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title: Open Source
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subtitle: Open Source literally created ungleich
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2020-02-02 14:39:57 +00:00
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image: /u/image/cards/opensource.jpg
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description1:
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## History of Open Source at ungleich
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Open Source at ungleich is deeply rooted. It is actually Open Source
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that started ungleich in 2013: You might now that
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[Nico](https://www.nico.schottelius.org), the founder of ungleich,
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is one of the two
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original authors of [cdist](https://cdi.st), an Open Source
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configuration management system (Steven Armstrong being the other
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crazy person).
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In 2013 a company from France requested commercial support for
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cdist and soon after other Swiss companies were asking for Open Source
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Software consultancy. This is how ungleich was originally born.
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Whenever possible, we ask our customers to make the code that we
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create for them also Open Source and some of our customers very much
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welcome this approach.
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In 2017 we started the [Data Center Light
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project](../data-center-light), which turns old buildings (like
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factory halls) into data centers.
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We realised that many problems that we solve are repeating
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infrastructure problems.
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For that reason we created the [Open
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Infrastructure project](https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/open-infrastructure).
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in 2018 to open source our infrastructure and have others profit from
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our experiences. Also in 2017 we released an
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[Open Source Crowdfunding Platform together with
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200ok](https://200ok.ch/posts/joint-release-of-swiss-crowdfunder.html).
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We also released the
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[ungleich-tools](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/ungleich-tools)
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that we use to manage or support the infrastructure. Or you can find
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checkout the [backup tool
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ccollect](https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/ccollect/) that we
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maintain. Or if you are ever in the need to track your time,
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we have [time tracking for
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geeks](https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/ctt/).
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## Open Source at ungleich today
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Almost all of our products are based on Open Source Software, which is
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why we contribute back to projects that we use.
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While we still have [our github
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account](https://github.com/orgs/ungleich/), most of our public code
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can be found on
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[code.ungleich.ch](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/).
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We also think that **Open Communication** is important and for that
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reason we allow [free access to our company chat](../open-chat) via
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Mattermost and Matrix.
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We started the [Digital Glarus project](../digital-glarus) to
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support the local community and just recently opened the [Hacking
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Villa](../hacking-villa/) in Diesbach to welcome (FOSS) hackers from
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all around the world.
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And twice per year we welcome hackers to our (strongly Open Source
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driven) hackathon [Hack4Glarus](https://hack4glarus.ch).
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Even this website is fully Open Source and if you don't like something
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on it, we look forward to a merge request against the
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[ungleich-staticcms](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/ungleich-staticcms)
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repository.
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## Using Open Source
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So what does that now mean in practise for you? If you dislike
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anything at ungleich or want to modify something, you can do it. In
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fact, anyone can do it with the following three steps:
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* Create an account on
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[account.ungleich.ch](https://account.ungleich.ch]
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* Clone the project that you want to change from
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[code.ungleich.ch](https://code.ungleich.ch) (you can use the
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account that you just created before to login to it)
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* Create a merge request
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With this you can modify
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[our
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website](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/ungleich-staticcms),
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famous [cdist](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/cdist),
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[uncloud](https://code.ungleich.ch/uncloud/uncloud) and many more projects.
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## SEE ALSO
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* [ccollect](https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/ccollect/)
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* [ctt](https://www.nico.schottelius.org/software/ctt/)
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* [Open Chat](../open-chat)
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* [Open Infrastructure](https://redmine.ungleich.ch/projects/open-infrastructure)
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* [Public ungleich git repositories](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/)
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* [uncloud repository](https://code.ungleich.ch/uncloud/uncloud)
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* [ungleich-staticcms](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/ungleich-staticcms)
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* [ungleich-tools](https://code.ungleich.ch/ungleich-public/ungleich-tools)
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