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Outside of work, I love hiking, running, the Grateful Dead, science fiction, and playing dungeons and dragons with my 10-year-old son. | Outside of work, I love hiking, running, the Grateful Dead, science fiction, and playing dungeons and dragons with my 10-year-old son. | ||
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| + | Sugarlabs: The most obvious places for my students to get involved would be as Developers or perhaps Designers. There's a wide variety of roles, and necessary skillsets, but all participants will need an understanding of Sugar and its goals, as well as the FOSS approach to software development more broadly. | ||
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| + | Sugar uses github to post bugs. Issue tags are bug, design, errata, feature, needs SLOBS, needs work. The last commit in the core sugar branch was April 30. | ||
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| + | Sahana: Sahana is looking for developers, testers, translators, designers, sysadmin, and GIS specialists. Unlike Sugar, they don't request educators or communications support. | ||
| + | Sahana's repository uses a much richer labeling system. The last commit here was May 2. I wasn't able to view the Sahana roadmap. For both projects, I was a little suprised that they were still using versioning, rather than continuous improvement. Sahana seems more mature in that respect. | ||
Revision as of 07:54, 6 May 2019
Name: Chris Brooks
Position: Professor, Computer Science and Associate Dean for Academic Operations, University of San Francisco
email: cbrooks@usfca.edu
I'm new to POSSE and HFOSS, but have been involved with or used free and open-source software for over 20 years. I'm very interested in ways that computing and technology can be used to address problems of social justice and inequality. Previously, I was the director of Community Connections, a technology-oriented community-engaged learning project here at USF where students used their skills in direct service of community needs. We worked with local computer labs to provide job training and support and tutoring, and led a yearly immersion trip to Tacna, Peru to partner with K-12 schools there to bridge the digital divide.
My research areas include artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational economics, and multiagent systems.
Outside of work, I love hiking, running, the Grateful Dead, science fiction, and playing dungeons and dragons with my 10-year-old son.
Intro to FOSS notes.
Sugarlabs: The most obvious places for my students to get involved would be as Developers or perhaps Designers. There's a wide variety of roles, and necessary skillsets, but all participants will need an understanding of Sugar and its goals, as well as the FOSS approach to software development more broadly.
Sugar uses github to post bugs. Issue tags are bug, design, errata, feature, needs SLOBS, needs work. The last commit in the core sugar branch was April 30.
Sahana: Sahana is looking for developers, testers, translators, designers, sysadmin, and GIS specialists. Unlike Sugar, they don't request educators or communications support.
Sahana's repository uses a much richer labeling system. The last commit here was May 2. I wasn't able to view the Sahana roadmap. For both projects, I was a little suprised that they were still using versioning, rather than continuous improvement. Sahana seems more mature in that respect.
