What do you do?
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Rob here (robi is my Croatian nickname and often computer username) for those in other cultures, short for Robert.
As a Strategic Advisor and (Business & Innovation) Catalyst, I'm mostly a full stack janitor
As a leader in several startups, I reserve a keen eye for emerging technologies (hi Cloudron and it's Apps); I have been a speaker, mentor, advisor for Google, NASA, IBM, and many more, finding safe, creative solutions all the way from the mundane to the complex with equal ease, which is one thing that keeps my passion ignited.
Remember WinAmp? Yeah, I was there during the mp3 revolution, in the credits until the recent reshuffle.
I've invented a bunch of stuff, including the first PCIe flash storage device in small form factor (SFF), now you'll recognize it as the M.2 PCIe SSD device for which there is now a slot on every motherboard being made. (didn't make a dime.)
Made core discoveries (read blunders) in physics (magnetism, light, water), mathematics, statistics, AI, ML, medicine, law, etc, which you can ask me about outside this thread.
3 decades ago I got bitten by the sysadmin bug and never left, despite all the C level gigs.
After 15 years, I am still on the board of directors for https://BayLISA.org which is one of the oldest meetups in Silicon Valley. We've had the Cloudron team speak at one of our meetups which should be online on YT.
I play a long running pickup soccer game every Saturday (same folks come out for 8+ years) and tennis 1-2 times a week if possible. Love ping pong and ultimate frisbee too.
If you want to see a small part of my other crazy projects, see https://venture.toldyouso.com
Otherwise a few here have found me on Twitter.
There's more, but that's plenty for now
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@jdaviescoates I figured so. But I wonder why @ruihildt bothered to point out what he did. The few lines I found on the website aren't actually advertising Cloudron as %100 open source, but rather that the code they use is open source. I'd be more bothered by their approach, like Framasoft, where if the user has no idea about the existence of Cloudron, in this case, the company's description of what they do (https://osinum.fr/) makes it sound like it is and has been all their own doing. Much of what they promise to do is based on whether Cloudron, or all the other myriad open source projects in use, has or will implement it, but they don't clearly specify that. If I found them, and started using them, and THEN discovered they actually use Cloudron, I'd be a little miffed, and would just switch over to Cloudron.
Anyway, I have no clue what "being sponsored by Medias-Cite" means, but if the Cloudron team are fine with it, and this "sponsoring" helps move Cloudron forward, great.(A bit more reading shows that they, osinum.fr, are charging a minimum 150 EURO/month!!! I guess they are paying Cloudron for the Premium Plus plan. They offer, for almost triple the price of Cloudron's pricing,
1 domain name (.fr, .com, .org, .net)
Accommodation in France
Shared server
100 GB
5 applications
50 users
Management of user groups
Daily backups
Surveillance / Monitoring / Security
Email supportMaybe I should get into offering cloudron!!
@scooke Hi i'm Benoit the Medias-Cite and Osinum manager. We sell a service with Cloudron in its core. our customers are ok with that and they know it's Cloudron behind but they don't care about it because they don't want to have to deal with the server side (and they want a server in France). It's the same thing when developing services based on Wordpress, the client wants a site that works under Wordpress but does not want to have to do it himself because he does not necessarily have the time or the inclination to do it himself.
We support our customers with others services addons to our offers (Example : we deploy BBB for us outside Cloudron), we are thinking about making some webinars to help them to use Nextcloud, wordpress etc... We try to sponsor some new developpments in Cloudron (internationalization), and new packaging of apps (Dolibarr for the moment, with @eric a Dolibarr team developer).
@girish and @nebulon know our activities, nothing is hidden. The only line we change on our website is "le logiciel libre Cloudron" because this is no longer totally true.Conclusion, we don't sell Cloudron but services based on it. Cloudron is a master piece in our service but without humans behind it our service is dead. And by the way, Medias-Cite is a non profit organization (cooperative) and it will remain so.
I hope you understand what we do
Sorry for my english
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@scooke Hi i'm Benoit the Medias-Cite and Osinum manager. We sell a service with Cloudron in its core. our customers are ok with that and they know it's Cloudron behind but they don't care about it because they don't want to have to deal with the server side (and they want a server in France). It's the same thing when developing services based on Wordpress, the client wants a site that works under Wordpress but does not want to have to do it himself because he does not necessarily have the time or the inclination to do it himself.
We support our customers with others services addons to our offers (Example : we deploy BBB for us outside Cloudron), we are thinking about making some webinars to help them to use Nextcloud, wordpress etc... We try to sponsor some new developpments in Cloudron (internationalization), and new packaging of apps (Dolibarr for the moment, with @eric a Dolibarr team developer).
