On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 02:07 +, Wookey wrote:
> On 2020-11-16 19:20 +, John Lines wrote:
>
>
> I think this is a worthy technical goal. Given the decade it has
> taken for Fredombox to get this far I suspect the pandemic will be
> over before we get something working at a reasonably numpty
Quoting John Lines (2020-11-23 11:03:19)
> Mail is one of the first target applications for a Simple Organisation
> Server - I have just installed Postfix on my sample server, and now I
> want to integrate it with LDAP, both for forwarding (aliases in LDAP)
> and local delivery (into Dovecot with R
>
> > I find the name "Small Organisation" a bit misleading. In my
> > experience, often even
> > massive companies and universities need small, easily deployed
> > services that are
> > maintained independently from the core infrastructure.
> > Sometimes it is to serve remote offices with limit
>
> > You may all also find it useful to look at debian-edu which has
> > some
> > similar ideas. If you do want to put together something new, it's
> > possible that a melting together of ideas from Freedombox / Debian-
> > Edu
> > and other projects will give you a better starting point.
>
>
On Fri, 2020-11-20 at 17:28 +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> >
> You may all also find it useful to look at debian-edu which has some
> similar
> ideas. If you do want to put together something new, it's possible
> that a
> melting together of ideas from Freedombox / Debian-Edu and other
> proje
On Fri, 2020-11-20 at 14:37 +, Federico Ceratto wrote:
> As Joseph pointed out, the use-case for the Small Organisation Server
> is practically
> the same as FreedomBox, either installed from image or with "apt
> install freedombox".
>
I think the key differences are:
1) Funding - This is imp
>
> Seems our defined problem is quite similar, if not identical.
>
> Would be great if we could find overlap also in our work towards
> solutions.
>
Collaboration and working together as much as we can seems central to
successful FLOSS projects
>
> Makes me happy that you want to give it a t
Quoting Andrew M.A. Cater (2020-11-20 18:28:31)
> On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 02:37:11PM +, Federico Ceratto wrote:
> > As Joseph pointed out, the use-case for the Small Organisation
> > Server is practically the same as FreedomBox, either installed from
> > image or with "apt install freedombox"
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 02:37:11PM +, Federico Ceratto wrote:
> As Joseph pointed out, the use-case for the Small Organisation Server
> is practically
> the same as FreedomBox, either installed from image or with "apt
> install freedombox".
>
> I find the name "Small Organisation" a bit mislea
As Joseph pointed out, the use-case for the Small Organisation Server
is practically
the same as FreedomBox, either installed from image or with "apt
install freedombox".
I find the name "Small Organisation" a bit misleading. In my
experience, often even
massive companies and universities need sma
Quoting John Lines (2020-11-19 12:35:35)
> On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 16:18 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting John Lines (2020-11-18 13:35:42)
> > > On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 02:07 +, Wookey wrote:
> > > > On 2020-11-16 19:20 +, John Lines wrote:
> > > > > I have written at
> > > > > https
On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 15:29 +, Jeremy Stanley wrote:
> On 2020-11-18 11:06:20 + (+), John Lines wrote:
> [...]
> > I do suggest in
> >
> > https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2020/11/13/ambridge-garden-club-registering-the-domain/
> >
> > that AWS might be a possibility, or Azure,
On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 16:18 +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Hi John,
>
> Quoting John Lines (2020-11-18 13:35:42)
> > On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 02:07 +, Wookey wrote:
> > > On 2020-11-16 19:20 +, John Lines wrote:
> > > > I have written at
> > > > https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2020/
On 2020-11-18 11:06:20 + (+), John Lines wrote:
[...]
> I do suggest in
>
> https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2020/11/13/ambridge-garden-club-registering-the-domain/
>
> that AWS might be a possibility, or Azure, or Google Cloud
If you're going to advocate for free/libre open source
Hi John,
Quoting John Lines (2020-11-18 13:35:42)
> On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 02:07 +, Wookey wrote:
> > On 2020-11-16 19:20 +, John Lines wrote:
> > > I have written at
> > > https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2020/11/07/the-ambridge-garden-club/
> > >
> > > about a such a group, as I
On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 19:48 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 11:06 +, John Lines wrote:
>
> > I believe/hope it should be possible to this type of thing another
> > way,
> > and that a technical sysadmin should not be needed.
>
> You would still need a sysadmin to do the hardwa
On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 02:07 +, Wookey wrote:
> On 2020-11-16 19:20 +, John Lines wrote:
>
> > ...
> >I have written
> >at
> > https://wordpress.debian.social/jlines/2020/11/07/the-ambridge-garden-club/
> > about
> >a such a group, as I am interested to know if others feel this
On Tue, 2020-11-17 at 22:10 +0530, Joseph Nuthalapati wrote:
> FreedomBox has been successfully used in community deployments to
> serve
> a number of useful applications from a locally hosted server. This is
> documented in the WikiBook, FreedomBox for Communities[1].
>
> I agree with you that a
On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 11:06 +, John Lines wrote:
> I believe/hope it should be possible to this type of thing another way,
> and that a technical sysadmin should not be needed.
You would still need a sysadmin to do the hardware, OS and software
setup, fixes, tweaks, replacement, etc.
> I hav
On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 00:15 +, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 7:30 PM John Lines wrote:
>
> > I have been thinking about how to offer alternatives to Facebook,
> > WhatsApp, Zoom etc for non-technical people, many of whom are
> > finding the Internet and computers much more central
On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 7:30 PM John Lines wrote:
> I have been thinking about how to offer alternatives to Facebook, WhatsApp,
> Zoom etc for non-technical people, many of whom are finding the Internet and
> computers much more central to their lives than they did before the pandemic.
This ide
FreedomBox has been successfully used in community deployments to serve
a number of useful applications from a locally hosted server. This is
documented in the WikiBook, FreedomBox for Communities[1].
I agree with you that a Debian Pure Blend for small organizations
overlaps significantly with Fre
On 2020-11-16 19:20 +, John Lines wrote:
>Many people are members of small organisations who are moving online -and
>the only option they can find and understand is to create a Facebook
>Group, use Facebook messenger or WhatsApp to communicate, and Zoom for
>meetings.
>Debi
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