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Cheers for everything @girish & @nebulon

Now get off the computer and enjoy the festivities wherever you are!

Ho ho ho

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"Framadate is an online service for planning an appointment or making a decision quickly and easily. No registration is required.

Here is how it works:

1. Create a poll
2. Define dates or subjects to choose from
3. Send the poll link to your friends or colleagues
4. Discuss and make a decision"

• https://framadate.org/
• https://framagit.org/framasoft/framadate/framadate
• https://alternativeto.net/software/framadate/reviews/

Looks OK, Rallly is the best alternative contender I've found: https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3279/rallly-alternative-to-doodle

Joining this community and finding so much collaboration, I wonder if, when all the craziness settles, would people be interested in a meet-up?

I've always wanted to visit Berlin, and as much for a social gathering as geek-talk it could be something fun to work towards?

Not expecting some kind of big-effort conference but perhaps getting people together would be good for sharing ideas, getting to know the people behind the handles, and networking to see what else we might do with all this collective experience and enthusiasm.

Fun for 2021 anyone?

Superdesk is an open source end-to-end news creation, production, curation, distribution and publishing platform developed and maintained by Sourcefabric with the sole purpose of making the best possible software for journalism. It is scaleable to suit news organisations of any size.

• https://www.superdesk.org/
• https://www.superdesk.org/features
• https://github.com/superdesk/superdesk

I can see the principles applying to other industries too

I just messages someone about the Cloudron forum and liked my quote on it too much not to share:

"One of the most positive and proactive communities I've joined. It's like a System Admin's therapy group "

"Attendize is an Open-source ticket selling and event management platform and is everything you need for a successful event. Attendize has a wide array of features aimed at making organising events as effortless as possible."

• https://www.attendize.com
• https://www.attendize.com/getting_started.html
• https://github.com/Attendize/Attendize/

I'm thinking knowing this can help build the community and customers, that ultimately invest in a platform we all seem to enjoy. Likes & reviews on these places could help.

I'll start, quite an easy one and common I'm sure: https://alternativeto.net/software/cloudron/

Previously tried Cloudways, Runcloud, D2C.io, all pretty good - but Cloudron just spoke to me for the low entry point for personal use, large variety of apps we already use and were setup with more complex K8S and multi-server/provider setups.

Just made complete sense to consolidate a lot of that and optimise for single-server setups with a more accessible admin interface that didn't require high-level dev-ops in-house for the more common needs of any open-source-first and privacy-conscious people or team.

I try to @mention Cloudron regularly on Twitter too on comments on other large open source account tweets for a bit more interest from those likely to find the same satisfying time-saving I'm here for.

"CryptPad.fr is the official instance of the open-source CryptPad project. It is administered by XWiki SAS, the employee-owned French company which created and maintains the product."

"CryptPad is a private-by-design alternative to popular office tools and cloud services. All the content stored on CryptPad is encrypted before being sent, which means nobody can access your data unless you give them the keys (not even us)."

• https://cryptpad.fr
• https://github.com/xwiki-labs/cryptpad
• https://itsfoss.com/cryptpad/
• https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1320/openpaas/3

@plusone-nick said in Proposal: Free-Tier Alterations :

Provide a one time "Update" subscription/service

Anything that encourages people to run outdated software for free sounds like a nightmare and irresponsible to me.

Sorry, but none of this makes any sense.

People pay $10/month for music and video subscription services where they never own the data.

$15/month for what can replace many other paid services is a time-waster filter in my opinion.

Decent System Admins are in the $50-250/hour range. I seriously think Cloudron is too cheap sometimes.

As far as I'm concerned the current pricing is very generous and accommodating for my needs.

I feel it is up to us as the larger network of experienced experts to champion the cause on other chatrooms, forums, social media and business contacts as to how happy we are with Cloudron and what great value it is.

Attracting more developers to app packaging also keeps increasing the value.

