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[Tim Chown]

Chris, we’re leaving the EU too, do we need to send all our documents to France? ;)

But more seriously, yes, that sounds like a good idea.

Tim

> On 21 Sep 2016, at 21:42, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
> 
> If useful I can ask if we can have some guidelines to help people apply some basic rules to avoid the most serious risks. The basic rule of thumb I work to is that non-public information about people, even non-structured data, should not leave the EU. This is pretty good stuff, it's to protect people, not profits. We do have a duty to protect our staff, students and others who trust us with their data.
> 
> Our staff clearly don't have a good touchstone for knowing what's OK and what's really bad. The law is quite clear and the fines for serious breaches are quite punitive.
> 
> 
> On 21/09/2016 16:28, Leslie Carr wrote:
>> It looks like (from Chris’ explanation of the institutional sensitivities) the issue is not “which platform” but “what documents”.
>> 
>> So I am checking whether my historic course admin materials (which are on Dropbox) contain any marking information.
>> —
>> Les
>> 
>> 
>>> On 21 Sep 2016, at 16:11, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Git is great for certain things.
>>> 
>>> Concurrent joint editing of documents isn’t really one, e.g. during a telecon (I also use etherpad for this).
>>> 
>>> Easy access to files from a wide variety of platforms is another - that’s where dropbox is so well integrated into many apps.
>>> 
>>> But it’s a good question Vladi, and maybe some recommendations for universities would be good to see.
>>> 
>>> Tim
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>>> On 21 Sep 2016, at 15:58, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> We have at least two git repositories but I'm not sure of the official rules on access. ECS people can almost certainly use gitlab for non public git work.
>>>> 
>>>> http://gitlab.soton.ac.uk/
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On 21/09/2016 15:47, Vladimiro Sassone wrote:
>>>>> On 21 Sep 2016, at 15:35, Jules Field <Jules at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
>>>>>> which incidentally is not good for a lot of purposes
>>>>> would you care to elaborate? As I see it, none of them (dropbox, one drive, box, …) is any good for much, google drive and iCloud a little bit better… Wouldnt be nice to just set up a university Git repository…
>>>>> 
>>>>> \vs
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
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>>>> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
>>>> 
>>>> University of Southampton Open Data Service: http://data.southampton.ac.uk/
>>>> You should read our Web & Data Innovation blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 
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> Christopher Gutteridge -- http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/cjg
> 
> University of Southampton Open Data Service: http://data.southampton.ac.uk/
> You should read our Web & Data Innovation blog: http://blogs.ecs.soton.ac.uk/webteam/
>