The 2008 Humanitarian-FOSS Summer Institute recently held its final project presentations by the participants from the summer 2008 H-FOSS Institute.
Interns Engage in “Building Software for Society”The 2008 Humanitarian-FOSS Summer Institute, part of a research effort that engages undergraduates in building free and open source software (FOSS) that benefits society, recently held its final project presentations.Interns from Trinity College, Wesleyan University, Connecticut College, the University of Hartford and the University of Connecticut showcased five software projects that served a variety of humanitarian applications, from Hartford to Africa to Sri Lanka.Principal investigator Ralph Morelli, professor of computer science at Trinity, praised the students for “their hard work and their dedication to building software that serve the community.”“It was a challenging and productive summer,” Morelli told the interns, most of whom will... read more