[TOS] Recommended HFOSS communities?

[Emily M. Lovell]

Hi again all,

Thank you to everyone who replied to my recent e-mail about evaluating student blogs. (I’ll reply to each of your e-mails just as soon as I catch my breath!)

I’m also trying to refine my shortlist of humanitarian FOSS projects to let students select from this semester. It seems that some of the projects previously recommended by foss2serve/POSSE are no longer good options for the following reasons:

- MouseTrap<https://github.com/GNOME/mousetrap>: I don’t see much activity in the past 2 years
- OpenMRS<https://github.com/openmrs/openmrs-core>: I’ve heard that this has not worked well for others, due to the complexity/scale of the project
- Ushahidi<https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web>: looks like it is no longer being developed as a FOSS project?

Communities I’m still thinking about include:

- Sahana Eden<https://github.com/sahana/eden>
- Mifos<https://github.com/openMF/community-app>
- Sugar<https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar>, possibly? I don’t see much activity here either...

I’d love to hear if there are other HFOSS communities that folks have had success with - or if you have anything encouraging or discouraging to add about the above. Any and all input welcome!

Many thanks,

       Emily


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