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@d1 @jadehopepunk @coopcloud thanks all for writing back :)

Oh this is interesting @goblin @mox

From a Quick Look around …

Kolicloud is a web-based tool for digital collaboration and combines different tools in a common dashboard.

Has similar community hosting goals to us.

From the KolliCloud repo..

“The KolliCloud is a free service provided by Local-IT e.V. (LIT) in collaboration with the coopcloud-community. It is a collection of software tools specifically designed for small to medium-sized clubs, associations, and NGOs to facilitate digital collaboration.”

There are three options for using the KolliCloud:

Self-hosting
Managed Hosting
Collective Hosting
You can find more information on our website(https://kollicloud.de/hosting/).

This repository mainly contains references to other repositories. This is because the setup of the KolliCloud is based on abra from the coop-Cloud and our own Meta-Configuration tool, alakazam.

https://git.local-it.org/local-it/kollicloud

Looking at Alakazam.. seems to offer that meta config layer that can I was mentioning…

“Alakazam serves as a wrapper for Abra to make it easier to manage configurations across multiple instances. The global configuration for all KolliClouds can be regulated via alakazam, even if this can of course be adjusted in more detail per customer.

An example: Help, i.e. the link to the KolliCloud Wiki, is available in all KolliClouds on the dashboard. This is stored in the alaka defaults. If the link were to change, this would only have to be changed in the one alaka-defaults file and not in every authentic recipe for every KolliCloud.”

ref: https://wiki.local-it.cloud/s/kollicloud-wiki/doc/alakazam-2KkXj4zqH0?q=Ala

And here’s the underlying git repo:

“Alakazam is a meta-configuration app-connector and an abra wrapper, designed as a proof-of-concept to simplify the management of environment configuration files across multiple instances.”

https://git.coopcloud.tech/moritz/alakazam

All very interesting!!

#SelfHosting #CommunityHosting #CollectiveHosting #CoopCloud #Homelab #DevOps

We’re currently doing testing of different self hosting platforms that can be used by community groups to manage their own day for documents and a range of apps.

Specifically we’re looking into platforms that are

1. open source and actively maintained
2. Preferably supports the use of docker
3. Has its own easy-install marketplace (sasy tk upgrade also)
4. Critically includes Single Sogn on suppprt.. so team members can use ONE login across all apps in the platform
5. Nice interface, easy, powerful

Shout out if u have any suggestions.

We’ve tried going full kubernetes but the bar is too high to take our whole team on the journey at this stage.

Also keen not to reinvent the wheel and get behind a good existing project.

#SelfHosting #CommunityHosting #Homelab #CommunityLab #DigitalJustice

Sooooo my recent mishaps with server administration are making me speed up my plans of shifting towards community-owned and -maintained hosting.

Ever since my conversation with @boris almost one year ago, I took his quote “self-hosting is selfish” as a mantra. It’s time to act accordingly.

Together with @Holly and @youjungnoh, we are putting together a group of tech-savy people who want to, respectively:

1. Learn more about system administration
2. Get their hands dirty while doing so
3. Maintain our own shared server
4. Host their own things (be them websites, projects, or services) together with comrades instead of individual infrastructure.

There are many super cool collectives that are doing this already, and we intend to draw inspiration from their work and their documentation, but we really want to do this together!

Who wants to join? Please, do reach out! I already spun up a small-ish VPS that is now hosting all my static websites. If you’d like to get involved, reach out and I would be happy to give you SSH access 🌻

We would also be very grateful if more experienced sysAds want to help us out by hosting workshops or brief classes.

We intend to meet for the first time in South Holland (but maybe virtually too) sometime during the first two weeks of March.

Next steps:

1. Find a name for this group/server/mission
2. Plan a series of (free, open) intro lessons with guests
3. Start hosting some things
4. Migrate things I am already hosting with YunoHost in our community server
5. Migrate to a physical device in a home of ours?

EDIT: I forgot to add this, but it goes without saying that ours would be a queer and transfeminist server

#communityHosting #Linux #sysAd #systemAdministration #selfHosting #YunoHost #Nginx #hosting #server #VPS

@samuel same, my local community radio https://radionordsalten.no/ needs a place to publish podcast interviews of old folks who were part of the resistance during WW2.

I'd like for our upcoming data coop in norway to host castopod, but it depends on whether the other members agree.

#fediAsk #dataCoop #dataCollective #communityHosting

Any interest for this in @datacoop or @ukrudt or @konstellationen ?

#CommunityHosting #Ops

A small group of us are working on community level hosting of 'self-hosted' FOSS tools (think #NextCloud and more) setup as a local service offering for local grassroots organisations. We're seeking advice/tips/guidance.

We're keen to do some orchastration but want to avoid the complexity of say Kubernetes.

As a start we were looking at Ansible with Docker Swarm but we're now exploring other alternatives.

Anyone have experience at this sort of hobbist just a bit bigger than #HomeLab Ops scale?

#Pyinfra is being considered as an Ansible, in the projects words "Think ansible but Python instead of YAML, and a lot faster." (https://pyinfra.com)

Anyone have experience at this homelab/small hosting level? Would love any tips/suggestions for tools/approaches.

One source of inspiration is the 12Factor app methodology: https://12factor.net

Personally, as a rubyist I'm always keen to know what the ruby community is doing in this space also.

Haven't seen many others doing work at this scale, lets use the tag #CommunityHosting to keep connected :)

@digital_justice_society

cc: @jadehopepunk @ryan @gilbert @bounding_star @steph @moxvallix @organvoid @teq

#CommunityHosting #Python #DevOps #ruby #RubyOnRails #SelfHosting #Orchastration #FOSS #OpenTofu #SelfHosting #SelfHosted

While you're waiting for GitHub to stop being broken, you might want to check out a self-hosting alternative called @forgejo at:

➡️ https://forgejo.org

Alternatively, if you just want a Forgejo instance to sign up on, check out @Codeberg at:

➡️ https://codeberg.org

Forgejo is free open source software, and is a community-run hard fork of Gitea.

#GitHub #GitHubDown #CodeForges #Dev #SoftwareDevelopment #SelfHosting #CommunityHosting

If we want to mainstream decentralized online services, we need ways to separate the work of running a service node (eg a fediverse instance) from running the hosting infrastructure ("the server"). The founders of Sandstorm were on the right track. Maybe what they were missing was platform co-op structures to run the underlying hosting and make sure they at least cover their upstream costs?

#CommunityHosting #PlatformCooperatives #Sandstorm