#InnovationThroughCollaboration
AIOS formed from the realization that in order to make real change, a project development team must be transparent and interdisciplinary. With a municipal focus, AIOS works in conjunction with the Maryland Institute College of Art, Paris-based development team Lutece, and Baltimore Community Leaders to identify services in the Baltimore area that need to be created or improved to better serve citizens. Aimed towards college students, both undergraduate and graduate level, AIOS will organize it's first Municipal Open Source Collab Cohort for January Intersession to bring students of various disciplines together to work on a municipal software project over intersession, learn project management, and open source integration. The last week, student will have the opportunity to travel to Brussels, Belgium to attend FOSDEM the largest Open Source Student Conference in the World to showcase their work to an international audience.
What does Interdisciplinary mean to AIOS?
Creating open source software needs more than just computer science majors.
It needs Anthropology, Sociology, and other social sciences that understand social and human perspective on solutions.
It needs economics and marketing to promote and maintain sustainability.
It needs community leaders who know the values and needs of their fellow citizens.
By creating teams that see issue and solution from various points of view, AIOS sees amazing opportunities for both student skill development and scalable solutions.
It needs Anthropology, Sociology, and other social sciences that understand social and human perspective on solutions.
It needs economics and marketing to promote and maintain sustainability.
It needs community leaders who know the values and needs of their fellow citizens.
By creating teams that see issue and solution from various points of view, AIOS sees amazing opportunities for both student skill development and scalable solutions.