Publications

This page contains references to publications and events that are related to the effort to help students contribute to HFOSS.

Papers

Journals

• Hislop, Gregory W. and Jackson, Stoney and Ellis, Heidi J.C. (2015). FOSS Artifacts for Evaluating Students on Team Projects. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education. New York, NY, USA.

• Hislop, Gregory W. and Ellis, Heidi J.C. (2015). Practical Experiences for IT Students in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Projects. Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education. New York, NY, USA.

• Heidi J. C. Ellis, Gregory W. Hislop, Stoney Jackson, and Lori Postner. 2015. Team Project Experiences in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS). Trans. Comput. Educ. 15, 4, Article 18 (December 2015), 23 pages. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2684812

• Gregory W. Hislop, Heidi J.C. Ellis, S. Monisha Pulimood, Becka Morgan, Suzanne Mello-Stark, Ben Coleman, and Cam Macdonell. 2015. A Multi-Institutional Study of Learning via Student Involvement in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Projects. In Proceedings of the eleventh annual International Conference on International Computing Education Research (ICER '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 199-206. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145

• Ellis, H. J. C., & Hislop, G. W., & Pulimood, S. M., & Morgan, B., & Coleman, B. (2015, June), Software Engineering Learning in HFOSS: A Multi-Institutional Study Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, Seattle, Washington. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.18260/p.24716

• Jackson, S., Ellis, H. (2015). Supporting HFOSS using Scrum in a Capstone Course. Abstract and presentation for SIGCAS Symposium on Computing for Social Good. SIGCAS Comput. Soc. 45, 2 (July 2015).

• Postner, L., Jackson, S., Ellis, H., Hislop, G., Burdge, D., and Goggins, S. (2015). Using Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) to Introduce Computing for the Social Good. Abstract and presentation for SIGCAS Symposium on Computing for Social Good. SIGCAS Comput. Soc. 45, 2 (July 2015), 3535.

• Heidi J.C. Ellis, Stoney Jackson, Darci Burdge, Lori Postner, Gregory W. Hislop, and Joanie Diggs. 2014. Learning within a professional environment: shared ownership of an HFOSS project. In Proceedings of the 15th Annual Conference on Information technology education (SIGITE '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 95-100. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2656450.2656468

• Ellis, H.J.C.; Hislop, G.W.; Purcell, M.; Chua, M.; Dziallas, S., "Towards a model of faculty development for FOSS in education," in Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), 2013 IEEE 26th Conference on , vol., no., pp.269-273, 19-21 May 2013. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CSEET.2013.6595259

• Ellis, H. J., & Hislop, G. W., & Rodriguez, J. S., & Morelli, R. (2012, June), Student Software Engineering Learning via Participation in Humanitarian FOSS Projects Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference, San Antonio, Texas. https://peer.asee.org/21949

• Heidi J.C. Ellis, Michelle Purcell, and Gregory W. Hislop. 2012. An approach for evaluating FOSS projects for student participation. In Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 415-420. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2157136.2157260

• Ellis, H.J.C.; Hislop, G.W.; Chua, M.; Dziallas, S., "How to involve students in FOSS projects," in Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2011 , vol., no., pp.T1H-1-T1H-6, 12-15 Oct. 2011. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2011.6142994

• Ralph Morelli, Allen Tucker, Norman Danner, Trishan R. De Lanerolle, Heidi J. C. Ellis, Ozgur Izmirli, Danny Krizanc, and Gary Parker. 2009. Revitalizing computing education through free and open source software for humanity. Commun. ACM 52, 8 (August 2009), 67-75. DOI=http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1536616.1536635

• Gregory W. Hislop, Heidi J.C. Ellis, and Ralph A. Morelli. 2009. Evaluating student experiences in developing software for humanity. SIGCSE Bull. 41, 3 (July 2009), 263-267. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1595496.1562959

• Ellis, H.J.C.; Morelli, R.A.; Hislop, G.W., "Work in progress - challenges to educating students within the Community of Open Source Software for Humanity," in Frontiers in Education Conference, 2008. FIE 2008. 38th Annual , vol., no., pp.S3H-7-S3H-8, 22-25 Oct. 2008. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2008.4720515

• Ellis, H.; Morelli, R.A.; Hislop, G.W., "Support for Educating Software Engineers Through Humanitarian Open Source Projects," in Software Engineering Education and Training Workshop, 2008. CSEETW '08. 21st IEEE-CS Conference on , vol., no., pp.1-4, 14-17 April 2008. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CSEETW.2008.5

