I just landed in Barcelona. I am sure there is a reason but they seem prime candidates for Solar

What's the feel about moving away from talking about WordPress and more talking about CMS based on Wordpress? - It seems that we are all going to have to move away from wordpress.org and WordPress branding.

Im considering installing a small - Maybe 1Kw set of panels into a location but I would like to get an idea of what their actual performance would be like before I do the installation. Its a strange location with some over hanging trees and some shading by neighbours fromntine to time but it could help provide some redundancy. Understanding of it could produce enough or whether a mains powered UPS is required would help before I pick and buy a solution.

Im wondering what is a cheap way to test out what Im actually going to be able to capture?

I was thinking of putting a small panel in place for a year and seeing how it performs. But I realised I might need a controller amd logger as well as and something to dunp the energy captured.

What would be the simplest / cheapest way to do this?

Im considering purchasing a Banana Pi OpenWRT router.

My previous devices have all had internal aerials but this device has four connectors.

Knowing almost nothing about Wifi 6 and aerials How feasible is it to run extensions from one or more of those aerials out the wall of our house and use a larger uni or directional aerial to extend coverage in a particular direction from a high point or should you always have the same short aerials that come with the router?

I came across mention of IMAPSync and Larch as tools to move emails out of Gmail to a new email account. Does anyone have any experience using these?

I have a family’s worth of email gmail accounts all of which are running out of space and will need to be moved to a new email provider. They would of course all like to keep their historical sent and recieved emails.

I came across mention of IMAPSync and Larch as tools to move emails out of Gmail to a new email account. Does anyone have any experience using these?

I have a family's worth of email gmail accounts all of which are running out of space and will need to be moved to a new email provider. They would of course all like to keep their historical sent and recieved emails.

I am thinking that this might be a bit over the top but Im interested if anyone uses the tools and recipes designed by coopcloud to deploy their self hosted applications.

I've been looking at alternatives to Google Workspace / Office 365 for SME / non-profits.

Broadly I have been searching for something that allows an organisation to use their own domain, includes email and nextcloud hosting and a mechanism to manage users/email addresses for the organisation.

In my ideal solution alongside an email server we would have access to a cloud hosted LDAP server/instance to manage users passwords and permissions and then administrators would be able to spin up instances of applications such as Nextcloud, Wordpress, CiviCRM and other Open source applications as a service.

I used the list of Hosting Providers on the Nexcloud website alongside the following list I found - https://github.com/thetuxinator/nextcloud_providers?tab=readme-ov-file

As yet we haven't made any decisions but created a shortlist of providers to consider: These include:

https://cloud68.co/managed-hosting/nextcloud https://www.stackhero.io/en/services/Nextcloud/pricing https://cloud.ionos.co.uk/solutions/nextcloud#packages https://www.commonscloud.coop/advanced-office/ https://www.federated.computer/pricing/ https://brixly.uk/email-hosting-with-nextcloud-

None of these seem perfect (I suspect that plenty of have some proprietary components in there (their own User provisioning and billing components )

I'm not sure any of these are perfect. I've also been looking at https://docs.coopcloud.tech/intro/strategy/ which appears to be aiming to provide mechanism to deliver such services for organisations on top of Baremetal / Cloud Compute and Storage. (Though this doesn't appear to include email and LDAP at the moment) I can see these would be natural extensions.

I'm also looking to see to what degree this could be achieved using Web Hosting Services (Cpanel now supports creating sub-users that can be configured to access to email, ftp and web storage but I am not sure whether their credentials can be used for single signon for Web Applications running on your account such as WordPress and NextCloud. I need to look at the other major WebHosting Provisioning systems such as ( I think Plesk is one)

Are any of you based around London and using Starlink either because you are in a blackspot of Fibre / Fixed wireless or any other reason.

If so I would love to have a chat regarding your experience.

I have a spot that has no Fibre and a colleague that really wants Starlink but would love to get a view of people's experience.

As a fall back anyone in a large city using Starlink - Whats been the experience?

When looking for plugins how do people sort through all the 'free' plugins that sound great but are actually 'fremuim' where all the key features are actually in a PRO version?

How do you locate the fully featured proper open source plugins that are well maintained and used?

I'm a member of Erith Yacht Club and I've been working on their website - Adding content and starting to think and talk with others in the club about the technology running behind it.

More generally I have a background in Marketing and Media Tech, CRM digital and Social media advertising and marketing.

Keeping the club going with CRM, Website, Accounting systems, Admin, Collaboration , Building tech, Events booking, Social media, email communications is hard work for everyone.

I'm keen to talk to other sailing clubs who are interested in using OpenSource tech to manage their club, the tech itself and wider issues around that. (Skills, training, tech, costs, data privacy, security - Working with Committees all that kind of thing)

Tech I have been looking at includes - Wordpress, CiviCRM, Mobilizon](https://mobilizon.org/en/), obviously love to include Lemmy/Mastodon in our social media but keeping Facebook going is enough work already. I don't just want to talk about the tech though.