CPATH-2: Collaborative Research: Building a Community to Incorporate Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software into Undergraduate Computing Education

自由开放源码软件(FOSS)是可以自由共享、修改和重新分发的软件。自由/开源软件是由协作社区开发的，并在允许其共享和再分发的许可下分发。人道主义自由/开源软件(H-FOSS)是专门为造福当地和全球社区而开发的自由/开源软件。自由/开源软件和H-FOSS的关键概念是它们的协作开发过程和社区所有权。这些概念为许多杰出的软件项目提供了基础，例如免费和开放的常识库(Wikipedia)、标准DNA部件(BioBricks Foundation)和科学研究(PLoS)。该项目使用H-FOSS模式，通过让学生参与构建有利于社区的自由和开放软件来帮助振兴本科计算机教育。在该项目的头三年里，来自三一学院、卫斯理大学、康涅狄格学院和其他地方的学生在传统和视频会议课程、独立研究和顶峰项目以及赞助的暑期实习中开发了H-FOSS。学生们与现实和虚拟社区中的自由/开源软件从业者合作，开发了直接支持各种全球和当地人道主义努力的软件，从灾害管理到医疗保健提供，从志愿者管理到搜索和救援行动。有关这项工作的更多细节，请参见http://www.hfoss.org.在接下来的两年里，该项目将有三个主要目标：(1)通过在包括社区学院、女子学院和传统的黑人学校在内的各种本科院校创建新的H-FOSS分会，扩大H-FOSS教育社区；(2)创建一个H-FOSS证书计划，以表彰学生在H-FOSS发展研究和实践中的成就；以及(3)与行业和社区合作伙伴一起，开发可持续的基础设施和融资模式，使H-FOSS的努力能够扩展到全国范围。通过让计算机学生和教职员工参与建立服务于社区的自由/开源软件，该项目将因此帮助改变性质并增强本科计算教育本身的吸引力。

Free and open source software (FOSS) is software that can be freely shared, modified, and redistributed. FOSS is developed by collaborative communities and distributed under licenses that permit its sharing and redistribution. Humanitarian FOSS (H-FOSS) is FOSS that is developed specifically to benefit the local and global community. The key concepts underlying FOSS and H-FOSS are their collaborative development process and community ownership. These concepts provide the underpinnings for many remarkable software projects, such as free and open repositories of general knowledge (Wikipedia), standard DNA parts (The BioBricks Foundation), and scientific research (PLoS).This project uses the H-FOSS model to help revitalize undergraduate computing education by getting students engaged in building free and open software that benefits the community. During the project's first three years, students from Trinity College, Wesleyan University, Connecticut College, and elsewhere have developed H-FOSS in traditional and video-conference courses, independent studies and capstone projects, and in sponsored summer internships. Working collaboratively with FOSS practitioners in real and virtual communities, students have developed software that directly supports a variety of global and local humanitarian efforts, ranging from disaster management to health care delivery to volunteer management to search and rescue operations. For more details about this work, see http://www.hfoss.org. During the next two years, this project will have three major goals: (1) to extend the H-FOSS educational community by creating new H-FOSS Chapters at a wide range of undergraduate institutions, including community colleges, women's colleges, and traditionally black schools; (2) to create an H-FOSS Certificate Program that will recognize student achievement in the study and practice of H-FOSS development; and (3) to develop a sustainable infrastructure and funding model, along with industry and community partners, that will enable the H-FOSS effort to be expanded to a national scope. By getting computing students and faculty involved in building FOSS that serves the community, this project will thereby help transform the nature and enhance the attractiveness of undergraduate computing education itself.