• Ellis, H.J.C.; Hislop, G.W., "Fostering the Community of Software Engineering Educators," in Software Engineering Education and Training, 2008. CSEET '08. IEEE 21st Conference on , vol., no., pp.233-237, 14-17 April 2008. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CSEET.2008.18

• Ellis, H.J.C.; Morelli, R.A.; de Lanerolle, T.R.; Hislop, G.W., "Holistic Software Engineering Education Based on a Humanitarian Open Source Project," in Software Engineering Education & Training, 2007. CSEET '07. 20th Conference on , vol., no., pp.327-335, 3-5 July 2007. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CSEET.2007.26

• Morelli, R.A., Ellis, H.J.C., de Lanerolle, T., Damon, J., and Walti, C., “Can Student-Written Software Help Sustain Humanitarian FOSS?”, The 4th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, Delft, the Netherlands, May 2007, pp. 41-44. PDF:http://www.cs.trincoll.edu/~ram/ram/MorelliEtAl_ISCRAM07.pdf

• Heidi J. C. Ellis, Ralph A. Morelli, Trishan R. de Lanerolle, Jonathan Damon, and Jonathan Raye. 2007. Can humanitarian open-source software development draw new students to CS?. SIGCSE Bull. 39, 1 (March 2007), 551-555. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1227504.1227495

Conferences

• Hislop, Gregory W. and Ellis, Heidi J. C. (2016). Building the Student Pipeline to Open Source Communities using HFOSS. 2016 Red Hat Summit.

• Ellis, Heidi J. C. and Hislop, Gregory W. (2016). Want Students Ready to Contribute? Let’s Discuss What They Should Know!. 2016 OSCON Everything Open Conference.

Panels and Posters

• Weiss, Stewart and Klukowska, Joanna and Burge, Darci (2017). Injecting Open Source Content Into CS2/Data Structures Courses (poster). 22nd Annual Consortium For Computing Sciences in Colleges, Northeastern Conference.

• Murphy, Christian and Buffardi, Kevin and Dehlinger, Josh and Lambert, Lynn, and Veilleux, Nanette (2017). Community Engagement with Free and Open Source Software (panel). 48th ACM SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.

• Ellis, Heidi J. C. and Hislop, Gregory W. and Burdge, Darci and Postner, Lori and Jackson, Stoney (2016). Learning via Student Participation in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Projects. NSF/AAAS conference on Envisioning the Future of Undergraduate STEM Education: Research and Practice.

• Ellis, Heidi J. C. and Hislop, Gregory W. and Burdge, Darci and Postner, Lori and Jackson, Stoney and Kussmaul, Clif (2016). OpenPath – Improving Student Pathways to Computing Professions via Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software. NSF/AAAS conference on Envisioning the Future of Undergraduate STEM Education: Research and Practice.

• Jackson, Stoney and Ellis, Heidi J. C. and Hislop, Gregory W. and Postner, Lori and Jackson, Stoney (2015). Team Project Experiences in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS): Faculty Poster Abstract. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. USA.

• Alkoby, Karen and Burdge, Darci and Morgan, Becka and Ordonez, Patti and Likins, Gina (2015). Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software: Motivating the Underrepresented. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2015.

• Pulimood, S. M., Hislop, G.W., and Ellis, H.J.C., “A Multi-Institutional Study of Self-Perceived Learning via Student Involvement in HFOSS Projects,” Poster. CCSC-EA, Atlantic City NJ, Oct. 2015.

• Gregory W. Hislop and Heidi J.C. Ellis. 2015. Practical Experiences for IT Students in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Projects. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 99-99. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2808006.2808042

• Gregory W. Hislop, Stoney Jackson, and Heidi J.C. Ellis. 2015. FOSS Artifacts for Evaluating Students on Team Projects. In Proceedings of the 16th Annual Conference on Information Technology Education (SIGITE '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 57-57. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2808006.2808009

• Jackson, S., Ellis H.J.C., Hislop, G.W., and Postner, L., “Team project experiences in humanitarian free and open source software (HFOSS)”: faculty poster abstract. J. Comput. Sci. Coll (CCSCNE '15). 30, 6 (June 2015), 156-157.

• Ellis, H.J.C., Burdge, D., Morgan, R., Ordóñez, P. and Alkoby, K., “Using Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) to Attract the Underrepresented to Computer Science,” 2015 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing, Boston, MA. Panel.

