Tomorrow, we put it all in writing. See you on the other side.

Fourteen days ago: “We were silent. Not dead.”

Tomorrow we prove it.

On May 5th, the Kiteworks Open Source Program Office goes live for Open Source activities under the ownCloud brand. Everything ships:

Documents.
Twelve-document manifesto suite, including:

• Governance Charter v0.1.
• AI-Assisted Contribution Policy.
• Contribution Guide.
• All public. All open to feedback.

CLA (Contributor License Agreement) retired. DCO adopted.
All contributions go through the Developer Certificate of Origin. Sign off your commits, keep your copyright.

ownCloud 10 on PHP 8.3.
Three years of continued maintenance since the acquisition, and now we are upgrading ownClould Classic to PHP 8.3 and call it ownCloud 11. And we provide a migration path to oCIS.

ownCloud Infinite Scale
Seven production releases since the acquisition. Now with a Web Client in Apache 2.0 to prevent the oCIS to fall into the trap of the domino effect of AGPL 2.0. Federation-native. The same software running a large-scale public-sector deployments

GitHub.
New org profile with complete repository map covering all 108 repos. Org-wide defaults in .github. Discussions enabled across key repos.

Community.
Matrix at #ocis:matrix.org. GitHub Discussions. An active proposal on central.owncloud.org about the forum migration (your input still welcome).

Security.
Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP) at security.owncloud.com. Bug bounty on YesWeHack.,

What’s coming after launch:

• partnership announcements,
• restructured partner pricing,
• oCIS roadmap details,
• Classic-to-oCIS migration tooling.

ownCloud was founded in 2010. Forked in 2016. Acquired in 2023. Forked again in 2025. Shipped continuously throughout all of it.
Now: governance, a manifesto, and a codebase that’s yours.

• GitHub: github.com/owncloud
• Developer docs: owncloud.dev
• Admin docs: doc.owncloud.com/ocis
• Chat: Matrix #ocis:matrix.org – matrix.to/#ocis:matrix.org
• Docker Hub: hub.docker.com/r/owncloud
• Security: security.owncloud.com
• OSPO: moc.s1777882649krowe1777882649tik@o1777882649pso1777882649

See you on the other side.

— David