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Dang it, fixed
Thank you for posting this, your timing is impeccable. My work wants to go down the 360 road…
Here's an alternative: https://www.opendesk.eu/en No guarantees though. But it looks nice.
I'm not affiliated with opendesk in any of way
I’ve also been looking at this as an alternative! I need to make a proposal for my boss with our objectives and how the different options compare.
Dont get your hopes too high... storage bewteen docs and drive isnt shared for instance
Mention to them that libreoffice is free and open source.
She knows, it’s what I use every day. The issue is we need a complete system now that we’ve grown from basically one and a half people to 5-6 all in different locations and use different OS’s. She’s very much supportive of open source but none of us are sysadmins…. I struggle enough with my home server, I’m not risking my teams work. We might be able to make this plus a few other things work though. Also for some of our contracts and funding the govt has insisted on windows.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| CGNAT | Carrier-Grade NAT |
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| HTTPS | HTTP over SSL |
| IP | Internet Protocol |
| NAS | Network-Attached Storage |
| NAT | Network Address Translation |
| Plex | Brand of media server package |
| SBC | Single-Board Computer |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| SSH | Secure Shell for remote terminal access |
| SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP |
| UDP | User Datagram Protocol, for real-time communications |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
15 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 15 acronyms.
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Did they homemake everything ?
No NextCloud, no OnlyOffice ?
Looks like so
Yes NextCloud. No OnlyOffice it seems. On the Netherlands produced production focused fork https://github.com/MinBZK/mijn-bureau-infra
No, most of it is existing FOSS rebranded.
not true, the only one that's just a rebranded pre-existing app is tchap, and most of them are made from scratch
What did they use ?
“The flagship client app, Element, was still very new and we decided to use that as a base for our client app across Android, iOS and web,” explains Ploquin.
Why not just use Nextcloud instead of this broken toolset?
Because indépendance
From whom/what?
Outside companies ? If you rely on nextcloud and they do a minio/elasticsearch/whatever things that were open source until they weren't?
How do you think any of the products in OP are different?
Développed by french (and German) governments. Not private companies.
They're FOSS, just like Nextcloud. Based on software developed by other companies.
Broken how ?
I mean it's a bunch of different open source tools that don't have any sort of integration.