alex chee daniel labare mike oster john spann bryan unbangluang collaborative document sharing in...

Alex Chee

Daniel LaBare

Mike Oster

John Spann

Bryan Unbangluang

Collaborative Document Sharing

In Conjunction With

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What isDocument Sharing?

• Many people in different places working

together on the most recent files

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Scenario

• Alex and Bryan are working together to

create a report and presentation. Alex

needs to reference information within

Bryan’s document, which is still in

development.

• Problem:

– How do both Alex and Bryan work with the

most up-to-date versions of each other’s

files at the same time?

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Current Solutions

• Distribute copies via E-mail, CD, USB

Flash Drive, etc.

• Set up a LAN or VPN for offsite access

• 3rd Party

– Subversion

– FolderShare

– TubesNow

– BeInSync

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Drawbacks

• Conflicts

• File Size Limitations

• Complex Setup and Interface

• Limited by Locality

• Centralized Storage

• Other 3rd Party Solutions

– Limitations on transfers/number of folders

– Not meant for collaboration

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Project Goals

• Conflict Prevention

• No File or Total Shared Size Limit

• Connect with anyone, anywhere

• Decentralized Storage

• Ease of Use

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What is a Team?

• A group of People sharing a Folder and

all of its contents over the internet

How it WorksAlex

Bryan Mike

Our Solution

• Conflict Prevention

– Utilize a Check-in/Check-out Model

– Only a single Up-To-Date version across all team member computers

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Our Solution

• Peer-to-Peer File Distribution

– Cost Effective and Easy to Maintain

– Local Storage of files only

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Scenario Revisited

How would Te@mSync solve Alex and

Bryan’s problems?

Use Case

• Alex and Bryan are members of the

same team

• Bryan checks in his latest changes to the

Report

• Alex receives the changes and updates

the presentation and checks them in

Desktop Features

• Synchronize local files

– Seamless and effortless

• Check-in/Check-out model

– Allows for offline editing

– Prevents file conflicts

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Web Features

• Te@mSync Website

– Check-in, Check-out, Delete

– Remote Download

• ThinkFree - www.thinkfree.com

– 3rd Party Web Based Document Viewer

– Allows Microsoft Office Documents to be

displayed within a website

Remote DownloadsDanny

Bryan AlexMike

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Why Te@mSync?

• Cost Effective

• Easy Maintenance

• Automatic Synchronization

• Windows Integration

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Future Plans

• Firewall Support

• Improve Security

• Status Icons in Windows Explorer

• Native Mac and Linux Support

• Web-based Uploads

• Version Control

• ThinkFree Editing

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What We Needed

• Ruby on Rails

• Windows Platform SDK

• Windows COM

• ATL

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What We Learned

• Team Communication is Difficult

– The Importance of WRITTEN

Documentations and Specifications

• Resource Distribution and Time

Management

• The Value of Source Code Version

Control

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Thanks

• Corporate Sponsor -

– Bernd Christiansen

– Albert Alexandrov

• Professors and TA

– Tevfik Bultan

– Rich Wolski

– Chris Coakley

Questions?

Network OverviewAlex

Bryan Mike

Remote DownloadsDanny

Bryan AlexMike