First day back after our offsite company week at Nextcloud!

It was great to meet our amazing team again in person! We had a lot of discussions, work and of course fun.

The Sales Engineering team took the chance and organized a spontaneous Workflow session where we had fun using Nextcloud Flow.

Thanks everyone for such a great week. This weeks always reminds me what awesome people we have at Nextcloud!

What's the best way to #backup your website and avoid data loss?
Well, there's no absolute answer, but in this blog post I'm presenting how I handle this topic, with #Nextcloud for an easy redundancy

https://ikacode.com/en/how-do-you-establish-a-backup-strategy-for-your-website/

Digitale Souveränität ist wichtiger denn je - mit #Nextcloud bekommst du dafür eine gute Möglichkeit in die Hand:

https://norberteder.com/digitale-souveraenitaet-kalender-todos-notizen-fotos-usw-nextcloud/

Andere Idee: Eins kann doch in der nextcloud auch externe Laufwerke einbinden. Kann ich die #pCloud via WebDAV in die #nextcloud einbinden?

Dann müsste ich keinen Homeserver betreiben sondern könnte die nextcloud bei irgendeinem hoster laufen lassen und die zig TB könnten in der pCloud liegen.

https://ohai.social/@Codeschubse/114243126736627598

Some thoughts on my preliminary investigation of #Omeka ( https://omeka.org/classic/docs/Installation/Installing/ ).

Built on pretty standard #LAMP stack.
No official docker image that I could find, so of course I built my own.
Which reminded me why I HATE php.

Anyway.

Some light testing (running locally).
Pretty simple to use (good).
No fancy ideas about creating "presentation" versions of items, and keeping the original upload "pristine". I am of two minds on this - for now, not a problem for me, but I can see how large archives might be problematic.

For example, a MOV file needs to be presented as a MP4 for widest audience. And you probably don't want to lose the original.
With Omeka that means some manual work on the admin side.

It support plugins and themes - I'm of two minds here also. Good way
to extend functionality and allow for customization, but my experience with such things are not good ito longterm stabililty and maintenance.

I'm also not super keen on #MySQL as the db, due to recent corruptions issues with my #Nextcloud instance (moved that to #PostgreSQL ).
BUT, this will be read heavy, so maybe not an issue - hard-ish to corrupt a db by reading from it.

The useage of #DublinCore at least means (I think) in theory, if I really want, I should be able to migrate to another Dublin Core compatible system if needed. So...good.

My verdict - I'm going to play with it some more.
Install some plugins etc, see what happens.
I'm also building up a test set of assets, in case I want to eval something else.

I was looking for a cross platform, syncing RSS-newsreader.

It's in front of my dumb face. It's the NEWS app in nextcloud.

Das alte 2012er MacBook läuft jetzt mit #Linux Mint.
#Ente läuft ebenfalls.
#Nextcloud Zugriff erfolgt direkt via webdav, weil der Linuxclient leider keine virtuellen Files kann und damit nicht sinnvoll nutzbar ist.

Fühlt sich ganz gut an.

I installed Docker on a laptop so I could use #Immich, because #Nextcloud Photos is slow and keeps getting my IP addy softbanned from my new non-US shared hosting.

I was nervous.

But it was very easy.

It pulled Immich!!

I added my first folders of images... It was FAST! AND IT'S PRETTY!!

Hurrah!

Please note, this stuff didn't exist when I was a youngling and I am not a coder.

@pjf thankyou so much for mentioning it a little while back. I didn't realise Docker was so easy.

Next to get everything off of #GooglePhotos, get my phone sending everything to Immich, and learn & make backups of all on a Raspberry Pi!

#NextCloud installed. It is kinda sad that it took the evilness of the tech giants (... shame on you #Google) for me to take this step, but, at least I got there. Install was "relatively" easy, though I managed to put out a thing to stumble on, I spent some frustrated time trying to figure out what was wrong, but that was me having put an entry in /etc/hosts while doing some other thing that completely messed things up Not NextClouds fault.

The software is quite impressive. The "drive" part seems easier & more intuifive than what Google has. In a way, it makes sense. Google wants to have a "Google Product!", that ties in with their stuff. NextCloud just want to offer something they want you to use. "If you are happy with the free one, maybe have it with commersial support at work", does not work if it is crap.

So, my #selfhosting now is a simple ssh server for quick autosync, gitea (will be replaced with forgejo), and nextcloud.

And HomeAssistant, of course...

Whats next? Pixelfed? Jellyfin?

My wife runs a small non-profit (<5 people) and wants my help to get them off Google Workspace for Nonprofits. They mainly use email, collaborative docs, calender and drive. I have limited spoons so the simpler the migration, the better. Any suggestions?

Options I've come across so far are #Proton, #Infomaniak, #Zoho and #NextCloud. Are any of these better/easier than the others? Happy to pay, but budget is not unlimited. I've a little experience with Zoho, but am not sure how good its privacy credentials are?

We are based in Australia but the host doesn't need to be here (EU or Switzerland, I guess).

Many thanks to all those of you who replied to my question about Dropbox alternatives recently.

Many of you suggested Nextcloud, and having played around with it for a bit, I think it will do nicely.

So I am now embarking on the surprisingly complex project of moving everything I had in Dropbox to Nextcloud.

Thanks also to whoever it was who suggested Hetzner for hosting Nextcloud, which seems to work nicely.

Reducing my dependence on US tech, one service at a time.

Découvrez notre chaîne vidéo #Peertube ! Elle comporte notamment nos conférences et nos webinaires de ces dernières années (21 actuellement), au sujet de #Nextcloud, Arawa #Workspace, #CollaboraOnline, #DivimS (#BigBlueButton), ou encore "BigBlueButton Integration for Nextcloud" dont nous avons récemment repris le développement.
Notre chaîne : https://peertube.iriseden.eu/c/arawa_collaboration_open_source/videos
#Replay #LogicielsLibres #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS #TransfoNum

Thanks to the funding by @nlnet, I added #event sign up via email to the #OpenWebCalendar. In this tutorial, I show how to enable others to sign up to your events on your @nextcloud #calendar.

Video: https://youtu.be/RnMz23p7UP0

Blog Post: https://open-web-calendar.quelltext.eu/news/2025-03-17-caldav-nextcloud-sign-up/