In the discussion about #digitalsovereignty there is an interesting cry for #BuyEuropean, but many of us doubt that that is enough. In software, you (or your organisation or country) being "sovereign" or in control does ultimately not only - or so much - depend on where the HQ of the tech company are located.

@dries, the founder of Drupal, presents an interesting scale for digital sovereignty.

The software license is an important part. Not the only one of course. We'd also think of the maturity of the developer community. And, as an enduser, one's control over or stake in the service provider (in case you need one).

Think #governance #coopcloud #digitalcommons

https://dri.es/the-software-sovereignty-scale

What time is it? Time to fly kites!

Join members of the Co-op Cloud community for our informal, weekly(ish) drop-in, call "Kite flying". Coming up TODAY in 2 hours, at 19 UTC.

Bring questions, proposals, thoughts, problems… or just swing by and say hi to some other Co-op Cloud co-operators.

Voice/video call: https://vc.autistici.org/CoopCloudKiteFlying#config.disableAudioLevels=true

Collaborative agenda / notes: https://pad.autonomic.zone/VtyrLUl9RWaJGgEDrncQUw?edit

PS – if you'd ever be interested in coming along to kite-flying, consider letting us know your availability in this lil date poll , as we're currently spinning the wheel to find some new slots for these calls https://crab.fit/coop-cloud-kiteflying-660087

– 3wordchant

#CoopCloud #LibreSoftware #DemocraticTech

If you'd like to attend Co-op Cloud Kite-flying, our weekly(ish) drop-in where we talk about anything and everything #CoopCloud-related – and *especially* if the current 19 UTC slot doesn't work for you timezone- or schedule-wise: vote now! https://crab.fit/coop-cloud-kiteflying-660087

We'll keep this poll open for the next 2 weeks, until **23:59 UTC on Wednesday 11th February**.

–3wordchant

@jeppe vores gode venner i #coopcloud har gjort det til en variabel man bare skal ændre. https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/mastodon/src/commit/b6a5ea548fa437dc70efacf725b3e2643b31a8ee/.env.sample#L18

We will be attending #fosdem this year (and also for the first time). So if you are around and want to talk about #LAUTI, #events in the fediverse, #coopcloud or tech #coops in general just drop us a line for a meetup.
#fosdem2026 #fosdem26

RE: https://sunbeam.city/@notplants/115883266500668524

Words cannot express my delight that folks agreed to a mask requirement for the #CoopCloud workshop this weekend 🤩

"Co-op not CO-VID" or something I guess 🙃

#COVID #COVIDIsNotOver #LongCovid #PandemicIsNotOver

Anyone in or near the occupied Mohican / Lenape land of "New" "York" "City" 🗽, consider saving the date, Sunday 18th January 2026 (afternoon/early evening), for the possibly-first-ever local Co-op Cloud gathering & workshop 🤩 More details coming soon!

#CoopCloud #NYC #Events #LibreSoftware #DemocraticTech

@FediTips There's also https://coopcloud.tech which is about the same level as #yunohost. I've been using it to run this instance and highly recommend it.

#CoopCloud

Hi @kevinveenbirkenbach what you are doing sounds like a very well curated set of webapps offered as a service! Did you know of #CoopCloud the cooperative cloud community that collectively builds and maintains a "configuration commons" for precisely that? https://coopcloud.tech

@_elena @pluralistic

🚅 We're on our way to #39c3
Hit us up if you want to talk about #LAUTI , #coopcloud or #techcooperatives
We will be partly present at the @coopcloud #assembly next to the one from @Codeberg https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/de/assembly/detail/coopcloud

We will also do a short self-organized talk about LAUTI at the @techfrombelow assembly. More infos coming soon.

Am Freitag is wieder unser Offenes Treffen :)

Kommt vorbei, lernt uns kennen, bringt ideen mit oder einfach nur Interesse an #OpenSource #KollektivBetrieb #DigitalCommons #CoopCloud #LAUTI

Wir freuen uns!