@girish and @nebulon know our activities, nothing is hidden. The only line we change on our website is "le logiciel libre Cloudron" because this is no longer totally true.Conclusion, we don't sell Cloudron but services based on it. Cloudron is a master piece in our service but without humans behind it our service is dead. And by the way, Medias-Cite is a non profit organization (cooperative) and it will remain so.
I hope you understand what we do
Sorry for my english
@benoit A far better job than if I tried to write anything in French! I have a particular interest in this sort of MSP model to help improve the access to the platform - many small businesses or groups could see big benefits from Cloudron but cannot afford the dedicated IT pros to operate/support it, so I think such options are a great part of the ecosystem. I have an interest in doing something similar for local clients as well in the future, or at least to standardize my deployment of some custom applications.
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First of all: Thank you for this thread. I like it
My name is Stephan Luckow and before I did "something with computers" I made a bet that I would be successful as a musician (playing bass guitar). But that was a dream in the mid 90s. Btw: this was our contribution to the European song contest in 1994 -> https://peertube.luckow.org/videos/watch/53b4c661-a308-44ab-9491-de6f14daa90b
In 1995 I founded my first Internet full-service agency in Berlin, and my whole business was based on open source software. Part of the proprietary software was downloaded from news servers. In 2006 I realized that giving back to the OSS communities is not only a return in software development. I'm not a developer, so I decided to help with other topics as well. In 2010 I took the position of president of the German Drupal association and in 2013 some people and I founded CMS Garden e. V. as an umbrella organization for the most active Open Source Content Management Systems.
Today I'm the managing director of the company for the development of things. A Berlin-based consulting & development company that supports clients in making decisions for their digital transformation and sovereignty.
We have learned in a customer project that there is Cloudron. In terms of content, we wanted to find out whether it is possible to address the SME market with software in which the system administrator is built-in. And because Cloudron exists, we decided to stop our own investments in the product, to change the process to promote the growth of Cloudron. -
@scooke Hi i'm Benoit the Medias-Cite and Osinum manager. We sell a service with Cloudron in its core. our customers are ok with that and they know it's Cloudron behind but they don't care about it because they don't want to have to deal with the server side (and they want a server in France). It's the same thing when developing services based on Wordpress, the client wants a site that works under Wordpress but does not want to have to do it himself because he does not necessarily have the time or the inclination to do it himself.
We support our customers with others services addons to our offers (Example : we deploy BBB for us outside Cloudron), we are thinking about making some webinars to help them to use Nextcloud, wordpress etc... We try to sponsor some new developpments in Cloudron (internationalization), and new packaging of apps (Dolibarr for the moment, with @eric a Dolibarr team developer).
@girish and @nebulon know our activities, nothing is hidden. The only line we change on our website is "le logiciel libre Cloudron" because this is no longer totally true.Conclusion, we don't sell Cloudron but services based on it. Cloudron is a master piece in our service but without humans behind it our service is dead. And by the way, Medias-Cite is a non profit organization (cooperative) and it will remain so.
I hope you understand what we do
Sorry for my english
@benoit My apologies for not responding sooner, for some reason I never saw your comments until today. I think it is great you are aiming to help people. And your explanation, and comparison, does make sense. Thank you. Merci.
A life lived in fear is a life half-lived
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@benoit My apologies for not responding sooner, for some reason I never saw your comments until today. I think it is great you are aiming to help people. And your explanation, and comparison, does make sense. Thank you. Merci.
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I am a ten-day newbie to Cloudron but have over twenty years experience working as a technical writer for mostly Montreal-based companies like Autodesk Media & Entertainment (compositing/editing film and tv), Moment Factory (live event multimedia) and Genetec (physical security).
However my hobby and real passion is plain writing and getting this out in as many mediums as possible. This led me to shared hosting WordPress blogs and eventually VPS with DigitalOcean. Along the way I tried to set up and run maybe ten or more apps that are in the Cloudron store so it is a revelation to find it as it simplifies and brings together all this experimentation basically onto a single server.
I am very excited to find Cloudron and this community and hope to contribute perhaps initially more in-line with my past experience as a technical writer: which means asking lots of questions
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@scooke What I do ?
Since COVID
- from 4:30 to 7:00 AM: Kundalini Yoga
- from 7:00 to noon: Educate my kid with Best-effort delivery which I try to keep up 99,9%
- from 1:00 to 5:00PM: Linux Admin / NetSecOps
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I am a Physician and a Medical Informaticist.
