HFOSS Projects
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| Name | Description | Category | Language (Mostly) | Size (Lines of Code) | Activity Level | Most Recent Commit | Commits in the Last 12 months | Last Checked |
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| Bentech Image Description Service | An application to increase the availability of image descriptions in textbooks for print disabled students. This image description web service will enable authors/content creators, publishers, social enterprises, such as Bookshare, educators and volunteers to easily add, enhance, moderate and share image descriptions to e-books and digital textbooks in the DAISY 3, EPUB and HTML standards. | Accessibility | Ruby | Unknown | Active | 4/4/14 | Unknown | 4/14/14 |
| Project Possibility: Accessible Flashcards | Nonprofit, community service project committed to creating groundbreaking software for the disabled community--for free. Our goal is to inspire software engineers to make a difference by inventing software that unlocks new areas of life for disabled persons, giving them access to experiences previously impossible to achieve. The software that is created through this project is open source: it cannot be sold for profit, and is freely available for use, distribution, and modification. | Accessibility | Java | Unknown | Inactive | 2011 | 0 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Project Possibility: Web-Based Social Stories Group 2 | Nonprofit, community service project committed to creating groundbreaking software for the disabled community--for free. Our goal is to inspire software engineers to make a difference by inventing software that unlocks new areas of life for disabled persons, giving them access to experiences previously impossible to achieve. The software that is created through this project is open source: it cannot be sold for profit, and is freely available for use, distribution, and modification. | Accessibility | PHP | Unknown | Inactive | 2011 | 0 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Open Data Kit | A suite of tools to help organizations collect, aggregate and visualize their data. Our goals are to make open-source and standards-based tools which are easy to try, easy to use, easy to modify and easy to scale. To this end, we are proud members of the OpenMobile Consortium, the OpenRosa Consortium, and active participants in the JavaRosa project. | Data Collection and Management | Java | 123k | Active | 4/8/14 | 406 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Sigmah | Sigmah is free software developed to help international aid organizations manage the information from their projects: reports, indicators, schedules, documents etc. | NGO Administration | Java | 151k | Active | 4/10/14 | 66 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Mifos-X | Industry-wide initiative to address the microfinance industry's information management challenge. Using the open source paradigm, we are creating a new service model that will increase access to technology for all microfinance institutions, ultimately enabling them to extend their reach to the world’s poor. At the center of the initiative is the Mifos product, a freely available world-class management information system (MIS) that provides the core functionality required by microfinance institutions. See also The Community for Open Source Microfinance | Microfinance | Java | 118k | Active | 4/8/14 | 215 commits | 4/14/14 |
| OOo4Kids | (pronounced "OpenOffice for Kids") is a software (work in progress) designed for 7-12 children, based on OpenOffice.org source code, but simplified. This means OpenOffice.org has some features OOo4Kids has not. And if you need those features, please use OpenOffice.org, that you can download at: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html | Education | C++ | 6.7M | Inactive | 10/13 | 5 commits | 4/14/14 |
| SLC inBloom | "The SLC is working to make personalized learning a reality for every U.S. student by improving the usefulness, variety and affordability of education technology." There are many projects you can choose from. On their GitHub page here. This post reflects their java SDK. | Education | Java | Unknown | Inactive | 10/13 | Unknown | 4/14/14 |
| Open Pantry | is an Interactive Qualifying Project by two Worcester Polytechnic Institute students. This software aims to provide an efficient way to manage and organize clients, inventory, distribution and reporting for volunteers and employees at TEFAP and MEFAP funded food pantries. The solution is specifically aimed toward the needs of the Burlington Food Pantry, however it is designed in such a way that it should be reusable by other similar organizations. | Food Band/Pantry | PHP | Unknown | Inactive | Unknown | 0 commits | 4/14/14 |
| OpenEHR | An international not-for-profit Foundation, working towards:
* Making the interoperable, life-long electronic health record a reality * Improving health care in the information society. |
Healthcare | CSS | Unknown | Active | 3/14/14 | Unknown | 4/11/14 |
