Community Update, Vision
2012 MWF Conference Given by: Rose Rocchio, Director ECTG, OIT, UCLA & Deborah Estrin, Professor CS, Cornell TECH NYC
Wed 9/5 @ 1pm
& Introducing:
MobilizeLabs
MWF Community Activities
• 2012 MWF Community Update • Building Sustainability Partnerships • App Sharing Environment • Engage with the Research Community • Introducing MobilizeLabs.org
MWF Community Update
• 2 All day MWF Community Board MeeWngs – January 31st @ UCI – June 18th @ UCSF
• MWF Governing Principles • MWF Community Principles • MWF Community Board Key Decisions
MWF Governing Principles
• UCLA as MWF founder chairs the MWF board • The MWF community governing board is comprised of enWWes dedicaWng resources
• MWF embraces meritocracy : recogniWon of individual investment via contribuWon
• Three categories of membership – Partner, CollaboraWve and Registered Members
MWF Community Principles
• Commitment to HE community • Device agnosWc & pla\orm independent • Efficient, expedient and transparent community governance
• Develop a synergisWc means of sustainability
MWF Key Board Decisions
• Latest Release of MWF under BSD • MWF Conference open to Higher Ed & Public • Work to develop sustainability partnerships • Focus MWF 2.0 on Responsive Design ( project WebBlocks)
Sustainability Partnerships
• Presented at the CENIC “Beyond the Network” conference in March
• Pursuing a partnership with CENIC to provide MWF an OPT as SaaS/PaaS
• Planned work session for mid-‐September
App Sharing Vision
• MWF Community developed apps • HTML5 apps evolving, more agile • Crowd Source best apps across Higher Ed • Student Apps need a place to live • App Data Architecture • App Environment Phases
App stores make billons
• Markets -‐ Cash cows • 2010 Apple > $1.7B • CompeWWon growing • Html5 maturing • ABI Research predicts naWve peak in 2013 • Gradual decline • Html5 apps to thrive
App Store Category Market • EducaWon Apps category is #4 @ 7%
App Sharing Environment
• Phase I – Local to the insWtuWon • Phase II -‐ Peer to Peer, Trusted network • Phase III – Federated Aggregator/Caching – Apps vemed by an “trusted” insWtuWon – Need Mobile Web App Standards for this to work – MulWple frameworks working together
Empowering mResearch
• Ohmage-‐MWF pla\orm • mResearch data collecWon tool – PhoneGap pla\orm with MWF embedded
• iOS – releasing any day now • Android – releasing any day now • Blackberry – coming soon • Windows version – coming this fall
HE Community Engagement
• ACTI-‐MWF formed October of 2011 – Co-‐chaired by UCLA & UCSD – Plans to publish a Mobile Strategy Guide – PresenWng at Educause – Conference opened up to Higher Ed & Public
• Standards: IMS-‐Global Learning consorWum