I am also into Medical Education, work at a University.What I am not is a software engineer or system administrator.
This is exactly why Cloudron is nothing less than magic for me.Thanks @nebulon and @girish for such a fantastic software.
I was on sandstorm earlier and came to cloudron very early on.
Cloudron has empowered me to run a dozen or so apps without a fuss. Customer support (hands on by the founders) is the single greatest and top feature of cloudron.
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I am a Physician and a Medical Informaticist.
I am also into Medical Education, work at a University.What I am not is a software engineer or system administrator.
This is exactly why Cloudron is nothing less than magic for me.Thanks @nebulon and @girish for such a fantastic software.
I was on sandstorm earlier and came to cloudron very early on.
Cloudron has empowered me to run a dozen or so apps without a fuss. Customer support (hands on by the founders) is the single greatest and top feature of cloudron.
@jagan said in What do you do?:
What I am not is a software engineer or system administrator.
This is exactly why Cloudron is nothing less than magic for me.Bah I'm Linux SysAdmin and teached docker to devs and still while I understand and probably able to do something similar, I'm using Cloudron because of the community (support, debug, upgrade, ...) and the team maintain properly their project which save me a lot of time
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I am a Physician and a Medical Informaticist.
I am also into Medical Education, work at a University.What I am not is a software engineer or system administrator.
This is exactly why Cloudron is nothing less than magic for me.Thanks @nebulon and @girish for such a fantastic software.
I was on sandstorm earlier and came to cloudron very early on.
Cloudron has empowered me to run a dozen or so apps without a fuss. Customer support (hands on by the founders) is the single greatest and top feature of cloudron.
I am a smith sera and I am a professional writer and work for a cheap essay writing service.
We give modified custom writers pto Help administration. During higher investigations in schools, students frequently need to set up numerous reports, tests, and shock tests. -
Apologies for the maybe pointed question - but as a UX Designer I'm curious about the backgrounds of Cloudron users.
I'm interested in knowing people's jobs/professions/what they spend most of their day doing.
I'm interested if people are mostly "infrastructure profession users" (sysadmins, devops), "developer/programming users", not-technical users (gross over-simplified term, no insult meant), scientists, academic, or someone like me ux designer/graphic/visual designers (somewhere in between the technical and non-technical user).
My reasoning for asking is to see if there are similarities between people here and UX designers I meet and work with who say "oh I can't be bothered/don't have the skills to move away from Google/Office265/Dropbox".
I was thinking of creating a simple survey. Would there be any objections?
@ei8fdb
Partially retired, in the sense that I passed on a business that was sucking me dry in terms of energy.
So mostly gainfully UNemployed !!
Free now to pursue my interests, which include staying abreast of all the great tech that is out there nowadays.
An uncommon mix of legal, finance, business management, project management, business consultant, BPR solutions, training and implementor of tech solutions : 'wannabe developer'. I'll never be a real dev, and don't need to be, but it's rewarding to build solutions. -
I'm engaged in web and mobile app development, AdTech, FinTech.
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Pretty cool post. It’s really very nice and useful post. Keep it up!!
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I'm a software developer from Chile. I created https://chevereto.com about 14 years ago and I've some other projects, I'm mostly into development of self-hosted software. I'm also a metallurgical engineer, 35 years old.
I also speak Spanish and I'm looking forward to distribute my software to more users. Thanks cloudron for providing this tool for guys like us.
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Pretty cool post. It’s really very nice and useful post. Keep it up!!
@frederickgragg Hello robot.
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I'm the CEO of a machine learning training company. I'm just getting into self hosting (nodebb).
This started with me reading Farnell's 'Digital vegan' and then HN discussing a post I made on geminispace telling how Tiktok recommended me a video of my son... with the interesting twist that neither my son nor me had a Tiktok account.
I'm a ML practitioner (20yrs) in the field so I know how the sausage is made. But this woke me up to work harder on degoogling myself, and potentially stop using a smartphone.
I'll be lurking in this forum before contributing, if you don't mind.
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I'm the CEO of a machine learning training company. I'm just getting into self hosting (nodebb).
This started with me reading Farnell's 'Digital vegan' and then HN discussing a post I made on geminispace telling how Tiktok recommended me a video of my son... with the interesting twist that neither my son nor me had a Tiktok account.
I'm a ML practitioner (20yrs) in the field so I know how the sausage is made. But this woke me up to work harder on degoogling myself, and potentially stop using a smartphone.
I'll be lurking in this forum before contributing, if you don't mind.
@qwinter said in What do you do?:
Farnell's 'Digital vegan'
Had to look this up - https://digitalvegan.net/
