My name is Jordana Fung and I\u2019m the new Open Source and Community Manager for ownCloud at Kiteworks.
\nI will be posting a series of blog posts on behalf of the ownCloud community team.
\nThings have been quiet from our end for a while, and we sincerely apologize for that.
\nOpen Source is built upon transparency and openness and is not supposed to be a black box, and we are so sorry that we failed you on that in the community front. My role is part of the effort to rectify this and once I got to know the team, the history, and especially their plan and the efforts they undertook, I was happy to join their cause in reinvesting in the community and in making ownCloud and its community the best it can be.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re continuously learning and improving. We\u2019re committed to being transparent, clear, and communicative and to actively listening to your needs and expectations. We want your input and ideas and are thankful for you and for the chance to make things right with the community. Please connect with us<\/a> as we want to hear from you. If you\u2019ve been following ownCloud from the outside since the Kiteworks acquisition in late 2023, you\u2019ve probably read the obituaries: Here\u2019s what actually happened:<\/p>\n
\nOur purpose is simple and clear: to empower the ownCloud community and to make ownCloud yours again.
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\nYou will be hearing more from us going forward, starting with this series of blogposts exploring some of the history, what is currently happening and what we are planning.
\nAnd since our last official blog post was a while ago, the first in this series has a very apt and fitting title:<\/p>\nWe were silent. Not dead.<\/h1>\n
\nAcquired by a US company, community shrinking, sovereignty compromised, another open source casualty.<\/p>\n\n