Yup. I got yunohost.org running on a free instance on Oracle cloud (using a PaYG account) but costing nothing. - Ive then spun up an Email, Frendica server (limited to users on my domain) and Takahe to try out ActivityPub.
I think that a killer app for activityPub would be if MSFT or Google offered it as a service on Workplace / Office365 . (I mean Id rather not use either of them myself)
If you know nothing about hosting your own instance why not start learning? Try something slike running Yunohost.org on a VPS and start running Friendica, GotoSocia, Takahe or even ActivityPub on a Wordpress website to get some experience.
If you aren’t technical then you shouldn’t try to make technical arguments but get your academic team to talk to your IT team about the reasons why you want an ActivityPub solution and let them figure out the technical questions.
So an update on this. I have started looking at yunohost.org because it standardises the installation and maintenance of a variety of common apps - HomeAssistant, LDAP, email server, mqtt, Nextcloud. i recently saw a post on Reddit about succession planning which reminded me about my own questions.
Also Cant see anything about acouch to 5K being open source either and its a NHS BBC collaboration . https://www.nhs.uk/live-well/exercise/get-running-with-couch-to-5k/
Is NHS weight loss app open source ( I mean its free and paid for by the National Health Service ij the UK so probably shoukd be ) https://www.nhs.uk/better-health/lose-weight/
Id much prefer people just posted on Lemmy.
They have a handy comparison - https://docs.coopcloud.tech/intro/comparisons/ might look at Yunohost - If anyone has any experience I’d been keen to catch up. I’m a newbie though
Yeah there does seem to be some crossover. I get the feeling that coop.tech is thinking more standardised solutions for multiple people / organisations where dokploy is more bespoke . configs individuals/ individual orgs.
AliExpress some ZigBee light switches. They arent connected to anything but through Openhab you use them to swtch ZigBee light switches that replace your existing switches.
Haha of course it s going to be conduit. But its what to put in it. Just 230v ac or add 12v dc or POE or both.
Many Open source alternatives exist already such as vTiger and CiviCRM.
For my two cents worth I think they could do well by integrating with Nextcloud and Drupal or WordPress (Or whatever comes out of its current shambles).
From the article it seems like they are creating a extendible object model which in some ways is similar to what SharePoint has with its lists. Nextcloud has an add-on (Tables) that is a proto version of this. CiviCRM has worked to integrate website data collection from Drupal / Wordpress well.
Thinking from front of house (website) to back of house (CRM) then Nextcloud the missing link is to Nextcloud ( So documents and images can flow forward into the website Media Library ) and the extensible object model for data.amd being able to link unstructured data (documents etc. to structured data. (Not an expert on CiviCRM so not sure how flexible it is. )
But good on them for having a go. Let many flowers bloom. Even if it doesn’t take off some of their ideas might get adopted by someone else in some other way.