Community Engagement Challenge

BOSS aims to reach underrepresented groups in tech who want to be mentored and assisted in learning how to work on open source projects.

Redesigns an undergraduate computing curriculum, infusing it with FOSS and computing for the greater good, making both an intrinsic part about how future computing professionals think about their work and their world.

Creative FOSS aims to lower the barrier to entry of contributing to open source projects, specifically for non-technical people.

Eureka Universe (EU) is a Business Analytics platform that uses a universal representation based on fuzzy logic predicates and related techniques. EU does not require the users to have significant knowledge of areas other than their own field.

First Contributions help beginners contribute to open source projects. The project has three parts: 1. hands-on tutorial to help beginners make their first contribution 2. Web app to help users find projects with issues 3. Discussion Forum

FOSS Desktops for Kids helps under-served students access technology by building their own open source powered computers. The program provides hands-on learning in technology, coding, and engineering through collaborative projects.

FOSS Campus aims to build a platform to guide students step-by-step on how to get started with Open Source, in a fun and engaging manner.

FOSScoop is a web platform which covers theory and practice exercises, to help anyone in the development of coding skills.

Handibox is an accessibility tool that will allow Human-Computer interaction with people who have some degree of motor disability. Through the Handibox, people will have the possibility to carry out elementary activities.

This project is designed for users of a range of skill levels, from beginner to advanced. For beginners, there are programming tutorials, and for more advanced users, suggestions of issues to resolve.

Our summer internship program currently consists of ten students who partner with a scientist-mentor during a four-week summer program. The key goal of the program is to train students in research, computer programming, and computational thinking.

Leapcode is a gamified platform to help open source contributors. The project aims to solve through an online platform that rewards and motivates first-time contributors.

A series of hands-on workshops for universities: Examples of workshops will be a class that helps attendees learn how to write GNOME applications (for example, writing their first GNOME application).

Rhea is designed to be the world’s first Linux development learning platform. What makes Rhea unique is that it will offer both video and text (articles) based courses focused on Linux development.

OSME is a GNOME desktop application and will be a one-stop guide for all the beginning coders in the FOSS community.

We have begun our project of teaching kids both to code and to learn about open source, via short and fun animated lessons. Each lesson is 10(ish) minutes long and builds the confidence of the kids participating in the course.