| OSHIP | Implementation of Multi-Level Healthcare Information Modeling. An application development platform (most mature version is Python) based on MLHIM. | Healthcare | Python | 319k | Inactive | 2011 | 0 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Torch | Project under Multi-Level Healthcare Information Modeling, Trusted Open Source Records for Care and Health - TORCH is a web enabled electronic health record (EHR) application. TORCH is usable in single practitioner offices and scalable up to multi-site practices. | Healthcare | Python | Unknown | Inactive | 2009 | 0 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Open Health | Platform that brings together interoperable public health applications targeting district, national and global health management. The Public Health Information Toolkit (PHIT) is meant to be a self-contained USB pendrive that makes public health tools and frameworks available “out of the box”, including content developed by leading public health organizations and networked communities of practice. The starter suite of tools brings together OpenMRS, iHRIS, DHIS2 and OpenHealthMapper (OHM) | Healthcare | PHP | Unknown | Inactive | 2010 | 0 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Open Student | "The openStudent project is a new approach to developing software for education in British Columbia. It incorporates the expertise and knowledge of all stakeholders from the education community of BC to produce a Student Information System that is flexible and responsive to the changing needs of BC’s education system. Rather than educators having to adapt to a commercial off-the-shelf program, openStudent will adapt itself to the needs of the educators. openStudent is a Student Information System that is made by BC schools for BC schools." Code located here. | Education | Java | 4k | Inactive | 2012 | 0 commits | 4/14/14 |
| OpenMRS HTML Form Entry Module | Community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system platform. We've come together to specifically respond to those actively building and managing health systems in the developing world, where AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria afflict the lives of millions. Our mission is to foster self-sustaining health information technology implementations in these environments through peer mentorship, proactive collaboration, and a code base that equals or surpasses proprietary equivalents. You are welcome to come participate in our community, whether by implementing our software, or contributing your efforts to our mission! | Healthcare | Java | 34k | Active | 4/7/14 | 11 commits | 4/14/14 |
| OpenMRS Module Reporting | Community-developed, open-source, enterprise electronic medical record system platform. We've come together to specifically respond to those actively building and managing health systems in the developing world, where AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria afflict the lives of millions. Our mission is to foster self-sustaining health information technology implementations in these environments through peer mentorship, proactive collaboration, and a code base that equals or surpasses proprietary equivalents. You are welcome to come participate in our community, whether by implementing our software, or contributing your efforts to our mission! | Healthcare | Java | 81k | Active | 3/18/14 | 365 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Miradi | A program that allows nature conservation practitioners to design, manage, monitor, and learn from their projects to more effectively meet their conservation goals. The program guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation. Code found here | Ecology | Java | Unknown | Active | 4/10/14 | Unknown | 4/14/14 |
| Kuali Rice | Growing community of universities, colleges, businesses, and other organizations that have partnered to build and sustain open-source administrative software for higher education, by higher education. Kuali software is designed to meet the needs of all sizes of institutions, from land-grant reasearch universities to community colleges. The members of the Kuali Community share a common vision of open, modular, and distributed systems for their software requirements. Kuali software is released under the Educational Community License. | Education | Java | 1.28 M | Active | 4/11/14 | 4023 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Kuali Student | Growing community of universities, colleges, businesses, and other organizations that have partnered to build and sustain open-source administrative software for higher education, by higher education. Kuali software is designed to meet the needs of all sizes of institutions, from land-grant reasearch universities to community colleges. The members of the Kuali Community share a common vision of open, modular, and distributed systems for their software requirements. Kuali software is released under the Educational Community License. | Education | Java | 1.08 M | Inactive | 6/11/13 | 1 commit | 4/14/14 |
