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Thursday, February 12, 2009

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is off to listen to the live band at the rally site....

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Comparing free and open source Kanboard and Wekan self-hosted alternatives to Trello for kanban functionality

Whilst the free version of Trello has some really nice features along with the slickest GUI on the desktop as well as mobile, what if you want a securely in-house hosted and scalable alternative? One thing you have to accept is you're not quite going to get that same interface especially when it comes to mobile, but there is still rich functionality to be found in alternative products. The two strongest contenders I found based on similarity of looks and features, as well as ease of installation, were Wekan and Kanboard. KanbanFlow was a strong contender but is similar to Trello in terms of free/priced model and was not open source, and Rastyaboard was another strong contender but is more open core, and needs a request to get it. Both of these contenders had good mobile app support though. But I was looking for freedom, ease of installation, and features such as mobile access/app, checklists/subtasks, horizontal swimlanes, filters, recurring/repeating tasks, relations between t...

Piwigo is a free and open source alternative to Flickr or Google Photos

Piwigo allows you to freely self-host unlimited collections of your photo galleries with the similar functionality to Flickr or Google Photos. There is also a cloud hosted option for US$45 per year. Piwigo has been around for 18 years already and what I love is the extendible functionality through themes and plugins, and the fact that even if they "shut down" one day, it's open source so I can continue to use it. You can upload directly from many client applications (DigiKam, Photoshop), the mobile apps (Android or iOS), or a web based page. It has powerful batch functions, and it can organise by albums, dates, privacy settings, geolocation, etc. Your visitors can post comments, give ratings, mark photos as favourite, perform searches and get notified of news by email. The plugins are the really powerful part though and there are currently 617 click-to-install plugins to extend language options, themes, and functionality such as importing whole collections directly fro...

Open Book abridged version is an open source 4.2″ E-Ink screen ereader now built around a Raspberry Pi Pico

https://bit.ly/3riCHEC The Open Book project pairs a 4.2″ E-Ink screen with microprocessors we all know and love, building a hacker-friendly e-reader platform. Two years ago, this project won first place in our Adafruit Feather contest — the Feather footprint making the Open Book compatible with a wide range of MCUs, giving hackers choice on which CPU their hackable e-reader would run. Now, it’s time for a RP2040-based reboot. This project is designed so that you can assemble it on your own after sourcing parts and PCBs. To help you in the process, the PCB itself resembles a book page – on the silkscreen, there is explanations of what each component is for, as well as information that would be useful for you while hacking on it, conveying the hardware backstory to the hacker about to dive into assembly with a soldering iron in hand. So yes the AAA batteries are still adding some bulk, but it is 100% repairable at least, and there are plans to include a more compact battery. Assembly...

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