Installing NextCloud and Collabora Office Online with Docker on Ubuntu 16.04
Dropbox is the best known of the end-user "cloud storage" services for documents, backups, and synchronising data among multiple devices, although now Google's Drive and Microsoft's OneDrive are functionally similar and are being heavily promoted and tied into all sorts of services.
Installing Mastodon with Docker-Compose on Ubuntu 16.04
Not long ago, Mastodon, an open source, federated alternative to the proprietary network-effect wunderkind, Twitter, came out of no where.
Many simple tools, loosely coupled
Our approach to technology here at the OERu is inspired by the UNIX tool philosophy which can be summarised as follows:
"create simple tools that do one job well, and make it easy to combine them to work together"
Protecting your users with Let's Encrypt SSL Certs
SkFor any website that requires anyone (users or even just a few admins) to transfer secrets to and from it, you want to ensure the data is end-to-end encrypted. Today various browsers (like Firefox) give warnings when you're sending secret data (like passwords) "in the clear", namely unencrypted.
Multiple Discourse Forums on the same server
At the OERu we have two separate instances of market category leading Discourse Forum: one for OER partner and contributor collaborators and the other for learners. These days, online forums are seen as a bit old-school: fuddy-duddy. From my point of view, however, Discourse is "Forum-NG" (a Next Generation forum).
Installing Mautic with PHP7-FPM on Docker, Nginx, and MariaDB on Ubuntu 16.04
Mautic is an open source marketing automation web application.
Installing Rocket.Chat with Docker on Ubuntu Linux 14.04
Rocket.Chat is a modern, open source messaging application which is functionally similar to a popularĀ (and heavily marketed) proprietary tool called Slack.
Installing Wekan with Docker on Ubuntu Linux 14.04
Wekan is an excellent, easy-to-use "kanban board" project management support tool, suitable for all manner of projects. For those who have used the highly marketed Trello kanban service, Wekan is functionally similar open source alternative that organisations can host and control for themselves. They can also enhance it in whatever ways they are moved to do so. We encourage our partner institutions to consider this path as a way of reducing costs as well as increasing freedom and privacy.