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Welcome to the LibreCorps wiki!

LibreCorps is a FOSS@MAGIC initiative connecting RIT students interested in open source to humanitarian and civic coding opportunities. Specifically, opportunities for Co-Operative Education Placements, a.k.a. Co-Ops (full-time paid internships), that are part of graduation requirements. Students were successfully placed in both technical and community positions with…

LibreCorps students work in two major areas on Co-Ops. The first, not surprisingly, is technology. The second is FOSS process and Community. Many NGO and civic organizations put open-licensed work in repositories without a plan to build and maintain a community of contributors around their technology. LibreCorps worked with UNICEF Innovation this past year to do just that and examples of that work can be found in this presentation and long-term roadmap to do so.

Up until now, LibreCorps runs single instance by single instance. Our three-year plan builds it into an on-going, student-driven, faculty-managed, standing FOSS consultancy program.

The Wiki

Here we will work to keep all of our content and documentation on the various companies and organizations we work with.

Currently we are working with the following organizations:

UNICEF Innovation Fund

Resources

Below you will find a variety of tools that we are working on to help measure, evaluate, and improve our partner's use of open source software development.