Recent Blogs
Planet FSCI
February 10, 2025
In the age of “AI in everything”, one could wonder if writing and maintaining an individual blog is still relevant. “AI in everything” LLMs has gobbled up millions of lines of texts, audio, code and what not to generate its responses. Can an individual do better through their blog? Uncertain. But again, individual blogs are for a person’s own expression; of their thoughts, understandings and world view. It’s the human (touch).
Secure a nextcloud instance on Debian 7 Wheezy that can no longer get certificates via certbot
January 14, 2024
We were running a shared NextCloud instance at nextcloud.libreinfra.org for sometime on Debian GNU/Linux 7 Wheezy. It was setup on a shared hosting tool that is no longer maintained (Manu would know the details), upgrading the host was not possible. Most other services were migrated to other systems but this nextcloud service remained on this host. Sometime back certbot stopped working (likely because the openssl version is too old and it does not support newer crypto) and we could not continue using https, so this was left untouched for a long time.
We Have Lost a Charismatic and Energetic Member of the Community
September 28, 2023
On 13th September 2023, Abraham Raji from Kerala, an active member of FSCI, died in a water accident during a trip in the DebConf 2023.
Poddery
Poddery, one of the earliest diaspora social networking hosts, is a community-run distributed social-network maintained by FSCI. Apart from Diaspora, poddery.com also offers Matrix and XMPP services.
Poddery Diaspora Instance
Diaspora is a culture. A culture against the loss of personal privacy by the corporate social network giants. Diaspora enables you to keep your data with you and provides the flexibility to choose what you share. Since your data is stored on distributed servers and not a single company's servers you are in more control of your data.
Poddery Matrix Instance
Matrix is a decentralised instant messenger which supports end-to-end encryption, voice and video call and file sharing. You can connect with your friends and communities here. Matrix by default allows you to integrate with IRC and other communication medias. Riot is a client-side application with slack-like interface and markdown support.
Matrix Clients
XMPP
Poddery supports chatting and video and voice calls among your contacts in Diaspora and anybody with an account on a service supporting XMPP. You need to enable chat on your Poddery account to make use of it. There are many free clients available for PC, tablet or mobile devices. Get one for your device from the link below.
Other services provided by FSCI
FSCI Wiki
FSCI maintains a MediaWiki instance at wiki.fsci.in which acts as a 'decentralised central resource' as every one gets to fill in their parts and one could find all parts in one place.
Visit FSCI Wiki
Free Software User Groups
FSCI maintains a list of various Free Software User Groups across India at fsug.in. FSCI also provides free sub-domains for such communities.
Git Repository Hosting
FSCI runs a free instance of GitLab Community Edition at git.fosscommunity.in. GitLab is a powerful platform for collaborative software development.
Git Repository
Mailing Lists
FSCI maintains a GNU Mailman instance at lists.fsci.in. A mailing list helps us to broadcast emails to a list of e-mail addresses of people that are members of the same work group or interested in the same subject.
FSCI Mailing Lists
Collaborative Decision Making
codema (Collaborative Decision Making) is a Loomio instance maintained by FSCI at codema.in. It helps us to initiate discussions and put up proposals on which users can vote.
CODEMA.IN
Group Voice/Video Meeting
Jitsi Meet is a privacy respecting, 100% Free Software video conferencing solution that you can use all day, every day, with no account needed. FSCI maintains a Jitsi Meet instance at meet.fsci.in .
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