Hi, a few days ago we made a new release of the Cloudy community cloud
software. The announcement with details is here:
https://cloudy.community/news/
Under the hood there is improved support for Docker containers (also
docker compose) and also support/integration of IPFS (a P2P web/file
service with off-line access). Many new applications can be installed
thanks to the docker support, and several are prepared to run just from
the click of a button (like Etherpad for group editing, Home Assistant
for smart homes, next/own-Cloud for a bunch of web apps for file sharing
and communications, instant messaging like Rocket Chat or Riot,
Mosquitto for IoT, among others.
General info:
https://cloudy.community/ and code:
https://github.com/Clommunity
In addition, we have completed an extended research paper that describes
the organizational and governance models of a Community Cloud as
Commons, the lessons learned from the last 2 years of a pilot with
earlier versions of the Cloudy software in the
guifi.net community with
about 60 devices deployed, and a socio-economic analysis of the
competitiveness of community clouds in comparison with commercial cloud
providers. The report is here:
http://people.ac.upc.edu/leandro/pubs/cloudy.pdf
Thanks to Roger Pueyo, Roger Baig, Agustí, Felix, Shams, Mennan and
others who participated in the pilot, the design of the governance
model, the development.
Kind regards, Leandro.