Imagine I want to create a local internet for my community. Things that will be useful, helpful, and easy to use. Ideally, setup/maintenance would be relatively straightforward too, since I will for the time being at least be running this solo.
So if I’m going to be the community SysAdmin but also have free choice of what to run, what would you think about the following ideas of things to share with people?
-Radarr (movies) -Sonarr (TV shows) -Lidarr (music) -Calbire (or Readarr I guess, for books) -Jellyfin (media streaming) -Nextcloud (file sharing)
And then as for me myself, I’d probably set up a Graylog Open instance to aggregate issues, and have a couple of separate physical servers for these different things.
Do you think that would be helpful/useful/fun for getting community members to think about the potential of hyperlocal internet?
Alternatively, are folks doing this already? If so, how do you have this kind of thing set up?
If I’m dreaming big, I would also love to set up a mesh relay to offer this intranet stuff to the community.
I’m hoping that these ideas are solarpunk enough and selfhosting enough to warrant community feedback.
Basically, I guess, are there any other community SysAdmins out there doing this kind of work?
Thanks for your time.
Sounds good. Maybe some sort of forum system, like https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown (activitypub-based) or https://karrot.world/ or even an instance of lemmy ? Nextcloud is good as it has a lot of plugins for sharing photos and chatting etc. Video conferencing It would be worth looking at something like https://www.freedombox.org/ as it’s all self-contained, and might be easier to set up. at least as a proof of concept?