Heidi Ellis

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Western New England University

Heidi Ellis is Professor and Chair of the Computer Science and Information Technology department at Western New England University. She has a long-time interest in computing education and has been supporting student participation in open source software since 2006. Heidi also writes about students and open source at http://heidiellis.wordpress.com/

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Heidi JC Ellis

27 Jun 2013

How to get a class involved with an open source project

This June's POSSE cohort is making great progress on various HFOSS projects including OpenMRS, GNOME Accessibility projects, Sahana, and Ushahidi. Another POSSE is planned for spring 2014 so keep your ears open for the announcement!

Heidi JC Ellis

12 Jan 2011

Student participation in open source projects (A professor's perspective)

I am aware of Project:Possibility the great effort that USC and UCLA students put into Caribou. I'm hoping that in the next few years we'll see some return on that effort, although I note that it may be difficult to connect recent efforts to motivation provided several years in the past. Simply having a larger body of folks participating in OSS would be one indication.

Good thoughts!