I'm starting a tradition of #FossFriday where I shout out a favorite free/open source project. (Yes, I'm aware it's Saturday, so it should be #OssSaturday but damn it I want to do Fridays.)
ANYWAY. First shout is cal.com. They're a #foss calendly alternative, I use their hosted service but you can run a self-hosted version (repo: https://github.com/calcom/cal.com)
Customizable with solid UX design. My non-techy friends like it as much as I do.
#FossFriday inspired by @cassidy https://mastodon.blaede.family/@cassidy/111750422368833052
Oh jeez, I completely forgot last week. Gonna set a reminder.
This week's #FossFriday #FlossFriday shout out is a three-for - three open source projects for knowledge management that I've tried out over the last year or so: MediaWiki, Outline, and Logseq.
#MediaWiki - the software that runs Wikipedia. A huge community ecosystem offers lots of help and customization. Great for collaboration & versioning, though both UX and devX have significant learning curves: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Outline is a pretty and easy to use collaborative note-taking app that I've tried out recently: https://www.getoutline.com/ (thanks @boris for the help trying it out!). Sort of similar to Appflowy, in that it's an open source alternative to Notion, but I tried Outline because it seems to have better support for collaboration. Outline would be the perfect app for me if it had 'second brain' features. What are second brain features?
Time for the third part of this shout-out...Logseq.
Loqseq is an open source knowledge base, like MediaWiki & Outline, but unlike MediaWiki which prioritizes collaboration and Outline which prioritizes UX, Logseq prioritizes the knowledge base.
It's a block outliner, which means you can cross-reference knowledge at a very fine-grained level. It has bidirectional links allowing you to see what references a given block *in context*. Block outliners have been an absolute game changer for me, highly recommended
Which of these tools you use depends on what matters most to you - collaboration at scale, a good UX, or advanced knowledge management tools. The holy grail for me is something that combines all three, but alas I haven't found it yet. Let me know if you have, and happy #FossFriday!
Hey hey it's #FossFriday and this week's shout out is @django
I used to develop with #Django regularly but drifted away from web dev. This week I had reason to build a website and Django has made it so easy! Like riding a bike (except less scary - no city traffic 😂😭)
If you want to get started with Django, their intro tutorial is first class: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/5.0/intro/tutorial01/
If you want to meet community members, check out this list of Django people in the Fediverse: https://fedidevs.com/django
It's #FossFriday again!
Today's project is #Zulip. Zulip is an open source chat client similar to Slack or Discord but IMHO better: it has a threading-first design philosophy that works great for following many conversations at once. They also offer free access to the paid cloud plan for small non-profits, researchers, and open source projects. I don't use Zulip a ton bc of network effects. People don't want to use yet another chat tool. But it's such a great tool!!
@shauna we used to use it at LevelUp for internal chat. It was awesome.
