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Designing SFU Mobile
Submitted by cameron on Wed, 2011-12-14 09:41.SFU Surrey Semester in Innovation
Imagine a class where students envision a future for their university and then design it — where design, technology and entrepreneurship intertwine, creating a new more engaged educational experience — from virtual classrooms to remote participation in fieldwork, online collaboration to unique interactions with members of community, industry and academia.
Vancouver Open Data Hackathon - December 2009
Submitted by cameron on Mon, 2009-12-07 14:29.2009-12-09 17:00
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The City of Vancouver Open Data Initiative is hosting its second hackathon at the Vancouver City Archives from 5:00 to 10:00 p.m. on December 9, 2009.
Head on down to find out what its all about and how you can make great apps using Vancouver City data.
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Assessing Open Source Software as a Scholarly Contribution
Submitted by cameron on Tue, 2009-11-24 16:44.Check out the December 2009 edition of the Communications of the ACM containing the article Assessing Open Source Software as a Scholarly Contribution by our very own Lou Hafer and Arthur E. Kirkpatrick.
FSOSS '08 - Free Software and Open Source Symposium
Submitted by cameron on Wed, 2008-10-08 09:03.Seneca College is hosting the 7th annual Free Software and Open Source Symposium in Toronto on October 23-24. COSTAR convenor Rob Cameron will attend and participate in a panel discussion in the "Teaching Open Source" track, discussing the institution perspective.
Google Summer of Code Info Session
Submitted by cameron on Mon, 2008-03-17 16:48.2008-03-18 16:00
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COSTAR will be holding an information session for students who wish to participate in open source projects this summer through the Google Summer of Code.
Free pizza and free Google shirts to the first dozen students.
4pm, Tuesday, March 18, 2008
Galleria 4040, SFU Surrey Campus
Our presentation will be an interactive panel session with CMPT students Jack and Chani (Google campus ambassadors, and former SoC mentor and participant, respectivtely) as well as
supporting faculty members (Dr. Toby Donaldson and Dr. Rob Cameron).
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Mission Statement
Submitted by cameron on Wed, 2007-05-09 10:35.Draft Mission Statement
The Centre for Open Software Technology and Applications Research (COSTAR) is a [proposed] Simon Fraser University research centre reporting to the Vice-President/Research under Research Policy R40.01.
Hosting
Submitted by patl on Wed, 2006-10-11 08:23.Information on hosting a project with COSTAR is forthcoming.
COSTAR First Post
Submitted by csilop on Thu, 2006-09-14 15:46.Welcome to the official COSTAR website. This site is currently under heavy development and more content will be added over the next several weeks.
