Humanitarian FOSS

News, Events and Resources related to use of FOSS for humanitarian purposes

FOSS Projects by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2005-06-14 04:50 PM

Known and registered Humanitarian FOSS Projects

News by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2005-06-06 02:55 PM

News on the Humanitarian FOSS domain

Humanitarian FOSS Wiki by Chamindra de Silva — last modified 2005-06-14 05:32 PM

This Wiki site is a workspace for the development of Humanitarian FOSS Projects. It includes design decisions, guidelines, standards, glossaries and any content that would aid in the development of such projects.

Events by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2005-06-02 04:30 PM

Upcoming Humanitarian FOSS seminars, gathering and project sessions

Humanitarian FOSS contact mailgroup by Chamindra de Silva — last modified 2005-06-02 07:02 PM

This group exists to gather togeather representatives from various projects and groups that use ICT (infomation and communication technology) for to help in managing relief, recovery and rehabilitation efforts and complement and support each other in improving and building systems that focuses on the quick benefits to the end victim. The initial theme of discussing will be the use of FOSS (Free and Open Source ) software in building such systems.

shelter lab LiveCD build by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2005-10-12 11:07 AM

The shelter lab LiveCD build (SLLB) is one type of tool that can help IT volunteers and first responders bring a functional, stable, low-maintenance public computing lab online using a wide range of donated hardware with a minimum of preparation. Generally speaking, the SLLB consists of a preinstalled operating environment that boots directly from a CD and that enables shelter residents and workers to exploit as fully and flexibly as possible all of the unique information technology resources (i.e., hardware, network, and human resources) available at a particular shelter site.

Disaster relief and free software by Khairil Yusof — last modified 2005-10-19 06:06 PM

Free Software Magazine writes an article on how free software tools such as available in a typical GNU/Linux distribution do not have to suspend their normal distribution and development methodologies to help volunteers who need software immediately.