Jos Poortvliet, the most friendly face of the openSUSE community, is joining ownCloud as Community Manager. ownCloud doesn’t need any introduction; it is one of the most promising Free Software technologies which lets users benefit from ‘cloud’ without losing the ownership of data and computing – something that happens with public cloud services offered by players like Dropbox or Google Drive. We have been covering ownCloud from its early days so I was curious about Jos joining ownCloud.

European-U.S. data protection agreement: Yet another attempt, yet another failure
The recent agreement between the US and the EU is the third attempt to secure the transfer of personal data from Europe to the US. Holger Dyroff, co-founder and COO of ownCloud, does not see the new regulatory attempt as a satisfactory solution.