First virtual Nextcloud Conference huge success with over 6000 live views!

The Nextcloud Conference 2020, kicked off last weekend (October 3-4) as a virtual event and it was glorious 🤩

Last weekend, hundreds of community members joined our virtual conference, with YouTube statistics showing our live stream peaked at 293 simultaneous viewers, Saturday alone having over 6000 views of our channel.

Real-time interaction

We had created a dedicated Nextcloud installation for the conference with accounts for all participants to virtually socialize with each other. It was exciting to see everybody engaging in our Nextcloud Talk channel discussing thoughts, ideas and questions with speakers, employees, contributors and other fans, as well as participate in other activities like answering polls & fun surveys we created to keep the virtual experience as fun and social as meeting altogether live! We will share some of the survey results below, but for the live Q&A sessions you’ll have to stay tuned – we have only part of our video recordings ready and included below.

Of course, participants had the chance to explore all new features that Nextcloud 20 introduced on the conference installation we set up for them! Yes, Nextcloud Hub 20 is out, and we’ll get to this right now!

Over 40 talks and workshops with live Q&A and more!

The exciting news has no end so let’s start with Frank’s keynote for a taste! Frank gave an overview of all the improvements made in Nextcloud over the last year. He then announced Nextcloud Hub 20 as the next step, with a number of major new improvements. Last but not least, he announced a series of new collaborations and integrations with other platforms, featuring quotes from several new partners.

Nextcloud 20

The newest Nextcloud major release brought an impressive series of improvements (again!) with focus in productivity, collaboration and your #HomeOffice. A quick look on the features:

Survey responses

These are only the most important new features! There is, of course, even more about this release, including here performance, design, usability, accessibility and security improvements.

Furthermore, to become an even more useful platform for collaboration, we will be working towards deeper integration with third party platforms. Integrations in Nextcloud 20 already include well known technologies like Slack, MS Online Office Server, SharePoint and Teams, Jira and Github as well as open source contenders like Matrix, Gitlab, Zammad and Moodle among many others.

Nextcloud Hub 20 builds on an open API, the Open Collaboration Services, making integration efforts transparent and well documented.

After the keynote, we gave our community an opportunity to ask live questions in the Talk chat during a panel session with Frank and Jan – we have included the panel in the video above, so check out what important (and perhaps some less important) questions were asked and answered!

Of course, the first day continued with live talks from Berlin, around Nextcloud Talk, desktop & mobile clients, GDPR, security and more. Once we are finished cutting them we will release the videos from Saturday on our YouTube channel. For now, we can only share these moments: