CPATH-2: Collaborative Research: Building a Community to Incorporate Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software into Undergraduate Computing Education

CPATH-2：协作研究：建立一个社区，将人道主义免费和开源软件纳入本科计算机教育

• 批准号: 0939034
• 负责人: Ralph Morelli
• 金额: $ 46.76万
• 依托单位: Trinity College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2012-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0939034&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CPATH; Collaborative; Research; Building; Community

Free and open source software (FOSS) is software that can be freely shared, modified, and redistributed. FOSS is developed by collaborative communities and distributed under licenses that permit its sharing and redistribution. Humanitarian FOSS (H-FOSS) is FOSS that is developed specifically to benefit the local and global community. The key concepts underlying FOSS and H-FOSS are their collaborative development process and community ownership. These concepts provide the underpinnings for many remarkable software projects, such as free and open repositories of general knowledge (Wikipedia), standard DNA parts (The BioBricks Foundation), and scientific research (PLoS).This project uses the H-FOSS model to help revitalize undergraduate computing education by getting students engaged in building free and open software that benefits the community. During the project's first three years, students from Trinity College, Wesleyan University, Connecticut College, and elsewhere have developed H-FOSS in traditional and video-conference courses, independent studies and capstone projects, and in sponsored summer internships. Working collaboratively with FOSS practitioners in real and virtual communities, students have developed software that directly supports a variety of global and local humanitarian efforts, ranging from disaster management to health care delivery to volunteer management to search and rescue operations. For more details about this work, see http://www.hfoss.org. During the next two years, this project will have three major goals: (1) to extend the H-FOSS educational community by creating new H-FOSS Chapters at a wide range of undergraduate institutions, including community colleges, women's colleges, and traditionally black schools; (2) to create an H-FOSS Certificate Program that will recognize student achievement in the study and practice of H-FOSS development; and (3) to develop a sustainable infrastructure and funding model, along with industry and community partners, that will enable the H-FOSS effort to be expanded to a national scope. By getting computing students and faculty involved in building FOSS that serves the community, this project will thereby help transform the nature and enhance the attractiveness of undergraduate computing education itself.

免费开源软件（FOSS）是可以自由共享，修改和重新分布的软件。 FOSS是由协作社区开发的，并根据许可发行，允许其共享和再分配。人道主义福斯（H-Foss）是专门为受益于当地和全球社区而开发的福音。 FOSS和H FOSS的关键概念是他们的协作发展过程和社区所有权。 这些概念为许多杰出的软件项目提供了基础，例如一般知识的免费和开放库库（Wikipedia），标准DNA零件（Biobricks Foundation）和科学研究（PLOS）（PLOS）。该项目使用H-Foss模型来帮助通过让学生参与构建有益于社区的免费和开放软件来振兴本科计算教育。 在该项目的头三年中，来自三一学院，卫斯理大学，康涅狄格学院和其他地方的学生在传统和视频会议课程，独立研究和顶峰项目以及赞助的暑期实习方面开发了H-Foss。与真实和虚拟社区的FOSS从业人员合作，学生开发了直接支持各种全球和地方人道主义努力的软件，从灾难管理到医疗保健到卫生保健再到志愿者管理再到搜救行动。 有关此工作的更多详细信息，请参见http://www.hfoss.org。在接下来的两年中，该项目将有三个主要目标：（1）通过在各种本科机构中创建新的H-Foss章节来扩展H-Foss教育社区学校（2）创建H-Foss证书计划，该计划将在研究和H-Foss开发的研究和实践中取得成就； （3）与行业和社区合作伙伴一起开发可持续的基础设施和资助模型，这将使​​H柱子的努力扩大到国家范围。 通过让参与为社区的建筑福斯的计算学生和教职员工，该项目将有助于改变性质并增强本科计算教育本身的吸引力。