cocalc-docker VS solid

I recently discovered Sagemath CoCalc.

You can download and use cocalc for free via a docker image: https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc-docker

I am the CEO of CoCalc, which is an alternatives to Overleaf that they don't own. I don't know whether or not our rules about personal data collection are compatible with your university requirements. Our default rules are at https://cocalc.com/policies, but we have been able to make modifications to them for particular customers. We also have a small easy to install on premises version here https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc-docker, and sell a more complicated Kubernetes-based on prem version of our software, so you control all data. Please feel free to email [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) with more detailed questions. In particular, it could be that we've already worked with your university to use CoCalc for collaborative Jupyter notebooks for teaching (that's the main thing CoCalc is used for, not latex), and that's something we can discuss in our support channels.

Mail - probably with mailu; and a multimedia server, but I haven't decided yet which one zenphoto? piwigo? lychee? or others?). Maybe seafile, although I probably don't need it given my use now of Syncthing and a backup strategy. And maybe... CoCalc (https://github.com/sagemathinc/cocalc-docker) as it'd be great to be able to run this from any machine, rather than having to manage software for different platforms.

This doesn't support the various consumer cloud storage APIs, but you've just reminded me of a project I ran into years ago that seems to still be around: https://remotestorage.io/

There's also Solid which attempts to do something similar: https://solidproject.org/

It is surprising to me this is not talked about more. I see little to none online news, podcasts, YouTube videos or anything else where this is discussed. I only found out about it because of research I did on Tim Berners-Lee in preparation for a Career Day talk at my kids middle school. Otherwise I would have probably not known about it still today. And even after I found out and started watching YouTube videos on the topic, YouTube won't even suggest any related videos about it even after already watching multiple videos on the subject (Web 3.0, Solid Project, Decentralized Web...etc).. is Big Tech trying to keep the web from evolving into what Sir Tim Berners-Lee is proposing?

It's only an unreasonable amount of work if you assume that the user is managing a separate storage backend for each library. If you take the Tim Berners-Lee approach (re: https://solidproject.org/) then each user is only managing one storage backend: the one that stores their data. The marginal cost of hooking in one more library low.

We just have to get a little more fed up with all of these services and then the initial cost of setting it up in the first place will be worth it. Any day now...

Solid is a web native protocol to enable interoperable, read-write, collaborative, and decentralized web, truer to web's original vision.

Manas project(https://github.com/manomayam/manas/tree/main) aims to create a modular framework and ecosystem to create correct, robust storage servers adhering to Solid protocol in rust.

[Solid](https://solidproject.org/) is a web native protocol to enable interoperable, read-write, collaborative, and decentralized web, truer to web's original vision.

    Solid adds to existing Web standards to realise a space where individuals can maintain their autonomy, control their data and privacy, and choose applications and services to fulfil their needs.

You're describing Solid, not the Semantic Web. Granted, Solid uses Semantic technologies to achieve it. https://solidproject.org/

Tim Berners-Lee's Solid project is working on that. Put data in "pods" that are stored on pod servers, which are federated. You can self-host.

It could be a federated layer of identity & personal content decoupled from social platforms.

https://solidproject.org/

Check out https://solidproject.org (If you want a short intro I recently gave a ~30min talk about it: https://noeldemartin.com/fosdem)