Articles on Björn Schießle - I came for the code but stayed for the freedom

On June 2nd, 2016, Nextcloud was born.

This is a updated version of a old blog post from 2020.

NOTE: There is a updated version of the article which works with the latest Nextcloud and Keycloak.

At the beginning of this year I gave two times a presentation about Nextcloud Talk.

This year the FSFE community meeting was combined with the “South Tyrol Free Software Conference” (SFScon) in Bolzano.

These days I looked up the German word “Kulturtechnik” at Wikipedia which translates to “cultural techniques” in English.

At this years CS3 Workshop in Krakow I presented the current state of Nextcloud’s Global Scale architecture.

What does software freedom actually means, in a world where more and more software no longer runs on our own computer but in the cloud?

At this years Nextcloud conference I gave a lightening talk about Free Software licenses.

Nextcloud now exists for almost exactly 8 months.

With Nextcloud 11 we continue to work on one of our hot topics: Cloud Federation.

This year I was invented to the Open16 in Mechelen (Belgium) to give a keynote.

Creating public links and sending them to your friends is a widely used feature of Nextcloud.

I’m now working for about two years on something called Federated Cloud Sharing.

This discussion is really old.

I just realized that at June, 1 it is exactly four years since I joined ownCloud Inc.

Privacy, control and freedom was always one of the main reasons to run your own cloud instead of storing your data on a proprietary and centralized service.

The last few weeks there has been a lot of rumors about GitHub.

ownCloud Share Link Creator – Context Menu Holiday season is the perfect time to work on some stuff on your personal ToDo list. ownCloud 6 introduced a public REST-style Share-API which allows you to call various share operations from external application…

Last weekend we released a first preview version of the new encryption app.

There are two major terms connected to software you can freely use, study, share and improve: Free Software and Open Source.

This year it was the first time I participated at RoboCup tournaments.

While it was quite easy to set up my Fellowship smartcard for SSH logins on Debian GNU/Linux following this instructions I never managed to get it working on Fedora GNU/Linux.

I always struggled to find the right mail notification applet for my desktop.

Today the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) announced their latest initiative: PDFreaders.org.

At Friday, 30.Jan.09 we had a joint event between KDE and the Fellowship of the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) and it was simply great!

The FSF has released a Quick Guide to GPLv3.

While reading some FSF Blogs i found a link to a license quiz where you can test your knowledge of the GPL and LGPL..