Marc's Voice

How to build the Digital City textbook

I’ve uploaded the final (draft3) version of the textbook I’ll be using to teach my class at CWRU this fall.

It’s course # EECS 396 - which is part of the EE Computer Science dept. at Case Western Reserve University.  I’ll be teaching on T-Thurs afternoons - for 15 weeks.

I am TOTALLY looking forward to meeting CWRU’s best and brightest!

This diagram shows off the many elements of our ’software infrastructure’.  They’ll be a Digital City ID system, which will merge SAML and Open Stack standards together - and keep everyone happy.

They’ll be shared servers, filled with jobs, events, businesses and services - with Open APIs for all to use.

They’ll be all sorts of on-line interactive multimedia content - which will fuel the sustainable business model - which is primarily focused at workforce development.

There are webcams and what I call ‘location pages’ - which will utilize eVectors Pages + system.

And you’ll notice these ‘bureaus’ which will be the focal node of every node.

Blurb has a ‘preview’ mode which allows you to see a few pages.  I’m gonna KILL these people if they don’t get me a pdf OUT of their BookSmart tool - which right now is acting like a BookJail - locking me into their proprietary platform.  I am so pissed off that I can’t share the content of this book with everyone via pdf.  Time to call Blurb - again.