| Sakai (Core) | The Sakai Collaboration and Learning Environment is developed by a community that strives to enable exceptional teaching, learning and research. Sakai collaborators - ranging from educators to engineers - share in their successes and challenges, honing the community's collective expertise to drive rapid development of this enterprise-ready platform. | -- | Java | 1.49 M | Active | 4/11/14 | 3252 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Canvas LMS | Canvas is a learning management system distributed as a FOSS product by Instructure. Instructure is a relatively new company with venture capital backing. Canvas is distributed as FOSS and offered as a service for a fee. | Education | Ruby | 500k | Active | 4/4/14 | 4385 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Celestia | "The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions." | Education | C++ | 240k | Inactive | 2011 | 0 commits | 4/14/14 |
| iHRIS | The Capacity Project has developed three free and Open Source core software solutions, each addressing a specific human resources for health (HRH) leadership issue:
* iHRIS Qualify is a training and licensure tracking database. * iHRIS Manage is a human resources management system. * iHRIS Plan is workforce planning and modeling software. |
Healthcare | SQL | 241k | Active | 4/1/14 | 186 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Open Healthcare Framework Project | The Eclipse Open Healthcare Framework (OHF) is a project within Eclipse formed for the purpose of expediting healthcare informatics technology. The project is composed of extensible frameworks and tools which emphasize the use of existing and emerging standards in order to encourage interoperable open source infrastructure, thereby lowering integration barriers. We currently provide tools and Frameworks for HL7, IHE, Terminology, Devices, and Public Healthcare Maintenance. | Healthcare | Java | 3.66 M | Inactive | Unknown | 0 commits | 4/14/14 |
| iTK - Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit | National Library of Medicine: ITK is an open-source, cross-platform system that provides developers with an extensive suite of software tools for image analysis. Developed through extreme programming methodologies, ITK employs leading-edge algorithms for registering and segmenting multidimensional data. | Healthcare | C++ | 1.59 M | Active | 4/10/14 | 1700 commits | 4/14/14 |
| iPath | allows the sharing of images and medical information for collaboration in case-based studies (referred to there as "case based collaboration"). It has particular utility in remote areas which have limited access to a specialist, and appears to be used in (or designed for) Africa. It supports different languages and stores the full information as a "case" for later retrieval and discussion. It is different than a desktop sharing program because the other person is not just viewing the information/program but is interacting with it in specific ways relating to his/her expertise. | Healthcare | PHP | 73.2k | Inactive | 2009 | 0 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Vu Find | Library resource portal designed and developed for libraries by libraries. The goal of VuFind is to enable your users to search and browse through all of your library's resources by replacing the traditional OPAC. | Libraries | PHP | Unknown | Active | 4/11/14 | 1550 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Mifos | Industry-wide initiative to address the microfinance industry's information management challenge. Using the open source paradigm, we are creating a new service model that will increase access to technology for all microfinance institutions, ultimately enabling them to extend their reach to the world’s poor. At the center of the initiative is the Mifos product, a freely available world-class management information system (MIS) that provides the core functionality required by microfinance institutions. See also The Community for Open Source Microfinance | Microfinance | Java | 2.67 M | Inactive | 11/13 | 215 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Octopus Microfinance | Tool for a specific MFI in Tajikistan, Afghanistan and Kirgizstan, but to provide a general purpose MIS suitable for all Microfinance Institutions (MFI). | Microfinance | C# | 363k | Inactive | 2013 | 0 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Simple MFI | Android based smart phone tool for micro finance loan officers. | Microfinance | Java | Unknown | Inactive | 2011 | 0 commits | 4/14/14 |
| OpenPetra | is a free and easy-to-use administration software package for non-profit organizations. Specifically designed to meet the administrative requirements of an international mission agency or other non-profit organization, OpenPetra runs standalone or as a multi-user system in an office network or on the Internet. Code found here. | NGO Administration | C# | Unknown | Active | 4/8/14 | 1525 commits | 4/14/14 |
| FreeNet | Free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish "freesites" (web sites accessible only through Freenet) and chat on forums, without fear of censorship. Freenet is decentralized to make it less vulnerable to attack, and if used in "dark net" mode, where users only connect to their friends, is very difficult to detect. | Privacy | Java | 442k | Active | 3/30 | 811 commits | 4/14/14 |
| FrontLine SMS | Award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub. Once installed, the program enables users to send and receive text messages with groups of people through mobile phones. What is communicated is up to the user, making FrontlineSMS useful in many different ways. A family of projects aimed at applying text messaging in support of NGO work. | Communications | Java | 48k | Inactive | 2012 | 18 commits | 4/11/14 |
