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• Fall 2006
• Alex Lanstein '07 and Candyce Young-Fields '07 developed AD/LDAP Sahana Integration, which is a system that keeps track of a predetermined set of users in the case of a disaster where the institution had to be vacated. This system was part of the Sahana Project.
• Spring 2007
• Professor Gary Parker and Alex Lanstein '07 were the Connecticut College advisors for the HFOSS course COM225, Topics in Applications Programming - Sahana Project, which was taught by Professor Ralph Morelli from Trinity College via videoconferencing. Connecticut College had five students take the course.
• Summer 2007
• Ernel Wint '09 participated in the HFOSS Summer Institute working on the Sahana Project.
• Fall 2007
• Professor Gary Parker advised undergraduate students Ernel Wint and Alexander Marcus as they participated in an independent study with Professor Ralph Morelli from Trinity College.
• Mellon Post-doc Jana Iyengar and Professor Ralph Morell participated in weekly meetings devoted to developing a workshop for SIGSCE on how to integrate HFOSS into the CS curriculum.
• March 2008
• Mellon Post-doc Jana Iyengar, along with collaborators from Trinity and Wesleyan, presented a workshop at ACM SIGSCE on 'Teaching and Building Humanitarian Open Source Software' for faculty interested in implementing HFOSS at their institutions.
• April 2008
• Mellon Post-doc Jana Iyengar, along with Professor Ralph Morelli and Trishan de Lanerolle from Trinity College, held a three-hour workshop on 'Teaching and Building Humanitarian Open Source Software' for interested CS faculty at Wagner College, Staten Island, NY.
• Summer 2008
• HFOSS Summer Institute: Ernel Wint '09 is working on the AppTrac Project and James Jackson '11 is working on the Sahana Project. Professors Parker and Izmirli are involved with administrative duties and advising/mentoring students on HFOSS projects.
• Spring 2009
• HFOSS Software Development course offered at the 200 and 300 level: COM205 and COM305, Topics in Software Development. Principles of software development applied to real-world problems. The problems addressed and computer languages used will vary depending on the available opportunities for application. Students will be part of a team that develops a software system for a real-world customer. Students in Course 305 will be team leaders.
• March 2009
• Integrating FOSS into the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum: A SIGSCE 2009 pre-symposium event on 4 March 2009. This symposium will include paper sessions, invited speakers, and group discussions on the study of free and open source software (FOSS) within undergraduate curricula.
• Summer 2009
• Connecticut College HFOSS Summer Institute: The 2009 Connecticut College HFOSS Summer Institute will be held at Connecticut College in New London, CT. The 10-week (May 18th to July 24th) institute will engage students in local or international open source projects. The internships come with a $4000 stipend and include on-campus housing for the duration.

The Humanitarian FOSS Project is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant Nos. CCF-0722137, CCF-0722134, and CCF-0722199 Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.