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I note that on https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/documentserver_community it states:

The community document server is designed to make it easy to get OnlyOffice running in a Nextcloud instance without the need to setup an external document server, the community document server does not support all features of the official OnlyOffice document server and does not provide the same performance and scalability. (bold added)

And I'm guessing that the Cloudron app at https://cloudron.io/store/com.onlyoffice.coudronapp.html installs the full version? Is that right @nebulon @girish ?

So the method described by @gloes (thanks!) works, but perhaps does not have as the same features, performance and scalability?

So the current method of installing both Nextcloud and ONLYOFFICE Cloudron apps may still be best?

Having just played with all the existing email options (including Nextcloud Mail) I'd really like Mailpile to be available as none of the others come close to comparing to Gmail (e.g. on a basic level they all seem to lack label/ tag based folders, which it would appear is how things are done in Mailpile... although it still doesn't work very well in their demo so I guess it's not yet ready for prime time).

bridge between mattermost, IRC, gitter, xmpp, slack, discord, telegram, rocketchat, steam, twitch, ssh-chat, zulip, whatsapp, keybase, matrix and more with REST API (mattermost not required!)

Sounds useful!

https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge
https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/wiki/Deploy:-Docker

I'd like people to be able to register and request to join my Cloudron - is that possible? or does an admin always needs to manually create new users?

@girish a couple more things that'd be nice:

1. As well as the ability to delete them if need be, I'd like to be able to easily (i.e. through the web UI) download the Cloudron backups to my local machine as well as automatically storing them on an external server
2. I'd like to be able to choose rsync for some apps and tarball for others rather than just using the same backup method for everything. e.g. I'm considering using Surfer to replace http://library.uniteddiversity.coop/ which has GBs of PDFs files. I prefer tarballs for most backups (I like that everything is contained in a single file), but it'd be madness to use tarballs for that really as it rarely changes much and takes up loads of space.

https://github.com/cloudpatron/cloudpatron

I use Hetzner Cloud VPS for my Cloudron server and I love it. I also love that they are 100% powered by renewable energy.

The user interface is great and also only charge by the hour so it's possible to quickly and easily set-up test servers etc if you need to.

I also have a VPS with 1984hosting where I've got a Sandstorm server running. They aren't as cheap as Hetzner nor some of the others mentioned above, but are also really great; they are big advocates of Free Software and run on 100% renewables too.

I've started putting together a list (in a doc on my Cloudron-powered Nextcloud+ONLYOFFICE on my Hetzner VPS ) of all the 100% renewable* VPS providers I've found so far here:
https://office.uniteddiversity.coop/s/oZjArwQDtPEgGFd

• some (eg Fasthosts, Bitfolk) claim that they are 100% renewable but when you dig into the detail they include the burning of biofuels at power plants like Drax in the UK. I don't personally consider such energy sources to be sustainable and so don't include these in my list.

Edit: I've just checked the links above and pleased to discover netcup are also powered by green energy so have added them to my list. Germany certainly seems to be the leader of cheap green good VPS providers!

@jdaviescoates said in Upcoming apps:

I'd learn slightly toward Jitsi as from what has been written above apparently it uses less resources, it seems more widely used, and it integrates nicely with Rocket.Chat which I'm loving.

Saying that, the first time I used the demo BBB years ago I was blown away but the automatic translation in their chat. I was chatting away to people who were reading and writing in a different language and it was a while before any of us noticed as it was just auto-translating everything into our preferred language!

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@msbt in the meantime install WordFence (if you haven't already)? Does a really great job of blocking and detecting most stuff.

@girish said in What's coming in 4.5:

One idea was maybe to let people choose rsync just for nextcloud (so per-app backup format). I prefer not to add options like this, it's too complex to explain.

I like this idea and don't find it particularly complex either

I'd use rsync for Nexcloud and Surfer and tgz for everything else.

@girish said in n8n.io - Zappier, IFTTT, Integromat alternative:

I am not even sure if we are 'allowed' to package it for Cloudron

It sounds to me like you probably are allowed to do so:

May I create, distribute, offer as SaaS, and/or “sell” my products using Commons Clause licensed components?

Yes!
Commons Clause only forbids you from “selling” the Commons Clause software itself. You may develop on top of Commons Clause licensed software (adding applications, tools, utilities or plug-ins) and you may embed and redistribute Commons Clause software in a larger product, and you may distribute and even “sell” (which includes offering as a commercial SaaS service) your product.

from https://commonsclause.com/

Um, thanks @yusf @nebulon but the reason I love Cloudron is because I'm not (yet) a programmer and so I'm not going to be writing a sign-up application to interface with the Cloudron API any time soon!

But perhaps once someone does it could be added as another app in the app store?

I'd love to be able to use Cobudget on Cloudron!
https://github.com/cobudget/cobudget
https://cobudget.co/

I contacted Loomio about this and one of their lead developers responded saying:

Hi Josepf,

Cloudron looks like a great system. It should be possible to modify Loomios Dockerfile to support it.

If you know anyone with the inclination I'm happy to support them with that. Otherwise I may get around to it in the next couple of months - I think we could do with a Cloudron host for Loomio stuff.

Kind regards,
Robert

I'll point Robert to this thread and hopefully someone will pick it up!

I've just added a related issue on the Cobudget github in order to bring this to the attention of their developers

https://github.com/cobudget/cobudget/issues/179

@nebulon said in Discourse:

we haven't really seen the use-case for a forum type app to have SSO to the Cloudron users

@nebulon said in Discourse:

So I guess if the private forum use-case is considered to be useful and valid, then I guess we can add that.

Does that mean that if Cloudron SSO was enabled then people wouldn't also be able to register?

Or could we have it how Rocket.Chat seems to function atm, i.e. Cloudron users can login with their Cloudron credentials, but other people can register too? That is what I want

Thanks!

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@yusf said in Your Priorities - Citizen participation social network for digital democracy and social innovation:

Is it LDAP compatible?

No idea, but have asked them on Twitter:
https://twitter.com/uniteddiversity/status/1221076478093336576?s=20

@nebulon I prompted Robert to check out this thread and pointed out Loomio is currently the 5th most wanted app. He said:

Thanks for this Josef, very exciting.

I'm just totally, and completely full and can't see myself doing work on this in the near term. We're going to need to recruit someone else to help to get this done.