-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [eecs-grads] Know a Non-Profit that could use some help? Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2012 16:14:59 -0700 From: David Patterson <pattrsn@eecs.berkeley.edu> <pattrsn@eecs.berkeley.edu> To: eecs-grads@eecs.berkeley.edu Following the Berkeley tradition of doing well by doing good, last semester the Software Engineering course (CS 169) reached out to non-profit organizations for IT problems that teams of Berkeley EECS students could tackle. It went well: - 93% teams reporting that their customers “happy” or “thrilled” - 50% of the customers tried to hire the students to continue working on their app. Berkeley students felt that learning how to build software for non-technical customers was one of the most educational aspects of the course. With the Software Engineering course (CS 169) growing faster than Moore's Law, we need 30 to 40 new projects for this Fall. If you know someone at a non-profit organization (preferable NON-technical) that has an IT problem they would like help with, please ask them to fill in this form by the end of the month: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEJlODB3SE4tbWhSbi0tUUJ... Thanks, Armando Fox and Dave Patterson P.S. One project was to help nurses at the Oakland Children's Hospital with a difficult scheduling problem, which they had been doing manually. https://vimeo.com/46770083 is 3-minute video interview with the nurse managers describing the problem and https://vimeo.com/44837891 is a 2-minute screencast of the app that the Berkeley students developed. Other projects have included: -A map-based site for reporting lost pets and helping owners find them -A web site that provides access to healthcare info translated into various languages for underserved ethnic communities -A site that tracks student health issues per-school for use in rural school areas in third world nations (to quickly contact emergency personnel and have recent health info on hand in case of student health emergency) -A site that fosters informed debate on viewer-chosen topics, with vote-up/vote-down mechanisms like StackOverflow or Reddit -A site that matches interested undergrads to research opportunities that match their skills & background (http://researchmatch.heroku.com) -A site that helps automate the planning of Visit Day, where admitted EECS grad students converge on campus wanting interviews with faculty and vice-versa -A site that displays hyper-local info about your neighborhood, such as crime stats, very local news items, etc; and others.