<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hi everyone,<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>In addition to our five summer H-FOSS internships sponsored by Aidmatrix---I will provide application details for these right after Spring break---here's another great opportunity to work on a humanitarian open-source project this summer.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Christian Allen, a Trinity alum from class of 2000, is working on an exciting Humanitarian Open Source project that has just won a Google Summer of Code grant. Christian is currently living in Rwanda and writing code! He's asked me to circulate this announcement among upper-level CS students. It looks like an exciting opportunity that would build on the skills and interests we've been developing in the course. I encourage you to take a look at it. The deadline to apply is March 24th. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Have a great break!</DIV><DIV><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>-- ram</DIV></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV>Begin forwarded message:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">In fact, I am writing to you guys because I’m working on a large-ish open source project right now, and we just (yesterday) won a spot on the list for the Google Summer of Code contest. The idea is that Google selects a hundred or so open source projects that it likes for whatever reason and pays students $5,000 to work on those projects for 2 months of the summer. Nice, huh? So as you could probably guess, I’m looking to see if there are any high caliber Trinity Comp. Sci. students that might be interested in such a gig.</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Let me give you a little background, and fill you in a little on what I’m doing right now, as it will help you guys explain to students if need be. I am working right now for a small but rapidly growing non-profit organization called Partners In Health. It’s based in </SPAN><ST1:CITY w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Boston</SPAN></ST1:PLACE></ST1:CITY><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">, and builds up health care and tries to fight poverty in resource-poor areas of the world. Believe it or not, after a 5 year stint writing code in the corporate world in </SPAN><ST1:CITY w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Boston</SPAN></ST1:CITY><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> and </SPAN><ST1:CITY w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">London</SPAN></ST1:CITY><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">, I’ve actually been based in a small village in </SPAN><ST1:COUNTRY-REGION w:st="on"><ST1:PLACE w:st="on"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Rwanda</SPAN></ST1:PLACE></ST1:COUNTRY-REGION><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">, writing code, for a year and a half now. Partners In Health, with a number of other organizations around the world is collaborating to build the world’s first enterprise quality Electronic Medical Record (EMR) system that is open source (read: free), and designed with developing countries in mind to help fight the war against disease and poverty. A small group of us (I was one of the 5 original developers to start working on it) has made a fair amount of progress in the past 1.5 years, and now we are starting to really gain momentum. Our site is </SPAN><A href="http://www.openmrs.org/"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://www.openmrs.org</SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">.</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">So Google gives a pretty short application window. In fact, the window for student applications is from today until March 24</SPAN><SUP style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.1111px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11.1111px; ">th</SPAN></SUP><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">. There’s all kinds of extra information on Google’s site: </SPAN><A href="http://code.google.com/soc/"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://code.google.com/soc/</SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> (we are the “OpenMRS” project there), and on the FAQ at that site about the program: </SPAN><A href="http://code.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=10442"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: underline; ">http://code.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=10442</SPAN></A><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">. You should also feel free to give me email out to students who seems interested.</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">I know you guys are busy, but if you have a chance and can post this, or relay this information to higher-level students who might be looking for coding jobs anyways, I would love to have some more Bantams on board. Below this email, I’ve written some of the technologies we use in the project, in case that question is asked. If you guys don’t think you’ll have a chance to make this public to the students, let me know if you can think of another way I might reach them (quickly) before the deadline.</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Again, hope all is well there. If this works out, I’m hoping maybe I could visit the campus and say hi to you guys before the summer gets going.</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">All the best,</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Christian</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "> </SPAN></O:P></SPAN></FONT></P><P class="MsoNormal"><FONT size="2" face="Arial"><SPAN style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; ">Ps: Some technologies/languages/platforms used in our project:</SPAN><O:P style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13.3333px; 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