Heidi Ellis
Chair and Associate Professor of CS & IT, Western New England College

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Heidi Ellis has been active in software engineering education for the past 15 years. She is PI on the NSF-funded project “SoftHum: StudentParticipation in the Community of Open Source Software for Humanity,” which is investigating the development of course materials to support student open source participation within the classroom. She has been involved with the Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) project (hfoss.org) which has a goal of building a community for supporting the involvement of students in HFOSS projects since its inception and has multiple publications related to involving students in HFOSS projects.

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2:30pm Thursday, 07/22/2010

Opportunities for Students to Contribute to FOSS Projects

Education
Location: D133

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Heidi Ellis (Western New England College), Gregory Hislop (Drexel University), Luis Ibanez (KITWARE Inc.)

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Student contributions to OSS projects have great potential to benefit both projects and students. While student involvement in OSS projects can take effort on the part of the OSS community, student contributions are well worth the effort required. This talk covers the variety of ways that students can become involved in an OSS project as well as the benefits and roadblocks to student involvement. Read more.

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Heidi Ellis Chair and Associate Professor of CS & IT, Western New England College