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Alternative to Slack

Mattermost is the main alternative to Slack that covers most of your requirements. I have not looked at it in a while, but you will also find a few useful others here in previous questions: Team chat ...
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Mailing list solution on shared hosting

This is a good question and I'm surprised it hasn't got more upvotes if not answers. Resource Utilisation Many hosting companies seem to dislike Mailman because of resource utilisation issues but ...
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Self hosted Android syncing service

You can use Nextcloud. I'm currently using its predecessor Owncloud for quite some time for syncing my Android with my PC. Nextcloud was forked from Owncloud about half a year ago and it seems like it ...
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Solution for self-hosted technical documentation?

This may be an obvious answer you've already discounted, but the solution that is at once the easiest and the most potentially customizable is hosting your own Wiki. This provides you with a simple ...
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Web-based asset manager

Recently, I asked a similar question about cataloging a collection, but it had very similar requirements. It was recommended to use Drupal. I set up a Drupal site in a few minutes, and then I ...
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On-premises Question & Answers website engine (Open source/commercial)

A SaaS solution, which is the closest to what you're looking for: StackOverflow for Teams or Enterprise It's StackOverflow, the closest you'll get to StackOverflow 😉 On premise
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Web-based contact management software

Monica is an open source personal relationship management system. It's written in PHP and uses MySQL as the database. From https://github.com/monicahq/monica#features: Add and manage contacts Define ...
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Source version control software with GUI

This actually breaks down into two separate question parts: Version Control Server: With access control, etc. A Compatible Version Control Client: With a nice GUI Server Side One thing to consider ...
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Self-hosted web analytics tools

A new one to add to the list: I'm working on Plausible Analytics, a simple, open-source, lightweight (< 1 KB) and privacy-friendly web analytics alternative to Google Analytics. You can self-host ...
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Opensource self-hosted knowledgebase application

DokuWiki sounds like a good candidate: opensource written in PHP intended for private use, small to medium companies Markdown support as plugin no database required searchable preview available ...
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Own spreadsheet web application server

ethercalc is available as a docker package you can self-host but you can also install it normally on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and Windows, using node.js. It runs with Redis, if available, or fall ...
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Own spreadsheet web application server

Vaadin The Vaadin framework is a way to create interactive web-apps with the quality and style of desktop apps using pure Java on the server-side that are rendered automatically on the client-side ...
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Open Source personal dashboard web application

Take a look at TiddlyWiki. It is an open source tool for capturing, organizing and sharing information. It is essentially written as a single page web application that can be saved locally to your ...
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I am looking for Version Control for office documents

SVN is actually worth a shot. TortoiseSVN has facilities to diff Office files (at least, doc(x) and xls(x)), it looks like this: Though there are easy to install SVN servers with GUI like VisualSVN, ...
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Alternative to owncloud, which can store data on external sdcard on android

I'd suggest you stay with your current setup – but just replace the sync app on Android. For that part, I use FolderSync¹ – which allows you to define "folder pairs" (for each, one local folder and ...
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Software development “todo” (issue) tracker hosted locally

You could always use git itself! Have a directory called bugs and one called feature_requests, when you get a request create a new bug or feature request as a markdown or rst file, you could use a ...
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standalone git server for a team

You could use Gogs or its fork Gitea. Both are free and open source, allow you multiple users, are easy to set up, and work reliably. I'm using Gitea for a while as it has a more flexible team ...
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Web-based note taking software

Spent several days evaluating different solutions. These were what I tested and the stand out solutions - may be useful to somebody. These were the best: Laverna - https://laverna.cc/ DokuWiki - ...
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Gratis extremely simple to install bug tracker for Linux server

I'm using Gitea here for a similar purpose. It's like a "mini Github", letting you maintain your Git repos together with issues and wikis (you can even mirror remote ones with it). It's lightweight ...
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Company wiki to share info with coworkers

There are a large number of wikis to choose from. I've personally tried DokuWiki, MediaWiki and MoinMoin and had no trouble at all implementing them and I'm not at all skilled with web technologies. I ...
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Self hosted "Try it yourself" code environment like w3schools

You don't state which prorammong languages interest you, but there are lots of XXfiddle sites - just Google for JSfiddle, PhpFiddle, SqlFiddle, etc, etc You can register for free and create an ...
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Stock photo database

I have never installed it, but you should be able to install MediaWiki with the correct extensions to make it behave like the photo database Wikimedia Commons. The following extension will probably ...
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Very simple open-source task/issues system

I am going to suggest fossil as a lightweight alternative. If it would be my choice, I would configure it as described here to add support for assigning tickets to users and would simply use +foo ...
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Open source, self hosted videoconference server

This might be what you are looking for: Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to build and deploy secure videoconferencing solutions. The source code is here. You can use the ...
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Audio & Video teleconferencing program, hosted on personal PC

I have recently installed Jitsi Meet for that purpose. It is self-hosted, on a Debian server in my case. The installation really was as simple as a few steps: wget -qO - https://download.jitsi.org/...
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Alternative to Slack

Discord Features Discord is free and the most popular team communication app for gamers. The platform provides users with familiar Slack-like UI, Skype-like video, and voice chats. Discord is amazing ...
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Selfhosted PHP CRM (framework)

CiviCRM might fit your needs. It is open source, php and can be self-hosted. To your points: Email marketing - it handles bulk emails and the new 'Mosaico' integration provides a flexible interface ...
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Free software to maintain server list/process list

Have a look at RackTables, might be what you're looking for. It's made for datacenters, but you can probably adapt it to your needs. Their own description: Racktables is a nifty and robust ...
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Free software to maintain server list/process list

If you would like a view of all of your servers, with status & running processes, I would take a look at GRR. Provide a list of all entrolled servers Show what processes are running on them Show ...
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Self-hosted CMS for code snippets

Gitlab has, in addition to being a git repository manager, a snippet section. It has user management and syntax highlighting for a lot of languages. There are no categories, labels or tags for ...
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