Led by faculty member Steve Huss-Lederman, students at Beloit College are developing the Open Energy Dashboard, an open source energy monitoring dashboard for use by organizations to monitor their energy usage. An NPFI grant has been awarded to Beloit to help Professor Huss-Lederman teach the 2018-2019 capstone software development course as his students further extend and […]
Homeroom Redeployed for RMH Bangor
NPFI developed a new version of Homeroom for use at the Ronald McDonald House in Bangor, ME. This version is based on the software originally developed in 2011 by a team of Bowdoin College students for the RMH in Portland, ME. This work again exemplifies the value of open source as a medium for reusing […]
H/FOSS Presentation at SIGCSE 2018
At the 2018 ACM SIGCSE Symposium, Grant Braught led a panel presentation about teaching H/FOSS courses at 5 different undergraduate institutions. Bonnie MacKellar, Steve Huss-Lederman, and Allen Tucker also participated in the panel. The full 18-page paper underlying that presentation will be published in the Spring 2018 issue of ACM Transactions on Computing Education.
Software Upgrade for Second Helpings
This winter, NPFI upgraded the venerable Homeplate software, originally developed by Bowdoin students for Second Helpings in 2012. This upgrade allowed the Second Helpings administrator to work more flexibly with the data reported from the food trucks.
New FOSS Textbook
A new textbook titled “Client-Centered Software Development: the CO-FOSS Approach” is being developed by Allen Tucker for CRC Press. The book will provide detailed guidance for instructors, students, non-profits, and software professionals on the process of how a student team can develop a custom software product for a single client in a 1- or 2-semester course. […]