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The Commons Initiativeat San Francisco State University
http://commons.sfsu.edu
Unless noted otherwise
Sameer Verma, Ph.D.Professor, Information Systems
College of Business, San Francisco State UniversitySan Francisco, CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/ [email protected] Presented to:
Hilltop High SchoolChula Vista, CAhttp://hth.sweetwaterschools.org/
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SF State University (1899 - present)
• 29,000 + students
• Colleges: Business, Creative Arts, Education, Ethnic Studies, Health and Human Services, Humanities, Science and Engineering
• Campus:O Main Campus: 1600 Holloway Ave. San FranciscoO Downtown Center: 835 Market St., San FranciscoO Romberg Tiburon Center, Tiburon
http://www.sfsu.edu
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Information Systems
• Data
• Information
• Knowledge
• Information Systems vs Information Technology
• Information Systems Department at SF StateO http://is.sfsu.edu
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Commons Initiative - Mission
• Two-fold:O To connect people, so they can communicate their ideas,
and collaborate on projects in the digital commons space at SF State. (inward)
O To foster an environment where SF State commons can participate in the commons worldwide. (outward)
http://commons.sfsu.edu
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Digital Commons
• Free and Open Source Software
• Creative Commons media
• Open Data
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Two-fold mission
Drupal at
SF StateDrupal Worldwide
for instance...
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Did you know...
...that Whitehouse.gov runs on Drupal?
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Upstream - Downstream
Campusprojects
Worldwide Commons
for instance...
How?
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Not a committee
A community initiative.
Open to all:
Students, Staff, Faculty
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Lenses
• EducationO How to bring “commons” into the classroom.
• TechnologyO Neat stuff happens on campus. Share!
• OutreachO Sustained collaboration and participation.
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Advisory Board
Upstream connections
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Alexis Rossi, Internet Archive
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Alolita Sharma, Wikimedia
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Asheesh Laroia, Openhatch
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Brian Behlendorf, Apache
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Stefano Maffulli, Openstack
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Tim Vollmer, Creative Commons
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Projects
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3D Printing
• Length (X), width (Y) and depth (Z)
• Icing on a cake.O Make a flower from butter and sugar icing.
• AffordableO Printrbot (http://printrbot.com)O $500
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OpenData
• HackathonsO National Day of Civic Hacking (http://hackforchange.org )
• Code for America (http://codeforamerica.org )
• Code for the Caribbean (http://codeforthecaribbean.org )
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One Laptop per Child
• 8 years of OLPC San Francisco (http://olpcsf.org )O Hosted at SFSUO Projects
Jamaica India Madagascar
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Internet-In-A-Box
• http://internet-in-a-box.org
• 1 TerrabyteO Wikipedia in 37 languagesO 40,000 BooksO All of OpenStreetMapO All videos of Khan AcademyO All videos of TED Talks
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RACHEL
• http://worldpossible.org
• Similar to Internet-in-a-Box
• 64GB
• Content for schools
• Solar powered!
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HTML5 for Mobile
• HTML5 appsO Sugarizer (http://sugarizer.org )O HTML5 apps from OLPC/Sugar project.O Run as an Android app or directly on the Web!
• Ubuntu mobileO Apps and ScopesO HTML5
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Cloud Computing
• OpenStack
• Build your own cloud platforms
• Virtual machinesO http://virtualbox.org/
• Cloud on a laptop (devstack)O http://docs.openstack.org/developer/devstack/
