fix merge-conflict in Resolution 017

Dockerfile

@@ -8,7 +8,4 @@ WORKDIR /docs
 
 RUN apk add --no-cache curl
 
-RUN pip install \
-  mkdocs-material~=9.5.7 \
-  mkdocs-material-extensions~=1.3.1 \
-  mkdocs-awesome-pages-plugin==2.9.2
+RUN pip install -r requirements.txt

docs/federation/resolutions/in-progress/017.md

@@ -1,10 +1,9 @@
 ---
 title: "Resolution 017"
----
 
 - Topic: BeWater joins the Co-op Cloud Federation
 - Date: 30-01-2024
-- Deadline: 13-02-2024
+- Deadline: 21-02-2024
 - Size: Large
 
 ### Summary

docs/get-involved/support.md

@@ -0,0 +1,25 @@
+---
+title: "Support Us"
+---
+
+If you like what you see whilst browsing Co-op Cloud and would like to
+contribute financially, as opposed to with code, we currently receive donations
+via an [Open Collective account](https://opencollective.com/coop-cloud).
+
+<div class="grid cards" markdown>
+
+- __Infrastructure Support__
+
+    If you make use of our digital infrastructure and want to help out with
+    maintenance costs, we wold be grateful :heart:
+
+    [Donate Now](https://opencollective.com/coop-cloud/contribute/infrastructure-sustainability-29878/checkout){ .md-button .md-button--primary }
+
+- __Join The Federation__
+
+    If you want to be more actively involved as a supporter, consider joining
+    our Federation :handshake_tone2:
+
+    [Learn More](/federation/){ .md-button .md-button--primary }
+
+</div>

docs/intro/comparisons.md

@@ -0,0 +1,158 @@
+---
+title: Comparisons
+---
+
+We think it's important to understand that *Co-op Cloud* is more than just
+software and technical configurations. It is also a novel organization of *how*
+to [create technology socially](https://docs.coopcloud.tech/federation).
+However, strictly technically speaking you may be wondering:
+
+### What about `$alternative`?
+
+We have various technical critiques of other similar projects which are already up-and-running in the ecosystem, as they don't necessarily meet our needs as a small tech co-op. However, Co-op Cloud isn't meant to be a replacement for these other projects.
+
+Here is a short overview of the pros/cons we see, in relation to our goals and needs.
+
+### Cloudron
+
+#### Pros
+
+- 👍 Decent web interface for app, domain & user management.
+- 👍 Large library of apps.
+- 👍 Built-in SSO using LDAP, which is compatible with more apps and often has a better user interface than OAuth.
+- 👍 Apps are actively maintained by the Cloudron team.
+
+#### Cons
+
+- 👎 Moving away from open source. The core is now proprietary software.
+- 👎 Libre tier has a single app limit.
+- 👎 Based on Docker images, not stacks, so multi-process apps (e.g. parsoid visual editor for Mediawiki) are a non-starter.
+- 👎 Difficult to extend apps.
+- 👎 Only supported on Ubuntu LTS.
+- 👎 Upstream libre software communities aren't involved in packaging.
+- 👎 Limited to vertical scaling.
+- 👎 Tension between needs of hosting provider and non-technical user.
+- 👎 LDAP introduces security problems - one vulnerable app can expose a user's password for all apps.
+- 👎 Bit of a [black box](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box).
+
+### YunoHost
+
+#### Pros
+
+- 👍 Lovely web interface for app, domain & user management.
+- 👍 Bigger library of apps.
+- 👍 Awesome backup / deploy / restore continuous integration testing.
+- 👍 Supports hosting apps in subdirectories as well as subdomains.
+- 👍 Doesn't require a public-facing IP.
+- 👍 Supports system-wide mutualisation of resources for apps (e.g. sharing databases by default)
+
+#### Cons
+
+- 👎 Upstream libre software communities aren't involved in packaging.
+- 👎 Uninstalling apps leaves growing cruft.
+- 👎 Limited to vertical scaling.
+- 👎 Not intended for use by hosting providers.
+
+### Caprover
+
+#### Pros
+
+- 👍 Bigger library of apps.
+- 👍 Easy set-up using a DigitalOcean one-click app.
+- 👍 Works without a domain name or a public IP, in non-HTTPS mode (good for homeservers).
+- 👍 Deploy any app with a `docker-compose.yml` file as a "One Click App" via the web interface.
+- 👍 Multi-node (multi-server) set-up works by default.
+
+#### Cons
+
+- 👎 Single-file app definition format, difficult to tweak using entrypoint scripts.
+- 👎 Nginx instead of Traefik for load-balancing.
+- 👎 Command-line client requires NodeJS / `npm`.
+- 👎 [Requires 512MB RAM for a single app](https://github.com/caprover/caprover/issues/28).
+- 👎 [Backup/restore is "experimental"](https://caprover.com/docs/backup-and-restore.html), and doesn't currently help with backing up Docker volumes.
+- 👎 Exposes its bespoke management interface to the internet via HTTPS by default.
+
+### Ansible
+
+#### Pros
+
+- 👍 Includes server creation and bootstrapping.
+
+#### Cons
+
+- 👎 Upstream libre software communities aren't publishing Ansible roles.
+- 👎 Lots of manual work involved in things like app isolation, backups, updates.
+
+### Kubernetes
+
+#### Pros
+
+- 👍 Helm charts are available for some key apps already.
+- 👍 Scale all the things.
+
+#### Cons
+
+- 👎 Too big -- requires 3rd party tools to run a single-node instance.
+- 👎 Not suitable for a small to mid size hosting provider.
+
+### Docker-compose
+
+#### Pros
+
+- 👍 Quick to set up and familiar for many developers.
+
+#### Cons
+
+- 👎 Manual work required for process monitoring.
+- 👎 Secret storage not available yet.
+- 👎 [Swarm is the new best practice](https://github.com/BretFisher/ama/issues/8#issuecomment-367575011).
+
+### Doing it Manually (Old School)
+
+#### Pros
+
+- 👍 Simple - just follow upstream instructions to install and update.
+
+#### Cons
+
+- 👎 Loads of manual work required for app isolation and backups.
+- 👎 Array of sysadmin skills required to install and maintain apps.
+- 👎 Hard to share configurations into the commons.
+- 👎 No idea who has done what change when.
+
+
+### Stackspin
+
+#### Pros
+
+- 👍 Easy instructions to install & upgrade multiple tightly integrated apps.
+- 👍 Offers a unified SSO user experience.
+- 👍 Offers tightly integrated logging, monitoring, and maintenance.
+- 👍 Has a strong focus and attention to security.
+
+#### Cons
+
+- 👎 Upstream libre software communities aren't involved in packaging.
+- 👎 It is not designed to be a general specification.
+- 👎 Hard to share configurations into the commons.
+- 👎 Significantly limited library of eight apps.
+- 👎 Additional apps are treated as "External Apps" with only OAuth2/OpenID integration.
+- 👎 Requires a Kubernetes cluster.
+
+
+### Maadix
+
+#### Pros
+
+- 👍 Nice looking web interface for app, domain & user management.
+- 👍 Offers a paid hosting service to get up and running easily.
+
+#### Cons
+
+- 👎 Upstream libre software communities aren't involved in packaging.
+- 👎 It is not designed to be a general specification.
+- 👎 Hard to share configurations into the commons.
+- 👎 Limited library of apps.
+- 👎 Uses *OpenNebula*, *Ansible*, and *Puppet* as underlying technologies.
+- 👎 Appears to be only a team of two people.
+- 👎 Appears to be inactive on Mastodon and limited GitLab activity. 

