OpenStreetMap Tile Server

https://switch2osm.org/serving-tiles/manually-building-a-tile-server-20-04-lts/

Most people use Open Street Map on its main site, but it would be nice to be able to deploy OSM at home, so that you don't need an internet connection and can browse maps privately.

The map of the world is broken into sections called tiles and to run your own instance of OSM you would need a tile server.

There has already been another OSM related request, but it doesn't seem to have made it into the Cloudron Applications yet:

https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1219/umap-openstreetmap-layers-to-embedd-at-a-site?_=1634373804289

ipfs-desktop is a GUI (Graphical User Interface) which helps people use the considerable functionality available through IPFS (Inter Planetary File System)

https://docs.ipfs.io/install/ipfs-desktop/

I think more people would use IPFS to pin content if they didn't have to use their home computer. (IPFS publishes your node's IP address.) It would be wonderful to easily be able to deploy IPFS elsewhere using Cloudron.

RSS is a very powerful tool. No wonder Big Media want to get rid of it.

There are some other RSS services here:

https://www.fivefilters.org/

@timconsidine

I try to avoid looking at content on YT these days, and if i want to see a video, one of my first ports of call is LBRY. It is just so that people can discover Cloudron there, even if there is only one video.

(By the way, LBRY Inc. own Odysee.com, which is their official front-end for the LBRY blockchain. Cloudron already has a YT channel, and the one click import would pull in all the Cloudron videos there and put them on Odysee/LBRY.)

ImageServer is a tool to share images online, a bit like imgur, but it uses the amazing IPFS (Inter Planetar File System) technology.

https://github.com/ekumahost/ImageServer

https://ipfs.io

One enormous advantage of IPFS is that you can pin content you value to help keep it available for others.

There is an instance of ImageServer available to try here:
https://imageserver.link/

Here is an URL to an ImageServer image:

https://ipfs.io/ipfs/QmWopWY7xoukShEw1KYB5QXu5zWsYqnKWYx4Y9dBiYD49C

Here is the image:

You can see the IPFS CID (Content Identification) in the URL (it begins Qm...)

If you are running IPFS, you could reach that image just by using the IPFS CID, without using HTTP:

QmWopWY7xoukShEw1KYB5QXu5zWsYqnKWYx4Y9dBiYD49C

If you think that is a great image, you could download and pin it on your system to help keep it available and improve the CDN (Content Delivery Network).

A great way to get started with IPFS is by using ipfs-desktop, which is very easy to deploy on your own machine but I think it would be nice to make it available on Cloudron too. I shall add an App Wishlist for ipfs-desktop.

@timconsidine
Cloudron already have a YT channel. Here it is on an Invidio.us instance:

https://invidious.snopyta.org/channel/UCOaWnVX6wqEI-IMdV9_s8_A

Cloudron could one-click import that channel onto LBRY

https://lbry.com/faq/youtube

Hardbin is an IPFS based alternative to services like pastebin:

https://hardbin.com/ipfs/QmR2NPtsbbnRHbsLsAjrnvGSS3hySLXrQsSqpM99Do8hAt/

https://github.com/jes/hardbin

Hardbin is an encrypted pastebin, with the decryption key passed in the URL fragment, and the code and data served securely with IPFS. (IPFS is a distributed content-addressable storage system that is web-compatible; it's basically bittorrent for the web).

If you're viewing this on hardbin.com, then you're using it via the hardbin.com public IPFS gateway. The IPFS gateway you use has the same capabilities as an ordinary web server (i.e. it can modify content at will), so you should make sure to use a gateway you trust. Running a local gateway is the best option. Start with the IPFS Getting Started guide.

Compared to a traditional encrypted pastebin (e.g. ZeroBin), when used over a trusted gateway, neither the code nor the data can be modified as the content hashes are cryptographically verified by IPFS. This means there is no possibility for a server operator to insert malicious code to exfiltrate the plaintext or decryption key. It's the perfect encrypted pastebin.

https://timeline.knightlab.com/

This is a useful data visualization tool which helps people understand events chronologically.

It is useful to understand history. It can also be used to depict an intended roadmap for a project.

There is a similar project which people might like to compare which is under active development:

http://thetimelineproj.sourceforge.net/

Jitsi Meet is an excellent suggestion and there has been an awful lot of extra work put into it lately. There is also:

https://jitsi.org/jitsi-videobridge/
https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-videobridge

Jitsi Nightlies
https://download.jitsi.org/unstable/

Jitsi Docker
https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/devops-guide/devops-guide-docker

@girish

I hope Cloudron supports Invidious. The maintainer ceased developing it but it is still widely used by many people and also by some applications. (For example, https://teddit.net (an alternative front-end for Reddit) has options to open Youtube links in an invidio.us instance instead.)

