HFOSS Education

February 26, 2025 - Pittsburgh, PA

Meeting Location

David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Room 319-321

This event is an affiliated event of the SIGCSE Technical Symposium. See SIGCSE 2025 for general information about the location.

Overview

Student participation in Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) provides an opportunity for learning software engineering technical and professional skills. HFOSS also engages students with computing for social good, which has been shown to be particularly appealing to women and other groups underrepresented in computing majors.

This full-day event will consist of morning and afternoon sessions that can be registered for separately. The overall goal is to bring together faculty interested in HFOSS education to learn about the latest efforts in this area and to work on identifying learning materials that will support further expansion of HFOSS education. The focus for each session will be as follows:

HFOSS Education Update – 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 LibreFoodPantry, Open Energy Dashboard, FarmData, and Submitty. Presentation and discussion will cover status of these projects and issues and opportunities for starting or joining an education-oriented HFOSS project.

HFOSS Learning Materials – 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.

Agenda

Time	Activity	Facilitators
	Wednesday February 26, 2025
8:45 AM	Welcome Introductions Plan for the day	Greg, Darci
9:15 AM	HFOSS Education Updates Intro to Education oriented HFOSS projects Intro to Kits Intro to Professors' Open Source Software Experience (POSSE) Intro to TeachingOpenSource	Heidi
10:10 AM	Break	All
10:15 AM	Teaching Open Source Where might you teach open source? Which classes? Ways to get started in teaching open source Teaching materials in teaching open source	Heidi, Lori
11:45 AM	Wrap-up	All
12:00 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	Kits Introduction Overview of GitKit Runestone	Stoney, Karl
2:30 PM	Education-Oriented HFOSS Projects Brief intros to projects: LFP - Stoney, Heidi or Karl OED - Steve - interview past participants with OED FarmData2 - Grant	Grant, Steve, Karl
3:30 PM	Break	All
3:45 PM	Getting Started Ways to get started First HFOSS assignments What are plans going forward? How can we help?	Greg, Heidi
4:45 PM	Wrap-up Closing remarks	Greg
5:00 PM	End

Information for Attendees

Attendees should bring a laptop to participate in the breakout activities.

There is no charge for attending this event, but participants should register according to the instructions below and are expected to be registered to attend the SIGCSE Technical Symposium.

To Register

The morning session will provide an opportunity for faculty members engaged in HFOSS education to present and discuss their experiences. Attendees will include prior attendees of the Professors Open Source Software Experience (POSSE) and other faculty who have some familiarity with open source software development.

The afternoon session will be suitable for any instructor interested in HFOSS education, whether experienced or not. The afternoon session will explore tools and opportunities that can help faculty expand HFOSS education.

To register, please complete the form here.

NOTE: seating is limited, so please do not assume you are attending before receiving a confirmation from us.