docs/intro/faq.md

@@ -40,118 +40,6 @@ Also see our [strategy page](../strategy/).
 
 See ["Package your first recipe"](/maintainers/tutorial/#package-your-first-recipe) for more.
 
-## What about `$alternative`?
-
-We have various technical critiques of other similar projects which are already up-and-running in the ecosystem, as they don't necessarily meet our needs as a small tech co-op. However, Co-op Cloud isn't meant to be a replacement for these other projects.
-
-Here is a short overview of the pros/cons we see, in relation to our goals and needs.
-
-### Cloudron
-
-#### Pros
-
-- 👍 Decent web interface for app, domain & user management.
-- 👍 Large library of apps.
-- 👍 Built-in SSO using LDAP, which is compatible with more apps and often has a better user interface than OAuth.
-- 👍 Apps are actively maintained by the Cloudron team.
-
-#### Cons
-
-- 👎 Moving away from open source. The core is now proprietary software.
-- 👎 Libre tier has a single app limit.
-- 👎 Based on Docker images, not stacks, so multi-process apps (e.g. parsoid visual editor for Mediawiki) are a non-starter.
-- 👎 Difficult to extend apps.
-- 👎 Only supported on Ubuntu LTS.
-- 👎 Upstream libre software communities aren't involved in packaging.
-- 👎 Limited to vertical scaling.
-- 👎 Tension between needs of hosting provider and non-technical user.
-- 👎 LDAP introduces security problems - one vulnerable app can expose a user's password for all apps.
-- 👎 Bit of a [black box](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_box).
-
-### YunoHost
-
-#### Pros
-
-- 👍 Lovely web interface for app, domain & user management.
-- 👍 Bigger library of apps.
-- 👍 Awesome backup / deploy / restore continuous integration testing.
-- 👍 Supports hosting apps in subdirectories as well as subdomains.
-- 👍 Doesn't require a public-facing IP.
-- 👍 Supports system-wide mutualisation of resources for apps (e.g. sharing databases by default)
-
-#### Cons
-
-- 👎 Upstream libre software communities aren't involved in packaging.
-- 👎 Uninstalling apps leaves growing cruft.
-- 👎 Limited to vertical scaling.
-- 👎 Not intended for use by hosting providers.
-
-### Caprover
-
-#### Pros
-
-- 👍 Bigger library of apps.
-- 👍 Easy set-up using a DigitalOcean one-click app.
-- 👍 Works without a domain name or a public IP, in non-HTTPS mode (good for homeservers).
-- 👍 Deploy any app with a `docker-compose.yml` file as a "One Click App" via the web interface.
-- 👍 Multi-node (multi-server) set-up works by default.
-
-#### Cons
-
-- 👎 Single-file app definition format, difficult to tweak using entrypoint scripts.
-- 👎 Nginx instead of Traefik for load-balancing.
-- 👎 Command-line client requires NodeJS / `npm`.
-- 👎 [Requires 512MB RAM for a single app](https://github.com/caprover/caprover/issues/28).
-- 👎 [Backup/restore is "experimental"](https://caprover.com/docs/backup-and-restore.html), and doesn't currently help with backing up Docker volumes.
-- 👎 Exposes its bespoke management interface to the internet via HTTPS by default.
-
-### Ansible
-
-#### Pros
-
-- 👍 Includes server creation and bootstrapping.
-
-#### Cons
-
-- 👎 Upstream libre software communities aren't publishing Ansible roles.
-- 👎 Lots of manual work involved in things like app isolation, backups, updates.
-
-### Kubernetes
-
-#### Pros
-
-- 👍 Helm charts are available for some key apps already.
-- 👍 Scale all the things.
-
-#### Cons
-
-- 👎 Too big -- requires 3rd party tools to run a single-node instance.
-- 👎 Not suitable for a small to mid size hosting provider.
-
-### Docker-compose
-
-#### Pros
-
-- 👍 Quick to set up and familiar for many developers.
-
-#### Cons
-
-- 👎 Manual work required for process monitoring.
-- 👎 Secret storage not available yet.
-- 👎 [Swarm is the new best practice](https://github.com/BretFisher/ama/issues/8#issuecomment-367575011).
-
-### Doing it Manually (Old School)
-
-#### Pros
-
-- 👍 Simple - just follow upstream instructions to install and update.
-
-#### Cons
-
-- 👎 Loads of manual work required for app isolation and backups.
-- 👎 Array of sysadmin skills required to install and maintain apps.
-- 👎 Hard to share configurations into the commons.
-- 👎 No idea who has done what change when.
 
