Leveraging Final Degree Projects for Open Source Software Contributions

(1) Background: final year students of computer science engineering degrees must carry out a final degree project (FDP) in order to graduate. Students’ contributions to improve open source software (OSS) through FDPs can offer multiple benefits and challenges, both for the students, the instructors and for the project itself. This work reports on a practical experience developed by four students contributing to mature OSS projects during their FDPs, detailing how they addressed the multiple challenges involved, both from the students and teachers perspective. (2) Methods: we followed the work of four students contributing to two established OSS projects for two academic years and analyzed their work on GitHub and their responses to a survey. (3) Results: we obtained a set of specific recommendations for future practitioners and detailed a list of benefits achieved by steering FDP towards OSS contributions, for students, teachers and the OSS projects. (4) Conclusions: we find out that FDPs oriented towards enhancing OSS projects can introduce students into real-world, practical examples of software engineering principles, give them a boost in their confidence about their technical and communication skills and help them build a portfolio of contributions to daily used worldwide open source applications

Disaster Relief 2.0: The Future of Information Sharing in Humanitarian Emergencies

Outlines the challenges of and recommendations for creating an effective interface between humanitarian groups and volunteer and technical communities aggregating, visualizing, and analyzing data on and from affected communities to support relief efforts

The place of technology in social entrepreneurship

[164] leaves ; 29 cmIncludes abstract and appendix.Includes bibliographical references (leaves [120-134]).This thesis explores the place of technology in social entrepreneurship. Unlike other related fields such as entrepreneurship and innovation, research into the space technology has in social entrepreneurship has largely been neglected. To this effect, a systematic review of existing literature was carried out along with an analysis of fifty rigorously selected real-world social entrepreneur cases. The findings, among other things, revealed (i) the positive outlook on technology within social entrepreneurship literature (ii) (ii) The degree to which technology is applied to wicked problems (mapped using the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals) (iii) the role social entrepreneurship plays in introducing technology – particularly high technology – to the Global South

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