To combat the struggles of following the progress in a project Jos Poortvliet, the community manager for ownCloud, has announced that the ownCloud development progress will be compiled on his blog. He goes on to say that if the community is receptive he will move these progress reports to the ownCloud blog.
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.