Just last week, two people asked me if I could help them set up a #Nextcloud service and move their data off of the big US tech clouds. It may still be small, but the trend is real.✌️

#europeanalternatives #EuropeTech

#XMPP enthusiasts out there: what would you say the ultimate Achilles heel of the XMPP ecosystem is, at present? Fragmentation of clients? What?

My sense is that it's this: when one goes to store an XMPP address in one's addressbook, there doesn't seem to be standard way to store an XMPP address. #Android doesn't have that as an allowable field, and #Thunderbird and #Nextcloud have an "Instant Messaging" field, where the type can be set to "XMPP". But are these two compatible with each other when trying to sync between them? Edit: Yes, but there's a catch: *the XMPP address must be prefixed with "xmpp:"*

So "user@foo.bar" is not an OK XMPP address, but "xmpp:user@foo.bar" is.

Then to make matters worse, now there's a wish to change the labeling of "XMPP Address" to "Chat ID": gultsch.social/@daniel/1140129…

It might be a long time before the address synchy-ness ever works again between Android <-> #Davx5 <-> Nextcloud <->Thunderbird

Note: Android allows a "Jabber" type for an IM address, where you *don't* prefix the address with "xmpp:".

(#DeltaChat gets to gloat hard here, as they have plain-old email addresses)

#prosody #conversations #gajim #dino #snikket #monocles #monal

To get some experience as a video content creator, I started @nextcloud_academy. It's inspired by explaining basic things to my in-laws over the phone. The channel will have short videos with step-by-step tutorials that you can show to people who are new to #Nextcloud.

I'm starting by showing how to set up an automatic backup of your photos and videos on #Android. (Bear with me, it's the first video I've ever put together 🙈 ).

vhsky.cz/w/vir1iWwNPcEF9Z4VuMM…

Jak automaticky zálohovat fotky a videa z Androidu do Nextcloudu? (Oficiální aplikace)

Toto video krok po kroku ukazuje, jak nainstalovat oficiální aplikaci Nextcloud pro Android, jak se s ní přihlásit k účtu a jak nastavit automatické zálohování fotek a videí z mobilu.

^VHSky

My mother-in-law set up the #Nextcloud app to back up photos from her #Android phone. However, no photos were uploaded. I thought she did something wrong, but in fact it was set up correctly, including all permissions. But nothing was even queued for upload. I couldn't make it work either.

I got a recommendation for #FolderSync, but it's freemium and it felt fishy with all the data consent dialogs. Then I went to #FDroid and discovered #RoundSync and wow, it's a great piece of software, clean, lean and does reliably what I want it to do. The sad fact is that @newhinton, app developer, gets 3€/month for it on Liberapay. We really need to get more money into open source apps.

Muss jetzt mal #NextCloud lobpreisen 🙌 . Betreibe seit einigen Monaten eine Instanz und bin relativ begeistert. Die Apps bieten echt ne große Vielfalt an Funktionen, Sync von Kontakte, Kalender, und #Firefox Lesezeichen, alles kein Problem. Und die Kosten von so einer Strato #LinuxVM sind auch sehr überschaubar.

nextcloud.com/de/

Nextcloud - Open source Kollaborationslösung

Mit der beliebtesten selbst gehosteten Kollaborationslösung für Millionen von Benutzern, eingesetzt von mehreren Tausend Unternehmen auf der ganzen Welt

^Nextcloud

🔐 Chcete více soukromí? Čím nahradit služby od Googlu, Applu, Mety a dalších?

🔗 infoek.cz/chcete-vice-soukromi…

#opensource #nextcloud #Threema @threemaapp @brave

New blogpost: Thunderbird, Nextcloud, calendar invitations, and unwanted html email with non-working 'confirm acceptance' links

Last week, someone kindly flagged a problem with how I'd got calendar invitations set up, and it was annoying me.

So, over the weekend, I fixed it :)

neilzone.co.uk/2024/09/thunder…

#Nextcloud #Thunderbird #blog #caldav #selfhosting #Linux

#Nextcloud: Wer ein paar Plugins installiert, bekommt ein Hauptverzeichnis voller Ordner, die jeweils zu einem Plugin gehören.

Für neue User ist das verwirrend.

Ich fänd gut, wenn diese Ordner alle in einem versteckten Ordner gesammelt würden.

Wer will, kann dann in diesen Ordnern Dinge tun. Aber wer sich dafür nicht interessiert, sieht sie auch erst einmal nicht.

Bitte unterstützt meinem Feature Request dazu:

github.com/nextcloud/server/is…

Standard: Add addon-folders hidden · Issue #46309 · nextcloud/server

Many addons have their own folder. Talk has the /Talk-folder, Calendar the /Calendar-folder. And so on. It's not to easy to explain this concept to newbies. I added a .system-folder and moved them ...

