+1 to this idea. On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Christopher Browne <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 9 December 2014 at 14:37, Blaise Alleyne <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On 08/12/14 12:47 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: > > > - I'm interested in setting up my in-house services like a cloud. > > > Perhaps <http://owncloud.org/>. Motivation: I want to keep control > > > of my own data as much as possible. Can anyone speak to this? > > > > > > > I could happily speak to this in the future. > > > > I'm self-hosting a bunch of stuff at home, as part of my own > degooglification > > process: ownCloud, SOGo, Snowy, Mediagoblin, Tiny Tiny RSS, Dokuwiki... > in the > > past, MythTV (including Mythweb), Mediawiki, Ampache... and services I'm > > hosting, but not at home, include FreeSWITCH and ejabberd (and email...). > > > > I also gave a talk at FSOSS this year on software freedom in a networked > work, > > which covered some of this as well, though not as a technical talk. > > That's certainly interesting. > > We had a series of talks over the years on virtualization which kind of got > boring in that it amounted to "so, how do we go through the mechanics of > setting a VM to install X"? > > We had a talk on Bosh recently, which represents a newer way of going > through those mechanics. Interesting in that it has gotten easier. > (I gather that Docker tries hard at another take on "making it easier") > > The OTHER side of this is managing the infrastructure for a set of VMs. > I'm not keen on something where that's a big job; it sure would be nice if > most of the time spent managing a dozen services is spent on those > dozen services. > > I know VMWare sells a product, vSphere, targeted at this, and that > OpenStack does somewhat similar (in OSS arena). Would like to hear > more... > -- > When confronted by a difficult problem, solve it by reducing it to the > question, "How would the Lone Ranger handle this?" > > > > --- > GTALUG Talk Mailing List - [email protected] > http://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > >
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