[TOS] Recommended HFOSS communities?

[Joel Sherrill]

I'm one of the original RTEMS developers. It is a free real-time operating
system used in a lot of space and science applications. We (like OpenMRS)
have participated in both GSoC and Google Code-In multiple times. We try to
keep active project lists of multiple complexity levels. If we have a heads
up of skill range and quantity of students, we can be sure to have an
appropriate set of tasks/ideas reviewed and ready. Plus the community can
be aware of the expected students and be on point to be extra helpful.

Just to to know the expectations so we can see about meeting you halfway.

FWIW: The OpenMRS folks I have met are great. I don't know what issues
folks had working with them but approaching them with a heads up may also
improve the students' experience.

--joel
RTEMS

On Sep 9, 2017 8:29 PM, "Emily M. Lovell" <Emily_Lovell at berea.edu> wrote:

> 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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