ANN: Trinity College Receives Major HFOSS Funding

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       HARTFORD, Conn., Oct. 5 (AScribe Newswire) -- The Humanitarian FOSS Project (HFOSS), a collaborative three-college program that creates free open source software (FOSS) for the common good, received a major vote of confidence recently with the awarding of an $800,000, two-year grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under its Pathways to Revitalized Undergraduate Computing Education program (CPATH).
       Trinity's share of the grant amounts to $467,636, with the balance divided between Wesleyan University and Connecticut College, the two schools that have partnered with Trinity in the development of the free software that benefits the community.
       The funds represent an extension of a half-million dollar grant that the three colleges had already received, bringing the total amount provided by the NSF to roughly $1.3 million. Although it is a collaborative project, HFOSS is based at Trinity and is headed by Ralph Morelli, a professor of computer science. The project director is Trishan R. de Lanerolle.

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