People are still using Youtube (instead of LBRY/Odysee) and a lot of valuable content still remains on Youtube (people haven't started using the one-click import onto Odysee yet.)

Until YT disappears, we need some sort of digital "condom" for Youtube's Big Data, anti-social tracking and privacy destroying crapware. Invidio.us is a good choice.

https://yewtu.be
and
https://invidious.snopyta.org/

are both quite reliable instances which work well. We could do with more such instances, and I hope Cloudron helps make that happen.

@girish

Is there anywhere we can see the progress of requests like this? Flectra / Odoo enable an ton of functionality and I hope Flectra becomes available soon.

Proposal: Cloudron should establish a VPN (Virtual Private Network) service and partner with some hosting companies to provide the service.

Newbies could download a client from Cloudron, provide credentials and connect to the VPN. Other options could launch an interface for the Cloudron website/Application store.

Very many people these days pay an annual subscription to have a VPS in order to provide themselves some anonymity on the internet and improved security when online.

I think VPN subscribers would be an excellent market segment to target for Cloudron, as such people already are quite familiar with technology and often might be using services that Cloudron provide too, for example "Simple Torrent" or "Transmission".

People might say to themselves, I am paying for a VPN anyway, why not pay Cloudron for one, and have all the benefits of the Cloudron App Store too. (There could be two prices: a lower one for just the VPN, and a higher one for the VPN + Cloudron App Store.)

People often ask about and mention VPNs and they are far more a part of the public consciousness than Cloudron.

Hopefully, an increased number of users would better fund Cloudron and could even be used to lower prices. Cloudron might benefit from an influx of knowledgeable developers too.

OpenSearch is a distributed search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene. After adding your data to OpenSearch, you can perform full-text searches on it with all of the features you might expect: search by field, search multiple indices, boost fields, rank results by score, sort results by field, and aggregate results.

https://opensearch.org/downloads.html
https://docs.docker.com/compose/install/

@marcusquinn said in Indecisive : rocket.chat or matrix ?:

@timconsidine Session doesn't have Voice & Video, and it's a bit of a nuisance to get people swapping IDs.

Seriously, I'd go with Rocket Chat for businesses/orgs. Signal for personal. Then, look at alternatives to see if they are better.

I hate wasted time, and I do not believe this approach would waste yours. Be mindful of analysis paralysis too, my recommendations come from experience to save you from mostly the same.

Session is soon to start support for Lokinet, which will allow video streaming, so keep an eye on it. There is currently some rudimentary support for voice on Session too. (You can press a button, record sound, and it saves the sound file in a Session message.

Telegram sends all its stuff through a centralized, proprietary server, and requires a phone for registration and Twitter account for technical support.

@ei8fdb Great questions, @ei8fdb !

@timconsidine Did you look at Pleroma?

https://pleroma.social

https://openbroadcaster.com/resource/open-source-code

https://github.com/openbroadcaster/obplayer

This software helps people run a radio station.

Open Source Internet Radio Automation Software
Free multimedia software are available for the DIY educational crowd with in-house Linux technical skills.

 Self-host your own AutoDJ manager for a LPFM community radio station or a IPTV streaming media server with video scheduling, both virtually and from mobile studio facilities. 

Feel free to experiment and develop custom broadcast automation solutions for your digital distribution operation and help support open source. 

Hobbyist, experimental, campus and community broadcasters all use our documented tools and training materials to easily create cloud radio automation. 

We support transmitters and websites using recycled equipment including current AoIP (Audio over IP) Ravenna mixing boards. Whatever floats your boat, you deserve freedom with open source options!

OpenBroadcaster Server uses PHP, HTML5 and Javascript to deliver a web application in support of broadcast automation, media asset management and crowd-source community programming. Server manages remote Python OBPlayer playout boxes built on the Gstreamer multimedia framework.

There is also some software to install onto a RaspberryPi:

https://openbroadcaster.com/resource/download#raspberry-pi-img

@timconsidine said in Sakai:

@loudlemur admirable tool, but java and tomcat ?
i thought that was so last century
literally
maybe great app but yuk technically

Try openEdX

Haha! This is very funny. Actually, when I remember checking Sakai last, it actually was almost last millenium, and at the time was too bleeding edge to be used! I had hopes for it, and thought it must by now still be a great candidate. (It ticked all the boxes way back then, almost.)

I will have to look at some of these LMSs again sometime soon, but there is a lot more to do!

@murgero Well spotted! I didn't check the history.

Isn't there anything we can use for weather?