discussion about which meta-software to offer
Created by: michielbdejong
I think it's quite clear we want to offer certain base functionality:
- identity: a domain name you control, with a (static) website served over https
- decentralized communication: email, jabber, pubsubhubbub
- blogging: tools so that you can more easily publish content on the web
- file hosting: tools so that you can keep your photos and files on your server
And then there are miscellaneous apps that have some specific functionality, which are each sort of isolated and light-weight to add, like maybe:
- gitlab,
- etherpad,
- bugzilla,
- addressbook,
- calendar,
- etcetera.
but at another level, there is a number of important meta-software projects out there that we may just want to offer hosting for, without them being necessarily a miscellaneous app. Each of them covers basically file sharing + a lot of miscellaneous apps, and each user would need only one of those, because they replace each other. i think at the moment the most important ones in terms of momentum are (my knowledge may be incomplete here?):
- owncloud
- cozycloud
- sandstorm
- yunohost
- arkos
- turnkeylinux
i'm sure there will be others over the years. would it make sense to just try to offer hosting for each of these? i guess each have their pros and cons, and it's good if people can try them out, compare them, and use the best one for daily use on their domain name, hosted by their indiehoster.