| Geo Chat | Geochat emerged from a simple concept - can I send an SMS message and see it on a map? From there the concept has evolved, and geochat has become a project to build a collaboration platform for the lowest common denominator communication tools, considering as highest priorities the needs of workers of humantiarian aid, international health and disaster response. The main drivers for the project are the feedback of the InSTEDD programs in South East Asia, exercises such as GoldenShadow?, and a growing community of humanitarian and health workers who spend their days in technologically austere environments. | Communications | C# | 479k | Inactive | 8/13 | 8 commits | 4/11/14 |
| Ushahidi | Ushahidi is a platform that allows anyone around the world to set up their own way to gather reports by mobile phone, email and the web - and visualize and map them. It is being built so that it can grow with the changing environment of the web, and to work with other websites and online tools. | Communications | PHP | 295k | Active | 2/14 | 376 commits | 4/11/14 |
| OpenXData | is a community-developed, open-source, enterprise end-to-end software solution for handling virtually any type of forms based data collection and management using mobile devices and web forms (online or offline).Can us both high- and low-end mobile devices and mobile phones as well as in a regular web-browser to show and capture forms based data. | Data Collection and Management | Java | 177k | Inactive | 9/13 | 47 commits | 4/11/14 |
| Evergreen | Highly-scalable software for libraries that helps library patrons find library materials, and helps libraries manage, catalog, and circulate those materials, no matter how large or complex the libraries. | Libraries | Javascript | 476k | Active | 4/10/14 | 962 commits | 4/11/14 |
| Koha | Koha is the first open-source Integrated Library System (ILS). | Libraries | SQL | 806k | Active | 4/11/14 | 1930 commits | 4/11/14 |
| Tor | Free software and an open network that helps you defend against a form of network surveillance that threatens personal freedom and privacy, confidential business activities and relationships, and state security known as traffic analysis. Hundreds of thousands of people around the world use Tor for a wide variety of reasons: journalists and bloggers, human rights workers, law enforcement officers, soldiers, corporations, citizens of repressive regimes, and just ordinary citizens. | Privacy | C | 333k | Active | 4/13/14 | 2744 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Guardian Project | creates easy-to-use apps, mobile OS security enhancements, and customized mobile devices for people around the world to help them communicate more freely, and protect themselves from intrusion and monitoring. Many sub projects to this project. | Privacy | Java | Unknown | Active | 4/12/14 | About 230 commits | 4/14/14 |
| Mesh4x | A data mesh which allows information to be synchronized in a peer-to-peer way, allowing offline work, and synchronizing with whoever is available, not just a central database or a service on the internet. This makes it a perfect fit for situation where there is little/no connectivity or where the synchronization has to happen between different applications and services. | Data Collection and Management | Java | Unknown | Inactive | 2010 | 0 commits | 4/14/14 |
| ActivityInfo | is an online humanitarian project monitoring tool, which helps humanitarian organizations to collect, manage, map and analyze indicators. | NGO Administration | Java | 118k | Inactive | 2013 | 253 commits | 4/29/14 |
| GNOME | Develops and fosters compelling free open source accessibility solutions for graphical user interfaces. Through a worldwide community of developers and users, we continue to empower everyone, regardless of physical or mental abilities. (TOS recommended) | Accessibility | C | 8.23 M | Inactive | 2013 | 52311 commits | 5/2/14 |
| Poet Image Service | An application to increase the availability of image descriptions in textbooks for print disabled students. This image description web service will enable authors/content creators, publishers, social enterprises, such as Bookshare, educators and volunteers to easily add, enhance, moderate and share image descriptions to e-books and digital textbooks in the DAISY 3, EPUB and HTML standards. | Accessibility | Ruby | Unknown | Inactive | 2013 | Unknown | 5/2/14 |
| One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) | A few projects belong to OLPC. Mission Statement: To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. | Education | Python | Unknown | Active | 4/4/14 | Unknown | 5/5/14 |
| Sugar (Sugar Labs) | Spin-off from OLPC (one laptop per child) that is doing software to create a learning environment for children. The award-winning Sugar Learning Platform promotes collaborative learning through Sugar Activities that encourage critical thinking, the heart of a quality education. Designed from the ground up especially for children, Sugar offers an alternative to traditional “office-desktop” software. | Education | Python | 65.5k | Active | 2/14 | 1430 commits | 5/5/14 |
