Towards an operating system for the campus

Almost every computing device runs an operating system, which is responsible for managing different resources on the device and providing higher-level programming abstractions. This paper proposes CampusOS, an operating system which is responsible for managing networked resources on university campuses, including data of students, teachers, courses, organizations, and even data generated from users' computing devices. CampusOS provides flexible support for campus application development with SDKs consisting of campus-related APIs. CampusOS features and SDK APIs can also be extended by developers easily. We discuss the design of CampusOS, as well as its challenges.