Re: [TOS] Recommended HFOSS communities?

2017-09-09 Thread Heidi Ellis 
Hi Emily,

I've got a senior-level Software Engineering course and we've started working 
on Accessibility aspects of the Mozilla Dev Tools.  The community has been 
quite helpful and they have had students from UCOSP (http://ucosp.ca/) a 
program that brings together students from across Canada to work on open source 
projects.  We're still figuring out what we need to do to install the dev 
environment and haven't figured out exactly what we'll be doing, but there are 
good bugs available :-)

Heidi

On 09/09/2017 06:41 PM, Emily M. Lovell wrote:
Hi again all,

Thank you to everyone who replied to my recent e-mail about evaluating student 
blogs. (I’ll reply to each of your e-mails just as soon as I catch my breath!)

I’m also trying to refine my shortlist of humanitarian FOSS projects to let 
students select from this semester. It seems that some of the projects 
previously recommended by foss2serve/POSSE are no longer good options for the 
following reasons:

- MouseTrap: I don’t see much activity in 
the past 2 years
- OpenMRS: I’ve heard that this has 
not worked well for others, due to the complexity/scale of the project
- Ushahidi: looks like it is no 
longer being developed as a FOSS project?

Communities I’m still thinking about include:

- Sahana Eden
- Mifos
- Sugar, possibly? I don’t see much 
activity here either...

I’d love to hear if there are other HFOSS communities that folks have had 
success with - or if you have anything encouraging or discouraging to add about 
the above. Any and all input welcome!

Many thanks,

   Emily





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Re: [TOS] Recommended HFOSS communities?

2017-09-09 Thread Frederick Grose 
On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Emily M. Lovell 
wrote:

> Hi again all,
>
> Thank you to everyone who replied to my recent e-mail about evaluating
> student blogs. (I’ll reply to each of your e-mails just as soon as I catch
> my breath!)
>
> I’m also trying to refine my shortlist of humanitarian FOSS projects to
> let students select from this semester. It seems that some of the projects
> previously recommended by foss2serve/POSSE are no longer good options for
> the following reasons:
>
> - MouseTrap : I don’t see much
> activity in the past 2 years
> - OpenMRS : I’ve heard that this
> has not worked well for others, due to the complexity/scale of the project
> - Ushahidi : looks like it is
> no longer being developed as a FOSS project?
>
> Communities I’m still thinking about include:
>
> - Sahana Eden 
> - Mifos 
> - Sugar , possibly? I don’t see much
> activity here either...
>

​See http://sugarizer.org/ for more activity.
​

> I’d love to hear if there are other HFOSS communities that folks have had
> success with - or if you have anything encouraging or discouraging to add
> about the above. Any and all input welcome!
>
> Many thanks,
>
>Emily
>
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[TOS] Recommended HFOSS communities?

2017-09-09 Thread Emily M. Lovell 
Hi again all,

Thank you to everyone who replied to my recent e-mail about evaluating student 
blogs. (I’ll reply to each of your e-mails just as soon as I catch my breath!)

I’m also trying to refine my shortlist of humanitarian FOSS projects to let 
students select from this semester. It seems that some of the projects 
previously recommended by foss2serve/POSSE are no longer good options for the 
following reasons:

- MouseTrap: I don’t see much activity in 
the past 2 years
- OpenMRS: I’ve heard that this has 
not worked well for others, due to the complexity/scale of the project
- Ushahidi: looks like it is no 
longer being developed as a FOSS project?

Communities I’m still thinking about include:

- Sahana Eden
- Mifos
- Sugar, possibly? I don’t see much 
activity here either...

I’d love to hear if there are other HFOSS communities that folks have had 
success with - or if you have anything encouraging or discouraging to add about 
the above. Any and all input welcome!

Many thanks,

   Emily


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[TOS] Sharing my personal experience on introducing oss to students

2017-09-09 Thread Gustavo Henrique Lima Pinto 
Dear all,

I just came back from POSSE Italy eager to introduce open-source software
to students. And I did. I wrote an experience report about that. I hope you
enjoy.

https://medium.com/@gustavopinto/training-students-with-open-source-software-6bb114ec7db4

Thanks

Gustavo
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[TOS] GNOME.Asia Summit 2017: going to speak on FOSS in education.

2017-09-09 Thread Shobha Tyagi 
Hi! Heidi,

I am glad to inform that my talk on the topic "Why FOSS in Education makes
sense" is accepted for this year's GNOME.Asia summit 2017 (October
14th-16th) in chongqing, China.
I am working on it, Also I need suggestions on what all I can include for
it to be great presentation.

Thanks,
Shobha
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