NPFI News

NPFI has begun a new partnership with iBec Creative to take over the hosting and tech support for HomeBase, HomeRoom, FarmData, and this website itself. HomeRoom and HomeBase are used ...

NPFI has begun hosting FarmData for the Tenmile Farm Foundation in Upstate New York. This hosting support includes tech support in the form of bug fixing and minor improvements requested ...

In response to a broadening need for quality software and technical support from non-profits and other public-facing organizations, NPFI has decided to expand its mission and staff.  This expanded mission ...

NPFI has begun hosting Spiral Path Farm’s instance of FarmData. This hosting support includes tech support in the form of bug fixing and minor improvements requested by Spiral Path’s ...

We are pleased to announce a new partnership between NPFI and the Long and Kimmy Nguyen Family Foundation. This partnership helps support NPFI’s new initiative to broaden participation by ...

The OpenPace project, titled “Broadening Participation through Authentic, Collaborative Engagement with Computing for the Greater Good”, has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant for a 5-year collaboration among six ...

In Fall 2019, NPFI began working with the Dickinson College Farm to develop new open source farm management software that would extend the functionality of the current FarmData software.  FarmData ...

NPFI has just completed adapting the Homebase volunteer scheduling software to fit the needs of the Ronald McDonald House at Boston Harbor.  This adaptation was facilitated by RMH staff members ...

The NPFI-supported project conducted by Prof. Steve Huss-Lederman has now completed.  Beloit students helped develop the Open Energy Dashboard (OED), a pre-existing FOSS product used at six colleges and universities ...

The NPFI-supported project conducted by Prof. Janet Davis has now completed.  Five Whitman College students redeveloped BMAC-Warehouse, a CO-FOSS product developed in 2015 by a different group of Whitman students. In this ...

Our new book Client-Centered Software Development: The CO-FOSS Approach has just been published by CRC Press.  It is available in hardback and various ebook formats.  For more information, visit Teaching Resources.

NPFI developed and launched a new Web site for The Judie Aronson Initiative.  This initiative offers college scholarships for high school seniors who exhibit unusual commitment to social justice in ...

Allen Tucker gave a presentation on NPFI, its goals, and its projects at the POSSE Roundup at SIGCSE 2019.  NPFI Advisory Board members Grant Braught and Steve Huss-Lederman also gave ...

Led by faculty member Janet Davis, students at Whitman College will redevelop the existing BMAC-Warehouse food distribution software for the Blue Mountain Action Council.  An NPFI grant has been awarded to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Pragmatics, Inc, a leading software development company in Reston, VA, has made its second $5000 donation to NPFI.  These two donations have enabled NPFI to award its first two grants, ...

This summer, NPFI developed a new website for the Kimmy Duong Foundation, whose mission is to provide college scholarships to deserving high school students in the Washington, DC area.

This spring, NPFI developed a new website for the South Carolina Canine Search Team, a non-profit whose mission is to help local officials find persons who are reported missing in ...

The first NPFI grant was awarded to Green River College in Auburn, WA to support the work of Tina Ostrander.  Tina will teach the course IT 355: Agile Development Methods during the 2016 ...

NPFI completed a major upgrade to Homebase, originally developed by Bowdoin students in 2008.  This upgrade expanded the reach of Homebase to the Ronald McDonald House in Bangor, ME and ...