RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/117367491305362429 Co-op Cloud is a really unique project that blurs some of the lines around what open source is. It's both a toolset and a federation, software and community, that can't really be disentangled. It is an exercise in community management, in […]

Co-op Cloud@coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · last wk.

An introduction to Public Interest Infrastructure Co-operative Cloud: save the date! **Thursday, 15th October @ 19 UTC** (https://time.is/compare/1900_15_Oct_2026_in_UTC) A public event reintroducing our project: a community of support for self- and community-hosters, a commons of […]

An introduction to Public Interest Infrastructure Co-operative Cloud: save the date! **Thursday, 15th October @ 19 UTC** (https://time.is/compare/1900_15_Oct_2026_in_UTC) A public event reintroducing our project: a community of support for self- and community-hosters, a commons of […]

RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/117129278045995157 Coming to a corner of cyberspace near you, in ~2.25 hours 🤙 – 3wordchant

Co-op Cloud@coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 2mo ago

TODAY: Coop Cloud's weekly public call, "Kite-flying". Drop by with your questions, topics, problems, stories - or just chat with some of the folks in the community. We'll be hanging out for an hour with an open agenda. Find us here: https://jitsi.sutty.nl/CoopCloudKiteFlying Notes/agenda […]

"...we can’t have a set-up that is “technically decentralized” but “socially centralized”. The #CoopCloud recipes are a lot easier to maintain, which makes it easier to share the moderation among ourselves.". New post: https://opentech-auc.org/posts/2026-09-27-coopcloud/ With a shoutout to […]

RE: https://social.coop/@fkinstitute/117309920213289235 Tomorrow! 📢 Democratic Tech Fund is hosting a Community call, in preparation for the launch of their funding platform (hopefully by the end of October 🎃). Once the platform is deployed, coop cloud deployments for local communities will […]

RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/117129278045995157 And, announcing some other upcoming themed kite-flyings! (All in this 19 UTC slot) Thursday October 1st: What is Co-op Cloud? — a general introduction Thursday October 29th: How to run a workshop about Co-op Cloud Thurs November 26th […]

Co-op Cloud@coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 2mo ago

TODAY: Coop Cloud's weekly public call, "Kite-flying". Drop by with your questions, topics, problems, stories - or just chat with some of the folks in the community. We'll be hanging out for an hour with an open agenda. Find us here: https://jitsi.sutty.nl/CoopCloudKiteFlying Notes/agenda […]

RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/117129278045995157 Today at kite-flying: part two of Back To Bare Metal — catching up on the conversation from last week's kite-flying about hosting on actual hardware you can touch (and maybe, just maybe, a @serverscoop reboot…) – 3wordchant

Co-op Cloud@coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 2mo ago

TODAY: Coop Cloud's weekly public call, "Kite-flying". Drop by with your questions, topics, problems, stories - or just chat with some of the folks in the community. We'll be hanging out for an hour with an open agenda. Find us here: https://jitsi.sutty.nl/CoopCloudKiteFlying Notes/agenda […]

RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/116770343059078681 Today during kite flying we'll be talking about hosting on bare metal: how to move our hosted infrastructure off ever-more-expensive VPSes and onto our own hardware. We might discuss bringing back servers.coop! Join us if that sounds […]

Co-op Cloud@coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 4mo ago

🪁 Today, at 12 UTC, Kite Flying! Join us for Coop Cloud's weekly public call. Drop by with your questions, topics, problems, stories - or just chat with some of the co-ol folks in the community. We'll be hanging out for an hour with an open agenda and spoonful vibes. Find us here […]

TODAY: Coop Cloud's weekly public call, "Kite-flying". Drop by with your questions, topics, problems, stories - or just chat with some of the folks in the community. We'll be hanging out for an hour with an open agenda. Find us here: https://jitsi.sutty.nl/CoopCloudKiteFlying Notes/agenda […]

At kite-flying today, finally the mythical network-outage-by-heavy-machinery 🤩 "Someone drove a forklift truck through the fibre optic cable between two buildings, and we only noticed when we started getting small desynchronisation between the LDAP servers" – 3wordchant

TODAY: Coop Cloud's weekly public call, "Kite-flying". Drop by with your questions, topics, problems, stories - or just chat with some of the folks in the community. We'll be hanging out for an hour with an open agenda. Find us here: https://jitsi.sutty.nl/CoopCloudKiteFlying Notes/agenda […]

RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/116770343059078681 🪁 This week on Kite Flying, we'll be discussing FLOSS maturity What does a project need to put in place to scale from a single maintainer to multiple contributors and a growing user community? And, what tools can we use to assess a […]

Co-op Cloud@coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 4mo ago

🪁 Today, at 12 UTC, Kite Flying! Join us for Coop Cloud's weekly public call. Drop by with your questions, topics, problems, stories - or just chat with some of the co-ol folks in the community. We'll be hanging out for an hour with an open agenda and spoonful vibes. Find us here […]

RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/116770343059078681 🪁 Kite Flying starting soon! The focus this week is: m-m-m-multinode How do we use coop cloud in distributed systems with multiple machines? What is possible, and what is still difficult? Join us in approximately 90 minutes at the usual […]

