并最終提高他們的效率。

The app we built helps them manage deliveries to the families they serve, categorize donated food items, create packing lists around dietary restrictions, and optimize delivery route assignments. It even issues tax receipts to donors.

我們構建的應用程序可幫助他們管理向所服務家庭的送貨，對捐贈的食品進行分類，圍繞飲食限制創建裝箱單并優化送貨路線分配。它甚至向捐助者開具稅收收據。

There are hundreds of thousands of food banks around the world who should have access to this tool. Chasdei Kaduri agrees. They want to open source it.

世界各地有成千上萬的食品銀行應可使用此工具。 Chasdei Kaduri同意。他們想將其開源。

Or take the app we built for Options Inc — a nonprofit that finds jobs for adults with intellectual disabilities, then transports them to and from those jobs every day.

或使用我們為Option Inc打造的應用程序-一個非營利性組織，可以為智障成人找到工作，然后每天往返于這些工作。

When they told us about their daily nightmare — managing the routes for dozens of vehicles using nothing more than an excel spreadsheet — we helped them pro bono.

當他們告訴我們他們每天的噩夢時-僅使用Excel電子表格來管理數十輛汽車的路線-我們幫助了他們免費。

In Matt’s words, the app that we built now allows them to “do in 2 minutes what used to take 2 hours.”

用馬特的話來說，我們現在構建的應用程序允許他們“在2分鐘內完成過去需要2個小時的時間”。

Now their team can assign drivers and passengers to vehicles and optimize their routes with Google Maps.

現在，他們的團隊可以為駕駛員和乘客分配車輛，并使用Google Maps優化路線。

And there are many other nonprofits that control a fleet of vehicles or manages a list of delivery addresses who should have access to this tool. Options Inc agrees. They want to open source it.

還有許多其他非營利組織可以控制此車隊或管理送貨地址清單。期權公司同意。他們想開源它。

We’ve already begun the process of stripping out organization-specific features so that these tools are relevant for a wider range of nonprofits. And it’s not just completed projects that we’re open-sourcing. We’re launching completely new open source projects, too.

我們已經開始剝離特定于組織的功能，以便這些工具與更廣泛的非營利組織相關。而且，我們開源的不僅僅是已完成的項目。我們也正在啟動全新的開源項目。

花錢在任務上，而不是軟件上。 (Spend money on the mission, not the software.)

Let’s talk about email.

讓我們談談電子郵件。

Nonprofits need to communicate with their constituents. This means email — lots of email. And even though a nonprofit’s mailing list may be growing, their budget may not be.

非營利組織需要與選民溝通。這意味著電子郵件-許多電子郵件。即使非營利組織的郵件列表可能正在增長，其預算也可能不會增加。

At Free Code Camp, we’ve struggled with the same fundamental problem. Here’s how much it would cost us each month to use the most popular email service today:

在Free Code Camp中，我們一直在努力解決相同的基本問題。以下是每月使用當今最受歡迎的電子郵件服務需要花費的費用：

We’d spend $1,800 each month to send weekly emails to our open source community. Even with a nonprofit discount of 15%, this is prohibitively expensive for many organizations.

我們每個月要花費1800美元，將每周的電子郵件發送到我們的開源社區。即使有15％的非營利折扣，對于許多組織來說，這也是非常昂貴的。

Freemium services sound affordable when a nonprofit is just starting its mailing list. But as soon as they exit the free tier, they’ll pay heavily.

當非營利組織剛剛開始其郵寄名單時，免費增值服務聽起來負擔得起。但是，一旦他們退出免費套餐，他們將付出高昂的代價。

We’re helping these mid-sized nonprofits en masse — organizations too big to qualify for free tier solutions, but too small to pay thousands of dollars each year for software.

我們正在幫助這些中等規模的非營利組織-規模太大而無資格獲得免費層解決方案的組織，但是規模太小而無法每年為軟件支付數千美元。

Our Open Source for Good email service is just the first of many tools we’re building so that nonprofits can replace expensive enterprise subscriptions.

我們的優質開源電子郵件服務只是我們正在構建的眾多工具中的第一個，以便非營利組織可以取代昂貴的企業訂閱。

Our community is in a unique position. We have thousands of skilled volunteer developers. We have a system in place to coordinate their efforts. If anyone can help nonprofits shrink their technology expenses, it’s us.

我們的社區處于獨特的位置。我們有數千名熟練的志愿者開發人員。我們有一個可以協調他們努力的系統。如果有人可以幫助非營利組織減少技術支出，那就是我們。

這對露營者意味著什么？ (What does this mean for campers?)

This means our community will continue to create tools for nonprofits that don’t yet exist, or that they can’t afford.

這意味著我們的社區將繼續為尚不存在或負擔不起的非營利組織創建工具。

It means that after you finish the first 1,200 hours of challenges, you can make your first open source contributions to a variety of projects right here, with the support of our community.

這意味著您在完成最初的1200個小時的挑戰后，可以在我們社區的支持下，為這里的各種項目做出第一個開源貢獻。

It means you can volunteer with more flexibility than ever before. Even if you can only contribute a few hours a week, you can still make a huge difference.

這意味著您可以比以往任何時候都更加靈活地自愿。即使您每周只能貢獻幾個小時，您仍然可以發揮巨大作用。

We’ll also introduce a system where campers can earn points toward their Full Stack Development Certificate by contributing to Open Source for Good.

我們還將介紹一個系統，營員可以通過為“開源公益”做出貢獻而獲得其“全棧開發證書”。

We’re still awarding Code Grants to individual nonprofits. And the work we do on many of these tools will continue through Open Source for Good.

我們仍在向非營利組織授予“代碼贈款” 。我們在許多這些工具上所做的工作將通過“開源為善”繼續進行。

With Open Source for Good, we’re building up minimum viable products (MVPs) using teams of one volunteer project manager plus two campers, just like we do with Code Grants. Once these MVPs are in place, these campers will become project maintainers, and field pull requests from contributors at large.

就像我們使用Code Grants一樣，借助“善良開源”計劃，我們將由一個志愿者項目經理和兩個營員組成的團隊來構建最低限度的可行產品(MVP)。一旦這些MVP到位，這些露營者將成為項目維護者，并從廣大貢獻者那里進行現場拉動請求。

After months of planning, Open Source for Good is here. We’re helping nonprofits at scale with the power of open source.

經過數月的計劃，“開源為善”就在這里。我們正在利用開源的力量大規模地幫助非營利組織。