Teamwork: A Decentralized, Secure and Portable Team Management System

We present Teamwork, an easy to use, portable system for team management. The distinguishing key feature of our solution is enhanced privacy provided by two means. First of all, all user content is moved from the cloud directly to users´ devices, which share the data through a Peer-to-Peer overlay network for content distribution. Secondly, all content transferred through the network is secured in order to protect it from eavesdropping. Content is stored in files distributed through the Peer-to-Peer file system component named Teamshare. User´s cognitive load is reduced by merging abstractions such as groups, organizations and projects into one simple concept teams. The system is tightly integrated with existing mailing protocols, such that any task is an email.