Nextcloud just turned 10 years old, and Anna Larch has been with it for more than half of that.
Starting out as part of the Nextcloud Groupware team, Anna later worked on the backend for Nextcloud Talk and now leads the newly established Developer Relations team. She works with community members, independent developers, and partners to support them in developing for the Nextcloud ecosystem.
In this episode, we talk with her about Nextcloud’s shift toward more structured developer relations and community management, which includes consolidating its developer resources into one structured course, making API documentation more accessible, and managing the surge of AI-assisted pull requests from community contributors. Anna also shares her views on the growing need for digital sovereignty fueled by the tension between the GDPR and US CLOUD Act, Nextcloud’s new ISV Partner Program, and why the Nextcloud Community Awards favor small and niche contributors instead of those with the biggest audiences.
Anna will host a breakout track on how to set up a Nextcloud developer instance with Nextcloud Docker Dev at the Nextcloud Community Conference 2026, taking place September 19–20 in Berlin, Germany. Visit the Community Conference page to learn more about the agenda and how to register. There will also be a keynote detailing the newest features in Nextcloud Hub 26 Summer, which launches on September 16. Join the livestream on your favorite platform to get your questions answered live by the Nextcloud team.
When people tell me what they use Nextcloud for, it always gives me a push towards trying to make my work even better. Because I know it’s not for nothing.
Johanna Pirker is a professor of computer science at TU Munich and TU Graz, founder of the Game Lab Graz, and a member of the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI. She works at the intersection of AI, games, virtual and augmented reality, and human-computer interaction. We tap into her perspective on where gaming meets learning, learning meets AI, and where open source tools foster innovation in her fields.
In this episode of the Nextcloud Podcast, we meet Aline Blankertz, a German data economist and digital rights campaigner. Aline is an economist and Tech Economy Lead at Rebalance Now, where she works on strategies to counter concentrated power in digital markets. She combines years of experience in competition economics with a strong commitment to making markets democratically accountable.
This episode of the Nextcloud Podcast is an exciting contributor story. And just in time before holidays, we are talking about cooking... and code. Meet Christian Wolf, a long-term Nextcloud contributor and maintainer of the famous Cookbook app!
During his early coding days, Christian was trying to learn more about web applications. Seeking an app to sharpen his skills with, he came across the Cookbook app. Many years later, Christian is the main brain behind Cookbook, while the app is one of the most popular apps on Nextcloud App Store.
Christian shares with us how he got into coding and open source, his work on the Cookbook app and his vision for its future, and tips for people who want to start developing for Nextcloud.
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