Dropbox (not to be confused with UD's Dropbox) is one of the leading cloud storage hosting services on the internet. Many students, professors, and business groups already use the service. When a user first signs up for Dropbox they get a limited amount of allocated storage on the cloud and with the more people you invite to your shared folders the more space you accrue. Additionally you can pay for extra space and benefits.
Right now Dropbox is hosting a competition called the Great Space Race. This competition requires you to have a Dropbox account set up on a .edu email address, and will grant extra storage to that account for two years. If you already signed up with an @udel.edu email address all you have to do is visit the Great Space Race Dropbox page, once signed in, to verify your University email account. Our University has already reached the 3GB checkpoint, so if you verifiy your udel.edu Dropbox account or create a new one you will automatically get an extra 3GB of storage. There are 3 more checkpoints obtainable if more people sign up, 8GB, 15GB, and 25GB. The more people to sign up, the more possible storage!
Thanks for this posting. Dropbox is a helpful service in its own right. Use of the leaderboard rankings makes this a fun way to promote the service among universities. Go Hens!
ReplyDeleteThis is pretty cool! It would be interesting to see the end result. I'm rooting for 25GB of space(Repeating after John)...Go Hens!
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