Coding for good: Highlights from the open source humanitarian movement | Linux Today

Coding for good: Highlights from the open source humanitarian movement

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 28, 2012

A five minute lightning talk where Leslie Hawthorn shows how open source is influencing and impacting the humanitarian movement. Most of us know this as HFOSS, Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software, and you might remember that the movement was inspired by the Asian tsunami in December 2004. See what HFOSS is doing now from Microloans to Computer Science programming and much more.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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