Dear Computing Practitioners and Educators, We cordially extend an invitation to attend the 3rd Annual Humanitarian FOSS Symposium “Think FOSS, Act Locally: HFOSS in the Local Community”, March 9th 2011, Sheraton Dallas Hotel and conference center, Dallas TX. The Humanitarian FOSS Symposium is an annual event that brings together members of the developer, government, crisis response and academic communities to explore the many ways in which open source software provides benefits to society.
http://www.hfoss.org/hfoss2011 This one-day symposium will be held as a pre-conference activity in conjunction with the 2011 SIGCSE conference (http://www.sigcse.org/sigcse2011/ ). It is sponsored by the NSF-funded Humanitarian FOSS Project (http://hfoss.org), co-sponsored by Google. The theme of this year's Symposium is "Think FOSS, Act Locally: HFOSS in the Local Community" and will focus on applying FOSS within local government, in K-12 education, and in collaboration with local non-profit organizations. As in previous years, the symposium will be highly interactive, taking place entirely in plenary sessions. This year's keynote speaker is Bryan Sivak, former Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia, a founding member and advisory board member of Civic Commons. In addition to the keynote address the symposium will include a poster session, and panels on the role of FOSS in local government, K-12 education, and the non-profit sector. Panel Discussion Themes: · How can university/industry/public sector partnerships use open source to better collaborate on common ITchallenges? · How can FOSS and HFOSS principles and practices be adapted so they can be taught in the K-12 curriculum? · How can Humanitarian FOSS activities be used to engage students in the broader community? Complete Program available at http://www.hfoss.org/hfoss2011/?q=program Keynote and speakers include: · Bryan Sivak, former Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia · Deborah Bryant, Oregon State University Open Source Lab · Anita Verno, Computer Science Teachers Association, Bergen Community College · Stormy Peters, Mozilla Foundation · Cat Allman, Google Open Source Programs Office · Allen Tucker, co-author Software Development an Open Source Approach, Bowdoin College Symposium attendance is limited. The registration fee is $70 USD. Please refer to the HFOSS2011 website for additional details. Register now to confirm your attendance. www.hfoss.org/hfoss2011<http://www.hfoss.org/hfoss2011> Best regards, Ralph Morelli Professor of Computer Science, Trinity College, Hartford H-FOSS Symposium'11 Chair sympos...@hfoss.org Trishan de Lanerolle Project Director Humanitarian FOSS Project Computer Science, Trinity College, Hartford CT. (860) 297 5313 http://www.hfoss.org _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org http://teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos
