The Humanitarian FOSS Symposium 2011 | Think FOSS, Act Locally: HFOSS in the Local Community

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The Third annual H-FOSS Education Symposium (March 09 th, 2011, Dallas, Texas) held as a SIGCSE 2011 pre-conference activity, aims to bring together educators, software developers, industry representatives, and students to continue the discussion of how best to promote HFOSS within undergraduate computing education. Humanitarian FOSS is free and open source software that contributes in some way to the public good. This year’s symposium focuses on applying HFOSS within the local community -- i.e., in local government, in K-12 education, and in collaboration with local non-profit organizations. As in previous years, the symposium will be highly interactive, taking place entirely in plenary session. In addition to the keynote address by Bryan Sivak, the symposium will include a poster session, and panels on government, K-12 education, and non-profits, made up of invited speakers and participants from industry, academia, and the non-profit sector.

HFOSS 2011 Live video stream

Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 03/09/2011 - 16:36

Check out the live HFOSS 2011 Video Feed and recorded events, unedited and unfiltered, at:

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hfoss

Announcing Poster Proposal Extension and Google sponsored Student Travel Awards

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/27/2011 - 23:49

We would like to call your attention to the 3rd annual HFOSS Symposium.

Google sponsored travel grant and waived registration will be awarded to students presenting a poster at the 2011 HFOSS symposium.

HFOSS 2011 http://www.hfoss.org/hfoss2011

This one-day symposium will be held in Dallas, TX on March 9, 2011 as a pre-conference activity in conjunction with the 2011 SIGCSE conference (http://www.sigcse.org/sigcse2011/ ). It is sponsored by the NSF-funded Humanitarian FOSS Project (http://hfoss.org).

Speaker Profiles

Bryan Sivak

Former Chief Technology Officer, Government of the District of Columbia

This years keynote speaker is Bryan Sivak, former Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia, founding member and advisory board member of Civic Commons.

Program

(Last updated Feb 9th 2011 -- Draft)

When: March 9th, 2011

Location: Lone Star A3 in the Sheraton Dallas Hotel and Convention Center, SIGCSE'11 Pre-Conference activity .

Registration: Click Here for HFOSS Symposium Registration details.

Submit Short Papers / Position Statements

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/29/2010 - 09:33

Authors should follow the SIGCSE formatting guidelines (available here) for short papers or position statements. All submissions should be in the PDF file format.

Submit Poster Proposal

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 10/22/2010 - 16:00

Your proposal should include as much of the following information as possible. A list of the poster titles and authors will be included in the program. Submit your poster proposal through the submission form below.