Presentaon to Directors’ Meeng March 10, 2011 Irina Zaks, [email protected] 1 • Online resources and online learning • Huge increase in use of mobile devices (iPad, smartphones, etc.) • Pressure to reduce $$$ • Open Source Movement

March 10, 2011 2 • Pay for the soware, licensing, support

• Closed source

• Cannot modify

• E.g., Microso Office, Oracle, SharePoint

March 10, 2011 3 • Free to download/install

• Oen requires me to customize/modify

• “Free as in a puppy”

• Community‐based support

• Can modify source code

• E.g., OpenOffice, Linux, Drupal, Wordpress

March 10, 2011 4 • Why Open Source / Open Access and Educaon go hand in hand

• In the academy, knowledge is the product • Philosophy of contribung to the overall experse and knowledge base of the community

March 10, 2011 5 Tasks Soware Tools • Research • Office Soware • Teaching • Data Analysis Soware • Collaborang • Citaon Managers • Analyzing • Web Publishing • Reading • Learning Soware • Wring • Document Managers • Publishing • Image Editors

March 10, 2011 6 March 10, 2011 7 • Operang System: – Linux in many flavors: – Ubuntu: hp://www.ubuntu.com/ – Mint: hp://www.linuxmint.com/ – Fedora: hp://fedoraproject.org/ – Debian: hp://www.debian.org/ • Office Suite (word processor, slideshow, spreadsheet, database, drawing): – OpenOffice: hp://openoffice.org – LibreOffice: hp://www.libreoffice.org/ • PDFs: OpenOffice can create PDFs of any type of file it can open or create • Image Eding: – GIMP: hp://www.gimp.org/ – OpenOffice Draw • Citaon Management: Zotero: hp://www.zotero.org/

March 10, 2011 8 • Instant Messaging: Adium hp://adium.im/ • Video Conferencing: Big Blue Buon hp://bigbluebuon.org/

• Skype hp://skype.com (closed source, free)

March 10, 2011 9 • Content Management Systems – Drupal: hp://www.drupal.org – Wordpress: hp://www.wordpress.org – Joomla!: hp://www.joomla.org/ – Plone: hp://plone.org/ • Learning Management Systems – Sakai: hp://sakaiproject.org/ – Moodle: hp://moodle.org/ • Document Management – Alfresco: hp://www.alfresco.com/ – Feng Office: hp://www.fengoffice.com • Publishing: Open Journal Systems hp://pkp.sfu.ca/ojs/ • Surveys: Lime Survey hp://www.limesurvey.org/

March 10, 2011 10 • Stascs and Data Analysis: R hp://www.r‐project.org/

• Virtualizaon: VirtualBox hp://www.virtualbox.org/

March 10, 2011 11 March 10, 2011 12 • Make web technologies more usable for sciensts • Educang Educators – webmasters’ meengs can facilitate delivery of technology to end users • Understand specifics MRSEC / PREM research needs and offer targeted technological soluons

March 10, 2011 13 • About the program • List of Centers / contact info • Research Groups • Facilies / • Educaon [programs] • Program Highlights • News • Events

March 10, 2011 14 • Industry outreach • Educaon – Teaching Modules – Assessments • Jobs • From Webmaster’s meeng – Tools for Annual report – Centralized publicaons management (via biblio module) – Webform for surveys, assessments, etc.

March 10, 2011 15 • PREM OVERVIEW • EVENTS • HIGHLIGHTS • PREM 2010 BROCHURE

March 10, 2011 16 • New logo has been published • Webmasters’ online meengs • New design coming soon • Highlights new format – Images with capons – Front page slideshow • New secons

March 10, 2011 17 • Conference Organizing Distribuon hp://drupal.org/project/cod • Open Academy – Department website Featured hp://openacademy.chapterthree.com Presentaon • Biblio hp://mrsec.org/biblio • Webform

March 10, 2011 18 Quesons or suggesons?

Please let me know how mrsec.org and prem‐mrsec.org can beer support MRSEC / PREM research needs

Please email me [email protected]

March 10, 2011 19 • Free to use • Pay for enhancements • Closed source ‐ Cannot modify • Ads, user behavior data collecon • E.g., Google Docs, Mendeley, Facebook, surveymonkey.com, blogspot.com

March 10, 2011 20 • Knowledge/informaon is not making their way to the internet because it is not easy enough for people to post it – People do not have me to copy and paste ‐ so they just do not do anything • Example: Experimental tricks for specific instrumental system (e.g. how to align this laser; how does this Labview code work) may not be well‐ documented – Retaining knowledge in lab requires people to teach each other. This doesn’t always happen. – Many sciensts do not have me to learn new computer technologies (CMS etc) so scienfic know‐how does not get online. – Some laboratories are adopng internal Wikis, blogs. Is www.blogspot.com sufficient soluon? • What will it take for more sciensts to embrace web technologies? – How to change technology so researches will use it

March 10, 2011 21 Technology Sidetrip • Images ‐ .jpg or .png, not MS Word • Vector format (pdf) vs pixel format (jpg) • Print quality (300 dpi) is different from web quality (72 dpi)

• Why would you care?

March 10, 2011 22 Your results are presented to others, make them readable

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