Own your data with open source collaboration platform
www.surf.nl
Collaboration in documents or direct mutual communication across the borders of institutions is often still difficult. Yet researchers, lecturers and other staff in research and education increasingly want to do so. For three months, therefore, together with some members, we experimented on the open source platform Nextcloud.

“It’s good to look at alternatives to the Microsofts and Googles of this world. You want to be in charge of your data yourself and not rashly hand it over. So it is also about reclaiming a bit of autonomy,” says Daniel Ostkamp, researcher at Radboud University.

The project is organized by SURF, a cooperative association of Dutch educational and research institutions in which the members combine their strengths to acquire or develop the best possible digital services, and to “encourage knowledge sharing through continuous innovation,” the cooperative says on its website.

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  • elouboub@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    For three months, therefore, together with some members, we experimented on the open source platform Nextcloud.

    I think the experiment is over.

    During the trial period and the evaluations, it showed that participants could get on well with Nextcloud and that the platform is applicable in practice.

    “A logical next step is a scaled-up trial period in which we investigate whether Nextcloud can be included in the service portfolio,” says Van Himbergen.

    There is hope