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Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Scalable, secure, faster and more efficient: ownCloud Infinite Scale is here
Nuremberg, Germany, December 6, 2022 – ownCloud has released ownCloud Infinite Scale, the next generation of its cloud collaboration platform for secure, enterprise-grade file sharing and collaboration.
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.
ownCloud development in March
Where February topped the first month of this year with 362 pull requests merged, March broke the 400 pull request barrier, in no small part, thanks to the very active hackathon in Nuremberg. As always, the following will summarize some of the happenings in ownCloud...
The Hackathon in Nuremberg was Awesome!
Early last month we noted that the ownCloud office in Nuremberg would be hosting a hackathon! Over 20 developers joined and made a big impact on the ownCloud code base. The next 'hackathon' will be the ownCloud Contributor Conference in Berlin, where you'll have a...
ownCloud Contributor Conference 2015 Dates Announced, Registration Open
It is 2015 and you all must have been waiting for it--the announcement of the dates for the ownCloud Contributor Conference! Well, here goes: The ownCloud Contributor Conference 2015 will take place from Friday August 28 until Thursday September 3 at the TU Berlin...
ownCloud and sabre/dav
sabre/dav (or SabreDAV) is the most popular WebDAV/CardDAV/CalDAV framework for PHP. It is open source and developed by fruux, a German company developing a unified contacts/calendaring system that works across platforms and devices. ownCloud builds on sabre/dav for...
ownCloud development in February
February is the month that ownCloud development picked up steam, following the holiday period and the release freeze. ownCloud 8.0 was released on the 9th so code was free to flow in again, resulting in over 362 pull requests getting merged – almost 100 more than in...
Why Enterprise Organizations Should Care About Open Source’d Applications
Over on the .org blog, we published an article about contributing to our mobile apps. The ownCloud Android app has been open source since its inception and we made the source code of the ownCloud iOS app available under the GPL this past November. Having the source of...
Contributing to the ownCloud mobile apps
The source code of the ownCloud iOS app was made available under the GPL this past November. The Android app has been open source for a while and managed to build up a healthy community. Unfortunately, there have yet to be many contributions to the iOS app, but there...
Scaling with ownCloud
ownCloud was designed from the beginning to operate in nearly every enterprise environment from single server to high performance set-ups.
NetworkWorld: New products of the week 03.23.2015
New features make it easier to access, control and use of data. ownCloud 8 EFFS offers new subscription packages too. More info.
CMSWire: Build Your Own Dropbox-Like File Server with ownCloud 8
In recent months, Dropbox added administration features that business users require to help protect intellectual property and maintain distribution rights. But in the meantime, the developers of an open source project called ownCloud (with a small “o”) have been...
ownCloud and PHP Interview on Community Site
Check out this interview I gave with ownCloud’s Server Development Team Lead Thomas Müller on the community blog. Together we talked the language of PHP, a central part of the ownCloud infrastructure that makes it easy to deploy on a wide range of platforms and...
ownCloud Desktop Client 1.8 released
The ownCloud Desktop Client is what brings the files from your cloud seamless to your desktop. You can pick any number of local and remote folders and keep them in sync, ensuring you always have the latest version at hand. The previous desktop client release...
ownCloud and PHP
PHP, as a language, is at the heart of the web. In 2013 almost 40% of websites ran on PHP. Major sites such as Wikipedia and Facebook are built on it and numerous other sites are deployed on a PHP based framework like Drupal, WordPress or Joomla. ownCloud is built on...
ownCloud releases updates for supported series
The latest updates to supported ownCloud releases have been made available. ownCloud 8.0.2 (not 8.0.1) is the first update in the stable 8.0 series and brings fixes for a number of compatibility and update problems. If you have not upgraded to ownCloud 8, please refer...
LinuxVeda: ownCloud gets new release cycle
ownCloud is a popular private cloud option within the FOSS community, now they’ve announced a series of changes that will affect enterprise and home users quite drastically. These changes include: a faster release cycle, new enterprise support options and a smaller...