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Politics in collaboration? I don't care, give me features!

K.3.401 | Day 1 | 11:00 - 11:25 | Speakers: Jos Poortvliet

Politics in collaboration? I don't care, give me features!
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Abstract

2025 has been a crazy year for open source, self hosted collaboration. As in, everyone has woken up to the risks of having an entire economy depend on 3-4 big American tech firms. Well, we at Nextcloud have been working to solve that since we started in 2016 and the large roll-outs recently, of millions of users at various public sector organizations across Europe. And now suddenly everyone else starts talking about it?

Well, we’re at FOSDEM, so all we care about is… features. That, and self hosting of course. It is more fun. And who doesn’t want to stay in control?

So, like every year, I will go over everything we did in Nextcloud in the last year. Is it feasible to do that in a single talk? Of course not, but I’ll try anyway, and you can judge me.

See you in Brussels!

Speakers

Jos Poortvliet

People person, technology enthusiast and all-things-open evangelist. Co-founder and Comms director at Nextcloud, previously community manager at SUSE. Active for over 2 decades in open source, starting in the KDE community. enjoys avoiding traffic and public transport on bike through Berlin, fan of cooking for family and friends.

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