Simplified customizing,
Simplified customizing, data security & S3, events
Dear EGroupware users,
With the simplified customizing options, you can adapt EGroupware even more easily to your structures and processes. Whether hosting or self-installation - the S3 storage solution gives you added security. Interesting topic: How do you motivate students in the AI tool era? We also have a few exciting open source events in store for you today.
- Simplified customizing in EGroupware
- More data security with S3 storage
- Teaching in times of artificial intelligence?
- Open Source Events
In detail:
Simplified customizing in EGroupware
Customize EGroupware even more easily to your processes and structures from the next maintenance release. Admins will be able to create customized user-defined fields in EGroupware apps such as InfoLog, Calendar or Address Book even faster. When creating the fields, the corresponding tabs are automatically created in the interface. These are split up in the same way as your own fields, giving users an overview of all the information in your organization.
It is possible to give certain user groups read-only access (read-only option) and grant others editing rights. You can read more about this on GitHub.
More data security with S3 storage
In March, the topic of a lack of data protection was (unfortunately) back on the agenda. According to the European Data Protection Supervisor, the European Commission is violating its own data protection rules when using MS 365: The Commission had failed to take adequate safeguards for personal data. In addition, it had not sufficiently defined in its contract with Microsoft which personal data would be collected when using MS 365 and for which specified purposes. For example, the transfer of data to subsidiaries in third countries was not excluded.
We take a very critical view of such omissions in terms of data protection law. However, our focus is not only on the protection of personal data, but also on the security of dormant data against hacker attacks (e.g. backups of our users and their files).
In December, we successfully migrated our customers’ EGroupware instances to S3 storage (Simple Storage Service). With S3, all data can be encrypted at rest. This means that data in EGroupware cannot be accessed from outside. However, S3 storage is also a possible backup concept for in-house installations - either with any hoster or in the EGroupware Cloud as a disaster recovery option. S3 support is an EPL function.
If you have any questions, simply contact us and we will be happy to help.
Teaching in times of artificial intelligence?
How can teachers motivate students and pupils to write themselves in the era of AI (Artificial Intelligence) tools? We present exciting solutions to monitor the process of writing essays or reports and thus promote engagement and learning.
Learn more in the webinar on June 19:
- How Antecedent Writing Analytics Fights for Academic Integrity
- How Collabora Online enables collaboration between learners and teachers
- EGroupware’s suite of solutions to promote student engagement and learning
Open Source Events
There was a great open source event in April. The COOL Days Conference in Cambridge took place from April 8-10 and Birgit Becker from our management team was there with a lightning talk. At the conference about Collabora Online, Collabora’s online office, we presented VIDOTEACH, our interactive learning video tool, among other things. >> Presentation video
On March 16 and 17, EGroupware Community Manager Stefan Unverricht was at the CLT - Chemnitzer Linux Tage and gave a presentation there. We have listed this and other presentations in Übersicht Vorträge.
On June 4, EGroupware Managing Director Birgit Becker was at the APELL Conference, organized by the OSBA (Open Source Business Alliance). We are actively involved in the board of the OSBA, e.g. for sustainable procurement of open source software, i.e. the development of criteria for tendering bodies and procurers. Fair procurement forms the basis for a healthy OSS ecosystem and high-quality software. The OSBA is working to raise awareness of this issue. More on this in a contribution by Peer Heinlein at the CLT 2024.
The FrOSCon - Free and Open Source Software Conference - will take place on August 17 and 18. All visitors who use or develop free software are invited. We will be there and are looking forward to an exciting program with lectures and workshops.
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Best regards
Your EGroupware Team
