Meeds on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

Azure Applications

Meeds, an open source employee engagement platform for spaces, recognition and gamified collaboration, packaged by cloudimg to boot ready to use.

Base
Hardened build
minimal ports, security patches applied at build time
Access
Unique credentials
generated on first boot, readable only by root
Verified
Boots working
services pass a health gate before release
Support
24/7, 365 days
by email and live chat, 24 hour response SLA

Overview

Meeds is an open source employee engagement platform built for organisations that want their people to collaborate, be recognised and stay connected in one place. Employees work in spaces, which are collaboration areas for a team, a project or a topic, sharing posts, files, notes and tasks inside each one. A profile page collects a person's activity, connections and contributions, and a built in quest and kudos system lets colleagues recognise each other's work, complete guided onboarding steps and earn points for genuine participation rather than just logging in.

Under the platform, every post, space and profile is indexed for full text search, so content is found by what it contains rather than only by its title. The result is a single home for the everyday work of staying connected: starting a post, joining a space, congratulating a colleague or picking up a task, all inside one branded workspace rather than scattered across separate tools.

Why the cloudimg image

Meeds is a Java platform backed by a database and a search index, and getting all three configured to trust and find each other is the part that normally costs setup time. cloudimg ships that assembly already done and proven, so a VM comes up as a working, personalised workspace rather than a set of parts.

Every secret is unique to your VM. The platform ships no baked in demonstration login at all: the administrator account is created through the product's own first run setup on first boot, with a password generated fresh for that VM, so the historic community demonstration credential is never live for even a moment. The database credential is generated the same way. The application, database and search index are all bound to loopback, so a single reverse proxy is the only surface reachable from the network. Every image is paired with a deploy guide written against a real running VM, and is backed by 24/7 support.

Common uses

  • Give a company one branded workspace for posts, files, notes and tasks organised into spaces
  • Recognise contributions with a built in kudos and quest system instead of a spreadsheet or a separate tool
  • Search company activity, spaces and profiles by their actual content, not just by title

See it running

Real screenshots taken while testing this image against its deployment guide.

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