Welcoming Ray and Dom to the dev team
Cross-posted from the CUNY Academic Commons Dev Blog The CUNY Academic Commons is delighted to welcome two new members to its development team: Raymond Hoh and Dominic Giglio. Raymond Hoh is one of the most respected members of the WordPress and BuddyPress community. Known around the WordPress community as r-a-y, Ray is a frequent contributor […]
Akismet Spam Protection for Any WordPress Installation on a CUNY Domain
Thanks to the terms of a licensing agreement generously made available by Automattic, the CUNY Academic Commons recently purchased a subscription to Akismet, the premier spam-prevention service for WordPress blogs, that can be shared with any WordPress installation on a cuny.edu domain. We would very much like to spread the word about the availability of this […]
The CUNY Academic Commons Will Go Dark on 1/18/12 in Protest of SOPA and PIPA
On Wednesday, January 18, the CUNY Academic Commons will join hundreds of sites around the web, including Wikipedia, Reddit, and Boing Boing, and around CUNY, including the Macaulay Honors College ePortfolios and OpenCUNY, in a protest of SOPA, the Stop Online Privacy Act, and PIPA, the Protect IP Act. As part of this protest, the […]
THEME SONG FOROUR TIME: SLF, OWS, CUNY AC
“THEME SONG FOROUR TIME: SLF, OWS, CUNY AC” January 8, 2012 – Larry Hanley – Babylon Is Burning A serendipitous moment, with Stiff Little Fingers’ “Alternative Ulster” playing in the background, an email about OccupySFSU on the screen, and a popup tweet announcing “Commons in a Box,” allows Hanley’s sharp eyes to focus on alternate worlds. […]
Commons Version 1.3 Has Arrived!
We’re happy to announce that version 1.3 of the CUNY Academic Commons is now live! All upgrades to the site are important, but this one brought a considerable number of new features and revisions (our highest to-date). Here are some highlights: New Members Directory Filters Our biggest, and probably most noticable difference, is the new directory […]
Reactions to the Commons In A Box Project
Traffic on the Commons was up 44% throughout the week as news of the Commons In A Box project circulated through academic journals, blogs, and Twitter. Comments on our initial announcement were numerous – some congratulatory, but most written by representatives of institutions anxious to chat and gather more information. The same day as the announcement, […]
Death Knell for the Paywall
“Death Knell for the Paywall” December 2, 2011 In its weekly podcast, the Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University’s Digital Campus featured “Commons in a Box” as one of three projects that are taking on corporations and developing their own educational technology. …a free (funded by the Sloan Foundation) academic […]
Commons in a Box & the Importance of Open Academic Networks
“Commons in a Box” & the Importance of Open Academic Networks” Nov 28, 2011- Audrey Watters – Inside Higher Ed Audrey Watters reflects on the CUNY Academic Commons’ “Commons in a Box” grant, and notes how open paradigms emphasize a community’s shared ownership of a project, and “work” for academics: …open source versus proprietary technology […]
MLA Parternering with CUNY in Important Scholarly Communications Initiative: Commons in a Box
“MLA Parternering with CUNY in Important Scholarly Communications Initiative: Commons in a Box” Nov 28, 2011- Jason Baird Jackson, Associate Professor of Folklore and American Studies at Indiana University Bloomington. Jason Baird Jackson sees the potential of partnering directly with universities in the development of tools, protocols, strategies, and projects in the scholarly communications: This project […]
The CUNY Academic Commons Announces The Commons in a Box Project
The CUNY Academic Commons is proud to announce the establishment of The Commons in a Box, a new open-source project that will help other organizations quickly and easily install and customize their own Commons platforms. With generous support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the CUNY Academic Commons team will launch the free software project […]
