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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
BayernBox used by 1000th municipality
The municipality of Hohenwarth in the district of Cham is the thousandth municipality in Bavaria to go live with BayernBox. The online platform, which is based on ownCloud, enables municipal employees to exchange and centrally store data.
Kiteworks Open Source Program Office (ownCloud)
Kiteworks empowers organizations to manage risk in every send, share, receive, and save of sensitive content, protecting over 200 million end users across thosuands of global enterprises and government agencies. The Kiteworks Open Source Program Office is the steward of ownCloud, the open-source platform for sovereign secure data exchange, file synchronization, and collaboration. Built from the ground up in Go with zero database dependency, ownCloud Infinite Scale scales from a single binary to million-user deployments. Guided by a published governance charter and Apache 2.0 licensing, the OSPO ensures ownCloud remains a transparent, community-driven digital commons.
Product Management in Open Source Projects – Need, Pain or Useless?
Some weeks ago Holger Dyroff (COO at ownCloud) and Patrick Maier (Product Manager at ownCloud) gave a talk about the role of product management between open source projects and derived products at openSUSE Conference 2017 at Z-Bau, Nuremberg. As this topic obviously...
Cryptomator: we talked to Christian Schmickler
Emil: Who are you and what do you do? What is your role at Cryptomator. Christian Schmickler: We are Skymatic, a German startup with a founding team of four privacy-passionate enthusiasts. We develop Cryptomator, the open source software that helps everyone protect...
We’re coming to windows 10 mobile devices – with the new universal client, directly from the community!
As ownCloud is an open source project, the community is contributing important work to the software you all use and love. New features, and sometimes whole new software is made directly by the people who use ownCloud - from the community, for the community. All of...
Extended Party: ownCloud X Launch Event a Full Success
May 23 was the day we were all waiting for--ownCloud celebrated the launch of the latest enterprise edition of its file sync and share solution, ownCloud 10.0.2, at the KOMED event center in Cologne. As of now, ownCloud X is fully available to enterprise customers. In...
Stay up to date – get rid of your old version!
Some people are still running an ownCloud 8.2 - and we can't blame the nostalgia. Version 8.2 marked a big step in user experience. Maybe you can still remember how it was released more than one and a half years ago. But all good things come to an end - when the...
ownCloud 10.0.2 is out with some small marketplace fixes
Upgrade now, ownCloud 10.0.2 is out! The community and our developers are working hard to improve ownCloud every day. Today we release ownCloud 10.0.2 . As we already released 10.0.1 last week, this version only added some small bugfixes which arose in context of app...
ownCloud Conference 2017 announced
The ownCloud conference is going to happen for the 4th time in 2017. We are expecting 200 attendees from all over the world to join us for two days of conference and three days of hacking and hands-on. The oCCon17 is held at TH Nürnberg from September, 20th - 23rd The...
Released: new ownCloud Android & iOS mobile clients today!
Next to the testpilot version of our new desktop client, new versions of ownCloud mobile client apps are now officially available: ownCloud Android app 2.4.0 and ownCloud iOS app 3.6.0. These releases will enable you to enjoy all the power of ownCloud X in your mobile...
Brand new stuff. Play with our new testing client!
Our community works continuously to improve the ownCloud software. The client is an important part of it, it makes the syncing of files as easy as moving files on your own computer. The cloud becomes a part of your file system. ownCloud always promised "file sync...
A word about ownCloud appliances – and a request for your input
A word about appliances: ownCloud offers appliances in various VM-versions. The main target is to give our users a quick and seamless possibility to evaluate ownCloud out of the box. Also appliances may help to run ownCloud on host systems that do not support the...
ownCloud X Enterprise Makes its Grand Debut
It is with great excitement that we announce the official release of ownCloud X Enterprise. This historic event was announced with fanfare yesterday at the ownCloud X event in Cologne surrounded by our closest friends and family. And to further celebrate this...
ownCloud X 10.0.1 released
Today we released ownCloud 10.0.1 The best and most reliable ownCloud server release ever. While our community is already working with the lately released ownCloud X version, today also the Enterprise Edition is final. For you as our community users this means, that...
ownCloud at the Nürnberg Web Week 2017
This year Nuremberg saw the #nueww again, as we already posted here. We kicked off this years’ Nürnberg Web-Week by sponsoring the DevOps Camp, with more than 100 Attendees, Developers Sysadmins and DevOps engineers. We are proud that we had been part of this great...
Think global, act local – join the ownCloud meetup program!
ownCloud is a global open source project - where you come from shouldn't matter, when you want to enjoy privacy and own your data. We have contributors all around the globe, who help developing the software, create apps, offer services, host ownClouds - but also who...
ownCloud 10.0.1 is at the door, please help us testing!
Hey Folks, we are getting ready to release 10.0.1. Please help us by testing the release candidate rc.1 . Get a preview of the new features like the custom groups and marketplace and help us to make the release the best one ever. We have put tons of work into...