The Humanitarian FOSS Project (HFOSS)

The Humanitarian FOSS Project (HFOSS) Annual outreach meeting held as a SIGCSE pre-conference activity.
• Undergraduate Teaching.

The HFOSS Project aims to build a network of educators, organizations, and open-source contributors dedicated to building and using FOSS for Humantiarian purposes.. The HFOSS project sponsors several activities, all aimed at incorporating FOSS education into the undergraduate computing curriculum:
• The HFOSS Summer Institute. Each summer students from participating schools spend 8-10 weeks workin

g on FOSS software development that benefits local or global humanitarian efforts.
• Annual HFOSS Symposium. Participating faculty have developed courses ranging from CS0 courses to upper-level software development and software engineering courses and have mentored students in independent studies and capstone projects (http://teaching.hfoss.org).
• FOSS Certificate Initiative. HFOSS is developing a pilot certificate program aimed recognizing the FOSS achievements of undergraduate CS students (http://cert.hfoss.org).
• HFOSS Chapter Initiative. With support from Google, IBM, and other organizations, the HFOSS project provided small seed grants to incubate HFOSS activities at other schools.
• Research Experience for Teachers (RET). With support of a 2010-RET supplement, two Trinity undergraduates and two Hartford-area high school teachers worked together to explore the feasibility of using App Inventor for Android for K-14 computing education. One of the apps they developed won a GE Healthymagination Prize in Michelle Obama’s Apps for Healthy Kids contest (http://www.appsforhealthykids.com/application-gallery/work-it-off). Since it began in 2007, the HFOSS Project has introduced over 200 students and more than 250 academics from a dozen different colleges and universities to FOSS concepts, methods and technologies. HFOSS students have contributed software to a range of international FOSS projects, including Sahana disaster relief software (http://sahanafoundation.org), OpenMRS medical record system (http://openmrs.org), InSTEDD disaster and disease relief (http://instedd.org), the GNOME Accessibility Project (http://projects.gnome.org/accessibility/) and the TOR Anonymity project (http://torproject.org). Students have worked with local organizations, such as the Ronald McDonald House of Portland ME (http://sourceforge.net/projects/rmhhomebase/), New York City Red Cross and Office of Emergency Management (http://collabbit.org),

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Theaterworks team is presenting their apps. (From left to right, Sean McCarthy, Owusu Darko, Alicia Chiang, and Raykwon Kerr)

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Mentor Support Available for Code for Resilience Online Innovation Challenge Participants: A Q&A with Mentor Trishan de Lanerolle

Submitted by Code For Resilience Team on March 12, 2014 - 8:32pmOn March 14, participants in the Code for Resilience Online Innovation Challenge become eligible to be paired with mentors—experts in various aspects of technology, business development and design who will offer input and feedback on ap...

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FYI: Calling all Engineers/Designers/Inventors/Entrepreneurs- interested in compassion? Invent a compassionate tech app or game for cash & meet the Dalai Lama! Apply to Stanford University's Compassion and Tech Contest. The deadline for applications is 11:59 PM PST on October 21st, 2013.

Website: http://ccare.stanford.edu/uncategorized/compassion-and-technology-contest/

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Sahana Software Foundation named a 2013 Google Summer of Code mentoring organization. A great group to work with if you ...
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Sahana Software Foundation named a 2013 Google Summer of Code mentoring organization. A great group to work with if you are looking to apply to GSoC.

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HFOSS Project curricular development leads to new Mobile Computer Science Principles Course and Teacher Training program...
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HFOSS Project curricular development leads to new Mobile Computer Science Principles Course and Teacher Training program. www.mobile-csp.org

The Mobile CSP project is recruiting Hartford area teachers for its summer 2013 Professional Development course, which will be held at Trinity College from July 1 - August 9, 2013. The 6-week course will provide comprehensive instruction in the Mobile Computer Science Principles (Mobile CSP), an in...

"What Most Schools Don't Teach"
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Share your thoughts! Help improve the lives of vulnerable urban communities in the Philippines by sharing your ideas and...
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Share your thoughts! Help improve the lives of vulnerable urban communities in the Philippines by sharing your ideas and best practices! http://lnkd.in/jqKCTn

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Desarrolla una app para ayudar a los > 2,5M de usuarios de InfoJobs en su búsqueda de empleo y gana hasta 12,000 Euros.

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