Seafile based cloud services at universities     

The Zentrum für Datenverarbeitung (ZDV) at the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Computer- und Medienservice (CMS) at the Humboldt University of Berlin will organize their first workshop on Seafile at universities on October 5th and 6th, 2015

The primary audience of this workshop are universities, colleges and other educational institutions. It serves to exchange experiences with the use of Seafile as a cloud application, the state of implementation at various universities, the lessons from these experiences and an outlook on the future development of Seafile.

The founders and principal developers of Seafile, Daniel Pan and Johnathan Xu, will come from China and attend the workshop.

Agenda

Monday, 5.Oct.2015

11:00 - 12:00 Check-in and registration
12:00 - 12:15 Prof. Brinkmann (JGU Mainz): Welcome and opening
12:20 - 12:45
Introduction of participants

12:50 - 13:15 T. Scheffczyk (JGU Mainz): Seafile - A cloud for all universities in Rhineland-Palatine
13:20 - 13:45 E. Gröper (HU Berlin): Cluster deployment with ansible config stack
13:45 - 14:15
Break (Coffee and sandwiches)

14:20 - 14:45 A. Struck (HU Berlin): Excellent cloud storage — lessons in swimming
14:50 - 15:15 E. Gröper (HU Berlin) & T. Scheffczyk (JGU Mainz): Backup and restore in Seafile
15:20 - 15:45 T. Scheffczyk (JGU Mainz): The proposed workgroup model of Seafile
15:45 - 16:10
Break (Coffee and biscuits)

16:15 - 16:40 K. Asshauer (HU Berlin) & A. Vollmer (HU Berlin): Seafile Customisation & Prospects
16:45 - 18:00 Workshops
18:05 - 18:30 Workshops - summary and discussion
19:00 - ...
Evening event in the "Eisgrubbräu, der ersten Mainzer Gasthausbrauerei"


Tuesday, 6.Oct..2015
10:00 - 10:25 M. Maeskers (JGU Mainz): CEPH and Seafile - first experiences and benchmark results
10:30 - 10:55 T. Glatzer (JGU Mainz): Shibboleth authentication in the rlp.net domain
10:55 - 11:20 T. Schneider (JGU Mainz): A testsuite for Seafile - a start
11:25 - 11:55
Break (Coffee and sandwiches)

12:00 - 12:25 D. Pan (Seafile Ltd.): Future development of Seafile
12:30 - 12:55 J. Xu (Seafile Ltd.): Seafile - architecture and design
12:55 - 13:15
Break (Coffee and biscuits)

13:15 - 13:45 Summary, adoption and outlook

 

The talks take about 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for discussion.

 

The registration fee of 80 € includes admission to an evening event including a buffet and a drink. The conference will be held at the University of Mainz.