Software Projects

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Here are some of the open source software projects in which we have participated:

• Homebase is a volunteer scheduling system developed for the Ronald McDonald House in Portland, Maine by four Bowdoin College students and an instructor in Spring 2008.
  
  • Its "live" version is in productive use at http://rmhportland.org/volunteers/homebase.
  • The source code and installation instructions may be downloaded at sourceforge.net/projects/rmhhomebase.
  • This project provides many examples that appear in our textbook Software Development: An Open Source Approach. 
  • To give yourself volunteer access to a "sandbox" version of this software, log in at rmh.myopensoftware.org with Username Jane2077291234 and Password tryme. 
  • A variant of Homebase was developed in 2011 for the Ronald McDonald House in Wilmington, Delaware (see volunteers.rmhde.org).
• Homeroom is a room scheduling system developed for the Ronald McDonald House in Portland, Maine by two Bowdoin students and an instructor in Spring 2011.
  
  • Its "live" version is in productive use at http://rmhportland.org/volunteers/homeroom.
  • This project is hosted at sourceforge.net/projects/rmhhomeroom, from where its design document may be downloaded.
  • The source code can be downloaded from its Mercurial repository at code/google.com/p/rmh-homeroom.
• Sahana is a web based crisis / emergency management tool that addresses the common coordination problems arising from a disaster, such as a tsunami or an earthquake.
  
  • For more details, including download instructions, see sahanafoundation.org.
  • The source code is also hosted at sourceforge.net/projects/sahana/
• Drupal Web sites and other artifacts have been developed for non-profits:
  • People Plus, a Web site for a community outreach center in Brunswick, Maine.
  • Neighborhood Outreach Connection, a Web site for a community center in Hilton Head, South Carolina.
  • Friends of the Hilton Head Library, a Web site for a library support group in Hilton Head, South Carolina.

Still other projects in which we have been involved are described at the Web site hfoss.org.