February 01 - 02, 2025
Brussels, Belgium
February 1, 2025 @ 10:30 am
From February 1 to February 2, you can find Nextcloud at FOSDEM in Brussels. You can participate in our presentations, lightning talks, panel sessions and parties!
FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year, thousands of developers of free and open source software from all over the world gather at the event in Brussels.
Right before FOSDEM, the OpenForum Europe event will take place on January 31.
Meet us at the EU Open Source Policy Summit 2025.
We look forward to seeing you in Brussels!
CEO & Founder
Frank founded the ownCloud project in 2010 to put home users and enterprises back in control of their data. To bring file sync and share technology to the next level and better align to the needs of users and customers he founded Nextcloud in 2016 and has been tirelessly working to realize his vision ever since.
Co-founder, Communications Director
Jos graduated in Psychology from the University of Utrecht and handled project and service level management at Royal Bank of Scottland, KPN and the Dutch Department of Education. He has over a decade open source marketing and PR experience, being active in the KDE community for over a decade and working as Community Manager for several companies including SUSE Linux.
Sales and Marketing Manager Benelux
Fabrice started his career at Dutch central government where he helped executing the Dutch policy for open standards and open source software. Later on Fabrice worked as a sales consultant, manager and entrepreneur in several domains. He developed a profound love for marketing, automation and search engine marketing and worked as a digital marketing specialist on marketing automation and inbound marketing projects.
Co-founder, pre-sales lead
Björn is a computer scientist, graduated at the University of Stuttgart. He conducted research in the area of cloud robotics before he joined a private cloud community project in 2012 and later co-founded Nextcloud. Björn has a deep knowledge about all technical and legal aspects of Free and Open Source Software. After working for several years as a software engineer he became a sales engineer, using his in-depth knowledge to provide the best possible solutions to our customers.
It’s a tradition. A TRADITION! So, sit back, relax, and enjoy the show.
I’ll share what happened in Nextcloud in 2024. It’s a lot, as always. Will it be 300 slides this year? 400? Nobody knows, not even me! But you will find out.
We’re still working to change the world, here at Nextcloud. We grow, fast, and serve more users with more on-premises, secure and just beautiful software that keeps their data safe from Big Tech.
As we all know, Microsoft has a straightforward strategy that it shares with most other big tech firms from Silicon Valley: get all our data, then charge us for accessing it. MS 365 and Teams in particular are core to that strategy. This is why they gave it away ‘for free’ to so many organizations using COVID. To then turn around and send a bill after, because of course people USED it, uploading documents and such. So the lock-in was complete.
How we work together and bring Collabora Online integration in Nextcloud to the next level with file conversion, document transformation and AI.
Open Source is all about collaboration, but of course we don’t all work in one big project. So projects have to work together – actively. How do collaboration and integration stack up with the competition between projects and even the forking into new ones? Should there be more distributions on distrowatch.org or should we abolish them? We can’t speak for distributions, but certainly for the collaboration tools we built!
Nextclouders, unite!
We don’t have a booth this year, so let’s instead get together for an hour and talk about all the good stuff in one place and time. Come with your questions, ideas, feature requests, bugs and hugs and share them!
Next-what? Oh, you’re in for a treat. Sick of Big Tech owning your data? We have the answer. You can share and work on documents, participate in video calls, have chats, automate stuff or even talk endlessly and uselessly to an artificial intelligence – WITHOUT having to hand over your data. Yes. it is possible. And fully open source too. You just have to host it yourself, as we only make software. No real clouds here!