^GitHub

Hledání náhrady za Mapy.cz

O mobilních, webových a desktopových aplikacích, které mě zaujaly při hledání náhrady za Mapy.cz.

#LocusMap #mapy #mapyCz #Nextcloud #OpenStreetMap #OrganicMaps #OSM #OsmAnd #OsmAPP #Seznam

blog.eischmann.cz/2024/06/05/h…

Ich möchte zeigen, wie ich bei Hostsharing eine Nextcloud auf der Kommandozeile aktualisieren kann.

Für kleine Nextcloud-Installationen reicht es meistens, die Updates im Browser durchzuführen.
Aber gerade bei größeren Nextclouds ist es ab einer gewissen Benutzeranzahl sinnvoll, das Update auf der Kommandozeile durchzuführen.
Da steht mehr RAM zur Verfügung, und die Laufzeit des Skriptes kann beliebig lang sein. Im Browser wird da schon mal zu früh das Update abgebrochen.

Ich zeige jetzt, wie ich mich mit Windows auf der Kommandozeile bei Hostsharing anmelden kann.
Ich selber bevorzuge Linux, aber Windows ist ja doch noch recht verbreitet.
Auf Windows muss ich das Programm Putty installieren.

Hier kann Putty heruntergeladen werden:
chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtath…

Dann starte ich Putty, und melde mich auf dem Server bei Hostsharing an.
Ich kann die Session speichern.

Mein Benutzername ist mein Paketbenutzer, xyz00, in meinem Beispiel tim05.
Mein Hostname ist mein Paket xyz00.hostsharing.net, in meinem Beispiel tim05.hostsharing.net

Das Passwort habe ich aus meinem Passwortmanager in die Zwischenablage kopiert, und kann jetzt mit einem Rechtsklick auf das Putty Fenster das Passwort einfügen.
Dann muss ich noch die Entertaste drücken, und bin angemeldet.

Ich kann auch Befehle hier auf der Kommandozeile mit einem Klick auf die rechte Maustaste einfügen:
echo "Hello World"

Ich kann sehen, unter welchem Benutzer die Domain läuft:

ls -la /home/doms/nextcloud.test.beispielverein.de
ich drücke die Tabulatortaste, um den Pfad automatisch zu ergänzen.

Dann wechsel ich mit dem sudo Befehl in diesen Benutzer, also schlüpfe in seine Rolle:

Ich markiere den Benutzernamen mit der Maus, und kann dann die Markierung mit der rechten Maustaste einfügen:
sudo -u tim05-nextcloud bash

Hier wechsel ich erstmal ins Home Verzeichnis:

cd ~

Mit ls -la sehe ich die Verzeichnisse

Jetzt können wir der Anleitung im Wiki folgen:
wiki.hostsharing.net/index.php…

xyz00-cloud@h00:~$ cd ~/nextcloud/updater
xyz00-cloud@h00:~/nextcloud/updater$ chmod u+x updater.phar
xyz00-cloud@h00:~/nextcloud/updater$ ./updater.phar

Es sollten außerdem ein paar Routine-Aufräumarbeiten durchgeführt werden:

xyz00-cloud@h00:~$ cd ~/nextcloud
xyz00-cloud@h00:~/nextcloud$ php occ db:add-missing-primary-keys --no-interaction
xyz00-cloud@h00:~/nextcloud$ php occ db:add-missing-columns --no-interaction
xyz00-cloud@h00:~/nextcloud$ php occ db:add-missing-indices --no-interaction
xyz00-cloud@h00:~/nextcloud$ php occ db:convert-filecache-bigint --no-interaction

So können die Apps noch alle aktualisiert werden:

xyz00-cloud@h00:~$ cd ~/nextcloud
xyz00-cloud@h00:~/nextcloud$ php occ app:update --all -n --no-ansi

#OpenSource für 23 Schulen, 15.000 Schüler*innen, 900 Lehrkräfte

#Flensburg stattet seine Schulen mit #Nextcloud aus und verbindet alles mit dem zentralen Identitätsmanagement von #Univention: univention.de/referenz/stadt-f…

Ich bin begeistert: Firefox Bookmarks zwischen drei Clients (2 x Notebook, 1 x Smartphone) synchronisieren läuft nun seit einem knappen halben Jahr per @floccus ohne Probleme - der Umstieg von Chrome auf Firefox klappte dadurch schneller als gedacht.

chaos.social/deck/@escuco/1114…

#floccus #firefox #bookmarks #nextcloud #opensource #lesezeichen

chaos.social

chaos.social – a Fediverse instance for & by the Chaos community

^{Mastodon hosted on chaos.social}

Big kudos to the Schleswig-Holstein!

