2011

The people have spoken: this session was cancelled due to lack of interest.

Notes:
Lynda.com has tutorial videos on Drupal and every Stanford Employee gets discounts, but may be too techie for some.
Wordpress or Joomla vs. Drupal: Wordpress is used at Stanford and is mainly for blogging, but the more features you want to add, the more Drupal becomes desirable. Drupal is better than Joomla in that it's more flexible.
What's available today
* drupal.stanford.edu (All the things at Stanford that people ought to know about.)
* Drupaller's mailing list "drupallers@lists.stanford.edu"

There are various requirements to encrypt computers to comply with policy or the law
Tendency for administrators and security professionals to encrypt everything
- as an IT administrator, we see a cost around implementing this where others may not see it
There is a cost around encryption

Answers from the group:
The GSB uses the Web 2.0 platform developed by Stanford Alumni Association, as does Development, and is looking into the suggestion to invite others like Stanford staff, faculty and students to join the platform.

- Introductions
- Definitions of Open Source / Open Access
- Would be good to have repository for internally developed documentation for open apps (GIMP, etc.), suggested location - https://techcommons.stanford.edu/
- Rapid Mind open source app for visualization http://rapid-i.com/
- R
-Aogo UML
- Opensource repository for code developed @ Stanford
- Discussion

questions to students
1. educate early
2. Needs
3. flexibility
4. scale
5. safety
Reasons not to Run your own cluster
1. Facilities
2. impacting networks
3. security
4. scale
Problems
1. Facilities.
2. Security
3. Long term viability
4. Setting things up and leaving
5. entropy
6. lifecycle control
Solutions
1. compartmentalize.
2. cloud
3. virtualization
4. small clusters (virtualization)

Mobile Web at Stanford - a resource for developing mobile web sites developed by several groups in campus. The site itself is mobile-aware. Re-size the page and you'll see how the content re-flows to make it easier to see on smaller screens.
3% of visitors to the Stanford Home Page are mobile users. It was just 2% a short while ago and 1% shortly before that. The numbers might be small, but they are growing very fast.

Joe Benfield
SOM
Nothing about teaching and learning – keep this broad for a more general discussion
Where are we where are we going what is working
Instructional apps
Pulling themes out of the intros
User focus
How to get focus on edu/inst tech
Pres talk points to a need for better inst tech – infrastructure
Not much on helping people use it well
Is there a revolution in teaching?
Impact of online education
If stanford has resources they may not feel it but
Itunes u, youtube, what is next?