 ## Which technologies are used?
 

docs/maintainers/handbook.md

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ This is a [compose specification](https://compose-spec.io/) compliant file that
 
 ### `.env.sample`
 
-This file is a skeleton for environmental variables that should be adjusted by the user. Examples include: domain or php extention list. Whenever you create a new app with `abra app new` this file gets copied to the `~/.abra/servers/<server-domain>/<app-domain>.env` and when you run `abra app config <app-domain>` you're editing this file.
+This file is a skeleton for environmental variables that should be adjusted by the user. Examples include: domain or PHP extension list. Whenever you create a new app with `abra app new` this file gets copied to the `~/.abra/servers/<server-domain>/<app-domain>.env` and when you run `abra app config <app-domain>` you're editing this file.
 
 ### `abra.sh`
 
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@ You can pass `--publish` to have `abra` automatically publish those changes.
 [`coop-cloud/rallly` repository](https://git.coopcloud.tech/coop-cloud/rallly)
 (probably [using `abra recipe
 release`](#how-do-i-release-a-new-recipe-version)), it automatically does the
-[recipe catalogue generation steps(#how-do-i-generate-the-recipe-catalogue)"
+[recipe catalogue generation steps](#how-do-i-generate-the-recipe-catalogue)"
 
 1. Check whether tag builds are already trying to run: go to
    https://build.coopcloud.tech, search for the recipe name (in this case taking

docs/maintainers/tutorial.md

@@ -16,10 +16,10 @@ Depending on your familiarity with recipes, it might be worth reading [how a rec
 
 The ideal scenario is when the upstream project provides both the packaged image and a compose configuration which we can build from. If you're in luck, you'll typically find a `Dockerfile` and a `docker-compose.yml` file in the root of the upstream Git repository for the app.
 
-- **Tired**: Write your own image and compose file from scratch
-- **Wired**: Use someone else's image (& maybe compose file)
-- **Inspired**: Upstream image, someone else's compose file
-- **On fire**: Upstream image, upstream compose file
+- **Tired**: Write your own image and compose file from scratch :sleeping:
+- **Wired**: Use someone else's image (& maybe compose file) :smirk_cat:
+- **Inspired**: Upstream image, someone else's compose file :exploding_head:
+- **On fire**: Upstream image, upstream compose file :fire:
 
 ### Writing / adapting the `compose.yml`
 

mkdocs.yml

@@ -55,6 +55,7 @@ nav:
       - index.md
       - "Frequently asked questions": intro/faq.md
       - "Project strategy": intro/strategy.md
+      - "Comparisons": intro/comparisons.md
       - "Project status": intro/bikemap.md
       - "Managed hosting": intro/managed.md
       - "Get in touch": intro/contact.md
@@ -92,6 +93,7 @@ nav:
       - "Cheat Sheet": abra/cheat-sheet.md
   - "Get Involved":
       - get-involved/index.md
+      - "Support Us": get-involved/support.md
   - "Federation":
       - federation/index.md
       - "Bylaws": federation/bylaws.md