Co-op Cloud@coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 4mo ago

🪁 Today, at 12 UTC, Kite Flying! Join us for Coop Cloud's weekly public call. Drop by with your questions, topics, problems, stories - or just chat with some of the co-ol folks in the community. We'll be hanging out for an hour with an open agenda and spoonful vibes. Find us here […]

RE: https://social.coop/@coopcloud/116812106394313102 Kite-flying again, today, in ~52 minutes 🤙 — 3wordchant

Co-op Cloud@coopcloud.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 4mo ago

Catch a post-solstice breeze and fly some (digital) kites, coming up in ~45 minutes @ 19 UTC. Join us for Coop Cloud's weekly public call, "Kite-flying". Drop by with your questions, topics, problems, stories - or just chat with some of the folks in the community. We'll be hanging out for an […]

We'll be gathering at the @dweb camp in Alte Holle/Berlin from 8-12 July, together with people working on the crossroads of #opensource #decentralisation #cooperative #SSE Social and Solidarity Economy and #commoning I'm really happy that we decided collectively […] [Original post on social.coop]

Bonfire Social 1.0.5 is out! 🔥 **Archipelago mode** means instead of open federation (connect to everyone, then play whack-a-mole blocking bad actors), you can now choose to **federate** _***only***_ **with a hand-picked allow-list of trusted people or servers**. Communities can link up into an […]

Catch a post-solstice breeze and fly some (digital) kites, coming up in ~45 minutes @ 19 UTC. Join us for Coop Cloud's weekly public call, "Kite-flying". Drop by with your questions, topics, problems, stories - or just chat with some of the folks in the community. We'll be hanging out for an […]

🔥 The Bonfire Social 1.0.5 release candidate is out! This one brings archipelago mode (opt-in, allow-list federation for tightly-knit communities and networks), a more lightweight search backend (see changelog for migration steps), broadcasting announcements, another embeddable widget […]

🪁 Today, at 12 UTC, Kite Flying! Join us for Coop Cloud's weekly public call. Drop by with your questions, topics, problems, stories - or just chat with some of the co-ol folks in the community. We'll be hanging out for an hour with an open agenda and spoonful vibes. Find us here […]

Monday next week (15th) we're hosting the next of our drop-in community hours! 15:00 - 16:00 (CET). Feel free to come hang out, meet the team and chat about p2panda and broader peer-to-peer / local-first topics. As we've just released our high-level application developer API this is likely to […]

Last-minute notice for Co-op Cloud Kite Flying, in 9 minutes at 19 UTC! Join us for the Co-op Cloud weekly community call; bring any questions, comments, problems, suggestions, or just swing by and say hello to some co-op cloud co-operators. Same 🦇 place […]

#fedihire The NextGraph association is pleased to announce it is opening a position for an open source front-end developer, fulltime or part-time, fully remote and European based, working with React and/or Svelte frameworks, and who is interested in creating […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Today I attended a workshop about an upcoming campaign urging our public institutions to do the right thing: join the universal social network, #PublicActivityActivityPub or #PAAP for short ;-) @victor hosted the session and we had several people from cultural institutions, universities […]

Kite-flying: coming to a corner of cyberspace near you, in ~15 mins at 12 UTC. Join us for the Co-op Cloud weekly community call; bring any questions, comments, problems, suggestions, or just swing by and say hello to some co-op cloud co-operators. Same 🦇 place: https:// […]

Kite-flying: coming to a corner of cyberspace near you, in ~1h40m at 19 UTC. Join us for the Co-op Cloud weekly community call; bring any questions, comments, problems, suggestions, or just swing by and say hello to some co-op cloud co-operators. Same 🦇 place: https:// […]

Kite-flyiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing 🪁 The Co-op Cloud weekly community call, coming up in just over 3 hours at 19 / 7pm UTC. Bring any questions, comments, problems, suggestions, or just swing by and say hello to some co-op cloud co-operators. Same 🦇 place: https:// […]

Thursday = Kite-flying day! 🪁 Come hang out with Co-operative Cloud folks online: ask questions, get help with issues, kick off freewheeling discussions about anything Coop-Cloud-related. Coming up in ~3 hours at 19 UTC (continuing with alternating 12 UTC slot next week!) Same 🦇 place […]

Our @fediforum@mastodon.social demo is up! 🔥 We showed off Bonfire Mosaic and our ongoing work on federated groups and new publisher tools we’ve been co-designing with jacobin.de, including federated discussion threads that can be embedded on their existing website. Built on our modular […]

On Saturday May 9th in Rome, as part of the Nina Festival, we're hosting a workshop to _think with_ Bonfire, exploring and co-designing federated digital spaces for caring for our communities. Together with @reclaimthetech@mastodon.uno, Zero81, Scift Lab and […] [Original post on bonfire.cafe]

And, a missed update from our second-last #KiteFlying on 2026-04-02! We talked about the challenges of migrating organisations – especially ones which aren't technically focussed – out of corporate surveillance prisons. A comrade brought a few specific examples of groups they're working with […]