Related Efforts

Revision as of 11:55, 11 July 2014

DRAFT

This page contains pointers to projects that have something in common with the Foss2serve effort to help students contribute to HFOSS.

• Benetech - "develops innovative and effective technology applications for unmet social needs" Work includes significant HFOSS activities.

• Social Coding 4 Good - Connected to Benetech. "Every day, there are thousands of people using technology tools to make a positive difference in millions of people’s lives. SocialCoding4Good is committed to providing a platform that amplifies this impact."

• IEEE EPICS - Engineering Projects in Community Service is a "program that organizes university and high-school students to work on engineering-related projects for local humanitarian organizations."

• OSI FLOW Syllabus - "a thoughtfully curated guide to the domains of community knowledge that will help anyone involved in creating, maintaining or deploying Free/Libre/Open Works."

Courses

Courses with significant components related to open source, application of technology for humanitarian purposes, or both.

• Software Development for Social Good

• Teaching Materials Project on teachingopensouce.org - a collection of courses and materials related to teaching open source

• TOS textbook draft - Draft of a textbook for teaching about open source and how to be a participant