| Multi-Level Heathcare | Evolved out of OpenEHR, this is a group of frameworks, applications and tools used in developing health care applications and the governance of knowledge artifacts using multi-level information models vs. data model approaches. Based on more than 20 years of research and development projects on three continents. These specifications came together in the early 2000's under the auspices of the openEHR Foundation. | Healthcare | CSS | Unknown | Inactive | 3/14 | 36 commits | 5/5/14 |
| Open HealthMapper | Project under Open Health, OpenHealthMapper is a user-friendly data management and mapping system customized specifically for public health users. The system facilitates data standardization, collection and updating of data on epidemiology and on interventions and provides immediate visualization of data in the form of maps, tables and charts. | Healthcare | C | Unknown | Inactive | 11/9/10 | Unknown | 5/5/14 |
| DHIS | Project under Open Health, DHIS2 is a tool for collection, validation, analysis, and presentation of aggregate statistical data, tailored (but not limited) to integrated health information management activities. It is a generic tool rather than a pre-configured database application, with an open meta-data model and a flexible user interface that allows the user to design the contents of a specific information system without the need for programming. DHIS 2 and upwards is a modular web-based software package built with free and open source Java frameworks. | Healthcare | Java | 918k | Active | 4/4/14 | 6025 commits | 5/5/14 |
| Tolven Health Record | Tolven is focused on delivering the following products: An electronic Personal Health Record (ePHR) to enable consumers to record and selectively share healthcare information about themselves and their loved ones. An electronic Clinician Health Record (eCHR) to enable healthcare providers to securely access healthcare information collated from any number of trusted sources. A Healthcare Informatics Platform to enable all healthcare data to be stored and accessed via the ePHR and eCHR solutions. The platform is based on industry-standard technologies and data models. A Health Analytics solution that enables all data stored in the Tolven Platformto be extracted or analyzed for statistical purposes. | Healthcare | XML | Unknown | Inactive | 11/11 | Unknown | 5/5/14 |
| EpiCollect | Data collected by multiple field workers can be submitted by phone, together with GPS data, to a common web database and can be displayed and analysed, along with previously collected data, using Google Maps (or Google Earth). Similarly, data from the web database can be requested and displayed on the mobile phone, again using Google Maps. | Healthcare | Java | Unknown | Inactive | Unknown | Unknown | 5/5/14 |
| Fix My Street - My Society | has two missions. The first is to be a charitable project which builds websites that give people simple, tangible benefits in the civic and community aspects of their lives. The second is to teach the public and voluntary sectors, through demonstration, how to use the internet most efficiently to improve lives. | ICT for Development | Perl | Unknown | Active | 4/20/14 | 6202 commits | 5/5/14 |
| Freedomfone | Source Code found here: http://dev.freedomfone.org/browser --- Freedom Fone addresses the need for simple, affordable, uncensored communication technology. It allows for frequently-updated, short segment audio programming. It removes the technical challenge of hosting and setting up the back-end, allowing users to concentrate on content. | Communication | C | Unknown | Active | 4/28/14 | Unknown | 5/5/14 |
| RapidSMS | Free and open-source framework for dynamic data collection, logistics coordination and communication, leveraging basic short message service (SMS) mobile phone technology. | Communication | Python | Unknown | Inactive | 1/14 | 35 commits | 5/6/14 |
| Code for America | The Code for America Brigade program is an international network of people committed to using their voices and hands, in collaboration with local governments, to make their cities better.
Brigades build participatory power in their cities by holding regular civic hack nights and events, advocating for open data, and deploying apps. Brigades celebrate and share their successes with the Brigade network to further the global civic innovation movement. |
-- | JavaScript | Unknown | Active | 5/14/14 | Unknown | 5/14/14 |
| Medic Mobile | KujuaLite makes it easy to receive and manage data from mobile devices, enables two-way messaging with contacts, and allows managers to produce aggregate reports for easy analysis and decision-making. | Healthcare | JavaScript -- CSS | Unknown | Active | 5/14/14 | Unknown | 5/14/14 |
| Sahana Foundation | Sahana Eden is an Open Source Humanitarian Platform which can be used to provide solutions for Disaster Management, Development, and Environmental Management sectors. | -- | Python | Unknown | Active | 5/14/14 | Unknown | 5/14/14 |
| Ushahidi | The Ushahidi platform is a free and open source platform that allows for information collection, aggregation and visualization on the map. Information is fed into an ushahidi instance via web form, email, twitter, SMS and our mobile applications on the android and iOS platform. | Communication | PHP | Unknown | Active | 4/28/14 | Unknown | 5/14/14 |
