On May 12, 2020 from 9-10 am, the Göttingen eResearch Alliance (eRA) will perform a test of an online training workshop on Research Data Management through BigBlueButton in the context of the “eResearch Lab”. The topics of the training will cover the activities of the eResearch Alliance as well as an introduction and motivation of several aspects of research data management.

We would be glad to welcome many participants, so no registration is required. If you want to take part, just join this channel shortly before 9 am on 12.05.2020: https://meet.gwdg.de/b/tim-fxk-yd6

The April/May issue of the GWDG News has just been published.

It contains among others the following topics:

• Tools and Services of the GWDG for Mobile Working during the Corona Crisis
• Chat and Videoconferencing with Microsoft Teams
• Introduction to the Use of Rocket.Chat
• Migration of TSM Instances and SP 8 Upgrade
• Revision of the New Application Procedure for User Certificates in the DFN-PKI
• 50th Birthday of the GWDG
• GWDG Engages with ownCloud for Digital Teaching at Schools in Times of Corona
• New Video Identification within the DFN-PKI
• The Göttingen eResearch Alliance – an Update

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It is exactly 50 years ago that the State of Lower Saxony on behalf of the University of Göttingen and the Max Planck Society established the Gesellschaft für wissenschaftliche Datenverarbeitung mbH Göttingen – GWDG for short – in a founding meeting. And even today, the construct of a computer and IT competence centre for science and research, co-financed by two associates, is still both a very successful and extraordinary concept: the synergies in the operation of modern high-performance computers, cloud services, tailor-made IT systems and applications, networks and a great number of other

We obtained a campus license for Zoom meetings. This enables all staff members of the University of Göttingen as well as the UMG Medical centre to access all Zoom functions including unlimited meetings up to 100 attendees. This is now available in time for the semester start. This is an alternative solution to our Big Blue Button (BBB) video conference service provided by GWDG. Licenses for larger meetings are available on request by e-mail to webconf@gwdg.de.

For using the campus license, a self-activation of your account is necessary in which you agree to us to provide account data (e-mail

GWDG now offers BigBlueButton (BBB) productively and with increased capacity at https://meet.gwdg.de. It serves as a video conferencing service, but can also be used for e-learning scenarios. It is thus also available for the summer semester. The service will be further expanded in the coming days for more functions and capacity.

As part of the COVID-19 crisis, we evaluated possible e-learning scenarios together with the e-learning team at the University of Göttingen.

After evaluating the open source tools Jitsi and BigBlueButton we decided on the latter. With BigBlueButton we offer a video