Why I ditched cloudflare (and you should too)
When I published Part 1 of Taking Control of Your Chapter’s Digital Tools, I chose Cloudflare as the domain registrar and nameserver host due to their ubiquity and low cost. After I published it, a reader pointed to an article listing many issues with Cloudflare...What’s in the PIPELINE for the upcoming hot open source summer of socialism.tools
I haven’t posted in a while, so to let the several people who actually read this blog know that I am both not dead and still working, here’s what I’ve got in the drafts: FreeScout vs OSTicket – which FOSS helpdesk solution works best for the...Taking the leap into a multilingual WordPress world
Making your Wordpress site multilingual can seem complex or difficult, especially when you need to ask others for help. I’ve done a lot of experimenting, and I hope I can walk you through some basics.
Multilingual is Important but Challenging
To include everyone, an org has to be multilingual, and while learning a language can take a long time, it can be easier to enlist bilingual people within the organization to translate web content. Translating digital content is seen as an easy, quick way to make the...
Cloudron vs. YunoHost – the self-host app showdown
It can be hard to self-host many open source apps if you’re not a Linux expert. Several projects try to make this easier – they offer new admins an easy web-based installer and come out of the box configured to support secure, stable applications. There’s a large number of different apps that claim to support this need, but two stand out – Cloudron and YunoHost.
Getting Started with Matrix on Cloudron
Matrix is a new, open-source protocol for decentralized chat networks. Being a protocol, meaning that it requires a server (we will use Synapse) and a client (we will use Element) to function the way you expect chat programs, like Slack, to work. Matrix is designed...Taking control of your chapter’s digital tools: Part 2 – A closer look at email, calendar, contacts, files
Now that you have a server you can chat with your comrades on, let’s make sure you know how to fully utilize Nextcloud to server your email, calendar, contacts, and file-sharing needs.
The top 3 digital security tips for activists
This page is not a comprehensive guide on how to stay safe online, but it is designed to make you much safer than you were before in a very small amount of time.
Is using open source for your team a good idea?
Over the past few weeks, I’ve spent a lot of time investigating the options for teams that want to work with an entirely open-source, self-hostable ecosystem of applications. This is my deep drive into the feasibility of going fully open source for a team.