Creating an academic community to build Humanitarian FOSS: A progress report

Proceedings of ISCRAM 2008 - 5th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 337-341

  De Lanerolle, Trishan R ^a   Morelli, Ralph ^a   Danner, Norman ^b   Krizanc, Danny ^b   Parker, Gary ^c   Izmirli, Ozgur ^c  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c The Holleran Center for Community Action and Public Policy   (United States)

Author keywords

Academic; Collaborations; FOSS; H FOSS; HFOSS; Humanitarian; Open source

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SCHEDULING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STUDENTS;

ACADEMIC; COLLABORATIONS; FOSS; H-FOSS; HUMANITARIAN; OPEN SOURCES;

OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE;

EID: 77956214889     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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