Abstract 

For $25/year, you can be promised unlimited storage and bandwidth for all your photos by Flickr. You can upload all your videos to YouTube or Google Video for free.   For $10/month, you can get 500 GB of storage and 5TB of monthly bandwidth from dreamhost.com.  With this comparatively inexpensive infrastructure, you can create sophisticated web applications that fuse together a vast array of open source libraries and applications, as well as further storage (S3)  and computation power (EC2)  from amazon.com and a numerous other providers.

This talk explores various issues around a DIY cyberinfrastructure:  the technical possibilities as well as the practical institutional problems that come wen individual faculty and students want integrate their own computational infrastructure with those of our campuses.