CSEET 2013 Workshop

PROJECT SELECTION FOR STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN HUMANITARIAN FOSS

Outline:

11:00-12:30:

1. Introductions – 5 minutes
2. Set-up – 5 minutes
   • Point to Etherpad
3. What is HFOSS – 10 minutes
   • Introduce FOSS
   • Why HFOSS?
4. Overview of Student Participation in HFOSS Projects – 10 minutes
   • Learning potential of student participation in FOSS communities
   • Ways that students can contribute
   • 50-ways
5. Locating Projects – 40 minutes
   • How to get started looking for projects
   • Identification of information sources, Ohloh, SourceForge, GitHub?, etc.
   • Identification of potential projects
   • Foss2serve.org list of HFOSS projects
6. Model for evaluating FOSS projects – 20 minutes
   • Key evaluation aspects for humanitarian FOSS projects
   • Definition of evaluation criteria
   • Measures of the criteria and their application

LUNCH 12:30-2:00

2:00-3:30:

1. Examples of model application – 20 minutes
   • Application of model applied to two sample project
   • The MouseTrap project
2. Application of Model – 50 minutes
   • Apply the model to the potential projects from the HFOSS list
3. Wrap-up – 15 minutes
   • Observations about results
   • Information about POSSE
   • Discussion about collaborating on projects.

Workshop slides are available here

A paper on evaluating projects for student participation is here