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.

自由开源软件 (FOSS) 是可以自由共享、修改和重新分发的软件。 自由和开源软件由协作社区开发，并根据允许其共享和重新分发的许可证进行分发。人道主义自由和开源软件 (H-FOSS) 是专门为造福当地和全球社区而开发的自由和开源软件。 FOSS 和 H-FOSS 的关键概念是它们的协作开发过程和社区所有权。 这些概念为许多卓越的软件项目提供了基础，例如免费和开放的常识知识库（维基百科）、标准 DNA 部分（The BioBricks 基金会）和科学研究（PLoS）。该项目使用 H-FOSS 模型来帮助通过让学生参与构建造福社区的自由和开放软件来重振本科计算机教育。 在该项目的前三年，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、独立研究和顶点项目以及赞助的暑期实习中开发了 H-FOSS。学生们与真实和虚拟社区中的自由和开源软件从业者合作，开发了直接支持各种全球和当地人道主义工作的软件，从灾害管理到医疗保健提供，从志愿者管理到搜索和救援行动。 有关这项工作的更多详细信息，请参阅 http://www.hfoss.org。在接下来的两年中，该项目将实现三个主要目标：(1) 通过在广泛的本科院校（包括社区学院、女子学院和传统黑人学院）创建新的 H-FOSS 分会来扩展 H-FOSS 教育社区学校； (2) 创建 H-FOSS 证书计划，认可学生在 H-FOSS 开发的学习和实践中取得的成就； (3) 与行业和社区合作伙伴一起开发可持续的基础设施和融资模式，这将使 H-FOSS 工作扩展到全国范围。 通过让计算机专业的学生和教师参与构建服务于社区的自由开源软件，该项目将有助于改变本科计算机教育本身的性质并增强其吸引力。