Movement hosting infrastructure: Applications layer

What are the positive experiences that folks had with free software hosted services?

And where are the frustrations? And the gaps?

Participants shared their takes on the three categories above.

• Things that exist and are good
  • gitlab
  • Mattermost
  • Wekan (alternative to Trello)
  • NextCloud
  • Etherpad
  • Odoo: open source ERP and CRM [www.odoo.com]
  • Weblate (loclaization tool)
• Things that exist and need improvement
  • Collabora
  • Etherpad
  • Sparkleshare
  • CRM
  • CMS
  • Wiki
  • Mailing lists
  • Newsletters
  • Crabgrass – network organizing tool, slowly updated [crabgrass.riseup.net]
  • User support tickets (as distinct of issue tracking, for which gitlab works very well)
  • Stack Exchange alternative?
  • Mexcla: Simultaneous Interpretation Conference System [github.com/glocalcoop/mexcla]
  • Jitsi
  • Web analytics (Piwik)
  • Web surveys
  • Online forms
  • Mastodon?
  • Dillinger: markdown editor. Heard good reviews, but no one has tested that out fully yet [1]
• Things that are gaps
  • Voice conference
  • Google Doc alternative
  • Gmail
  • Google Drive/ Dropbox
  • Social tools
  • Meta social (tools to manage social tools, e.g. multiple social accounts)
  • Non-personally identified multi party chat
  • SSO/ SLO
  • Account management
  • Encrypted email
  • Google Translate
  • Accounting web software
  • Publicly hosted calendar
  • Events
  • Crowd funding
  • Doodle

The most urgent gaps to work on, in order of priority:

1. Google Docs
2. Google Drive/ Dropbox
3. Gmail

(All Google products > This goes back to the SSO issue: sharing the permission model is the reason why Google is so effective)

Picture of notes: https://www.flickr.com/photos/aspirationtech/38732086421/in/datetaken-public/