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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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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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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