At the end of June 30, 2021, the GWDG will discontinue its USENET service "news.gwdg.de". The USENET service originated in the late 1970s well before the World Wide Web (WWW) and was used for text-oriented technical discussions. For many years, however, the use of USENET has been in sharp decline, and discussions have shifted to forums on the WWW. Therefore, after decades, the GWDG will discontinue support of USENET.

In the course of a technical restructuring, the name "news.gwdg.de" will be used in the future to provide operational reports and news from the GWDG.

Message-Id: 202105280900 Time: 27.05.2021, 5:00 pm, until 28.05.2021, 7:45 am Affected: Trouble Ticket System GOTRS Impact: Delayed delivery and processing of tickets

Due to a malfunction of the Trouble-Ticket-System GOTRS, tickets were unfortunately not delivered in the above mentioned period of time and could therefore not be processed promptly. In the meantime all the tickets that had been accumulated have been delivered and are now being processed quickly. We apologize for any inconvenience.

The recently opened digital exhibition “Computer Senses: How Magnetic Tape, Binoculars, Computer Mouse, and Punched Card Punch Change Our View of the Digital” uses exhibits from GWDG’s Computer Museum and the collection of historical objects at the Institute of Astrophysics at the University of Göttingen to show how machines, instruments, and devices shape our experience of the digital.

Further information …

The GWDG is looking for two system architects and developers (m/f/d) to strengthen the working group “eScience” (AG E) as of the next possible date.

The job vacancy …

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

It contains among others the following topics:

• Online Surveys with LimeSurvey at the GWDG: Upcoming Relaunch
• Koha at the GWDG – First Library Catalogue is Online
• E-Mail-Encryption Using X.509 Certificates – Part 6: Private Certificates with the Program “Volksverschlüsselung“
• Comparing Two Approaches for DB2 Reorganization in the Scope of IBM Spectrum Protect

>> Click here for the GWDG News 5/2021