• Heidi J.C. Ellis and Gregory W. Hislop. 2014. Structuring software engineering learning within open source software participation. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Innovation & technology in computer science education (ITiCSE '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 326-326. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2591708.2602681

• Heidi J.C. Ellis, Gregory W. Hislop, and Joanmarie Diggs. 2013. Developing HFOSS projects using integrated teams across levels and institutions. In Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 349-349. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2462476.2465613

• Heidi J.C. Ellis, Stoney Jackson, Darci Burdge, Lori Postner, Gregory W. Hislop, and Joanmarie Diggs. 2014. Learning within a professional environment: shared ownership of an HFOSS project. In Proceedings of the 2014 conference on Innovation & technology in computer science education (ITiCSE '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 337-337. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2591708.2602660

• Ellis, H.J.C.; Hislop, G.W.; Purcell, M.; Chua, M.; Dziallas, S., "Towards a model of faculty development for FOSS in education," in Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEE&T), 2013 IEEE 26th Conference on , vol., no., pp.269-273, 19-21 May 2013. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CSEET.2013.6595259

• Purcell, M., Ellis, H.J.C., and Hislop, G.W. (2013). An Approach for Evaluating Open Source Projects for Student Participation. Poster at CCSC NE.

• Ellis, H.J.C., and Hislop, G.W. (2013). Community-Based Student Learning via Participation in Humanitarian FOSS Projects. Poster at CCSC NE.

• Ellis, H.J.C.,, Hislop, G.W., and Morelli, R.A., “SoftHum: Student Participation in the Community of Open Source Software for Humanity,” Poster, 2013 NSF/AASE Conference for Principle Investigators of the Transforming Undergraduate Education STEM program, January 23-25, 2013 Washington, D.C.

• Ellis, H.J.C.,, Hislop, G.W., and Morelli, R.A., “HumIT: Student IT Services to Support Open Source Software for Humanity,” Poster, 2013 NSF/AASE Conference for Principle Investigators of the Transforming Undergraduate Education STEM program, January 23-25, 2013 Washington, D.C.

• Clif Kussmaul, Heidi J.C. Ellis, and Gregory W. Hislop. 2012. 50 ways to be a FOSSer: simple ways to involve students & faculty (abstract only). In Proceedings of the 43rd ACM technical symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 671-671. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2157136.2157393

• Heidi J.C. Ellis and Gregory W. Hislop. 2011. Student IT services to support open source software for humanity. In Proceedings of the 2011 conference on Information technology education (SIGITE '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 307-308. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2047594.2047676

• Heidi J.C. Ellis, Gregory W. Hislop, and Ralph A. Morelli. 2011. A comparison of software engineering knowledge gained from student participation in humanitarian foss projects. In Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 360-360. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1999747.1999874

• Heidi J.C. Ellis and Gregory W. Hislop. 2011. Courseware: student learning via FOSS field trips. In Proceedings of the 16th annual joint conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education (ITiCSE '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 329-329. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1999747.1999840

• Heidi J.C. Ellis, Mel Chua, Matthew C. Jadud, and Gregory W. Hislop. 2011. Learning through open source participation. In Proceedings of the 42nd ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE '11). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 83-84. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1953163.1953191

• Ellis, H.J.C., Hislop, G.W., and Morelli, R.A., “SoftHum: Student Participation in the Community of Open Source Software for Humanity,” Poster, NSF 2011 CCLI-TUES PIs Conference, Washington, DC, Jan. 26-28, 2011.

• Ellis, H.J.C.; Hislop, G.W.; Chua, M.; Kussmaul, Clif; Burke, Matthew M., "Panel — Teaching students to participate in Open Source Software projects," in Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), 2010 IEEE , vol., no., pp.F2B-1-F2B-2, 27-30 Oct. 2010. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/FIE.2010.5673437

• Bonhomme-Biais, A., Ellis, H.J.C., Lockwood, J., and Raschid, L., “Open Source for Good” Panel, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, Washington, DC, Oct. 2010

• Hislop, G.W., Ellis, H.J.C., DeKoenigsburg, G., and Jazayeri, D., “Student Participation in OSS Projects,” The 6th International Conference on Open Source Systems, Notre Dame, IN, June, 2010.

• Heidi J. C. Ellis, Gregory W. Hislop, Ralph Morelli, and Norman Danner. 2010. Instructional aspects of student participation in humanitarian Free and Open Source Software: panel discussion. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. 25, 6 (June 2010), 152-154.

