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@inproceedings{citeulike:2713959, abstract = {This paper describes a Humanitarian FOSS (free and open source software) project carried out by a team of students and faculty at Trinity College. The project outcome was a volunteer management module that has recently been incorporated into the Sahana Disaster Recovery IT System. The Humanitarian FOSS movement is based on two premises: (1) that quality humanitarian software can be built and given freely to governments and organizations in need of such software ; and (2) that the FOSS development model can successfully harness the contributions of humanitarian-minded IT and computing professionals. The Trinity Sahana project introduces a third premise: (3) that students and faculty whose main goals are educational and pedagogical can contribute successfully to the Humanitarian FOSS movement. This paper examines these three premises focusing on the question raised by the third.}, author = {Morelli, Ralph and Ellis, Heidi and de Lanerolle, Trishan and Damon, Jonathan}, booktitle = {Proceedings ISCRAM 2007}, citeulike-article-id = {2713959}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://www.iscram.org/dmdocuments/ISCRAM2007/Proceedings/Pages_41_4410HOPS_06_A_Can.pdf}, editor = {Van de Walle, B. and Burghardt, P. and Nieuwenhuis, C.}, institution = {ISCRAM}, keywords = {foss, iscram, iscram2007}, posted-at = {2008-04-24 20:06:16}, priority = {2}, title = {Can Student-Written Software Help Sustain Humanitarian FOSS?}, url = {http://www.iscram.org/dmdocuments/ISCRAM2007/Proceedings/Pages_41_4410HOPS_06_A_Can.pdf}, year = {2007} }

TY - CONF ID - citeulike:2713959 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2713959 N2 - This paper describes a Humanitarian FOSS (free and open source software) project carried out by a team of students and faculty at Trinity College. The project outcome was a volunteer management module that has recently been incorporated into the Sahana Disaster Recovery IT System. The Humanitarian FOSS movement is based on two premises: (1) that quality humanitarian software can be built and given freely to governments and organizations in need of such software ; and (2) that the FOSS development model can successfully harness the contributions of humanitarian-minded IT and computing professionals. The Trinity Sahana project introduces a third premise: (3) that students and faculty whose main goals are educational and pedagogical can contribute successfully to the Humanitarian FOSS movement. This paper examines these three premises focusing on the question raised by the third. TI - Can Student-Written Software Help Sustain Humanitarian FOSS? T2 - Proceedings ISCRAM 2007 KW - foss KW - iscram KW - iscram2007 AU - Morelli, Ralph AU - Ellis, Heidi AU - de Lanerolle, Trishan AU - Damon, Jonathan A2 - Van de Walle, B A2 - Burghardt, P A2 - Nieuwenhuis, C PY - 2007/// UR - http://www.iscram.org/dmdocuments/ISCRAM2007/Proceedings/Pages_41_4410HOPS_06_A_Can.pdf ER -