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 Nextcloud” button to mount the content over WebDAV to his server. On a technical level all mounted public […]

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 sharing”. During all this years I never wrote about the broader ideas behind this technology, why we do it, what we […]

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 this goes along with a discussion about copyleft vs non-protecting Free Software licenses like the BSD- and the MIT-License. I don’t […]

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 this get started. It was FOSDEM 2012 when I met Frank, we already knew each other from […]

On my way to the #Open16 in Mechelen to give a keynote on how to restore a free, decentralized and open internet with the help of !Nextcloud

Just finished my slides "Restore the Internet - Free, Decentralized & Open". Looking forward to talk at the #Open16 open16.be #Nextcloud #FreeSoftware #Cloud

Using Free Software is now, more than ever, a political and ethical statement - #FreeSoftware adoption in #India https://io.schiessle.org/url/22762

CLA's doesn't provide additional protection to copyleft licenses like the GNU AGPLv3 but create a imbalance in the community, says Karen Sandler at !Nextcloud conference

Happy Software Freedom Day to everyone! Let Richard Stallman remind us for a minute what Free Software is all about https://media.libreplanet.org/u/libreplanet/m/richard-stallman-explains-free-software-on-software-freedom-day-2016/

If you are in Berlin, you can join us at the !Nextcloud conference with great keynotes and other talks - https://conf.nextcloud.com - Nextcloud is a completely Free Software cloud solution. So visiting our conference fits perfectly the Software Freedom Day. :-)

Trying really hard to squeeze all the exciting federated sharing improvements & ideas into 5 minutes for my #nextcloud conference #slides https://conf.nextcloud.com/conference/NextcloudConference2016/program/proposal/1

RT @fsfe Julia Reda, MEP: "Proprietary Software threatens Democracy" !fellowship - http://fsfe.org/news/2016/news-20160907-01.html

Linus Torvalds: "I love the GPL and see it as a defining factor in the success of Linux" https://io.schiessle.org/url/21407 #GNU #GPL #Linux

At #IFA2016 !Nextcloud presents a sustainable alternative together with #LittleSun #Fairphone #iFixit and #Ecosia https://io.schiessle.org/url/21324

Great new Web Interface based on F-Droid to explore Free Software Android Apps https://io.schiessle.org/url/21244 #FreeSoftware #FreeYourAndroid #fdroid

My quote of the day: "True open source solutions can offer the best feature, performance and value for most companies, but unfortunately there are so few pure open source companies providing them. I applaud Nextcloud and look forward to working with them for years to come." !Nextcloud !FOSS

Pretty cool, people already start to use the new !Nextcloud monitoring API with external programs like #OpenNMS and #Grafana https://io.schiessle.org/url/20885

!Nextcloud 10 is out, with many great features https://nextcloud.com/secure-monitor-and-control-your-data-with-nextcloud-10-get-it-now/