Happy birthday, Nextcloud! Today 9 years ago 12 people founded Nextcloud to create a complete Free and Open Source alternative to centralized proprietary cloud services and open core competitors. Together we achieved a lot more than what I dreamed of. We are the leading European Open Source collaboration solution thanks to our awesome community. Thanks to everyone!
Google is fighting Nextcloud by harming our Android app. Nextcloud now has less functionality than Google Drive. This is clear anti competitive behavior.
The Register interviewed me for this article: 'Europe's cloud customers eyeing exit from US hyperscalers' #Nextcloud
The EU-US Data Privacy Framework can collapse any day now. Then the usage of US Cloud services becomes illegal for all companies and governments in Europe
Today in Brussels to discuss Digital Sovereignty with the European Commission. It's interesting to see how more and more politicians understand the importance of Open Source for a free and democratic world. #Nextcloud
I'm happy to attend and speak at the Open Source Policy Summit Friday in Brussels. And I will be at FOSDEM too of course :-) Who wants to meet?
Looking forward to attend the 38C3. Who wants to meet? πŸ˜€
The Nextcloud 2024 overview is here. So much good stuff happened in only 12 month.
Last week we released a major new version of Nextcloud Talk: The open source answer to Microsoft Teams
Software development is political. Software will shape the future of our world. We have a responsibility. I will never understand developers building surveillance capitalist products for Big Tech companies because they get a free fancy lunch or other benefits.