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Trinity's Humanitarian Open Source Software Project Snags Major Grant
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| The Humanitarian FOSS Project (HFOSS), a collaborative
| three-college program that creates free open source
| software (FOSS) for the common good, received a major
| vote of confidence with the awarding of an $800,000,
| two-year grant from the National Science Foundation
| (NSF) under its Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate
| Computing Education program.
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http://www.courant.com/community/hc-community-articleresults,0,5942637,results.formprofile?Query=19183HC
Recent:
During Emergencies, Linux Geeks Also Care
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| Locally, a group of Linux advocates set up
| Sahana, a collection of web based disaster
| management applications that provides solutions
| to large-scale humanitarian coordination and
| collaboration in disaster situation and its
| aftermath. Itâs a good start for us to have a
| centralized area for any possible communication
| when disaster strikes. There are also others who
| have been tweeting and plurking the latest news.
| The updates were related to volunteer work, how
| to give relief goods, as well as tips on how to
| check on your car when it gets flooded to info on
| which shop offers services to laptops which
| needed to be serviced/recovered after the flood.
| I also received messages from friends in other
| countries and amidst the time differences it is
| heart-warming to receive messages from those who
| care.
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http://www.everyjoe.com/newlinuxuser/during-emergencies-linux-geeks-also-care/
Three New Open Source Tools Aimed at Global Humanitarian Efforts
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| Today, a Silicon Valley non-profit group called InSTEDD (Innovative Support
| to Emergencies, Diseases and Disasters) unveiled three new open source
| software tools targeted to help global humanitarian efforts. The group works
| with humanitarian organizations, local communities, and government ministries
| to improve disease detection and disaster response. Some of the tools are
| already in use in HIV clinics in Tanzania, centers for disease control in
| Kenya and Cambodia, and more. Here are the details on the tools, and how to
| get them.
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http://ostatic.com/blog/three-new-open-source-tools-aimed-at-global-humanitarian-efforts
Humanitarian FOSS Project
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| The Humanitarian FOSS Project is a collaborative, community-building project
| that was started by a group of computing faculty and open source proponents
| at Trinity College, Wesleyan University, and Connecticut College. Our goal is
| to build a community of academic computing departments, IT corporations, and
| local and global humanitarian and community organizations dedicated to
| building and using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to benefit humanity.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/01/humanitarian-foss-project.html
Students Help Humanity with Open Source Software
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| The software is part of Sahana, an open-source information technology system
| that was built to aid in the recovery effort following the 2004 Asian
| tsunami. The students contributed as part of the Humanitarian Free and Open
| Source Software (HFOSS) project, a joint venture between the computer science
| departments of Wesleyan, Trinity College and Connecticut College, which aims
| to bring open source software that benefits humanity into the computer
| science curriculum.
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http://www.wesleyan.edu/newsletter/campus/2008/0908hfoss.html
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