[TOS] Recommended HFOSS communities?

Frederick Grose fgrose at gmail.com
Sun Sep 10 02:00:51 UTC 2017


On Sat, Sep 9, 2017 at 3:41 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...
>

​See http://sugarizer.org/ for more activity.
​

> 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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