{"id":12789,"date":"2017-01-17T17:09:06","date_gmt":"2017-01-17T17:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextcloud.com\/?p=1544"},"modified":"2023-06-07T10:27:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T08:27:51","slug":"congratulations-owncloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextcloud.com\/de\/blog\/congratulations-owncloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, ownCloud!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seven years ago on this day, Frank Karlitschek announced a project at Camp KDE in San Diego<\/a> to help people protect their privacy: ownCloud. Today, he and the team that started this effort are still working on this exact same thing (though under a different name). We’re super proud of the huge community we have built<\/a> over the last 7 years and the millions of users who have been able to take back control over their data thanks to our work!<\/p>\n

We have two videos to share, one in which Frank announces this project and another from the Nextcloud Conference where the team from the first years, from the very first ownCloud meeting ever, recalls some fun memories!<\/p>\n

How it started<\/h2>\n

On January 17, 2010, Frank Karlitschek announced the ownCloud project with the goal to develop a free and open source replacement for Dropbox and the like. The goal was to put users back in control over their data.<\/p>\n