Speaker
Description
The past
SWITCH as the national research and educational network runs an ownCloud service called SWITCHdrive for all the institutions of higher education. As we have all user on the same instance we needed an administrator role on tenant level. As we already have an external website where all the users need to register for the service, we could build on top of that an administrator interface where privileged users were able to give away vouchers to invite external people or upper quota for a single user.
The present
Now as we are now running this service for about 4 years it turned out that having an application user database and the ownCloud database is sometimes a little hard to synchronise. Also is the login process with the registration on an external site not the most convenient for the user. So we might change the login to our standard federated login, which is based on Shibboleth and as the Shibboleth integration of ownCloud got also better in the last 4 years this seems to be a better solution. Also user are asking for project based disk-space instead of person-bound data shared with others.
The future
We plan to have the whole user administration portal revamped and will consider whether we want to integrate that in SWITCHdrive as an app. Also add the group/project based folder possibility to that portal.
The audience will see what we have developed and why and how. There will probably a small demo of the administrator functions of the current state at that time.