A friend and I have a long running Pathfinder homebrew that we have collaborated on for nearly a decade in Google Docs. It is 168 pages long and represents a body of work that we are both incredibly proud of. With Google’s recent activities banning people from their own private documents, I no longer trust them with the document. I would love of LibreOffice supported local cloud hosting, but they do not. I could install Dropbox API on my Raspberries Pi and just set up my own cloud server, but I really don’t want to be responsible for the maintenance.

Any FOSS software out there make it easy to do the whole private cloud with collaboration tools in word procrssing?

  • Galactose@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    Look up Framasoft & use their tools:

    • FramaForms
    • FramaDate
    • FramaPad
    • Mobilizon

    CryptPad, Collabora, NextCloud, Proton’s stuff are great too

  • CarrotsHaveEars@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Please be aware that Google Docs the software is not the same with all those services running at Google’s servers.

    You can steal Google Docs’ source code and run it on your own device, but somehow it won’t work because it depends on reliable connection to Google’s infrastructure. But anyway, that’s the part of it where you can seek for open source alternative.

    Mentions like Libre Office and the like is exactly that.

    To replicate all Google Docs offers you, you need some rich and generous millionaires hosting a swarm of servers for you, for online documents, sharing to friends, collaboration and stuff. If you are looking for “open source” alternative for this, you are practically asking for free money. You either pay for it, or host it yourself. There’s no free lunch.

  • Zerush@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Murena Workspace is IMHO the best alternative of Google Docs, OpenSource and made in the EU, Murena is also the author of NextCloud which has an collaboration platform, /e/OS and associated with FairPhone, a complete infrastructure privacy focused.