Another German administration is breaking Microsoft’s glass cage, and at a first read the scope of this initiative seems more ambitious than many I’ve witnessed in the past.

Both the ArsTechnica article and the original announcement don’t include a few details to make better estimate on the possible success of this initiative though.

The announcement follows previously established plans to migrate the state government off Microsoft Office in favor of open source LibreOffice.

I hope that there’s a Web-based offering somewhere on the horizon. Fewer and fewer employees nowadays run Word/Excel directly on their machines. Most of them run Google Docs or use Microsoft’s office cloud. Giving them a stand-alone app which limits the possibilities for online collaboration may be met with resistance, especially now that many of them are already getting used to online AI assistants. I read that #NextCloud is involved - I hope there’s a plan to run #CollaboraOffice, which is more or less like running the LibreOffice engine as a service, #OnlyOffice or some equivalent alternative.

Due to the high hardware requirements of Windows 11, we would have a problem with older computers. With Linux we don’t have that

Very sensitive decision that will probably save taxpayers a lot of money. But it’d also be interested to know which #Linux distro has been selected. Hopefully the administration won’t repeat Munich’s past mistakes and it won’t try to build and maintain their own distro. Better get into talks with a popular distro (probably not Red Hat, but hey isn’t SuSE German?) and orchestrate a deal where the State funds its development, and in exchange it gets development support. It’s a win-win where a distro not managed by a giant like Red Hat or Canonical can get consistent direct funding from a public administration (that’s what many of us have been advocating for years anyway), and the local administration can enjoy the support of a well-documented distro like OpenSuSE, Mint, Pop_OS or Manjaro without having to reinvent the wheel and scramble for their own developers/packagers/maintainers, and minimizing the risk of going from one vendor lock-in (Microsoft) to another (IBM or Canonical).

The government will ditch Microsoft Sharepoint and Exchange/Outlook in favor of open source offerings Nextcloud and Open-Xchange, and Mozilla Thunderbird

Same issue as with LibreOffice: folks today are used to webmail and mobile apps. Thunderbird definitely fills the gap on the stand-alone side, especially now that it’s getting more love and support than before. But it still lacks an official mobile app - K-9 is almost there, but not nearly there yet. And it doesn’t solve the “I’m used to the GMail/Outlook interface and set all of my filters and do my advanced search from a webview” problem. There’s actually a big gap there. What’s a decent open webmail UI that can compete with GMail/Outlook nowadays? RoundCube feels ancient and it has barely changed in 15 years. SnappyMail is a bit better, and it’s what a use as a selected webmail client too, but it’s still lightyears behind GMail/Outlook. NextCloud Mail is slowly getting there, but it only integrates with a NextCloud solution. Let’s admit that there’s a gap that needs to be filled fast if we don’t want employees who have years of email muscle memory trained in specific environments to doom the project.

Schleswig-Holstein is also developing an open source directory service to replace Microsoft’s Active Directory and an open source telephony offering.

Please, don’t. Just don’t. A local administration, no matter how well-intentioned and initially well-funded, just won’t have the resources necessary to invent such big wheels. And, even if it somehow manages to bake something together, it’ll eventually be a patchy solution that they’ll have to maintain themselves for years to come, and that is unlikely to find adoption outside of its initial borders.

Invest into #OpenLDAP to fill the gaps left by ActiveDirectory on the LDAP side instead. That project needs a lot more love. And leverage WebDAV for almost everything else. If you are already planning to use NextCloud, it’ll already do a lot of the heavylifting for you on that side, without having to write new software or come up with new protocols.

Same for telephony. Looking into iPXE and other open implementations of the PXE and SIP protocols. Telephony protocols are hard and well-established, reinventing the wheel should be avoided at all costs.

I think there’s a lot of potential in initiatives like these, but only a clear definition of their scope and a clear plan of execution with continuous user feedback can help preventing something like the failure of the early Munich experiments.

arstechnica.com/information-te…

German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating

Schleswig-Holstein looks to succeed where Munich failed.

^{Ars Technica}

Schleswig-Holstein geht voran:

#LibreOffice statt M$ Office
#Linux statt Windows
#Thunderbird statt Outlook
#Nextcloud statt Sharepoint

Das Kabinett hat den Startschuss für den Umstieg auf freie Software gegeben - ein Gewinn für #IT-Sicherheit, #Datenschutz und die heimische Digitalwirtschaft.

Langfristiges Ziel ist die vollständige digitale Souveränität des Landes.

schleswig-holstein.de/DE/lande…

Wir ziehen den Hut und wünschen eine erfolgreiche Umsetzung!🎩

#OpenSource #DigitaleSouveränität

Einstieg in den Umstieg

Schleswig-Holstein setzt künftig auf einen digital souveränen IT-Arbeitsplatz in der Landesverwaltung – das hat das Kabinett nun beschlossen.

