froscon - humanitarian opensource software
Wolfgang Schlegel
"Let's make the world a better place"
what is humanitarian software?
- "humanitarian" -> concerned with or seeking to promote human welfare
- "i want to use my skills and expertise to improve human welfare"
RapidFTR
- family tracing and reunification
- helps children who are separated from their caregivers in emergency situations
- mobile phone application (client) and data storage system (server)
- started by students
- used in uganda 2012, south sudan 2013, philippines after typhoon yolanda
technical
- ruby on rails server software
- couchdb
- frontends
- android
- netbook
- gnu affero gpl 3
how can you help?
- rails or android development
- devops automation
- automated bdd testing
- ui/ux enhancements
- documentation
- milestone: free to play and status: ready
- mainpage
MifosX
- open plattform for financial inclusion
- loan products and loan accounts
- savings products and saving accounts
- backoffice
- surveys and progress out of poverty tracking (how big is the impact to the country or does it even have a bad impact)
- initiated by grameen foundation
- non profit organiztion based in washington dc
- replicates the grameen bank microfinance model around the world
- launched mifos in 2006 by the foundation by the foundation
- returned mifos back to the community in 2011
- heavily used in africa and asia
- online demo
- well documented restful endpoints)
technical
- java 7
- jax-rs, jersry (restful endpoint)
- JSON, google GSON
- spring
- hibernate
- mysql
- mozilla public licence 2.0
how can you help?
- write code
- ui/ux enhancements
- write documentation
- mainpage
OpenMRS
- medical record system
- replaces paper based records
- improves health care delivery
- regenstrief institue, and informatics and healthcare research organization
- parners in health, an organization providing healthcare for the poor
- created in 2004 as a platfotm for developing countries
- used in north and south america as well as europe, africa, asia and india
- not certificated in europe as official medical record system
technical
- java
- spring
- hibernate
- mysql
- tomcat
- openmrs public license, based on mizulla public license
how can you help?
- introductory tickets (small easy bugs/features)
- community tickets (story of a feature)
- projects (big module)
- mainpage
getting involved
- pair on a ticket (alone and simple tryout)
- code jams (with friends)
- people
- things to work on
- keep it small (things should be doable at that jam)
- prepare tickets / stories
- location
- keep going
- conferences (to talk about it or join a code jam)
- meetups (same as conference but local/regular based)
- summers of code (big conference ;-))
- universities (show students how to code in real world)
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