📍 Prisma, Bad Cannstat
🕜 Freitag 12.12. ab 17 Uhr

@utopiah One of my thoughts is that Yunohost could be usefully integrated with something like #coopcloud to allow it to add additional server instances to scale the solution - it could either via an application or a component of yunohost itself manage #abra deployment and execution.

Similarly it could reach out to other devices like Routers on your home network and help configure their firewalls, port forwarding etc. - That would make configuring a home server easier - for those that aren't experienced with these things.

@utopiah #YunoHost, #StartOS, #Cloudron, #coopcloud, #uncloud and the people that write the recipies for the applications running on them are the answer.

Modelled solutions that check for related applications as they install are the way that encourage more people to self host by making installation, configuration, backup, update and removal easier.

🧵2/3
Alle services er installeret med hjælp af et system fra #CoopCloud. Ikke supermarkedskæden, men et kooperativ der forsøger at udbrede cloud-services som er ejet i fællesskab. De er derfor et rigtig godt match til #Folkefødetation.
De har et værktøj kaldet 'abra' som kan sætte bestemte services op med #Docker #Swarm.

Det hele kører på en server i Finland som er lejet via det tyske firma #Hetzner.

Oh wow that snuck up quickly! Co-op Cloud Kite-flying, our informal weekly(ish) drop-in, in 15 minutes @ 19 UTC!

Voice / video call: https://vc.autistici.org/CoopCloudKiteFlying#config.disableAudioLevels=true
Collaborative agenda / notes: https://pad.autonomic.zone/VtyrLUl9RWaJGgEDrncQUw?edit

— 3wordchant

#CoopCloud #LibreSoftware #OpenSource

Coming to you again in ~10 hours @ 12 UTC on Thursday 6th November: Co-op Cloud Kite-flying, our informal weekly(ish) drop-in.

No agenda yet; so if there's anything on your mind then come along and chances are good we'll get to it!

BEWARE timezone change for folks in places with daylight savings time, consult the runes: https://time.is/compare/1200_6_Nov_2025_in_UTC

Voice / video call: https://vc.autistici.org/CoopCloudKiteFlying#config.disableAudioLevels=true
Collaborative agenda / notes: https://pad.autonomic.zone/VtyrLUl9RWaJGgEDrncQUw?edit

— 3wordchant

#CoopCloud #LibreSoftware #OpenSource

Co-op Cloud Kite-flying, our friendly informal weekly(ish) drop-in, coming up in ~1.5 hours @ 19 UTC, Thursday 30th October.

d1 will be working on the integration test suite, I'll be working on adding recipe maintainership info to recipes.coopcloud.tech – plus whatever you would like to bring!

Voice / video call: https://vc.autistici.org/CoopCloudKiteFlying#config.disableAudioLevels=true
Collaborative agenda / notes: https://pad.autonomic.zone/VtyrLUl9RWaJGgEDrncQUw?edit

— 3wordchant

#CoopCloud #LibreSoftware #OpenSource

There are just so many "where and when do I build? rest? persist? resist? bring fists?" choices.

On the 6 month scale; I don't see switching the org where 100% of it's revenue flows through a Ruby on Rails app as particularly beneficial.

The other cooperative is already bringing 2/3rds of it's revenue off of services running on #Python, But that's running on top of #GoogleCloud, which is... you know... Google.

And then they're *both* in #GoogleWorkspaces and #Heroku which are... #Salesforce and #aws

Across both, we're probably spending ~$400k/yr in cloud services.

And we currently spend $0 on Ruby on Rails stuff.

So from a time/talent/treasure tradeoff perspective, there are bigger fish to fry.

I would love to get us onto a #CoopCloud infrastructure provider that uses green VPSes, but that is also a N Quarter Project, and there are higher-benefit-to-client-and-community-and-colleagues ways to spend that time and the treasure it costs to equitably buy that time from the crewmates who provide it.