I'm trying to get some higher ticket clients onto it, that can then sponsor more of the enterprise types apps.

Maybe if we focus on getting more higher paying subscribes, that will create the economies of scale for a lower pricing on a home tier.

I hate limitations on software - but completely respect paying for luxury add-ons, security not being a luxury.

"Open Source Document Management System for Digital Archives
Designed for scanned documents. Perfect software that will help you reduce paper clutter and keep your business organised."

• https://www.papermerge.com
• https://www.papermerge.com/demo
• https://github.com/ciur/papermerge
• https://github.com/ciur/papermerge#comparison-with-other-dms
• https://papermerge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/setup/docker.html

The OCR looks decent and maybe better for personal use than MayanEDMS, which also looks excellent.

I can see it being a good pairing with Invoice Ninja / Firefly III.

Hey, big fan of what you're doing here!

Is anyone interested in sponsored App creation?

As a business, we can budget for this as a reasonable expense and happy to contribute to both the creator and the community with helping fund these things.

I've been studying and thinking a lot about Cloudron use-cases.

Something that bugs me is how the Microsoft/Apple/Google expectations for schools and children is very exclusive for low-income parents.

I can see that a lot of users here are also hosting and sharing with family.

I wonder if you'd consider a Family/Educational licence tier?

Maybe something like €5/m, given that there's still the VPS and domain to pay for.

I'm thinking it could be full-function, except being limited to just one domain.

I just know parents that don't have landline internet or premium services because feeding the family comes first but then they are expected to pay for expensive software and operating systems for their children not to be excluded from learning technology.

You might have to assess how many users that might already include that might expect to change to this tier.

I suppose it could have an additional approval process for the domain being a personal family domain and not a commercial organisation.

It's your business, so your prerogative, I just wanted to note the thought, not as a campaign against your model but just as a consideration alongside all the many other things you consider.

We can sponsor the following for anyone wanting to get paid to package?

Need these to migrate over our current instances:

1. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2763/4minitz-free-webapp-for-taking-meeting-minutes (sponsoring @Lonk )
2. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3282/croodle-alternative-to-doodle (sponsoring @murgero )
3. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1256/odoo-distributed-business-apps (sponsoring @Lonk )
4. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1596/node-red-flow-based-programming-for-the-internet-of-things
5. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1227/grafana-metric-analytic-dashboard (done @jimcavoli )
6. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2812/prometheus-monitoring-time-series-database
7. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1239/guacamole-remote-desktop (done @doodlemania2 )
8. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2813/icinga2
9. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2811/logstash
10. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2810/kibana-browser-for-elastic-stack
11. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2814/tabula-extracts-table-data-from-pdfs-when-copy-paste-often-doesn-t
12. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1179/locust-load-testing-tool
13. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1654/atlassian-jira-the-1-software-development-tool-used-by-agile-teams (done, internally packaged)

Need solutions for:

1. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1743/directus-headless-cms-and-data-driven-framework-open-source-alternative-to-contentful (done by @murgero )
2. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1939/n8n-io-zappier-ifttt-integromat-alternative (sponsoring @murgero )
3. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1202/restyaboard-trello-like-kanban-board
4. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2815/live-helper-chat-with-co-browsing (sponsoring @murgero )
5. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1059/akaunting-free-accounting-software (sponsoring @murgero )
6. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1067/pretix-ticketing-software-that-cares-about-your-event-all-the-way
7. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/3001/astuto-for-user-customer-feedback-and-roadmap
8. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1274/easy-appointments
9. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1668/fosspay-donation-collection-for-foss-groups-and-individuals (sponsoring @murgero )
10. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1911/identihub-open-source-brand-asset-management
11. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2872/cattr-time-tracking
12. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2996/kresus-free-libre-personal-management-software
13. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2375/datafire-an-even-better-zapier-alternative
14. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2935/vuls-io-server-app-security-monitoring
15. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2803/dreamfactory-api-management
16. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2352/stackstorm-zapier-alternative
17. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2759/strapi-open-source-node-js-headless-cms-to-easily-build-customisable-apis
18. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2966/rss-to-activitypub-for-ghost-wordpress-etc-rss-feed-posting-to-the-fediverse
19. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1101/open-xchange-groupware
20. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2905/gluu
21. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/1102/huginn-a-system-for-building-agents-that-perform-automated-tasks-for-you-online
22. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2805/worldbrain-s-memex
23. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2909/fusionauth
24. https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/2932/payid-org-server

