In July 2023, a total of 40 students and teachers from my school, the Gymnasium Eckental (near Nuremberg, Germany), embarked on a mandatory five-day long project seminar in the Austrian Alps. Our adventures included sleeping in cozy alpine huts, climbing the Rofan mountains and going on long hikes everyday along breathtaking mountain roads. It was the students who were solely responsible for planning every aspect of this adventure, including ensuring that the backpacks carried all the essentials, charting out the hiking routes and finding convenient places to stop for the nights. My responsibility was to curate and manage all the photos clicked during the course of our adventure.
I figured that everyone in our group would snap plenty of photos during the trip, as these moments were certainly worth cherishing for a lifetime. So, I started my search for a software that would allow each member to upload their photos and also access others’ photos effortlessly in a central platform. Ensuring that the platform offered easy organization and security was, of course, of vital importance. Plus, steering clear of public clouds with questionable privacy policies was a priority for me. That’s when I stumbled upon ownCloud Infinite Scale, and it turned out to be the ideal solution.
Photo Management Workflow
ownCloud Infinite Scale has greatly streamlined my photo management workflow. Its user-friendly web interface and mobile app make it exceptionally easy to handle, even when one is out hiking in the Alps! This mobile accessibility allowed me to efficiently organize photos during our trip, ultimately saving me a significant amount of work later on. Moreover, the self-hosting feature on a sponsored host ensures that our photos remain secure.
First, I set up dedicated upload areas for each user using ownCloud Infinite Scale’s “Spaces” feature. I shared these upload spaces in “File Drop” mode and distributed them to fellow students via QR codes. This approach ensured that each student had an individually accessible upload space, restricting access to only the photos each had uploaded.
As an administrator, this setup allowed me to moderate the images effectively. I could review and sort through the uploaded photos before transferring them to another designated space for all students to access. This ensured that only relevant and appropriate images were included in our seminar and tour collection.
The final space where I stored these images served as a shared gallery, which we access conveniently through a QR code. This gallery has become a valuable chance for us to revisit our great trip whenever we want.
With ownCloud Infinite Scale, accessing and sharing images is very simple and secure.
ownCloud Infinite Scale: Overall a great experience
I had a great experience working with ownCloud Infinite Scale because it not only provided a solution to all my wishes of a secure, personalized cloud, but was also incredibly easy to use on the go. Most of the students, including myself, brought only a smartphone on the trip. Yet the ownCloud mobile app made it simple to collect, access and manage the huge amount of pictures taken in a secure way. In conclusion, ownCloud Infinite Scale helped us with making the hiking trip unforgettable and keeping those memories accessible!
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