All things Apple at Stanford got easier to find this year with the advent of the Apple at Stanford Web site and the Mac OS X SIG (Special Interest Group) blog.
Apple at Stanford Web Site
Apple at Stanford is a Web site where Stanford students, faculty, and staff can find links to purchasing deals, hardware/software information, system and security news, and support resources and documents.
Representatives from IT Services, Residential Computing, the Purchasing Office, the Stanford Bookstore, and Apple itself worked together to create a usable overview and easy access to "all things Apple." IT Services, which had been maintaining a page on just the "Stanford-Apple Purchasing Program" at the same address, will maintain the new Apple at Stanford site and welcomes suggestions from the community for improvements, including news items and additional links.
Mac OS X SIG Blog
The Mac OS X SIG blog complements Stanford's Mac OS X Special Interest Group email list. The blog is community supported, which means it is not the official voice of any department or school on campus. Content is heavily skewed toward the Stanford environment and is edited by Stanford affiliates, but the whole site is publicly accessible and searchable via Google. The Mailman email list group archives are public, as well.
The purpose of the blog and the Mac OS X SIG is to build and support the Mac-using community here at Stanford and to make that community's knowledge available to all users on the Web.
