Complete show notes here. Big thanks to developers Tobias and Marcel for joining the interview. There will be a second part of the interview. Was tempted to write a silly title like Nextcloud Atomic Explodes. If you are curious on related presentations from the past:
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Welcome to this Mini Episode + Lengthy Interview! Detailed shownotes on forum.
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Nextcloud Conference 9/27 - 9/28 in Berlin
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SeaGL Conference in Seattle, WA 11/07 - 11/08
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Sponsor - Ameridroid - use LINUXPREPPER at checkout
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Odroid H4, Plus, Ultra series
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Nextcloud service overview and short review, also called Nextcloud Hub
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NextcloudPi - Managed Nextcloud for Selfhosters
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Nextcloud AIO or All-in-One is containerized by Nextcloud company proper in Docker
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Nextcloud Snap
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Floccus - Cross Platform Browser + Mobile App Syncing to Karakeep, Git, Google Drive, Nextcloud, etc.
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Nextcloud Bookmarks app
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Recognize AI app - Smart Media Tagging for Nextcloud
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Nextcloud Atomic - System Level Wrapper for Nextcloud AIO in Podman. WIP
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Prototype Fund - For Developers Contributing to Open Source
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Interview Begins with Tobias Introduction
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Marcel Introduction - Listen to his previous episode interview on AI in Nextcloud
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What is NextcloudPi? Not actually made for only the Raspberry Pi
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How Tobias became involved in NextcloudPi project, then Atomic
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Architecture and Efficiency of Maintenance
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Starting as an early Nextcloud project and the rise of containers + AIO
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Build system of NextcloudPi with Bash as opposed to containers
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Development of Atomic through containers
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Immutability - Fedora Silverblue, NixOS, Fedora CoreOS & iOT, openSuse MicroOS, etc.
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SkiffOS - early contendor for Atomic. Embedded Linux Systems from Scratch
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Updates and security in SkiffOS and Buildroot
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mkosi by Systemd in combination with Debian & Armbian
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Nextcloud Atomic upgrade process for developer
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How major upgrades will be handled for users
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Is Atomic upstreamed to AIO; use of Podman
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Management of Nextcloud Apps within Nextcloud. Updates breaking apps.
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Will I now be able to use imagick on the operating system by default?
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Support for users making their own changes: Jellyfin, etc.
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“Untested” Nextcloud update handling in Atomic
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Who is the target audience of Atomic vs NCP?
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The future of NextcloudPi
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Conference Lightning Talk in Berlin for Atomic
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Marcel thoughts on NextcloudPi and Atomic
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What has Tobias learned from the last 6 or 7 years?
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How James became involved with NextcloudPi, Discourse, and Nextcloud
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Tobias on how the community contributes to the project
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How to Contribute Panel at Nextcloud Conference 2023.
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How can future contributors to Atomic help Tobias?
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Ways to Contact, Hire or Learn more about Tobias & projects.
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Ways to Contact or Learn more about Marcel & projects
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Next episode will discuss fundraising, how they handle donations, other interests, life balance, containers
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