The Humanitarian FOSS Project

GNOME Accessibility Project helps disabled users use a keyboard and mouse and helps deaf users perceive audio events.

• MouseTrap (Fall 2009)- library to make GNOME applications more accessible to deaf users
• VizAudio (Summer 2009)- application that controls mouse movements with a webcam and head tracking

InSTEDD Evolve uses machine learning to sift through news articles from around the world and identify disease outbreaks as they happen.

• ALPACA (Summer 2008):Light Parsing And Classifying Application
• Evolve (Summer 2009) -Disease Ontology prediction
  

OpenMRS is an open source medical records system deployed in several developing countries. HFOSS contributions include a notes system and touchscreen keyboard support.

• Touchscreen Toolkit API (OpenMRS Sourcecode) (Spring 2008)
  
• Image Import Functionality (Summer 2008)
• Structure Numeric Support (Summer 2008)
  
• Uganda deployment customized module (Spring 2009)
  

Sahana helps governments and non-governmental agencies coordinate relief work in a disaster situation. HFOSS contributions include a volunteer tracking system and a credential tracking system.

• Volunteer Management Module (Fall 2009)
  
• Volunteer Credentialing Module (Summer 2009)

Portable Open Search and Identification Tool (Spring 2010) helps rescue workers coordinate and keep track of finds such as victims or dangerous areas in a disaster situation.

Collabbit (Spring 2010) helps relief agencies coordinate their efforts during a disaster situation.

RMH Homebase (Spring 2009) helps the Ronald McDonald House in Portland, Maine schedule volunteers. Developed by the Bowdoin College HFOSS chapter.

AppTrac (Summer 2009) helps manage the adult literacy labs at the Hartford Public Library.

VMOSS (Fall 2009)(Volunteer Management Open Source Software): is a standalone volunteer management system, providing volunteer and project registration, monitoring, and reporting functionality. It was originally developed as part of the Sahana (LAMP) System.

Autotouch (Spring 2008)(Touchscreen Toolkit): is an API that will convert web-based applications to function on a touchscreen.

HLearn Screening & Placement Tool, (Spring 2009) for the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving’s Adult Literacy Project, helps instructors place students in adult literacy classes.

Interactive Scheduling Calendar for Darien EMS (Fall 2008) helps EMS volunteers in Darien, CT schedule shifts, replacing a paper process.