Summer 2008 Humanitarian FOSS Institute Welcome!

Summer 2008Humanitarian FOSS Institute

Welcome!

Slide: 2 The Humanitarian-FOSS Project © 2008 Summer Institute Welcome

• The Humanitarian FOSS Project.

• The Open Source Movement.

• Summer Projects Overview.

• Goals, Expectations, Deliverables.

Outline


2007 H-FOSS Summer Institute


Motivation

• David Patterson (ACM) Nov. 2005, (post Katrina): Let’s help our neighbors!

• David Patterson (ACM) Mar. 2006: Join the open-source movement!

• Our Question:

Will students building software for the community help revitalize computing education?


NSF/CPATH Grant

• CPATH: Revitalizing Undergraduate Computing

Education.

• Trinity, Conn College, Wesleyan.

• Getting students involved in building open

source software to help society through:

• Video conference courses.

• Summer internship program 2008/9.

• National and regional workshops for faculty.


Portable/Sustainable Partnership

ComputingDepartments

• Teach computing• Build FOSS• Gain skills and opportunities

IT Corporations• Host interns• Fund and advertise• Volunteer expertise • Recruit students

HumanitarianCommunity

• Acquire software.• Host interns• Teach volunteerism

The Humanitarian

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Helping Our Neighbors• Sahana Disaster Management System

• Web-based IT system developed in response to the 2004 Asian Tsunami.

• Deployments: Pakistan, Philippines, Indonesia, Peru,…China (May 2008)

• Free Software Award for Social Benefit (2007)

• Trinity Connection: Trishan de Lanerolle, CS ‘04

• Our Contribution: Volunteer Management Module

www.sahana.lk

Sahana means relief in Sinhalese


Helping Neighbors:The China Deployment

Source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/photogalleries/nationworld2004416378/9.html


Internationalizing Sahana/VM


Distributed Development Effort

• IBM-China/NYC, Sahana-Sri Lanka, HFOSS-Hartford

• May 17 - May 24 (8 days)

• http://www.ccdic.org (Chinese Government Demo)

• http://blog.hfoss.org


The Free and Open Source Software Movement


Free and Open Source Software

• Open, transparent, peer-based software development.

• “Free” as in “free speech” not “free beer”.

• Distribution must include source code.

• License must permit derived works. (GPL, Mozilla, MIT etc..)

• Free Software: The GNU Project

• Open Source Software: Open Source Initiative


Successful Open Source Projects

GNU/Linux Mozilla Firefox

Apache

MySQL


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Registered Projects

Projects

• Sourceforge.net -- the largest open source repository.


Today: Openness Everywhere• “Software is just the beginning … open source is doing for

mass innovation what the assembly line did for mass production. Get ready for the era when collaboration replaces the corporation.” -- Thomas Goetz, Wired, 11/2003

WikipediaOpen sourceKnowledge

Center for Application of Molecular Biology to International AgricultureOpen source Agriculture

Public Library of ScienceOpen source Publishing

Open source Literature


Grassroots Peer Production: Beer,

Knitting, Textbooks…

Open source education

Open standards

Open source beer

Open source genetics

Open source textbooks

Open source humor


Benefits of the OSS Model

• Self-directed and community-oriented.• Personal responsibility and peer approval.• Personally creative and socially beneficial.• Pride of authorship (track down bugs).• Responsibility to others (documentation).

• Desirable pedagogical characteristics!


Humanitarian FOSSSummer Projects


Sahana

• Support the China deployment.• Bug fixes and feature enhancements

• Internationalization

• Documentation

• Test/Demo Database

• Credential verification

• VMOSS (Vol Mgmt Open Source Software)

www.sahana.lk


Medical Record System

• OpenMRS: An electronic medical record system for developing countries.

• Deployments: Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa, …

• Initiated by Paul Farmer of Partners in Health and the Regenstrief Institute.

• Supported by WHO, CDC, Clinton Foundation,…

• Trinity Connection: Christian Allen, CS, ‘00.

• Our contribution: Touchscreen module and toolkit.


Touchscreen Module


Portable Open Search Identification Tool

• Google open source phone platform.

• Disaster management handset.

• EMT accident scene support.

• Scientific field research tool.


LVGH AppTrac System

• LVGH: Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford

• Application tracking software.

• Monitors student use of literacy tutorial applications.

• Prototyped by University of Hartford Computer Science students.


InSTEDD Project

• InSTEDD: building tools for disease detection and disaster response, “humanitarian collaboration through technology innovation.”

• Using machine learning statistical analysis techniques to implement a system for early detection of disease.


Goals, Expectations, Deliverables


Goals

• Make a significant contribution to one or more HFOSS projects.

• Gain an increased appreciation for the HFOSS mission.

• Further programming and software design skills.


Expectations

• Work 35 per week and to attend all scheduled meetings.

• Work on a team project.• Contribute to weekly team and group code-review

and design sessions. • Work with one or more faculty or expert mentors.• Keep a running log (blog?) of individual project

activities.


Deliverables

• Public powerpoint presentation on the group projects. (~ August 1)

• Well written and well documented source code for each project.

• Well written user manuals for each project. • A 3-5 page paper on the project, suitable for

submission to an appropriate conference (CS or disaster recovery or FOSS).


Looking Ahead: Community Building

Our Website: http://www.hfoss.org


Thank you!

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