1. Jan Meijer TNC2011 BoF
16 May 2011
FileSender
http://www.filesender.org/
http://blog.filesender.org/
BoF TNC 2011

2. problem
attachment too big

3. painless sharing arbitrarily large files with
a private audience
through a trusted intermediary
value proposition

5. basic function
Picture courtesy SRCE (Croatia)

6. invite person without account
Picture courtesy SRCE (Croatia)

7. audio book library
stiff horse syndrome
MRI images
sensor on chip
religion studies

8. Why do this ourselves?
● > 2GB uploads
● know where your data is
● design for people with other things to do
● federated logon
● no ads
● no limitations
● least clicks possible
● fire&forget

9. target group
all lecturers, students, researchers, staff
Probably not you!

10. Open Source project
BSD license
N
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!

11. tech
● backend:
php+apache+postgres+simplesamlphp
● frontend now: flash (<2GB) + Gears (>2GB, win
only)
● frontend 1.5: HTML + small flash upload
(<2GB) + HTML5 FileAPI (>2GB, all platforms)
● open source, BSD
● 6 people core group

12. known installs
● AARNet
● ARNES (soon)
● BELnet
● FCCN
● HEAnet
● SRCE
● SURFnet
● TERENA
● UNINETT

13. History
07-2007: CSC presents ePoste Restante
09-2008: ePoste (.fi), Bitey (.ie), FileSender (.no), DocExchange (.ch)
04-2009: AARNet, HEAnet, Uninett start FileSender Project
xx-2009: FileSender x released
10-2009: AARnet pilot starts
09-2010: SRCE production
11-2010: HEAnet production
17-01-2010: after 19 betas: RC1 (beta-19 rebrand)!
31-01-2011: RELEASE 1.0!

14. IEEE publication!
“Facilitating Research Collaboration in the
Australian Geoscience Community Using
CloudStor”
http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/eScience.2010.31

15. after 2 years: what have we got?
● a solid release 1.0, ready for production
● solid understanding of problem space
● established a project!
● good documentation
● working cross-org collab infrastructure
● funding for 2011
● a very dedicated group of people
with a desire to make it happen!
● no reliance on one single NREN!

16. FileSender 1.5
● Priority 1: >2GB !Flash, !Gears
● >2GB on Mac, Linux using HTML5
● database abstraction
● localisation!
After FileSender 1.5: more features!
● integration with other apps:scientific workflows!
● addressbook/federated group
● timestamping
● ...and more
focus on shipping for production services