Colmena is a project that aims to meet various needs of journalistic teams and community radio management: audio recording and editing, group chat, and file management. Moreover, to ensure transparency, tool reuse, and user ownership, we utilize Free (Libre) Software tools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To meet these requirements, we have defined an architecture with some key elements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, an architecture of this kind presents challenges when it comes to fostering collaboration from the developer community willing to contribute to this open-source software.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
To address this, in addition to the repositories for the backend<\/em><\/a> and frontend<\/em><\/a>, we have created a special repository for maintaining, configuring, and running third-party applications, called Colmena Devops<\/a>. This repository contains Docker images of the involved applications, configuration files, initialization scripts for Docker virtual machines, and a file with terminal shortcuts, along with documentation and instructions for use.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The interesting aspect of this approach becomes apparent when we understand that production environments are defined using the same recipe<\/em> as the local infrastructure environments mentioned earlier. This indicates that we could have similar environments on our machines as in production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In addition to enabling developer collaboration, we have also worked on providing a simple way to install the Colmena ecosystem on your servers: the Colmena installation tool through the command line, or Colmena Installer CLI<\/a>, which includes the necessary commands to install and update Colmena, for both testing and production environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\nColmena Everywhere!<\/h3>\n\n\n\n