This one-day symposium, held as a SIGCSE 2010 pre-conference activity, aims to bring together educators, software developers, industry representatives, and students to continue the discussion begun at SIGCSE 2009. This year’s symposium focuses on how to expand participation in the Humanitarian FOSS movement so that it reaches many more students, colleges, secondary schools, and software industry representatives throughout the nation. Humanitarian FOSS (HFOSS) is free and open source software that contributes in some way to the public good.

The symposium will be highly interactive, taking place in three plenary sessions and a break-out session. In addition to the keynote address by Prof. Hal Abelson MIT, the symposium will include invited speakers from industry and academia, an open-ended round-table discussion, a poster session, and four break-out discussion groups.

We invite participants to submit short position statements (1-2 pages) that will be presented during a morning roundtable discussion. The position statements should address questions and issues relating to the symposium's theme “Growing the Humanitarian FOSS Community”. For further details visit http://www.hfoss.org/hfoss2010

Participants are also invited to submit abstracts (1-2 pages) for posters that report on practical efforts to incorporate FOSS and HFOSS courses, projects, and assignments into the curricula or describe approaches and strategies for teaching about FOSS and HFOSS.