[OLPC-NYC] Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Flier

[SINCAK, JOHN]

HFOSS @ BCC

Humanitarian Free and Open-Source Software Workshop at Bergen Community College

Saturday, April 2, 2011 – 8:00am – 1:00pm

400 Paramus Road, Paramus, NJ 07652 – Technology Education Center – Room 128

Join us for a half-day at Bergen Community College where we will explore the Open-Source world and share experiences getting students involved in real-world software projects that often have humanitarian goals in mind.

What you will gain from this workshop:

-  A set of take-away open-source lesson plans you can use right away that get your students using and, perhaps, contributing to and/or creating open-source software projects.

-  Exposure to App Inventor, Google’s visually-oriented open-source product for developing applications for Android smart phones.

-  An introduction to what Open-Source is all about: history, goals, accomplishments

-  Practical ideas for exploring open-source products, especially in environments with limited resources and/or heavy security restrictions

 Testimonials from colleagues and students who are using and/or working on real-world open-source software projects



Explore this fascinating world of freely available products and platforms that will excite and engage your students. The Open-Source software movement has been thriving for close to 30 years and in the last 10 years has emerged as an important enterprise-level player, providing solutions to business, industry, education and government across a wide variety of platforms and environments.

Guest speakers include:

 - Prof. Ralph Morelli, Trinity College, Hartford, CT; founding member of the HFOSS project.

 - Prof. Heidi Ellis, Western New England College; founding member of the HFOSS project.

 - Prof. Greg Hislop, iSchool, Drexel University



See the attached agenda for details.

For more information and details, please contact us:



inf at bergen.edu<mailto:inf at bergen.edu>



Bill Madden, Associate Professor                                                         Anita Verno, Associate Professor

Bergen Community College                                                                    Bergen Community College

400 Paramus Road, Paramus, NJ 07652                                              400 Paramus Road, Paramus, NJ 07652

201-493-3573                                                                                                201-447-7909
bmadden at bergen.edu                                                                           averno at bergen.edu
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