Général Archives - Nextcloud https://nextcloud.com/fr/blog/category/general-fr/ Regain control over your data Fri, 29 Mar 2024 10:21:41 +0000 fr-FR hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 https://nextcloud.com/c/uploads/2022/03/favicon.png Général Archives - Nextcloud https://nextcloud.com/fr/blog/category/general-fr/ 32 32 Educating Bild: password-protected sharing https://nextcloud.com/fr/blog/educating-bild-password-protected-sharing/ https://nextcloud.com/fr/blog/educating-bild-password-protected-sharing/#comments Wed, 13 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://nextcloud.com/?p=203900 The German tabloid Bild featured an article covering the press release published by the German Ministry of Defence about the recent leaks of WebEX calls between army generals. The Bild noted that the password the Ministry of Defence used for the shared Nextcloud link was « 1234 », assuming this was meant to ‘secure’ the link. While […]

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The German tabloid Bild featured an article covering the press release published by the German Ministry of Defence about the recent leaks of WebEX calls between army generals. The Bild noted that the password the Ministry of Defence used for the shared Nextcloud link was « 1234 », assuming this was meant to ‘secure’ the link.

While a press release is obviously meant to be public, which is why the simple password was chosen, you might wonder why the ministry didn’t just use a completely password-less link for their Nextcloud share?

Secure sharing with Nextcloud

Nextcloud differentiates itself from public clouds like Microsoft 365, Dropbox or Google Drive with a focus on privacy and data sovereignty. Unlike public clouds, Nextcloud often runs on private cloud environments, giving the organization deploying it direct control over the data. It wouldn’t make sense for the German government (or any other) to hand over important data to foreign tech firms, which is why Nextcloud is widely deployed in the European public sector.

Protect your public links with passwords

With Nextcloud, users can share directly with other users. This makes sure no data leaves the government data center. But sometimes data must be shared outside the organization, either to a single individual or fully in public like with a press release.

Nextcloud allows users to create one, or more, public links for this purpose. A public link lets a third party who has the link view and (depending on the settings) download and edit the file. As you might share a document for editing with one person, and create another link with only viewing permissions to a second, each link can have its own protections. Including a password, expiration date and more!

The system administrator can put in additional controls, to ensure data is always protected. The File Access Control can use rules to stop files from being accessed outside Germany, for example. Or a mandatory 30 day expiration date can make sure links get cleaned up after a while. And last, but very relevant, administrators can enforce a password on each public link.

This setting is clearly enabled on the Nextcloud server used by the German Ministry of Defense, and explains why a simple password (1234) had to be chosen. Note that administrators can even enforce a certain degree of password quality, blocking such simple passwords from being chosen by users!

In other words. Mr. Pistorius does not use the password ‘1234’ to protect any data – it was meant to make it easy to access the press release.

We hope the readers at Bild appreciate out explanation!

For a more detailed exploration of our file sharing features available throughout Nextcloud, see our in-depth docs on File Sharing or our Sharing features overview.

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Nextcloud Talk : Solution open source de visioconférence https://nextcloud.com/fr/blog/nextcloud-talk-solution-open-source-visioconference/ Fri, 08 Mar 2024 10:00:00 +0000 https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-talk-open-source-online-video-conferencing-software/ Nextcloud Talk est un logiciel de visioconférence en ligne à code source ouvert qui prend en charge vos tchats, vos appels, vos webinaires, vos retransmissions en direct et bien d'autres choses encore.

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Trouver le logiciel de vidéoconférence adéquat peut s’avérer difficile.

Vous vous demandez quelles sont les caractéristiques dont vous avez besoin ?

La solution est-elle évolutive et est-elle suffisamment sûre pour l’ensemble de l’entreprise ?

Aujourd’hui, nous exigeons que les outils de communication en ligne soient les plus performants possibles pour répondre à nos besoins.

Leur rôle est de vous aider à progresser et à surmonter les difficultés.

C’est pourquoi, dans cet article, vous découvrirez pourquoi de plus en plus de particuliers et d’entreprises se tournent vers Nextcloud Talk pour ses fonctionnalités inégalées, sa sécurité et sa collaboration transparente.

Nextcloud Talk : Logiciel libre de visioconférence en ligne

Un outil de visioconférence collaboratif

Nextcloud Talk est une application open-source de visioconférence et de tchat. Conçu pour préserver la confidentialité de toutes vos conversations en ligne, que ce soit par vidéo ou par tchat, toutes les données sont conservées sur vos propres serveurs et aucune donnée – pas même les métadonnées – ne peut être divulguée.

Les fonctionnalités dont vous avez besoin pour vos réunions :

La visioconférence dans Nextcloud offre des fonctionnalités essentielles et utiles pour rendre les appels vidéo optimum.

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👋 Partage de l’écran avec vue du profil

Laissez les autres participants à l’appel vous voir pendant que vous partagez votre écran afin de favoriser une rencontre plus humaine.

