{"id":472,"date":"2020-05-15T11:26:18","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T18:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/opensourceit.org\/blog\/?p=472"},"modified":"2020-05-15T11:56:15","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T18:56:15","slug":"what-do-you-need-for-open-source-to-work-for-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensourceit.org\/blog\/2020\/05\/15\/what-do-you-need-for-open-source-to-work-for-you\/","title":{"rendered":"What Do You Need for Open Source to Work for You?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I&#8217;ve described a suite of open source software that <em>I<\/em> think are useful for personal and small-to-medium sized business use, but what sort of software do <em>you<\/em> need for open source to work for you?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can find a lot of open source alternatives to the proprietary software you may be using at the moment on sites like <a href=\"https:\/\/opensource.com\/alternatives\">opensource.com<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_free_and_open-source_software_packages\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipeida<\/a>, and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/awesome-selfhosted\/awesome-selfhosted\" target=\"_blank\">Github<\/a>.  But there still might not be what you&#8217;re looking for there.  Or maybe you&#8217;ve tried some open software but it&#8217;s just missing a few key features you need for your use case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me know what it is you&#8217;re looking for and I&#8217;ll use that to help inform what I should be working on to improve Open Source I.T.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve described a suite of open source software that I think are useful for personal and small-to-medium sized business use, but what sort of software do you need for open source to work for you? You can find a lot of open source alternatives to the proprietary software you may be using at the moment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourceit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourceit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourceit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourceit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourceit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/opensourceit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":475,"href":"https:\/\/opensourceit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourceit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourceit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourceit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}