My random thoughts about politics, society and technology
Building Digital Sovereignty: Ten Years of Nextcloud
On June 2nd, 2016, Nextcloud was born. While the celebrations in our Berlin office are already in full swing, this is my personal retrospective. Shortly before that, I wrote a somewhat cryptic blog …
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Nextcloud and OpenID-Connect
This is a updated version of a old blog post from 2020. The guide here was tested with Nextcloud Hub 5 and Keycloak 21.1.2. Please keep in mind, the main goal of this article is to get Keycloak up and …
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Real-time communication and collaboration in a file sync & share environment - A introduction to Nextcloud Talk
Nextcloud envolved from a file sync & share solution to a full featured but still modular collaboration platform. Nextcloud Talk is a component which becomes more and more popular and enables …
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New challenges for Free Software business models
Different Free Software business models evolved over the past and the most successful are threaten these days by the raise of IaaS providers. What does this mean for the future of economical success …
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Cultural Techniques
These days I looked up the German word “Kulturtechnik” at Wikipedia which translates to “cultural techniques” in English. Surprisingly there is no English Wipipedia article for …
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CS3 Workshop 2018 - Global Scale and the future of Federated Cloud Sharing
Enable large organisations to scale Nextcloud beyond the typical limitations. As part of Global Scale we will also work on Cloud Federation 2.0, based on the Open Cloud Mesh specification
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Software freedom in the Cloud
What does software freedom actually means, in a world where more and more software no longer runs on our own computer but in the cloud? I keep thinking about this topic for quite some time and from …
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Nextcloud Conference 2017: Free Software licenses in a Nutshell
Lightening talk about Free Software licensing and how it is handled at Nextcloud.
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The most sincere form of flattery
Nextcloud now exists for almost exactly 8 months. During this time we put a lot of efforts in polishing existing features and developing new functionality which is crucial to the success of our users …
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Cloud Federation – Getting Social
With Nextcloud 11 we continue to work on one of our hot topics: Cloud Federation. This time we focus on the social aspects. We want to make it as easy as possible for people to share their contact …
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Keynote at Open16 - Restore the Internet
Keynote at the Open16 on how Nextcloud can help to restore a free, decentralized and open Internet.
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Transfer Public Links to Federated Shares
Creating public links and sending them to your friends is a widely used feature of Nextcloud. If the recipient of a public link also has a Nextcloud or ownCloud account he can use the “Add to your …
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History and Future of Cloud Federation
I’m now working for about two years on something called Federated Cloud Sharing. It started on June, 23er 2014 with the release of ownCloud 7.0. Back then it was simply called “Server to Server …
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Freedom for whom?
This discussion is really old. Since the first days of the Free Software movement people like to debate to whom the freedom in Free Software is directed? The users? The code? The developers? Often …
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Road Ahead
I just realized that at June, 1 it is exactly four years since I joined ownCloud Inc. That’s a perfect opportunity to look back and to tell you about some upcoming changes. I will never forget how all …
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Federated Sharing – What’s new in ownCloud 9.0
Privacy, control and freedom was always one of the main reasons to run your own cloud instead of storing your data on a proprietary and centralized service. Only if you run your own cloud service you …
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The next Generation of Code Hosting Platforms
The last few weeks there has been a lot of rumors about GitHub. GitHub is a code hosting platform which tries to make it as easy as possible to develop software and collaborate with people. The main …
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The ownCloud Public Link Creator
ownCloud Share Link Creator – Context Menu Holiday season is the perfect time to work on some stuff on your personal ToDo list. ownCloud 6 introduced a public REST-style Share-API which allows …
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Introduction to the new ownCloud Encryption App
Last weekend we released a first preview version of the new encryption app. This wouldn’t be possible without the work done by Sam Tuke and Florin Peter. Thanks a lot for all your work! Let me take …
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Free Software, Open Source, FOSS, FLOSS – Same same but different
There are two major terms connected to software you can freely use, study, share and improve: Free Software and Open Source. Based on them you can also find different combinations and translations …
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A successful year for the 1. RFC Stuttgart
This year it was the first time I participated at RoboCup tournaments. It was quite stressful but also really exiting and most important: successful! In April the year started with the German Open in …
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Fedora and gpg-agent
While it was quite easy to set up my Fellowship smartcard for SSH logins on Debian GNU/Linux following this instructions I never managed to get it working on Fedora GNU/Linux. At some point of time I …
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Jabber Mail Notification
I always struggled to find the right mail notification applet for my desktop. Furthermore I always stumble over the question: Why do I have to ask the mail server in a defined time interval “Do I have …
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PDFreaders.org launched
Today the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) announced their latest initiative: PDFreaders.org. The initiative started in the Fellowship and is coordinated by the Fellows Hannes Hauswedell and …
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A great event is over: KDE 4.2 Release Party and Fellowship Meeting at Stuttgart
At Friday, 30.Jan.09 we had a joint event between KDE and the Fellowship of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and it was simply great! Beside a lot of KDE and FSFE people we had a lot of …
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Quick Guide to GPLv3
The FSF has released a Quick Guide to GPLv3. This article explains all major changes in an easy-to-understand overview. So it is a good staring point for everyone who wants to understand GPLv3. It is …
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Test your knowledge of the GPL and LGPL
While reading some FSF Blogs i found a link to a license quiz where you can test your knowledge of the GPL and LGPL.. If you want to test your knowledge of the GPL and LGPL than try the license quiz. …
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