The latest FOSS Academic post is: New Nextcloud with Possible Digital Sovereignty
https://fossacademic.tech/2026/02/01/new-nc.html
I discuss setting up a new Nextcloud instance on Canadian public infrastructure, moving away from my previous US-based host. I talk about the "how" of that migration (it was pretty easy, actually) and the "why" (I no longer will send Canadian money to a US firm). But how "sovereign" is the Digital Research Alliance?
#FOSSacademic #Canada #digitalsovereignty
@rwg
DRAC operates their data centers on premise. To my knowledge, all are hosted in Canadian universities across the country.
@bruno that's good to know... it's not very clear from their website, but maybe this is discussed in their wikis?
@rwg
Yes. Nextcloud is hosted at SFU.
https://docs.alliancecan.ca/wiki/Nextcloud
@rwg @ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty
What a coincidence, I literally just set up nextcloud yesterday!! Did a ton of research, got a person one set up for me - and wrote a proposal to try to get one set up for a group I'm working with 😉😉
Nextcloud might be the next thing I get obsessed with, tbh. It's really cool and solves a lot of problems
@smattymatty @ElbowsUpforDigitalSovereignty It's really awesome. I've been using one for years, both for my research work and to handle stuff like family calendars and backing up photos from phones.