• Ellis, H.J.C., Hislop, G.W., and Ibanez, L., “Opportunities for Students to Contribute to FOSS Projects,” O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON), Portland, OR, July 19-23, 2010. [.ODP]

Related Efforts

• Roca, Alberto and Robinson, Rosario and Murphy, Christian (2019). Learn About Open Source Software (Birds of a Feather). 2019 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing.

• Roca, Alberto and Robinson, Rosario and Murphy, Christian (2018). Learn About Open Source Software (Birds of a Feather). 2018 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing.

• Murphy, Christian and Weng, Judy and Pearce, Jan and Veilleux, Nanette (2017). Addressing Diversity & Inclusion Issues in Computer Science through Contributions to Free and Open Source Software (Birds of a Feather). 2017 ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing.

• Ellis, Heidi J.C. and Jackson, Stoney and Hislop, Gregory W. and Pulimood, S. Monisha and Likins, Gina (2016). Preparing to Teach Humanitarian Open Source (Abstract Only). Proceedings of the 47th ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education. New York, NY, USA. Birds of a Feather Session (BoF) at SIGCSE Symposium.

• Rebelsky, Sam A. and Morgan, Becka and Pulimood, S. Monisha and Postner, Lori and Hislop, Gregory W. (2015). Incorporating Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software in CS Classrooms. Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing 2015. Birds of a Feather Session (BoF).

• Postner, L., Jackson, S., Coleman, B., MelloStark, S., Rebelsky, S. (2015). Student Contributions to Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS). Birds of a Feather Session and abstract at SIGCSE 2015 Symposium.

• Gregory W. Hislop, Heidi J.C. Ellis, Darci Burdge, Sean Goggins, Lori Postner, and Stoney Jackson. 2013. Encouraging faculty & student involvement in humanitarian free and open source software (HFOSS)(abstract only). In Proceeding of the 44th ACM technical symposium on Computer science education (SIGCSE '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 751-751. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2445196.2445481

• Wurst, K., Postner, L., and Jackson, S. (2014). Teaching Open Source (Software). Birds of a Feather Session (BoF) at SIGCSE Symposium.

Workshops

• Burdge, Darci and Jackson, Stoney (2016). Git 101: Foundations for a Common Workflow to Contribute to HFOSS: Tutorial Presentation. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. 31 (6), 18-20.

• Burdge, Darci and Jackson, Stoney (2016). Git 102: A Common Workflow to Contribute to HFOSS: Tutorial Presentation. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. 31 (6), 34-36.

• Ellis, H.J.C., Jackson, S., Hislop, G.W., Postner, L., and Burdge, D. (2014). Getting Started in Open Source - A Tour of a Real Project. Workshop at CCSC NE.

• Hislop, G.W., Burdge, D., Postner, L., and Ellis H.J.C (2013). Preparing for Student Participation in HFOSS Projects - FOSS Tools and Techniques. Workshop at CCSC E.

• Ellis, H.J.C., and Hislop, G.W. (2013). Project Selection for Student Participation in Humanitarian FOSS. Workshop at the 26th Annual Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (SIGITE).

• Ellis, H.J.C., Hislop, G.W., and Purcell, M. (2013). Project Selection for Student Involvement in Humanitarian FOSS. Workshop at 26th Annual Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET). San Francisco.

• Ellis, H.J.C., Hislop, G.W., Purcell, M., and Postner, L. (2013). Project Selection for Student Participation in Humanitarian FOSS. Workshop at CCSC NE.

• Ellis, H.J.C., and Hislop, G.W., “Project Selection for Student Participation in Humanitarian FOSS,” 26th Annual Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training, San Francisco, May. 2013

• Ellis, H.J.C., and Hislop, G.W., “Student Participation in Humanitarian Open Source Software (HFOSS),” Lightening Talk, 2011 International Computing Education Research Workshop, Providence, RI, August, 2011.

• Morelli, R.A., Danner, N., Iyengar, J., de Lanerolle, T. R., and Ellis, H.J.C., “Teaching and Building Humanitarian Open Source Software,” SIGCSE 2008, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland OR, Mar. 2008.

• Morelli, R.A., Danner, N., Iyengar, J., de Lanerolle, T. R., and Ellis, H.J.C., “Teaching and Building Humanitarian Open Source Software,” SIGCSE 2008, Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education, Portland OR, Mar. 2008.