I would like to be able to access and manage my files locally from my computer and not from Goldsmiths Cloud
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Robert Teszka
12 years ago
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I do not wish to be limited in my choice of and access to tools that I need for conducting experiments and analyzing my data. I do not wish to be locked into a specific workflow or software ecosystem.
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Rebecca Charlton
12 years ago
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I've used systems in the past that require cloud access for software and have not had positive experiences. Having to have good internet access in order to use programmes that are data-greedy including SPSS, will limit how and where we can work. I also use a lot of free software for complex image analysis, I have concerns about accessing these resources.
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Jason Musil
12 years ago
MS thin clients would make good doorstops.
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Andy du Rocher
12 years ago
ARGGGHHHHH
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Francis Spufford
12 years ago
The idea that the availability of cloud computing should lead us to abandon the basic decentralised convenience that came with the creation of the personal computer thirty years ago is ridiculous. Leaving aside the (very important) issues of security and corporatisation, running an academic department's work as a set of queues for shared facilities would be grossly inefficient. Academics are self-managing as teachers, as markers, as researchers: they need tools to support their actual mode of work. And at the moment, we possess them. If Goldsmiths insists on doing this stupid thing, I will simply bring in my own laptop and printer from home, which I can use as I see fit, and ignore whatever slaved box the college provides.
Enormous issue of confidentiality adn risk of people seeing documents they should not be seeing in centralised printing. This could have enormous repercussions for students.
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Faith Denham
12 years ago
computing performance
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Andrew Weatherhead
12 years ago
design computing needs autonomy and performance
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Tobie Kerridge
12 years ago
No dumbware
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Alberto Toscano
12 years ago
Reader, Sociology, Goldsmiths
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Anonymous
12 years ago
more debate .....
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Carole Maddern
12 years ago
The whole roject is oorly thought-through and will create huge problems for users (i.e. me)!
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Anonymous
12 years ago
On several criteria, there are better alternatives
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anila
12 years ago
NO TO FORCED MIGRATION
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Deac Rossell
12 years ago
Outrageous. There is no IT history at Goldsmith's of proper consultation or implementation of such 'migrations'. For 15 years I have been signing in to a site "still under construction" with awkward functionality. Rubbish.
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NADINE JARVIS
12 years ago
Come on Goldsmiths, let's catch up with the 21st century, not be afraid of it!
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Noortje Marres
12 years ago
No And Yes to this indeed!
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Jane Desmarais
12 years ago
No No No. The limitations of this scheme on privacy and data protection make it utterly incompatible with the notion of academic freedom (such as it is). Cloud migration is depersonalising and demoralising.
I would like to be able to access and manage my files locally from my computer and not from Goldsmiths Cloud
I do not wish to be limited in my choice of and access to tools that I need for conducting experiments and analyzing my data. I do not wish to be locked into a specific workflow or software ecosystem.
I've used systems in the past that require cloud access for software and have not had positive experiences. Having to have good internet access in order to use programmes that are data-greedy including SPSS, will limit how and where we can work. I also use a lot of free software for complex image analysis, I have concerns about accessing these resources.
MS thin clients would make good doorstops.
ARGGGHHHHH
The idea that the availability of cloud computing should lead us to abandon the basic decentralised convenience that came with the creation of the personal computer thirty years ago is ridiculous. Leaving aside the (very important) issues of security and corporatisation, running an academic department's work as a set of queues for shared facilities would be grossly inefficient. Academics are self-managing as teachers, as markers, as researchers: they need tools to support their actual mode of work. And at the moment, we possess them. If Goldsmiths insists on doing this stupid thing, I will simply bring in my own laptop and printer from home, which I can use as I see fit, and ignore whatever slaved box the college provides.
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Enormous issue of confidentiality adn risk of people seeing documents they should not be seeing in centralised printing. This could have enormous repercussions for students.
computing performance
design computing needs autonomy and performance
No dumbware
Reader, Sociology, Goldsmiths
more debate .....
The whole roject is oorly thought-through and will create huge problems for users (i.e. me)!
On several criteria, there are better alternatives
NO TO FORCED MIGRATION
Outrageous. There is no IT history at Goldsmith's of proper consultation or implementation of such 'migrations'. For 15 years I have been signing in to a site "still under construction" with awkward functionality. Rubbish.
Come on Goldsmiths, let's catch up with the 21st century, not be afraid of it!
No And Yes to this indeed!
No No No. The limitations of this scheme on privacy and data protection make it utterly incompatible with the notion of academic freedom (such as it is). Cloud migration is depersonalising and demoralising.