I just came across The Humanitarian FOSS Project <http://www.hfoss.org/>.
[image: [article image]] *"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 *F*ree and *O*pen *S*ource *S*oftware (*FOSS *) to benefit humanity. ... "Our approach is not unlike the Habitat for Humanity<http://www.habitat.org/>project: Instead of helping communities build houses, our students help build free software systems that benefit communities. [A grant from the Directorate for Computing & Information Science & Engineering (CISE) of The National Science Foundation (NSF)] enables us to explore whether engaging students in the Humanitarian-FOSS enterprise will help undergraduates see that designing and building software is an exciting, creative, and (often) a socially beneficial activity." Has anyone had any experience with them? -- RussA
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