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Open source project candidates
caLew edited this page Sep 8, 2015
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Choice 1: Sugar Labs
- Description: Spin-off from OLPC (one laptop per child) that is doing software to create a learning environment for children. The award-winning Sugar Learning Platform promotes collaborative learning through Sugar Activities that encourage critical thinking, the heart of a quality education. Designed from the ground up especially for children, Sugar offers an alternative to traditional “office-desktop” software. Sugar is the core component of a worldwide effort to provide every child with equal opportunity for a quality education. Available in 25 languages, Sugar’s Activities are used every school day by nearly 3 million children in more than forty countries.
- Reasoning: Running tests on Sugar Labs would allow our team to assist in developmental software for younger children in order to facilitate improved learning.
Choice 2: Martus
- Description: Martus, the Greek word for "witness," is a software tool that allows users to document incidents of abuse by creating bulletins, and storing them on redundant servers located around the world. Using Martus helps countries torn apart by civil conflicts come to a consensus and rational understanding of their histories, leading to reconciliation and reform processes.
- Reasoning: Any platform that has the potential to save lives and bring families together is helpful for humanitarian efforts. We like the philosophy behind Martus, and hope to test its limitations.
Choice 3: Koha-ILS
- Description: Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS).
- Reasoning: We are interested to see the full functionality of Koha in order to analyze the effectiveness of software that runs hundreds of our country's libraries.
List of open source projects browsed: http://foss2serve.org/index.php/HFOSS_Projects