Frank Karlitschek

We're all now experiencing that remote working and virtual conferencing are important tools to stay connected. Not just in current circumstances but also in the wider future. This talk gives an inside look at how Nextcloud GmbH works together with the Nextcloud community-building Nextcloud.

We're all now experiencing that remote working and virtual conferencing are important tools to stay connected. Not just in current circumstances but also in the wider future. That's why it's important to offer an easy-to-use, efficient, and quick replacement. Nextcloud is a platform for complete online collaboration and communication and can help to quickly adapt and stay connected. Nextcloud is built by Nextcloud GmbH that has employees in home-offices in 11 countries and the Nextcloud Community which is spread all over the world.This talk gives an inside look at how Nextcloud GmbH works together with the Nextcloud community-building Nextcloud. It covers different communication channels that work for synchronous and asynchronous communication, how coordination in distributed teams works, and how good and efficient collaboration around documents is possible.Additionally but also very important to share, this talk covers some of the challenges and solutions on how to successfully work across different countries, timezones, languages, and cultures.

In the past few years we saw a lot of discussions around free software licenses and why they are bad for companies. This talk debunks this claim and shows how free software licenses are actually great for startups if done right.

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. Some changed the license of their product to proprietary license like the Commons Clause or the Business Source License. They claim that this is needed to ‘save’ free software. This talk describes why this is fundamentally wrong. It’s possible to build a working startup and 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.

Are the FSF's 4 Freedoms and the OSI's Open Source Definition out of date in 2020 and should be replaced.

Affirmative position: OSD/FSD is now irrelevant

1. First Affirmative Constructive (1AC) = 7 minutes a. Cross-examination of First Affirmative by Second Negative = 3 minutes
2. First Negative Constructive (1NC) = 7 minutes a. Cross-examination of First Negative by First Affirmative = 3 minutes
3. Second Affirmative Constructive (2AC) = 7 minutes a. Cross-examination of Second Affirmative by First Negative = 3 minutes
4. Second Negative Constructive (2NC) = 7 minutes a. Cross-examination of Second Negative by Second Affirmative = 3 minutes
5. First Negative Rebuttal (1NR) = 3 minutes
6. First Affirmative Rebuttal (1AR) = 3 minutes
7. Second Negative Rebuttal (2NR) = 3 minutes
8. Second Affirmative Rebuttal (2AR) = 3 minutes

Other people: Neil McGovern Andrew Katz Matt Jarvis Luis Villa Amanda Brock

This talk describes the journey from ownCloud to Nextcloud. I will explain the reasons behind the fork, and why a 100 percent free software project and company is superior to an open-core project like ownCloud.

This talk will describe the reasons why ownCloud was founded as an open source project. The good and bad things when it was turned into a venture capital founded company, the thing that Frank and the core team does differently with Nextcloud and how the business model, licensing and community relations improved.

Frank Karlitschek founded the ownCloud open source project in 2010 and co-founded a company named ownCloud Inc. late 2012. After being the maintainer for over 6 years and CTO of ownCloud Inc. for over 4 years Frank decided to start over. Leave his own project and company to create a fork called Nextcloud. This talk will describe the reasons why ownCloud was founded as an open source project. The good and bad things when it was turned into a centure capital based company, the thing that Frank and the core team want to do differently with Nextcloud and how the business model, licensing and community relations improved. This talk covers insights into different open source business models and how to create a win win situation for a company and a community.

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.

Looking at the evolution of the Cloud everything started with centralized services. Today everybody can set up his own Cloud with Free Software. What's next? This talk will discuss the idea to connect this decentralized clouds in a way that users can share seamlessly data across multiple instances.

Looking at the evolution of the cloud, as a file share and sync solution, everything started with centralized services and evolved to to the point where everybody can set up his own Cloud with Free Software. Decentralizing the cloud was a important step but at the same time it created islands. Only user on the same instance can collaborate on the same files. The next step will be to connect this individual clouds to enable the users to collaborate seamlessly across multiple instances. The ownCloud project works actively on this idea, this talk will discuss the general idea behind it and how this is going to happen.