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Introduction Zulip is a fully open-source collaboration program and a great alternative to Slack. This guide will walk you through installation and basic configuration of Zulip so you can have fast, productive conversations with friends and coworkers. These...

Now more than ever before, it’s easier to take your data and your tools into your own hands, rather than relying on the prying eyes and high costs of Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, or Google. Your chapter can make the switch from programs that harvest your data and restrict features from non-paying users to useful, free, open-source software – with lower effort and cost than ever before. As a bonus, you’ll also be avoiding some of the world’s worst tech companies and adding another barrier for snoops in law enforcement to hop over should they come after your data.

If you're hosting your Cloudron at home, you may have other applications running on other machines locally you want to create a reverse proxy for. A reverse proxy lets you type in myapp.domain.com and be directed to your local application, which usually not running a...

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...

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.