Imagine I want to create a local internet for my community. Things that will be useful, helpful, and easy to use. Ideally, setup/maintenance would be relatively straightforward too, since I will for the time being at least be running this solo.
So if I'm going to be the community SysAdmin but also have free choice of what to run, what would you think about the following ideas of things to share with people?
-Radarr (movies)
-Sonarr (TV shows)
-Lidarr (music)
-Calbire (or Readarr I guess, for books)
-Jellyfin (media streaming)
-Nextcloud (file sharing)
And then as for me myself, I'd probably set up a Graylog Open instance to aggregate issues, and have a couple of separate physical servers for these different things.
Do you think that would be helpful/useful/fun for getting community members to think about the potential of hyperlocal internet?
Alternatively, are folks doing this already? If so, how do you have this kind of thing set up?
If I'm dreaming big, I would also love to set up a mesh relay to offer this intranet stuff to the community.
I'm hoping that these ideas are solarpunk enough and selfhosting enough to warrant community feedback.
Basically, I guess, are there any other community SysAdmins out there doing this kind of work?
Thanks for your time.
Back in college, we had this huge LAN spanning hundreds of computers, and we had a central instance of a search engine that crawled all the Samba and FTP shares, so anyone could just look up whatever media or software they were looking for, and if the particular computer was online at the time (people do turn off their PCs sometimes, go figure :) ), download it.
Of course, I'm not sure if having unprotected SMB/FTP shares is something fitting into your idea of a local intranet, but it's an option. The guys maintaining the crawler even put the code online, and it should still mostly work: https://github.com/fslts/lase