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Undergraduate Internship Opportunities
The Humanitarian FOSS (H-FOSS) Project offers summer internships for undergraduate computing students who want to get involved in building free and open source software for use by humanitarian organizations.
Institute participants will work with advisers from the open source community and mentors from Accenture Corporation along side faculty supervisors on the following projects:
- The Sahana system is a FOSS disaster management system built initially by Sri Lankan IT professionals in the aftermath of the 2004 Asian tsunami. Contributing since 2006 previous H-FOSS participants built a volunteer management module and contributed other code to the Sahana system. During the 2008 earthquake in China, students worked with IBM and Sahana software engineers to support Sahana's successful deployment in Chengdu province (Blog Posting). Code written by HFOSS students for the Sahana project is now being used by New York City's Office of Emergency Management as part of its coastal flood disaster preparedness system.
- The Open Medical Record System (OpenMRS) is a free and open medical record system being used to assist health workers in the treatment of AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria in the developing world. Begun by the Regenstrief Institute and Partners in Health, OpenMRS has been deployed in Rwanda, Kenya, South Africa, Mozambique, and other African countries. Since 2007 summer internship students have made several significant contributions to the OpenMRS system, including a Touchscreen module, a module to upload and edit X-rays and other medical images, and modifications to the system's underlying data structures.
- Innovative Support to Emergencies, Diseases and Disasters [or InSTEDD], is an organization that seeks to bring technologies together in an attempt to help in the early detection of various diseases and disasters. Where necessary technologies do not exist, InSTEDD works to create the technologies, sharing them with the public when they are stable and usable. In Summer 2008 H-FOSS participants contributed to ongoing Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence project to develop an automated system to assist in detecting disease outbreak patterns by developing ALPACA ( A Light Parsing and Classifying Application).
- GNOME
offers an easy to understand desktop for your GNU/Linux or UNIX
computer. This is a new project coming Summer 2009, participants will
working on improving GNOME Accessibility issues. In
GNOME, accessibility is a core value that touches all aspects of the
system. With a model of "built in" versus "bolted on", the GNOME Accessibility project
has helped lead the industry in accessible design. From the
infrastructure, to the graphical toolkit, to the applications, to the
assistive technologies, accessibility has been a central consideration
from the very early days.
- POSIT is a mobile application developed on Google Android
phone platform to assist emergency works and field researchers. POSIT
was conceived in Spring 2008, with ongoing development this summer.
- AppTrac is a project started in the Summer of 2008, by a team of H-FOSS participants to assist Literacy Learning centers. App-Trac is a online Kiosk system to monitor usage of literacy software to provide a good evaluation for student needs, an administrative tool for organizing users and instructional periods, as well as other helpful administrative tasks. The application is currently being customized for the Hartford Public Library.
More information at http://www.hfoss.org/index.php?page=hfoss-summer-institute
