Educators

Want to get involved?#

Contact us on Discord or by email and let's talk!

Why Work With LibreFoodPantry?#

  • Do good for your community by helping to provide free and open-source software to your local food pantry.
  • Faculty: enrich your students' learning by engaging them in an open-source project.
  • Students: gain experience developing software, exercise and improve valued soft-skills, and build your resume.

Who Else is Working with LibreFoodPantry?#

Nassau Community College#

Client

  • NEST

Faculty

  • Darci Burdge
  • Lori Postner

Courses

  • Mobile Application Development

Projects and Modules

  • NCC-NEST-Registrations
  • NEST

Western New England University#

Client

  • BEAR-Necessities-Market

Faculty

  • Heidi Ellis
  • Stoney Jackson
  • Robert Walz

Courses

  • Software Engineering
  • Computer Science Capstone
  • Human-Computer Interaction

Projects and Modules

  • BEAR-Necessities-Market
  • OrderModule-bnm
  • UserModule-bnm

Worcester State University#

Client

  • Theas Pantry

Faculty

  • Karl Wurst

Courses

  • Capstone

Projects and Modules

  • Theas-Pantry
  • FoodKeeper-API
  • InventoryModule-tp
  • VisitModule-tp

Related Work#

  • [PDF] Karl R. Wurst, Christopher Radkowski, Stoney Jackson, Heidi J. C. Ellis, Darci Burdge, and Lori Postner. 2020. **LibreFoodPantry: Developing a Multi-Institutional, Faculty-Led, Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software Community.** In Proceedings of the 51st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 441–447. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3328778.3366929

Links#

  • foss2serve.org and HFOSS.org
    • Community of instructors teaching HFOSS.
    • Sign up for and attend a POSSE and get more experience with HFOSS.
    • Find activities that you can use with your classes to engage students in HFOSS.
  • TeachingOpenSource
    • Join a larger community of faculty who teach and teach with Open Source.
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