What do you do?

[luckow]

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]

@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.

[JOduMonT]

@scooke What I do ?

Since COVID

1. from 4:30 to 7:00 AM: Kundalini Yoga
2. from 7:00 to noon: Educate my kid with Best-effort delivery which I try to keep up 99,9%
3. from 1:00 to 5:00PM: Linux Admin / NetSecOps

[A Former User]

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

[scooke]

@jodumont 5pm to 4:30 am - Browse the Cloudron forum?

[nebulon]

@scooke haha indeed, daily newsfeed

[JOduMonT]

@scooke said in What do you do?:

@jodumont 5pm to 4:30 am - Browse the Cloudron forum?

While, not really
Sometimes I sleep and eat

Oh and don't worry, I also give some hardtime to the Nethserver community, not only to the Cloudron's one

[jagan]

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.

[JOduMonT]

@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

[smithsera88]

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.

[timconsidine]

@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.

[DevelopVlad]

I'm engaged in web and mobile app development, AdTech, FinTech.
My site postindustria.com

[frederickgragg]

Pretty cool post. It’s really very nice and useful post. Keep it up!!

[rodber]

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.

[A Former User]

@frederickgragg Hello robot.

[qwinter]

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.

[girish]

@qwinter said in What do you do?:

Farnell's 'Digital vegan'

Had to look this up - https://digitalvegan.net/

[mehdi]

@qwinter said in What do you do?:

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.

Quite curious about that ! Could we have a link ? I couldn't dig it up.

[marcusquinn]

@qwinter Good find - just ordered copies of that book to read and share, been preaching these things ever since DRM on music became a thing and SaaS became a trojan horse subscription ransom.

[qwinter]

@mehdi

HN Thread

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