Building Digital Services
Published on December 14, 2022 by Derek Enos
During the last 6 months we've been focused on continued community outreach to identify potential collaborators while actively building out our suite of digital services at https://beaconny.net/
The current services include:
The current services include:
- Beacon Computing Club
- A place to learn, share, discuss, and collaborate on all things computers, programming, and technology
- City of Beacon Document Archive
- A fast, searchable archive of local public records
- AI Image Generator
- A local, text-to-image AI image generation server
- Gitlab
- A platform for source code revision tracking, collaboration, and automation
- Polis
- A public opinion collection and analysis platform
- Kiwix
- A local archive of various information sources, including Wikipedia, Project Gutenberg Library, and Stack Overflow
With all but the Computing Club forum being hosted on repurposed computing hardware in Beacon, we have made significant progress toward our goal of creating a Community Computer Cluster, and plan to expand our digital offerings and hardware resource pool in the near future.