Nextcloud Talk: Recording consent

🎦 Facilité d’enregistrement

Enregistrez vos visioconférences pour les conserver ou les utiliser ultérieurement. Avant que quiconque ne rejoigne l’appel, une fenêtre contextuelle de consentement à l’enregistrement est affichée afin de garantir une transparence totale aux participants. Téléchargez et sauvegardez votre enregistrement dans votre Nextcloud.

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👥Support pour les conférences avec des groupes nombreux

De nombreux participants ? Aucun problème. Les groupes importants en nombre sont parfaitement gérés et vous ne ferez pas la différence.

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🤩 Réactions lors des appels

Exprimez vos sentiments en réaction à la teneur de la parole d’un intervenant, sans aller jusqu’à le perturber.

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📉 Suivi de la durée de l’appel et du temps de parole des orateurs

Au bout d’une heure, vous recevrez une notification vous indiquant que vous avez atteint la durée d’appel, vous permettant ainsi de rester conscient de votre temps et de celui des autres. Vous n’aurez plus à deviner combien de temps vous avez parlé, car le temps de parole de chaque participant est enregistré et noté à la fin de l’appel.

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📱Disponible sur l’application web et les appareils mobiles

Organisez des visioconférences au bureau, à la maison ou sur mobile avec iOS et Android comme jamais auparavant.

Pourquoi ça marche : Intégré à votre Nextcloud 🔗

Nextcloud est unique dans le sens où tout est interconnecté. Vous pouvez explorer d’incroyables capacités d’intégration avec le reste de votre plateforme collaborative de gestion de contenu.

Vous ne savez pas ce que cela implique ?

Nextcloud fonctionne comme une plateforme à guichet unique intégrant ses propres plateformes de stockage de fichiers, de courrier électronique, de tchat/vidéo et plus encore, afin que vous puissiez travailler de manière efficace et en toute flexibilité.

Par exemple, si vous êtes en plein appel dans Nextcloud Talk avec un collègue et que vous souhaitez partager une proposition sur laquelle votre équipe a travaillé, vous pouvez ouvrir le document directement depuis la barre latérale du tchat. Cela est dû au fait que Nextcloud Files et Nextcloud Talk sont intégrés, ce qui vous permet d’économiser beaucoup de temps et d’efforts.

Les avantages étonnants de Nextcloud fonctionnant comme une plateforme unique ne s’arrêtent pas là – permettez des centaines, voire des milliers, de possibilités d’intégration à travers toutes les applications avec Nextcloud en tant que plateforme unique.

Regarder l’enregistrement du webinaire

Vous préférez écouter ? Nous avons organisé un webinaire complet sur les fonctions de sécurité de Nextcloud Talk – regardez-le dès à présent !

Regarder l'enregistrement

Système backend à haute performance

Allez plus loin avec le backend haute performance (HPB) de Nextcloud Talk.

Conçu pour les grandes organisations, le backend haute performance de Nextcloud Talk offre la capacité, la fiabilité et les fonctionnalités dont les entreprises ont besoin pour mener leurs activités en toute confidentialité, sécurité et efficacité.

Une simplicité d’utilisation imbattable

  • Connexion par une ligne téléphonique pour rejoindre un appel avec une passerelle SIP
  • Organiser des webinaires à grande échelle, des émissions publiques ou des vidéoconférences avec le lobby

En tant que client HPB, vous constaterez une amélioration de la vitesse de connexion et de l’efficacité du réseau après la mise en œuvre, en raison de la réduction de la charge des appels sur le serveur Nextcloud.

Pourquoi un système de visioconférence open-source ?

Avec la technologie open-source, vous avez la possibilité de contrôler entièrement vos données. Que vous hébergiez Nextcloud Talk vous-même sur votre propre serveur ou que vous fassiez appel à un fournisseur d’hébergement de confiance, vos données de communication se produisent et restent sur votre serveur, contrairement aux alternatives populaires telles que Microsoft Teams ou Slack.

Cette protection unique va encore plus loin grâce à nos technologies cryptées, qui tiennent même les métadonnées à l’écart.

Le tchat et la vidéo Nextcloud Talk ont été conçus dans le respect de votre vie privée.

Nous contacter

Nous sommes prêts à vous faire découvrir ce qu’est vraiment la visioconférence. Vous voulez tester le logiciel open source Nextcloud Talk.

Obtenir Nextcloud Talk

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Nextcloud 2023 Wrap-Up https://nextcloud.com/fr/blog/nextcloud-2023-wrap-up/ Thu, 21 Dec 2023 10:05:30 +0000 https://nextcloud.com/?p=189195 2023 was special, and so is our wrap-up! Dive into at all the big things we achieved together, news, content highlights, and so much more.

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Nextcloud 2023 Wrap Up

Thank you for choosing Nextcloud. We look forward to serving you next year, wishing you all the best and hoping that it brings you joy, success, and endless possibilities with Nextcloud by your side. Our annual Wrap-Up is packed with exciting updates, insights, and behind-the-scenes stories that showcase the dedication and hard work of our team and community in 2023. Beep… boop… beep.

