Hi everyone!
@dusjagr @hpy @kaspar and I met earlier this week to discuss this topic in more detail, I am sharing a summary of what we discussed, along with meeting notes, below!
Meeting Summary
The purpose of the meeting was to address the capacity for GOSH to self-host open source applications and move away from using the JOH Cloudron. Kaspar can help with system administration 2 hours a month, so we need to avoid setting up time-intensive applications. We can rely on using established instances for things like etherpad and workadventu.re. However, a specific need addressed at the meeting was finding an open source alternative to Google Drive that GOSH could use. Options include Nextcloud and Cryptpad, but Cryptpad seems to have better functionality.
Needs we’ve identified, such as, but not limited to:
- Surveys
- Polls
- Scheduling (i.e. finding a time for a meeting) - crab.fit probably is
good enough so no need to self-host? - Google Docs replacement (e.g. OnlyOffice or Collabora Office which is
integrated in Nextcloud; or Cryptpad depending on its import/export
support?) - Newsletter tool (if we decide to create a newsletter)
- Need we didn’t discuss (but was mentioned by @hpy afterward): Video conferencing tool to replace Zoom. Though maybe using existing Jitsi Meet instances is sufficient?
Otherwise, there’s BigBlueButton.
Next Steps:
- Discuss (on this current forum thread) the costs associated with these open source options and whether we would need to rely on volunteers willing to set things up or if we would want to pay a service to host for us. From there, work towards a budget on what the expected costs would be.
Here is a link to the notes document from the meeting if you would like to see that as well!
Thanks again,
Bri