On 08/11/2016 12:25 PM, Jóhann B. Guðmundsson wrote:
What will this target audience gain from running Fedora server which
is
not already in the "cloud"?
I'm the technical coordinator for a small non-profit. We have a
cloud-based web application we have a subscription for that provides a
lot of the core functionality we need to run (it's particularly tailored
for non-profits) but it does miss some functionality we need which
results in a lot of manual labor keeping things running - eg printing
out spreadsheets and manually tracking things with pencil and paper and
then transcribing back into the spreadsheet and importing into the
database.
As far as I've been able to tell, the cloud-based app we're using right
now is the best off-the-shelf match for what we want to do, so to
automate our manual processes any further, we're going to have to do
some kind of custom work. I'm not *really* a sysadmin, I obviously know
a little bit here and there, and I'm also doing it all on a volunteer /
free-time basis. So anything that could make it less time-consuming and
more efficient to test out / deploy a lot of different FLOSS apps to
play around and build little proof of concepts around would be a huge
gain for us.
Right now I'm looking at potentially getting a dreamhost account for the
org to do this because I know they have the one-click install system
(other hosts have this too via the mojo marketplace if you're familiar
with that), but their 'catalog' of things you can deploy is definitely
limited and some of the apps I want to try, I know they don't have a
one-click install. It would take me too much time I don't have to try to
manually deploy myself from scratch.
I would think some kind of open community based catalog like it sounds
like Ansible Galaxy is would have a better shot at providing us the
breadth of apps we'd want to play with, and if I could deploy on Fedora
locally even better - I could try out / test different things locally
without paying for the cloud host / server and once I had a local POC,
it'd be less risky to shell out the $$ for hosting it.
Even better would be a path to getting the system supported. E.g., build
out some kind of POC on Fedora (or CentOS) and eventually building the
solution out on top of RHEL with a support contract so if/when I move on
from this volunteer position, the next person has a better shot at
managing things with the help of paid support.
Just a thought.
~m