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Karlitschek

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Founder of Nextcloud, founder of ownCloud, Free Software Developer, former KDE e.V. board member, photographer and founder of openDesktop .org

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Last week was a blast. Several times a year Nextcloud brings all employees from all 23 countries together for a week of co-working and team building. Great to meet all the new team members. This was awesome. Including a very memorable party on the spree!

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Back from 2 weeks traveling in the US for our Nextcloud company meeting in Berlin. 100+ people coming together to push Nextcloud even further. Yay!

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Surprise. It’s almost like having the entire government dependent on a single vendor is a bad idea:
https://www.osnews.com/story/139528/at-microsoft-years-of-security-debt-come-crashing-down/ https://exquisite.social/@thomholwerda

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This years Nextcloud Conference will happen in September in Berlin. https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-conference-2024/

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The Nextcloud Hub8 launch event in Munich was awesome. Next stop is LinuxFest Northwest in Bellingham, Washington. https://linuxfestnorthwest.org Who wants to meet?

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Nextcloud Hub 8 is here. Biggest release so far. What is your favourite feature or improvement! And what do you think about the release video? https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub8/

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The US renews bill for major expansion of warrantless surveillance of non US citizens. This makes US cloud services incompatible with the GDPR. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/04/biden-signs-bill-criticized-as-major-expansion-of-warrantless-surveillance/

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Interesting: Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/21/microsoft_national_security_risk/

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Texas Linux fest was great. A lot of great disc after my talk about ethical AI in Nextcloud. Next step Berlin and Munich for the Nextcloud Hub 8 launch next week. https://nextcloud.com/hub8/

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WitschaftsWoche interviewed me me lately about Nextcloud, IONOS, AI and Digital Sovereignty . 'Die proprietären KI-Systeme der amerikanischen Big-Tech-Unternehmen stellen ein enormes Risiko für Privatsphäre, Sicherheit und digitale Souveränität dar' https://www.wiwo.de/technologie/digitale-welt/digitale-souveraenitaet-welche-chancen-haben-deutsche-cloudanbieter-gegen-amazon-google-und-co-/29746364.html

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Vietnam Television interviewed me during FOSSASIA in Hanoi. But somehow my voice sounds different 😀 https://hanoionline.vn/video/chuyen-gia-khuyen-doanh-nghiep-viet-phat-trien-dien-toan-dam-may-231309.htm

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@ingo_wichmann Arbeitsethos in einer Diktatur 😉

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Really happy that my Nextcloud talk here at FOSSASIA in Hanoi Vietnam was so well received. Awesome to see so many young and energetic people here. I will definitely come back.

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Ars Technica covers the move of Schleswig Holstein to Open Source including Nextcloud. 'German state gov. ditching Windows for Linux, 30K workers migrating' https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/04/german-state-gov-ditching-windows-for-linux-30k-workers-migrating/

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Reuter quoted me regarding the Microsoft antitrust case. 'Microsoft must do more to resolve antitrust issues, rivals say' https://www.reuters.com/legal/microsoft-must-do-more-resolve-antitrust-issues-rivals-say-2023-03-23/

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Microsoft tries to slow down antitrust case by unbundling Teams https://nextcloud.com/blog/microsoft-attempts-to-slow-antitrust-case-by-separating-teams/

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Really impressive. The german state Schleswig Holstein is rolling out their Open Source strategy. https://www.schleswig-holstein.de/DE/landesregierung/ministerien-behoerden/I/Presse/PI/2024/CdS/240403_cds_it-arbeitsplatz.html

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Microsoft is finally unbundling Teams and Office. One of the demands of the Nextcloud antitrust complaint. What's still missing is unbundling Teams and OneDrive from Windows. https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/01/microsoft-to-unbundle-office-and-teams-globally-following-years-long-criticism/

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In a month we launch the next major Nextcloud release. Stay tuned for major updates in Features, Performance, Security, Stability and more. https://nextcloud.com/hub8/

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Jos wrote an interesting article in the Telekomidag newspaper about the latest decision of the Swedish government to switch to Microsoft Teams. https://telekomidag.se/nextcloud-toppen-europa-har-fatt-en-dalig-deal/

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Ingo interviewed me for RadioTux (german) It's been way too long since I was on the show. https://www.radiotux.de/index.php?/archives/8099-RadioTux-Sendung-Maerz-2024.html

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Big news. EU’s use of Microsoft 365 found to breach data protection rules https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/11/edps-microsoft-365/ Luckily there are alternatives available. https://nextcloud.com/blog/bechtle-and-nextcloud-offer-digitally-sovereign-collaboration-services-for-the-public-sector/

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The current Nextcloud podcast episode is really great. Brent interviews Bernd from T-Systems how to migrate the 2.2M users Magentacloud to Nextcloud https://nextcloud.com/blog/magentacloud-t-systems-building-a-2m-user-nextcloud/

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I'm looking forward to speak at the great FOSS-Backstage conference next Tuesday. Come and join if you are in Berlin. https://program.foss-backstage.de/fossback24/talk/KRPEVQ/

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