1. The Commons Initiative
at San Francisco State University
http://commons.sfsu.edu
Unless noted otherwise
Sameer Verma, Ph.D.
Professor, Information Systems
College of Business, San Francisco State University
San Francisco, CA 94132 USA
http://verma.sfsu.edu/
sverma@sfsu.eduPresented to:
Hilltop High School
Chula Vista, CA
http://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 Francisco
O Downtown Center: 835 Market St., San Francisco
O 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 State
O 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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Not a committee
A community initiative.
Open to all:
Students, Staff, Faculty
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Lenses
• Education
O How to bring “commons” into the classroom.
• Technology
O Neat stuff happens on campus. Share!
• Outreach
O Sustained collaboration and participation.
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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.
• Affordable
O Printrbot (http://printrbot.com)
O $500
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OpenData
• Hackathons
O 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 SFSU
O Projects
Jamaica
India
Madagascar
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HTML5 for Mobile
• HTML5 apps
O Sugarizer (http://sugarizer.org )
O HTML5 apps from OLPC/Sugar project.
O Run as an Android app or directly on the Web!
• Ubuntu mobile
O Apps and Scopes
O HTML5
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Cloud Computing
• OpenStack
• Build your own cloud platforms
• Virtual machines
O http://virtualbox.org/
• Cloud on a laptop (devstack)
O http://docs.openstack.org/developer/devstack/