Hi everyone,
\nWe’re restructuring the ownCloud GitHub organization.
\nThis post explains what’s changing, why, and what it means for you.<\/p>\n
The ownCloud GitHub org currently has 231 members.
\nMany of these accounts belong to people who contributed in the past but are no longer actively involved with the project.
\nWe’re reorganizing into three groups:<\/p>\n
Active members stay<\/strong> in github.com\/owncloud<\/a> (current employees, active maintainers, and regular contributors).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n Alumni move to github.com\/owncloud-alumni<\/a>, a new organization that preserves your connection to the project’s history. Inactive accounts with no contribution history are removed.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n Two reasons, both practical:<\/p>\n The owncloud-alumni org is a place of recognition. If you’re moved there, it means you contributed to ownCloud’s history and we want that to stay visible. Your GitHub profile will still show the owncloud-alumni membership. You’re welcome to list it on your CV, your LinkedIn, and anywhere else.<\/p>\n It is not a demotion or an exclusion. Alumni can rejoin the main org at any time by becoming active contributors again. <\/strong> Friday June 12, 2026<\/span><\/span>:<\/strong> Individual notifications sent to everyone being moved or removed. You’ll know which group you’re in before anything changes. If you receive a notification and believe you’ve been miscategorized (for example, you’re actively contributing but we missed it), reply to the notification or email ospo@kiteworks.com<\/a>. We’ll correct it.<\/p>\n If you’re an active contributor, maintainer, or reviewer, nothing changes for you.<\/strong> Thank you for everything you built!<\/strong> Reply on GitHub Discussions<\/a>, ownCloud Central or email ospo@kiteworks.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you’d like to read more about the Kiteworks‘ ownCloud Open Source Program Office<\/a>, read some of the blog posts leading up to the launch<\/a>, read the blog post about the launch<\/a>, or read about our program<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Community Update: Restructuring our GitHub organization to better serve you.
\nThis is recognition, not removal.<\/strong> If you contributed to ownCloud, that contribution matters, and the alumni org keeps that visible.<\/p>\n<\/li>\nWhy we’re doing this<\/h2>\n
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\nOur GitHub Actions pipelines are the backbone of oCIS development. To get the runner capacity we need for faster builds and shorter feedback loops, we need to upgrade the org’s GitHub subscription plan. That plan is priced per seat. Paying for 231 seats when fewer than 50 are active doesn’t make sense, and the money saved goes directly into better CI\/CD infrastructure that benefits every contributor.<\/li>\n
\nA smaller, actively maintained membership list reduces the surface area for accidental or unauthorized access to repositories, Actions workflows, and org settings. This is consistent with the security practices we’ve committed to in our OSPO manifesto<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nWhat the alumni org is (and isn’t)<\/h2>\n
\nOpen a PR, start reviewing, join a discussion.
\nRemember: the path back is the same contributor ladder we’ve published in our governance charter<\/a>.
\nThe alumni org will not contain any active repositories. It exists purely as a community recognition space.<\/p>\nTimeline<\/h2>\n
\nFriday June 19, 2026<\/span><\/span>:<\/strong> Migration executed. Accounts moved to alumni or removed.<\/p>\nFor current contributors<\/h2>\n
\nYour access stays the same. The CI\/CD improvements from the subscription upgrade will make your workflows faster.<\/p>\nFor alumni<\/h2>\n
\nownCloud exists because of the work you did. The alumni org is our way of keeping that connection alive.
\nAnd if you ever want to come back and contribute again, the door is open.<\/p>\nQuestions?<\/h2>\n
\nWe’re restructuring the ownCloud GitHub organization.
\nThis post explains what’s changing, why, and what it means for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":78665,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[332,333,335,344,621,339,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coding","category-community","category-development","category-opensource","category-ospo","category-owncloud","category-updates"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79762"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79771,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79762\/revisions\/79771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owncloud.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}