Looking at the current rate of App packaging and launch on Cloudron, I can only guess all this might take 5 years unless there's something I'm missing.

So many great Apps but I'm not getting any closer to app system consolidation without having a bunch of these. How can we speed this packaging process up?

Sorry, I'd love to learn and do but just can't neglect current duties right now. What I can do is divert a bit of budget if that helps.

If the community here is in a similar position, perhaps we can have a whip-round and contribute to recruiting for this?

I also have some seriously decent privacy-conscious client potential for all of this - but we have to dog-food anything before we can promote it.

Very happy with Cloudron - all features definitely going in a great direction - but how do we get more Apps into the Store faster? That App Request list is going up faster than down.

Thinking about websites & apps with regular data-creation.

In the event of migrating from one Cloudron to another, it may be necessary to take the site offline for the transition period to ensure the restore contained all the latest data.

Thoughts?

@JOduMonT I think the world has change now there's more value in data than people released but capitalism knows and is both; competing to acquire, and exploiting, in ways beyond most people's imaginations - until they find election campaigning shenanigans but don't know what to do about it.

So necessary to trust in services; yes.

Trust them with your valuable and private data?

When Google is reading your shopping email confirmations and Facebook is reading everything with a "Like" script, I think it's a responsibility to have parts of your data world not visible to the marketing world.

Privacy, encryption and permissions should be as essential in schooling for the Technology Revolution as literacy was for The Renaissance.

So - data privacy politics for 6.1 anyone?

I'm sure we all search for "{app name} alternatives" plenty.

I'm also sure we all benefit from Cloudron having more subscribers and growing the team and community.

Therefore, may I suggest a thread for links to places people are finding Cloudron or similar and using all the goodwill, and many people here, to help with some good old-fashioned organic marketing and pr for the cause.

I've added a review and rating here (surferking):

https://alternativeto.net/software/cloudron/about/

Post any other links and I'm happy to do the same, I'm sure we almost all are. Always genuine reviews - but you don't always get if you don't ask

"From metrics to insight
Power your metrics and alerting with a leading
open-source monitoring solution."

https://prometheus.io
https://github.com/prometheus

Who needs Twitter, when we have the Cloudron forum to follow each day

The absence of 2FA on the LDAP login Apps makes me nervous for GDPR and typical security needs nowadays.

I don't know that anyone's ever had a break-in yet, and fail2ban is a good start but expectations for 2FA are increasing.

I wonder if a global solution would be for all Cloudron packaged apps to use a Cloudron login screen with 2FA instead of the app's native logins?

Realising this is development overhead in packaging, open to discussion and alternative suggestions. Hoping this idea is more evolution than revolution.

The more we use any data-silo, the potentially more valuable or attractive it becomes for unscrupulous targeting.

Thoughts?

"Houdini is an all-in-one fundraising platform developed in Ruby on Rails. It’s licensed under AGPL/LGPL and is available, without cost, to anyone in the world. Houdini allows you to quickly build and deploy anything from simple donation forms for individual nonprofits, to fully featured crowdfunding sites for startups. Developers from around the world are collaborating to make fundraising infrastructure better for everyone. Join our friendly and helpful community, or contact us if you have a project in mind."

• https://houdiniproject.org/
• https://github.com/HoudiniProject/houdini
• https://alternativeto.net/software/houidini/
• https://commitchange.com/ (their demo / commercial site)

Seems to use Stripe for payment processing.