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Prototype Fund: secure funding for your Open Source project!

Do you have a great idea for an open source project but no time to build it on your free time? Always wanted to build a Nextcloud app but don’t know how to get funding to get started? The Prototype Fund is calling for applications,...

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EU governments choose independence from US cloud providers with Nextcloud

As covered today in the German, French and international media, EU Governments are starting to take digital sovereignty more and more serious, moving away from cloud solutions from large, centralized, foreign firms. Responding to escalating trade tensions including the recent dispute over a digital tax...

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Nextcloud Contributor week

The Nextcloud mission and principles

Nextcloud is more than 3 years old. For the founding team, including myself, it was very important to create a company and open source project that has some principles, some moral standard and goals. This should not be just another company which only exists to...

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Help us make the Nextcloud conference 2019 awesome!

This year, the Nextcloud conference will take place again at the Technical University of Berlin in 14-15 September. It is a weekend of talks related to Nextcloud, privacy, security, open source, socializing and fun! Last year many enthusiastic volunteers helped us make the conference cool!...

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In a world with rising ransomware costs, Nextcloud saves your business millions

Can your company afford to pay $600.000 to recover its data and put its employees back to work? What does it cost if your employees can’t work for a week? $50.000? $100.000? At what point will you decide to pay those who keep your data...

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Nextcloud signs public letter, opposing German plan to force decryption of chat

It is said that the one thing one can learn from history is that we don’t learn from history. The clipper chip is an example of this, and it shows again today. It is April 16, 1993. The White House announces the ‚Clipper chip‘, officially...

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Nitrokey and Nextcloud collaborate on securing private clouds

Nitrokey develops fully open and auditable security USB keys for two-factor authentication, cryptographic key storage and much more. Their devices are developed and produced in Germany, primarily in Berlin. No overseas manufacturing is used to ensure quality and avoid hardware security breaches. The installed firmware...

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Nextcloud supports Privacy for All to strengthen the California Consumer Privacy Act

Guest post by Marinela Gogo The more cases of companies ‚playing around‘ with people’s data make their way to the news headlines, the more people become conscious about data privacy concerns. Even governments start to take this issue seriously, after all, we are humans before...

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An app update for Nextcloud

Extract ZIP files in Nextcloud! With over 200 apps, there is a lot of functionality you can add to Nextcloud. Occasionally it just pays off to go check what’s new on apps.nextcloud.com and today we’d like to share a few recently new or updated highlights!...

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