The GWDG now offers “Rocket.Chat” as a new service. Rocket.Chat is a messaging service with focus on communication in teams and groups. The GWDG is launching a central installation in a test phase where users can create channels for their groups or teams. The one-to-one communication is certainly possible as well. Key features include file sharing, a searchable history, embedded previews for links, images and videos, clients for all prevalent/major operating systems, also mobile devices, and the integration of bots for notifications from additional services like GitLab via API.

Message-Id: 201704280740 Time: 01.05.2017 Affected: Customers of GWDG Impact: Data centre closed and service hotline not available by phone

The data centre of the GWDG is closed on 01.05.2017. We kindly ask all users to take this into account.

A formal ceremony was held on Wednesday, 26 April 2017, to officially found the office of the joint project DARIAH-DE. Since 2011 DARIAH-DE as national subproject of the European-wide project DARIAH-EU (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) has been developing a digital infrastructure for humanities and cultural sciences research in Germany with a total of 19 partners, including the Lower Saxony State and University Library  Göttingen (SUB) and the GWDG.

The office is located at the SUB, which holds the overall administrative coordination, and at the IT service company

The WiFi infrastructure in Göttingen has been extensively rebuilt. The well-known former GoeMobile is replaced by GuestOnCampus that offers some interesting new features. This includes, in particular, the simplified creation of WiFi accounts for individual guests via the sponsoring function or for a larger number of e.g. conference participants who do not have an eduroam account via the event voucher function. Further information can be found in two articles in the GWDG News 3/2017 and 4/2017.

Message-Id: 201704110750 Time: 14.04. - 17.04.2017 Affected: Customers of GWDG Impact: Data centre closed and service hotline not available by phone

The data centre of the GWDG is closed from 14.04.2017 to 17.04.2017.

In urgent cases please contact our support staff at support@gwdg.de. Each message is put into our ticket system which will be checked on all days from 14.04.2017 to 17.04.2017.

We kindly ask all users to take this into account.