The Humanitarian FOSS Project: Goals, Activities, and Outcomes
The Humanitarian FOSS Project: Goals, Activities, and Outcomes
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人道主义 FOSS 项目：目标、活动和成果
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2011
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T. D. Lanerolle
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A. Tucker;R. Morelli;T. D. Lanerolle
人道主义自由和开放源码软件项目(HFOSS项目)始于2006年，是一项教育倡议，其目标是通过构建自由和开放源码软件，造福当地和全球的人类，让本科生参与到计算机科学中来。在其短暂的生命周期中，该项目激励了越来越多的学生和教师为几个人道主义开源软件开发项目做出重大贡献。在过去的四年里，HFOSS项目得到了几个合作伙伴的大力支持，包括国家科学基金会、埃森哲、谷歌和Mozilla。这种支持使该项目能够扩大其影响范围，增加新的学院和大学合作伙伴，并增加更多的人道主义软件项目。对HFOSS项目的贡献来自学术界的专业人士、IT组织和非营利性组织，他们让本科生参与课程、研究项目和暑期实习体验。它的课程面向广泛的本科生，因为它包括非专业以及计算机科学和工程专业的课程。本文描述了所有这些活动及其对本科计算机教育、当地非营利组织和全球自由/开源软件社区的影响。报告最后确定了HFOSS项目在发展可持续基础设施方面取得的进展。
Begun in 2006, the Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Project (HFOSS Project) is an educational initiative whose goal is to engage undergraduates in computer science by building free and open source software that benefits humanity, both locally and globally. During its short lifetime, the Project has inspired increasing numbers of students and instructors to make significant contributions to several humanitarian open source software development projects. In the last four years, the HFOSS Project has received material support from several partners, including the National Science Foundation, Accenture, Google, and Mozilla. This support has enabled the Project to expand its reach to add new college and university partners and to add more humanitarian software projects. Contributions to the HFOSS Project come from professionals in academia, IT organizations, and non-profit organizations that engage undergraduate students in courses, research projects, and summer internship experiences. Its curriculum is accessible to a wide range of undergraduates, since it includes courses for non- majors as well as computer science and engineering majors. This paper describes all these activities and their impact on undergraduate computing education, local non-profit organizations, and global FOSS communities. It concludes by identifying the progress that the HFOSS Project has made toward developing a sustainable infrastructure.