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We are part of a growing community involved in The Humanitarian FOSS Project, dedicated to building and using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) to benefit humanity. We are a founding chapter of the H-FOSS Project, along with Wesleyan University and Connecticut College.

On this site you find resources for course materials,documentation and resources relating to ongoing projects @Trinity College Chapter.

Recent News

  • March 28, 2009 The POSIT Project receives set of G1 Android Phones from Google to continue development.
  • October 3, 2008 H-FOSS Students Rachel Foecking (Trinity), Sarah Thayer (Trinity), Myles Garvey (U. Hartford) together with Prof. Ingrid Russell (U. Hartford) and Trishan de Lanerolle (Trinity) were "Engaging Students in the Free Open Source Movement" Panelists at 2008 International Grace Hopper Women in Computing Conference in Denver CO.
  • June 21, 2008 Richard Stallman speaks at Trinity.
  • May 27, 2008 The 2008 HFOSS Summer Institute gets underway.
  • May 17, 2008 The VM team of Antonio Alcorn, Giovanni Capalbo, Trishan de Lanerolle and Ralph Morelli were called upon to support Sahaha deployment following Chinese Earthquake. Follow the story on the H-FOSS blog

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Active Development Projects

  • The Sahana Volunteer Management Project is part of the international Sahana Project. Sahana is a open source disaster management system developed in Sri Lanka and maintained by the Lanka Software Foundation. Sahana is a free and open source (FOSS) Disaster Management System (DMS). It is a web based collaboration tool that addresses the common coordination problems during a disaster from finding missing people, managing aid, managing volunteers, tracking camps effectively between government groups, the civil society (NGOs) and the victims themselves. The Trinity team built and maintains the Volunteer Management Module.
  • The OpenMRS Touchscreen Project is part of the international OpenMRS Project. OpenMRS is on open source medical record system, which was started in 2004 to help deliver health care in developing countries. OpenMRS is also a community of developers, implementers, and users working toward a shared and open foundation for managing health information. The Trinity team is building and maintaining the Touchscreen module.
  • The Volunteer Credentialing System (VCS) is part of the Sahana Volunteer Management module. Developed in collaboration with Prof.Frank Fiedrich of the Institute for Crisis, Disaster and Risk Management (ICDRM) at George Washington University, the VCS will enable volunteer organizations a means to easily verify and document a volunteer's professional credentials.
  • AppTrac Application Management is a joint effort with students and faculty from University of Hartford and Trinity College to develop an open source application tracking system for Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford. The system will monitor usage of literacy software applications to better evaluate students' learning needs and streamline LVGH's report generation.




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