Blogs
Insights on secure data exchange, digital sovereignty, and open source — from the team that built the platform.
Digital sovereignty is not a label you buy from a hyperscaler
Digital sovereignty is not a data center location. It’s control.
Why the hyperscalers’ “sovereign cloud” branding fails the test, and how oCIS doesn’t.
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.
Digital sovereignty is not a label you buy from a hyperscaler
Digital sovereignty is not a data center location. It’s control.
Why the hyperscalers’ “sovereign cloud” branding fails the test, and how oCIS doesn’t.
What two forks and a Lessons Learned document can teach you about trust
Most open source projects bury their history. Ours is published.
What two forks can teach you about how trust actually works.
Twelve documents, zero marketing slop: anatomy of an open source manifesto
Editing matters more than writing.
Anatomy of an open source manifesto in twelve documents, with the corporate slop cut and the operational policies added.
Stewardship is not the same as control: A governance charter for people who’ve been burned before.
Kiteworks controls ownCloud’s roadmap. Why we are being highly visible about this and what it means.
Your PR was written by an AI. We don’t care. (But we do have rules.)
We don’t care if an AI wrote your pull request. Last year a community member shipped two oCIS extensions that way. Here are the four rules that make it work.
I’m a script kid running an OSPO. That’s the point.
What volunteering with Germany’s disaster-relief agency taught me about running an OSPO: the most valuable person in a crisis isn’t the most technical one.
What 108 repositories taught us about open source hygiene
Sixteen years. 108 repos. One map. What an archaeological dig through the ownCloud GitHub org taught us about contributor experience and open source hygiene
PHP 8.3. Yes, for Classic. Yes, we heard you.
PHP 7.4 went end-of-life. Your auditors noticed. You asked, so ownCloud Classic will now run on PHP 8.3, so you can stay compliant while you plan the migration to oCIS.
We killed our own CLA. Here’s why that’s a good thing.
We’re retiring the ownCloud CLA and adopting the Developer Certificate of Origin. Here’s the reasoning and why contributors should take notice.