We are an affinity group, running an underfunded project for rebooting the #openweb and to help people step away from the corporate silos.
Currently concentrating on using the w3c standard ActivityPub to do this in a few ways:
Run instances of good, #4opens UX applications for public use (http://hamishcampbell.com/index.php/projects/4opens/).
- Mastodon x2 (https://activism.openworlds.info/ | https://campaign.openworlds.info/) [AGPL-3]
- Peertube (down) [AGPL-3]
- Searx (https://openworlds.info/) [AGPL-3]
- Gitea (https://unite.openworlds.info/) [MIT]
- Etherpad (https://pad.openworlds.info/) [Apache2]
- ejabberd (https://chat.openworlds.info/) [GPL-2.0]
rsstootalizer (https://github.com/blind-coder/rsstootalizer/) [Unsure of license, contains some MIT code]
Our current push is the development of missing parts of the "fediverse" focussed on journalism and activism. We use our gitea instance for organising and planning this effort.
Alongside this, the active development of an indymedia network based on modern standards, in order to become the "news" part of the fediverse. You can see our talk at the ActivityPub Conf 2020, which you guys provided the BBB video hosting for (https://conf.tube/videos/watch/953de898-74dc-4665-95fb-313042f66cc6).
We are also collaborating with the author of https://epicyon.freedombone.net/ [AGPL], where we aim to rollout an instance as an example of the potential for truly community-scale, local journalism (which may then propagate out into the wider fediverse).
As part of the rollout of a radically decentralised indymedia news network, we need to have online a suite of stable fediverse apps. Currently, we have these running on several OVH VPS's.
The problem for us is our peertube instance, where both storage and processing power are an issue. We put the application into you guys with the hope to move the hosting of https://visionon.tv/ (which is currently down due to lack of space) to a more robust server with good sysadmin backup.
We are not asking you guys to host an ever-expanding project, as the idea is to encourage and facilitate self-hosting, to build local, on the ground, "openweb" communities using DIY hosting.
What we need is a bit of stability and scaling for active example instances, in order to roll out the test/dev codebases. Our first ask is for a peertube install to host the videos uploaded by the grassroots journalists. The second stage, if you guys are interested, would be a few light weight city indymedia news sites.
Yes it is quite political, but it's also VERY FOSS.
Hamish, bashrc, saunders and the #OMN crew.
Thank you for providing the additional information.
We can confirm that we have now reviewed your application in full.
Unfortunately on this occasion we were not able to approve the application.
This is in part due to the political nature of your project and is a weighted risk that it not one that fosshost is willing to take today.
We wish you the best of luck with your project and future endeavours.
Fosshost.org