Promoting the Use of Free Open Source Software


Promoting the Use of Free Open Source Software I am very pleased that I was involved in the SelfHosterVPS project as a board member of EURAFRI. As part of our promotion to use free open source software for small and medium-sized companies, ...



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Contact Promoting the Use of Free Open Source Software I am very pleased that I was involved in the SelfHosterVPS project as a board member of EURAFRI. As part of our promotion to use free open source software for small and medium-sized companies, I am pleased that we as EURAFRI were able to support the SelfHosterVPS.com project, which was started by the CTS Group, as a consultant. In the first step of the project, small and medium-sized businesses, clubs and other commercial users have the option of renting a Debian system set up by the SelfHosterVPS team with the pre-installed Yunohost software. The advantages are obvious! Yunohost is an open source solution, which, even for IT beginners, allows for the simplest server management and to have all the necessary solutions under their own control while using only free software. If there are any questions, the SelfHosterVPS team of technicians will be happy to help via the ticket system. Many free server apps are available for the system with the simplest administration: https://yunohost.org/de/apps?q=%2Fapps For small and medium-sized companies in particular, the use of: SOGo and Postfix email system The SOGo e-mail system not only offers you a great web interface for managing your e-mails, calendar and contacts, but is also compatible with mobile devices under Android and IOS, as well as with desktop e-mail programs such as Thunderbird and Microsoft Outlook. You can manage any number of domains and user management is intuitive via the system’s single sign-on user management. Of course, you can also set up as many aliases and redirects as you like. With the SOGo software for e-mail, calendar, address book, you have a professional open source solution for your company that has been used successfully for a long time and does not lack any features. Since all data is synchronized to all devices, you are always informed. Jitsi video conference Privacy-friendly, free, video conferencing solution based on open source software. Communicate with employees and partners via your own Jitsi instance. Data protection-friendly, without sending data to third parties, you can also conduct professional voice and video conferences with complete end-to-end encryption. Great features like moderator functionality, lobby function for conference rooms (users knock), password protection for rooms and much more have made Jitisi a leading open source project. It’s fun to communicate with others! With your own Jitsi instance, you can also create a professional, data protection-friendly appearance as an EPU or SME without license costs and DSGVO risk, which is also completely secure thanks to the adjustable E2E encryption. Element Matrix Synapse Messenger Multi-device capable. Multiple devices can be online with Element Matrix Messenger on Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and IOS at the same time and all are synchronized. It is completely irrelevant which device you are currently on, the same status is displayed everywhere and you can communicate on all of them at the same time! An absolute necessity for an innovative professional messenger! Open source, free, safe and without eavesdroppers Free public servers for users without their own server Totally decentralized, everyone can use their own server Data economical without data collector End-to-End (E2E) encrypted with no backdoor for anyone Doesn’t show IP of users to other users no email or phone number required for registration Client can anonymously connect to server via Tor No need to access the address book! So that there is no risk of being prosecuted by a contact via the data protection commission for uploading the contact details. Or do you have permission from each user to transmit their data to third parties? 1:1 and group chats (E2E) Telephony 1:1 (E2E) and conferences via Jitsi integration Video telephony 1:1 (E2E) and conferences via Jitsi integration https://element.io/ (link to messenger) Mastodon is the absolute insider tip for a successful internet presence. This ingenious server app, a decentralized social network, makes it possible for nobody to block an account in Fediverse and builds up followers who can really be addressed directly. Put simply, anyone can run their instance (server app) and anyone can follow anyone, no matter what server. Here, on Mastodon in the so-called Fediverse, postings with and without images are created by the users. As soon as the Mastodon instance (server app) is activated, any user from the Fedivers can become a follower, new users can simply set up an account on a public instance and become a follower. On your own instance, of course, the same applies - own instance, own rules -. It makes sense that the followers on the big platforms should be gained as followers on their own instance, because all posts are displayed here in chronological order. Each follower sees each of the new posts without any upstream filters or algorithms provided by providers. The vision of really reaching every follower directly and never again taking the risk of an account ban becomes true with Mastodon! Create a website with WordPress, which is used to create most of the Internet websites, can be installed with one click. This makes it very easy to create your own website. With free plugins and themes, members-only websites, or shop and download solutions for sales, with payment via PayPal, Bitcoin or other can be created quickly and easily. Again, no moderation or censorship from big platforms. Own server, own rules. SelfHosterVPS currently only addresses commercial customers and will donate part of the income to the various software projects. An offer for private consumers is being worked on. Links: Yunohost project: https://yunohost.org Debian Linux: https://Debian.org EURAFRI: https://eurafri.com SelfHosterVPS project: https://selfhostervps.com CTS Group (IT Solutions): https://cts-solutions.com I’m very excited to see how many innovative customers who focus on data protection and ease of use will take the offer from SelfHosterVPS.com.