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February 1, 2018 2 minutes reading time

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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December 13, 2016 4 minutes reading time

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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September 29, 2016 1 minutes reading time

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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July 21, 2016 3 minutes reading time

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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July 4, 2016 6 minutes reading time

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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March 14, 2016 5 minutes reading time

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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February 12, 2016 6 minutes reading time

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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