COMS W3157 and Open Source for India
Spring 2003
The Open Source for India Project (OSIP) is an ongoing effort to develop a collection of free educational software, suitable for use in schools and community centers throughout the world. The overarching goal is to bridge the Digital Divide between communities that possess access to information/communication technology and those that do not.
The attempt to improve worldwide computer literacy begins with a single frontier, and the leaders of the project have chosen South Asia. OSIP partner schools in the region's developing countries recycle donated computer systems, outfitting them with free-software solutions such as Linux to build computer labs and community centers. The task of OSIP volunteers is to identify and to develop software for use on these computer systems.
Contribute your Software
As a student of the Columbia CS Department's Advanced Programming class, you've invested a lot of energy into creating an educational software title. If you think the game you've developed could be useful to primary or secondary school students, then consider contributing your software to the OSIP.
Making a software contribution essentially means licensing it as an open source software product and making it freely available to the OSIP. Although the project's current focus is on schools in India, the ultimate hope is that the software distribution OSIP produces will be of use in countries all across the world; software that supports easy user-interface translation in particular lends itself to this kind of universal utility.
Contributing to the project is a uniquely rewarding way to enrich the welfare of entire communities and a guarantee that the energies you put into your game make a difference in the world. Don't let your hard work lay idle! Contribute your game to the Open Source for India Project!
Contact Us!
Submit the following form, and an OSIP volunteer will get in touch with you at the semester's end.
