Date: 2019-06-17
Title: The homebrewserver.club principles
Slug: fundamentals-manifesto
Summary: The homebrewserver.club principles
Status: published
Category: fundamentals


###The homebrewserver.club takes the 'home' in homebrewserver.club literally and the 'self' in self-hosting figuratively. 
That means we try to host from our homes rather than from datacenters and for and with our communities rather than just ourselves.

It can be tough to learn about self-hosting so we recommend doing it with some other people who are interested in it. 

###Approaches not Apps

We priviledge general approaches over particular software applications. We try to contextualize our technical choices to provide in-depth understanding and prevent The Best Way™ solutionism. For these reasons we like free and open source software and documentation.

###Not your one click solution

Primarily the homebrewserver.club wants to be a space to learn together. It might mean you are knowledgable about a topic and are willing to share that. Or that you are curious and willing to learn. We are about the long route that provides grounded contextual understandings instead of just copy pasta into the terminal to install things via `$current_hip_framework`.

###Yes, We're Config™

We try help each other out out but we can't do the work for you. We're Config, meaning we're comfy with figuring things out. We take pleasure in researching configurations and the struggle of getting things working. We gladly lend you a helping hand, but we won't be able hold your hand through the whole process.

###Serving from constraints

A homebrew sever means owning up to the fact that you are serving from constraints. You don't have the fastest connection. You use as little power as possible. Your server is some spare laptop you had lying around. You want as little maintenance or worrying as possible. You're not on 24/7 standby if there is an issue. All of that is perfectly ok and we see that it does influence our choices in terms of what to run and how.  

###A bunch of amateurs

Is what we are. What works for datacenters and the industry might not be what works for homebrew servers. As such the homebrewserver.club documentation won't be exhaustive but rather inteds to add to existing on-line knowledge available, from the perspective of the homebrew server admin. 

###Embracing the feminist server manifesto

    link or direct quote?


###Aspiring to broaden participation

The homebrewserver.club hopes to provide the means for diverse communities to learn how to set up and run their server according to their needs and goals. 

    Provide a space for other communities [other than the usual suspects (white male hackerspaces)]

    The homebrewserver.club hopes to provide the means for communities to configure their server according to their needs and goals. 

    Rejects certain behaviour

    Goes beyond elitist, closed, ?