This is how a user management panel should feel like, in terms of vibes.Photo by Igor Oliyarnik on Unsplash You know what's just great? Hanging out with people you love, and helping them have a great time - and that's what user management truly is. But sometimes, if you're lucky, you have very many friends…
Photo by Tom Podmore on Unsplash Hi friends. It's summer in our hemisphere, and we all like to be a bit lighter in the seasonal heats (or in our Dutch case, fewer and warmer rains). Loose clothes, summer salads, gelato. Stackspin also made a light summer release by removing unnecessary login steps, shedding default file…
*waves* Hi there! It's been awhile. I hope you're doing great. We just released version 2.7 and it's all about quality of life: better UI, more predictable defaults, cleaner authentication, and app-specific tweaks. For full tech details, hop over to the Changelog; for shiny screenshots and half-decent quips, get comfy and read on. Dashboard Improvements…
We have just released Stackspin version 2.0! Why another major release? Soon after releasing version 1.0, we noticed that the new version of k3s (the software responsible for running all the other software that makes up Stackspin) has a bug that destabilized the platform. To reconfigure k3s to work around this bug, Stackspin cluster administrators…
We're especially happy to announce the release of Stackspin 1.0! Stackspin has come a long way and we worked hard on making it stable enough to qualify for a first stable release. The main improvement since our last minor release 0.8 is the Stackspin dashboard. It has gained some features that we considered essential for…
Starting with Stackspin version 0.8.4, we have decided to do smaller and more frequent releases. This way we can give you our newest features, updates and bug fixes as soon as possible! With stability and performance improvements (see here), the 0.8.4 release also includes several UX improvements. The users can now have an overview of…
The 0.8 release of Stackspin marks several milestones. We’re finishing up the period that was funded by OTF and we’re getting closer and closer to a stable 1.0 release. We also moved closer to a final set of applications, by switching out Rocket.Chat for Zulip and building a proper dashboard application. Lastly, this is the…
After a few months working together with Ura Design on our improved UX as well as our brand, we’re happy to announce that OpenAppStack has acquired its new and final name: “Stackspin”. We wanted to re-invent the brand, because we noticed that the name “OpenAppStack” was hard to remember, didn’t sound very positive to everyone,…
Today we announce Openappstack 0.7.0, our second release this year as we wrap up the current Prototype funding round. The release marks what we’ve achieved together in the last 6 month since restarting work on Openappstack. The main focus of this Prototype funding round was to add more apps to OAS and improve user adoption…
We’re pleased to announce a new release of Openappstack (0.6.0)! After a 3 month stop of development we continued development starting in March. Next to fixing bugs, improving the installation process and CI pipeline stability our main focus was the migration from flux 1 to flux 2. It was a lot of work but we’re…
OpenAppStack (OAS) is looking for individuals or companies specialised in value-sensitive UX and design, for a full design of the administrative dashboard for OAS. UPDATE 2021-06-01: We are happy to anounce that today we started working with Ura Design. Context OpenAppStack (OAS) is an aggregator and curator of open source office and productivity apps, for…
After a long silence from our side, we are happy to announce that we are able to restart work on OpenAppStack! Around August 2020 we were forced to stop working on OpenAppStack. The Open Technology Fund, our source of income, was suddenly withheld around $20 million by new leadership that was put in place by…
Last month we finished setting up an automated backup system, centralized monitoring for our beta tests and made it easier to configure Nextcloud to send out emails. Additionally, we worked on making it easier to add other applications to an OpenAppStack cluster. Lastly we have worked on making it easier to use Deflect in combination…
Last month we finished setting up an automated backup system, centralized monitoring for our beta tests and made it easier to configure Nextcloud to send out emails. Additionally, we worked on making it easier to add other applications to an OpenAppStack cluster. Lastly we have worked on making it easier to use Deflect in combination…
Website update If you are wondering what OpenAppStack is, we try to explain it a lot better than before on our website. It even includes images! So please take a look at openappstack.net and let us know if anything is unclear ☺. Beta test phase As I write this, we are finishing up the release…
OpenAppStack continued After our first funding period, there was a few months hiatus in the work on OpenAppStack, during which OTF reviewed the first year of work. We are happy to say that we got the green light to continue work on OpenAppStack until April 2021! Join the newsletter If you want to stay up…
November started out great with the OTF summit. We had some very good conversations about the future of collaboration using open source tools and a lot of other interesting talks and sessions too! Other than that, we have mostly made progress on the single sign-on and automatic updates front. Single sign-on A helm chart was…
In October we have worked hard on officially releasing an alpha version, 0.2.1. You can find more information about that here.Continue reading Progress Report October
We just released version 0.2.1 of OpenAppStack. This version is meant for everyone who wants to help us “alpha test” our code.Continue reading Version 0.2.1 Released
This is what happened for OpenAppStack last month. We mostly worked on the user management/single sign on interface and Nextcloud. Apart from that we have worked on automatically testing that the monitoring system, Prometheus, works correctly.Continue reading Progress Report September
Let me start this report by saying it is still possible to join our Alpha Test. So if you want to help us, please email us.Continue reading Progress Report August
July is marked by us starting the Alpha Test. Email us if you want to help us test!Continue reading Progress Report July
When application updates become available it takes the average user a while to apply or install those updates. This simply happens because not every user is constantly checking if all the applications they run have an update available. OpenAppStack wants to take this responsibility away from the user by automatically testing updates as soon as…
name: intro layout: true class: center, middle, inverse --- # OpenAppStack Take back control over your data! .footnote[Project site: [openappstack.net](https://openappstack.net)] --- layout: false # Contents of this talk - Problem - Alternatives - OpenAppStack --- # The problem (1/3) Question 1: - How many different companies did you interact with for RightsCon attendance? ??? Leaving…
In May, we improved the website front page, added Collabora for editing documents and added Prometheus & grafana for monitoring. In June we will be at RightsCon, presenting OAS on Wednesday morning. Collabora document editing We decided to set up Collabora for editing the documents you save in your Nextcloud. We had to make a…
