1. Jan Meijer TNC2011 BoF 16 May 2011 FileSender
http://www.filesender.org/ http://blog.filesender.org/ BoF TNC
2011
2. problem attachment too big 3. painless sharing arbitrarily
large files with a private audience through a trusted intermediary
value proposition 4. basic function Picture courtesy SRCE (Croatia)
5. invite person without account Picture courtesy SRCE (Croatia) 6.
audio book library stiff horse syndrome MRI images sensor on chip
religion studies 7. Why do this ourselves? > 2GB uploads know
where your data is design for people with other things to do
federated logon no ads no limitations least clicks possible
fire&forget 8. target group all lecturers, students,
researchers, staff Probably not you! 9. Open Source project BSD
license N EW ! 10. tech backend: php+apache+postgres+simplesamlphp
frontend now: flash (2GB, win only) frontend 1.5: HTML + small
flash upload (2GB, all platforms) open source, BSD 6 people core
group 11. known installs AARNet ARNES (soon) BELnet FCCN HEAnet
SRCE SURFnet TERENA UNINETT 12. History 07-2007: CSC presents
ePoste Restante 09-2008: ePoste (.fi), Bitey (.ie), FileSender
(.no), DocExchange (.ch) 04-2009: AARNet, HEAnet, Uninett start
FileSender Project xx-2009: FileSender x released 10-2009: AARnet
pilot starts 09-2010: SRCE production 11-2010: HEAnet production
17-01-2010: after 19 betas: RC1 (beta-19 rebrand)! 31-01-2011:
RELEASE 1.0! 13. IEEE publication! Facilitating Research
Collaboration in the Australian Geoscience Community Using
CloudStor http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2010.31 14. after 2
years: what have we got? a solid release 1.0, ready for production
solid understanding of problem space established a project! good
documentation working cross-org collab infrastructure funding for
2011 a very dedicated group of people with a desire to make it
happen! no reliance on one single NREN! 15. FileSender 1.5 Priority
1: >2GB !Flash, !Gears >2GB on Mac, Linux using HTML5
database abstraction localisation! After FileSender 1.5: more
features! integration with other apps:scientific workflows!
addressbook/federated group timestamping ...and more focus on
shipping for production services
