Nextcloud News

Nextcloud is a cool software that you can use to host your very own cloud. It supports Files, Calendar, Contacts and more. It is based around a core now called “Nextcloud Hub”, if you don’t know Nextcloud yet definitely check it out. News is a plugin for Nextcloud that allows you to host your own RSS/Atom reader, including an API for clients. As a big fan of reading news via RSS/Atom I have been a user of News for many years. In 2019 I started to get more active and started to contribute to News. The main reason was that I wanted to keep the application alive and the previous developers and maintainers had moved on to new projects. ...

March 23, 2021 · 2 min · Benjamin Brahmer

Freifunk Südholstein

Freifunk Südholstein is a Freifunk community located in the south-east of Hamburg. Since it was founded in 2015 this initiative has built an open network with roughly 200+ nodes. Originally I started as a normal node operator, so I had my own Freifunk node and actively attended the monthly meetings but I didn’t have any tasks. When the firmware building process which was back then fully manual, slowed down I decided to step in and learned about building the firmware, testing it and how to contribute to the configuration. ...

December 9, 2020 · 3 min · Benjamin Brahmer