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CiviCRM is regular used to received payments in – donations, ticket sales or membership fees – but what about automating payments out? CiviSplit is a set of three new beta extensions to let CiviCRM admins automate paying income out to multiple parties based on a set of pre-defined rules. It could split the income from a […]

If the Internet were a country, it would be the sixth largest in terms of electricity use. ICT doesn’t just produce between 2.1% and 3.9% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions – more than aviation or shipping – but as more of the world get online at faster speeds, watching more video for longer, this share is rising fast.

Scarlett Johansson’s recent contract dispute with Disney and their thunderbolt response that she had ‘callous disregard for the suffering of the pandemic’ showed Hollywood’s power players on the brink of civil war. The LA Times suggested the fight, and Disney’s diss at Marvel’s biggest female star, was really about a bigger question: “how should stars […]

I hope you forgive the clickbait headline, reader, as our project isn’t a video Wikipedia. But the subject is a good thought experiment to introduce some of the motivations around ‘open video’, and explain some of the backstory to our project MOVA (Monetizing Open Video Assets), which has just started this week. ‘Video Wikipedia’ is […]