Please join us if you can at SIGCSE, February 26th in Pittsburgh, PA! SIGCSE 2025 Affiliated Event: Humanitarian Open Source in Education
Curious about Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS)? Want to involve your students in projects for social good? Not sure how to get started? Join us at this SIGCSE 2025 Affiliated Event in Pittsburgh, PA on Wednesday, February 26, 2025. Overview: Getting involved in an HFOSS project is one of the biggest hurdles for faculty who want to use HFOSS in their teaching. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for faculty working on HFOSS education to compare experiences. The meeting will also provide an opportunity to explore ways to lower hurdles by using controlled HFOSS project environments for student learning activities. This full-day event will consist of morning and afternoon sessions that can be registered for separately. The focus for each session will be as follows: HFOSS Education Update (Morning) – The morning session will provide an update and discussion of faculty efforts in HFOSS education. The focus will be on education oriented HFOSS projects, open source projects that have a humanitarian purpose and are also designed to support HFOSS education. These projects are started by and managed by one or more academic institutions. Examples include Libre Food Pantry, Open Energy Dashboard, FarmData, and Submitty. Presentation and discussion will cover the status of these projects and issues and opportunities for starting or joining an education-oriented HFOSS project. HFOSS Learning Materials (Afternoon) – The afternoon session will explore learning materials on teachingopensource.org, HFOSS education kits, and an effort to create Runestone hosted materials for HFOSS education. There will also be discussion time for attendees to identify learning materials that are not currently available that would be helpful in teaching about HFOSS. Please visithttps://teachingopensource.org/SIGCSE_2025_Affiliated_Event for the agenda andhttps://forms.gle/h6jWoPKH46u2WHd26 for the registration link. Organizers Gregory W. Hislop, Drexel University,his...@drexel.edu Heidi J.C. Ellis, Western New England University,el...@wne.edu Grant Braught, Dickinson College,brau...@dickinson.edu Darci Burdge, Nassau Community College,darci.bur...@ncc.edu Herman Jackson, Western New England University,stoney.jack...@wne.edu Cam Macdonell, MacEwan University,macdonel...@macewan.ca Lori Postner, Nassau Community College,lori.post...@ncc.edu Wes Turner, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,turn...@rpi.edu Karl Wurst, Worcester State University,kwu...@worcester.edu _______________________________________________ tos mailing list tos@teachingopensource.org https://lists.teachingopensource.org/mailman/listinfo/tos TOS website: http://teachingopensource.org/