^{schleswig-holstein.de}

At the end the workaround didn't work well, because #Nextcloud was sending invitations from synchronized events and that is not wanted.

I ended up writing my own little #iCal #middleware that fetches the original #ics export and republishes it with all event UIDs postfixed by a constant string.
This ensures that fiancée's calendar event UIDs don't collide with received invitations to the same events and I can add them to my own calendar.

github.com/Stopka/icsmw

GitHub - Stopka/icsmw: ICal middleware

ICal middleware. Contribute to Stopka/icsmw development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

Ich habe eine interessante Auflistung von Anleitungen von OpenSource Software gefunden. Sicherlich ist manches spezifisch für die Institution.

solidarische-landwirtschaft.or…

Viele Themen sind aber universelles Wissen: #Nextcloud, #RoundCube, #Thunderbird, BigBlueButton, neu für mich @pretix, #Typo3 und #Mattermost

Danke für #FreeSoftware - mein Arbeits Alltag wäre nicht der gleiche ohne #OpenSource

Ganz besonders Dankbar bin ich für #LibreOffice, #Firefox, #Thunderbird, #Nextcloud, #Wordpress & #KDEnlive und so viele weitere Projekte wie #Signal

#SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #FLOSS

@fsfe mastodon.social/@fsfe/11192840…

Hell, yes. This is nothing but good news.

I've been using Unified Push + Element + Fedilab via Nextcloud and NextPush and it's been remarkably simple and reliable while keeping all that sweet, sweet metadata out of the Goog's hungry clutches. Thank you!

Can't wait for Yunohost to support sliding sync so I can shift to ElementX.

#UnifiedPush #Privacy #FOSS #Element #ElementX #Yunohost #Fedilab #Nextcloud #NextPush #Google #Android

I finally found a workaround for my issue with #NextCloud calendars. #VDirSyncer is the answer.

We share calendars with my fiancée to see each other's program but also invite each other to events that we want the other to attend.
NextCloud sadly has event ids unique across all calendars, thus this use case creates many id collisions between calendars.

When Vdirsyncer copies events from ics to caldav it does not use event ids, but creates own hash id from event content.

github.com/nextcloud/calendar/…

#Nextcloud lässt gerade wirklich das Menschenrecht auf #Barrierefreiheit gegen schnellere Synchronisationszeiten oder erweiterte Sharing-Optionen antreten - in einer Umfrage über das Fediverse.

Nur falls ihr euch fragt, was so der Stellenwert von behinderten Menschen in dieser Gesellschaft ist.

Jedenfalls: Ein weiteres Tool, das man vielleicht mal boykottieren könnte.

Nextcloud jako osobní cloud

Už 7 let používám Nextcloud pro osobní potřeby. V článku jsem sepsal, na jaké věci jej používám a jaké s nimi mám zkušenosti.

#caldav #carddav #chat #cloud #Collabora #dokumenty #Dropbox #fotky #kalendáře #kontakty #libreoffice #Nextcloud #RSS #úkoly

blog.eischmann.cz/2023/11/16/n…

Máte Nextcloud? A znáte aplikaci Music? Pomocí ní můžete vaši hudební sbírku (nebo sbírku podcastů) přehrávat přímo z Nextcloudu (přes web) nebo publikovat Subsonic protokolem. Na mobilu pak můžete mít třeba přehrávač Ultrasonic (najdete na F-droidu). #opensource #nextcloud

apps.nextcloud.com/apps/music

The Nextcloud Conference is coming! 😎

No matter if you are a Nextcloud developer, translator, document writer, user,... This is the place to be to exchange your idea with like-minded people and get inspired.

I will be there! Will you join the conference as well?

nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-c…

#Nextcloud #Berlin

I recently learned that it is super easy to run your own #UnifiedPush server if you already have a #NextCloud:
- Install the UnifiedPush Provider app in the NextCloud
- Install NextPush for Android f-droid.org/en/packages/org.un…

Took me like 5 min and now my #Tusky push notifications go through my own server, how cool is that

NextPush | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

UnifiedPush provider with Nextcloud

^f-droid.org

I was surprised at my phone ringing last night, until I realised I got a real non-test push notification from the experimental fork of Nextcloud made by Niklas Reimer. It uses @unifiedpush in the #foss and @fdroidorg compatible version of Nextcloud, and notifications don't go through Google Services or the Nextcloud Push gateway.

Something very exciting is coming!

#foss #pushnotification #UnifiedPush #android #Nextcloud #ntfy #fdroid