[GTALUG] meeting tomorrow: topic?

[David Thornton]

+1 to this idea.

On Tue, Dec 9, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> On 9 December 2014 at 14:37, Blaise Alleyne <email+libre at blaise.ca> wrote:
> >
> > On 08/12/14 12:47 PM, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> > > - I'm interested in setting up my in-house services like a cloud.
> > >   Perhaps <http://owncloud.org/>.  Motivation: I want to keep control
> > >   of my own data as much as possible.  Can anyone speak to this?
> > >
> >
> > I could happily speak to this in the future.
> >
> > I'm self-hosting a bunch of stuff at home, as part of my own
> degooglification
> > process: ownCloud, SOGo, Snowy, Mediagoblin, Tiny Tiny RSS, Dokuwiki...
> in the
> > past, MythTV (including Mythweb), Mediawiki, Ampache... and services I'm
> > hosting, but not at home, include FreeSWITCH and ejabberd (and email...).
> >
> > I also gave a talk at FSOSS this year on software freedom in a networked
> work,
> > which covered some of this as well, though not as a technical talk.
>
> That's certainly interesting.
>
> We had a series of talks over the years on virtualization which kind of got
> boring in that it amounted to "so, how do we go through the mechanics of
> setting a VM to install X"?
>
> We had a talk on Bosh recently, which represents a newer way of going
> through those mechanics.  Interesting in that it has gotten easier.
> (I gather that Docker tries hard at another take on "making it easier")
>
> The OTHER side of this is managing the infrastructure for a set of VMs.
> I'm not keen on something where that's a big job; it sure would be nice if
> most of the time spent managing a dozen services is spent on those
> dozen services.
>
> I know VMWare sells a product, vSphere, targeted at this, and that
> OpenStack does somewhat similar (in OSS arena).  Would like to hear
> more...
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