The Internet and the World Wide Web were originally designed as distributed and federated networks. In the last few years we've seen a trend to more centralized services like Facebook, Google, Dropbox and others, making censorship, surveillance and espionage very easy.
The ownCloud community is currently using free software to build a fully federated and distributed network, which makes it easier to guarantee people's basic rights for people to control over their own data (as described in the User Data Manifesto at https://userdatamanifesto.org). Anyone can run an ownCloud server at home or somewhere on the Internet and collaborate and share with everyone else.
The talk will discuss ownCloud's current and upcoming features, as well as the current problems with surveillance and espionage and strategies to solve them.
Speakers: Frank Karlitschek