Hosted vs. local

[dmazan]

What's the long-term thinking on whether OpenHamClock will ultimately be a hosted service or run on local hardware? The original HamClock was, of course, run locally with a little bit of back-end service. OpenHamClock is available both to run locally and as a hosted service.

I have a dedicated monitor and Raspberry Pi that ran the originalHamClock and now runs OpenHamClock with no back-end support other than publicly available sources. That would be my preferred mode.

I also understand that some people will enjoy the ease of use to just run a browser against a hosted service. That's not going to be sustainable long-term without it being a for-fee service.

It may be time to start building an approach that continues to support open source contributors while offering a hosted version. That probably entails the possibility of multiple hosting providers. Some possibly complicated issues there.

[accius]

this is currently a non-issue. Between donations and the fact that I am comfortable with putting up my own money for the foreseeable future, we are not currently in any dire need to change how this runs. if you want to run local, the git is there, if you want to run online, openhamclock.com will be there for the foreseeable future serving the latest version.