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<pre wrap=""> Point 1:
Since the beginning of 2011 I have been working on my own server (now a
"freedombox playground"), aiming to provide services to friends and
family.
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Excellent. <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://wiki.mehho.net/Mehho/GettingStarted">https://wiki.mehho.net/Mehho/GettingStarted</a> are the services
you consider stable? Do you have any others planned / in testing? In
particular
I'm curious what social networking software people are playing with. How
much federated interoperability can we start playing with? Are the
social software
packages (appleseed/dispoara etc) stable enough for every day use?
Should we start doing system level testing and see how they interop?
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Yes those services are pretty stable, though I'm not yet satisfied
with ZenPhoto (on how it must administered). Ideally I'm looking for
services that:<br>
<ul>
<li>integrate with my LDAP server for
authentication/authorization. I''ll be looking at how to add
OpenID in that equation too.<br>
</li>
<li>allow me to keep user data in their home folders (and not in
/var/www/..., which is one of my problems with ZenPhoto at the
moment)</li>
<li>are user-friendly of course.<br>
</li>
</ul>
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I'm following the LeavingTheCloud page on FB wiki. For future
services, I'm looking at:<br>
<ul>
<li>Webmail+Contacts+Calendar: </li>
<ul>
<li>Roundcube can integrate with LDAP for contacts; that can
then be used in clients like Thunderbird to have a unique
Address Book (though there is no LDAP editing from Thunderbird
yet)<br>
</li>
<li>Horde 4 Webmail. It's maybe heavy but integrates nicely
calendar, webmail, and contacts, in a way that can communicate
with other clients (I had problems setting up
roundcube+davicale, especially with rights management. Maybe I
did it wrong)</li>
<li>I'm keeping an eye on <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.bongo-project.org">http://www.bongo-project.org</a></li>
</ul>
<li>Photo sharing: my next step is trying out Piwigo, or Gallery.<br>
</li>
<li>Social networking: haven't tried anything yet (planning to set
up a diaspora node). For the immediate present I dropped the
idea of a status.net node since pretty much everything is public
in micro-blogging, and therefore the main advantage in
self-hosting it is avoiding censorship, not bringing data
ownership or privacy (my first goal).</li>
<li>Team collaboration/organization: I'll try out crabgrass next
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://crabgrass.riseuplabs.org/">http://crabgrass.riseuplabs.org/</a>)</li>
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About the blogging and wiki, I haven't seen many theming
possibilities on IkiWiki yet (but I may very well be wrong as I
haven't explored in detail yet). I do see the performance problem,
but I wouldn't want to trade off customization of a website against
privacy.<br>
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<pre wrap="">I'm busy getting my stack fully deployed and documented and will send an
announcement e-mail in a couple of weeks.
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That looks very promising.<br>
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I discovered documenting one's plans and progress in detail is a
huge part of the work. It's my primary goal now, before doing
deploying more services.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Seb<br>
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