This document gives a short description which decisions have to be made before creating a new web site. C&CZ is not the communications department, officially all communication and therefore web sites should be provided and endorsed by the communication department. However, sometimes a web site is actually an application with a web interface and this can usually not be provided via the official communication website. Preferably a site with a URL like https://<somesite>.science.ru.nl is used, but if necessary, we can request an additional domain under whatever toplevel you need. Be aware that this is most likely against the official policy regarding websites. ...

students WWW by students All student associations of the Science Faculty have their own WWW service. These are Thalia (Computer Science), 1 Desda (Mathematics), 2 Sigma (Chemistry), 3 Marie Curie (Physics), 4 BeeVee (Biology), 5 Leonardo (Sciences), 6 Students who would like to start their own www service are advised to contact their association using the association’s website or by sending a mail to one of the mail addresses. If that doesn’t work out you can always visit C&CZ and talk to one of the system administrators to see if it is possible to start a new WWW service.

Information security European directives and Dutch law prohibit the storage of personal data (persoonsgegevens) outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Most of the well known cloud services are US based: Dropbox, all Google services such as Gmail and Google+, Hotmail, iCloud. This implies that (data collections containing) personal data may not be stored on these cloud services. In addition to the law, Radboud University has issued an internal security policy that prohibits the storage of data that is classified as critical (this includes all personal data) on any (public) cloud service, even those which are EEA based. However, RU considers SURFnet’s SURFdrive, SURFfilesender and edugroepen as safe community cloud services for data exchange between RU employees, students, and external parties. ...