Frank Karlitschek

In the last few years we saw a lot of discussion in the open source and free software startup space around licenses. Several companies stepped forward and claimed that it’s not possible to build a working company on top of a free software product. This talk discusses how companies like Red Hat, SUSE and Nextcloud manages to have a 100% free software product including a big contributor community but is still able to pay developers and grow.

Privacy and security on the internet are under attack by hackers and international espionage programs. If we want to use the internet as a free and secure medium again then we have to fix the internet to provide the security and privacy that people deserve. The Nextcloud community is build an open source and fully federated and distributed network for files and communication. Everyone can run an Nextcloud server at home or somewhere on the internet and collaborate and share with everyone else.

This talk covers insights into different open source business models and how to create a working open source community and community.

The vision behind Nextcloud has always been to give people control over their data. As the User Data Manifesto states, this means people should have the freedom to choose a platform for storing their data, control over data access and know where their data is.

But running a server is hard and not something the 'average' user does. This is where the Nextcloud Box comes in: thanks to snaps, we can built a platform that requires less technical skills than any other solution before it, yet keeps you and your data safe!

This talk will cover the current problems with espionage and security and strategies on how to fix this problem. It will also discuss the current and upcoming federation features of Nextcloud and how to become part of the community. Another topic will be why the Nextcloud community forked ownCloud to bring it to the next level.

There's a variety of Pi, from Raspberry and Banana to non-Pi's in the Beagle and Bone area. Here's one nice use case for them: take back the data you've been uploading to servers in 'the cloud' lately! You know, those holiday pictures and your tax papers and home improvement todo lists and your private calendar and list of contacts and your email...

In this talk we'll present a solution for a private cloud: ownCloud. It can run on the stronger Pi's (we recommend Banana over Raspberry) and we'll discuss some performance considerations and an exciting option: clustering!