Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
ownCloud Sprint Review: Android 4.0, Notifications and Configurable Roles
The Sprint Review from 10th March 2023 delivered several enhancements and developments. The version 4.0 beta of our Android client is now available, with many useful new features, including Spaces for ownCloud Infinite Scale users. Plus, it is now possible to receive notifications in its web client, and there is now the provision to apply configurable roles with separate permissions.
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.
About Activities and Notifications in ownCloud
ownCloud has long had the 'Activities' app, which has provided a stream of information about happenings on the ownCloud server. The Notifications app was recently introduced, taking over some of the tasks the Activity app was used for. The goal is to more clearly...
Speaking in Switzerland About File Sync and Share for Education and Research
On January 18-19, I will give a talk about ownCloud at the ETH University in Zürich, Switzerland. There, the Cloud Services for Synchronization and Sharing (CS3) takes place, with a focus this year on Cloud Storage Services for Novel Applications and Workflows. CS3...
Making ownCloud Upgrades More Robust
Over the last few years we’ve made many changes to improve the reliability of the ownCloud upgrade progress. As part of our efforts, we've introduced changes which put more manual work on the shoulders of ownCloud system administrators. The downside was that these...
Nominated for Cloud Solution of the Year
linuxquestions.org is running their yearly Members Choice Awards, and in the brand new category Open Source Cloud Solution of the Year, ownCloud is one of five options! We're quite proud to have made it there, being in the company of some other well known, more...
Softpedia: ownCloud 9 Will Be a Cool Release, Says Frank Karlitschek
It looks like the ownCloud developers will have a great year in 2016, as the company’s CTO, Mr. Frank Karlitschek, has just announced on his Twitter account that ownCloud 9 is shaping up really nicely and that it will be a cool release.
ownCloud Mail Update
ownCloud Mail is making rapid progress. We talked to some of its main contributors to get an idea of the why and how behind this app and of course - how to get involved! Why ownCloud Mail Asked about the goal of the ownCloud Mail app and why it matters, the...
The Formation of ownCloud
As everyone knows, I love ownCloud. I have loved it from its conception and am in awe of what it has grown into. It makes me feel great to be able to go home each day and say “I have helped to solve a problem for someone today.” But how did ownCloud get to this point?...
Team Week: Undirected Innovation in a Commercial Open Source Setting
ownCloud is a company with a core and a philosophy that is centered around open source and strives for the role of community stewardship and commercial success. At the same time, we deliver a scalable, world-class, secure, silo-breaking platform for our customers,...
New App Approval Process
With ownCloud 8.1, we introduced changes to the app store and a new app review process for developers. We set up a form and a mailing list to handle reviewing apps. Unfortunately, this process didn't go very smooth and now, we've got another solution which is working...
The Business Card Case
Imagine you are a German company who exhibited at a security show in Nuremberg, Germany. 1) People came to your booth and handed in their business card in order to receive further information (legally, that is a consent). 2) You scan the business card, together with...
PCWorld: Why ownCloud’s CEO isn’t worried about the death of Safe Harbor
Data sovereignty has become a hot-button issue ever since the EU’s top court struck down the Safe Harbor agreement in October, and for many users of file-synchronization and sharing services, it poses a considerable problem. OwnCloud CEO Markus Rex sees it as more of...
You can soon be fined up to 4% of your annual revenue for any data protection violation!
The 3 major law making bodies in the European Union (EU parliament, EU commission and the EU council) have just this Tuesday agreed on the final terms of the new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). After some more formalism, which shall happen in early 2016,...
Update about the Western Digital and ownCloud Pi Project
After our blog post where we asked your help equipping a Western Digital device with ownCloud, we're very happy to see so many great proposals and ideas come in, with over a dozen and counting! We will talk to WD to make sure no good proposal goes without a PI. We're...
Collabora brings LibreOffice Online to ownCloud
What’s a privacy-friendly and high quality replacement for Google Docs? Look into LibreOffice Online brought to you by Collabora and ownCloud. This blogpost explains what it is and how you can use it.
Western Digital And ownCloud Team Up To Bring ownCloud to Home Users
We want to provide people with a safe home for their data and self hosting is key. When WDLABS, a division of Western Digital focused on accelerating new solutions, approached Frank with an idea for collaboration, we kicked off a project. We will create a self-hosted...