Oftentimes commercial and proprietary solutions for filesharing, video-meetings and other services are used at the University with disregard for privacy and data protection. This page shall collect and recommend alternatives provided by either 1. our institution 2. organizations Bauhaus-Universität Weimar is a member of 3. other public and trustworthy infrastructure
A verbose description with some more detailed explanations may be found at https://www.uni-weimar.de/de/universitaet/studium/digital-studieren/ this is a condensed reference:
| Commercial Service
Do not use! |
University equivalent
DSGV compliant |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| GoogleDocs/Dropbox | https://cloud.uni-weimar.de | Nextcloud based solution provided by TU-Berlin |
| Skype/zoom | https://meeting.uni-weimar.de | BigBlueButton |
| https://www.conf.dfn.de | Pexip provided by DFN | |
| https://edumeet.geant.org | Jitsi* provided by GÉANT | |
| https://meet.weimarnetz.de | Jitsi* provided by Weimarnetz | |
| doodle/appoint.ly | https://terminplaner.dfn.de | Meeting time scheduler by DFN |
| https://dudle.inf.tu-dresden.de | Meeting time scheduler by TU-Dresden |
* For Jitsi Chrome/Chromium is recommended and headphones are necessary.