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Incredible company growth 🌍

Nextcloud GmbH is set to exceed its growth goals this year with already over 60% higher bookings compared to 2022, adding hundreds of new Enterprise customers and partners. We are very proud to continue our growing streak, achieved in an organic, sustainable way, without relying on external investors. We are deeply grateful for the trust you’ve shown us and we will continue to prove you made the right decision!

To accommodate our growth had to change offices, and in both Berlin and Stuttgart, we now have new, bigger and more centrally located offices. In Berlin, you can find us pretty much next to the Friedrichstrasse station in the heart of the city. In Stuttgart we moved less far, only a few blocks from where we used to be at Rotebühlplatz. Of course, most team members continue to work from home from all over the world!

We are now over 100 team members spanning 20 countries, all working remotely or in our offices in Berlin and Stuttgart. With a third of them joining us in 2023, we witnessed an impressive team growth!

Notably, eight team members are working students who joined Nextcloud to start their career early in the software industry, gaining valuable experience and knowledge alongside their studies.

Welcoming talent from all walks of life, Nextcloud is dedicated to seeking bright minds all across the globe. This year, team members from seven new locations joined us: Cameroon, Finland, Georgia, Hungary, India, Taiwan and Wales (UK).

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Nextcloud crew at the Enterprise Day in Munich

A thriving community 🧬

Of course we are more than a company! Nextcloud’s success would not be possible without a healthy, thriving community of contributors behind Nextcloud. In 2023, we have seen many lines of code weaving the world’s leading open-source collaboration platform.

25k+ GitHub commits 🧑‍💻

Done by the Nextcloud team and community.

9k+ new forum members 🤓

+7.8k new topics and +36.6k new posts on the Nextcloud Community forum.

100+ security experts thanked 🩺

With 100+ reports resolved this year, our Security team demonstrated an incredibly swift response time: 2 hours on average.

76 new app uploads 🧩

Numerous new integrations submitted, ready to use in Nextcloud.

Technology 😍

All these amazing people worked together and made tons of changes to Nextcloud itself, bringing our users not 1, not 2, not 3 but FOUR releases!

Growing pace with Hub launching 4x 🚀

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Hub 4

Hub 4 brings ethical AI to Nextcloud, introducing content generation features backed by pioneering open source AI models. Smart Picker arrives in multiple core apps, offering easy sharing of multiple items like files, cards, tables, locations, Collectives, and much more. It is also the first time the Tables app appears in Hub, along with Notes as a core app.

Hub 5

Hub 5 earns Nextcloud Hub the title of the 1st self-hosted AI-powered workspace with numerous features and AI models joining the stack. The ecosystem evolves: Tables receives elaborate formatting tools, chatting and conferencing in Talk is much more intuitive, and new integrations like Notion, Outlook and Teams become available.

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Hub 6

With Hub 6, the whole platform advances towards a smarter collaboration suite. Nextcloud Assistant arrives in Hub, introducing a sleek AI interface and diverse in-app text processing tools. Multiple improvements in Talk, Dashboard, Groupware and other apps provide better focus and a healthier online working culture.

Hub 7

Finally, with our latest release, we make Hub even more interconnected and synergetic. Cross-app features like Unified Search and out-of-office message highlight this version’s focus on integrity, while user-focused platform-wide improvements and ongoing investment in AI augmentation further elevate Hub experience.

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High-profile achievements

Cloud Computing Insider Award

For the 7th time in a row, we were nominated for a Cloud Computing Insider award. This year, we won Gold in the Cloud Content Management category.

European SFS Award

In 2023, Nextcloud’s founder Frank Karlitschek accepted the European SFS award in the Name of Nextcloud, its community and team.

European Award by Acteurs du Libre

Held at Open Source Experience Paris, the Acteurs du Libre award ceremony welcomed Nextcloud on stage to receive the European Award in collaboration with APELL.

Pioneering ethical AI 🧠

This year, Nextcloud has been committed to introducing and advancing AI capabilities in Hub, embracing transparency, choice and fair technologies. Ethical AI has become a highlight of 2023, with our efforts to help our users make informed decisions while having access to the best-in-class solutions. With dozens of AI integrations available in Nextcloud to this day, there are options matching everyone’s needs: remote or local, established or emerging, universal or leading in their niche.

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Welcome Nextcloud Assistant

Nextcloud Assistant is a 100% open-source AI assistant that doesn’t prey on your data! It offers a friendly, native interface to an AI model of your choice, hosted locally or remotely. Use it in Mail to summarize threads, in Text to analyze and generate content, in Talk to augment your conversation, or anywhere in Hub via the toolbar to perform quick text related tasks.

Ethical AI Rating

With numerous AI models and services available in Nextcloud, we want you to to be aware of the risks you take. Our Ethical AI Rating, labeling apps based on code transparency, deployment model, and availability of training data, helps you build your AI stack with confidence.

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Collaboration with the German government

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein has made a bet on Nextcloud to foster digitization of the state affairs, including the AI strategy. In collaboration with the State Chancellery, we are developing a language model tailored to unique state administration tasks while keeping digital threats at bay. Announced with the Hub 7 release, the development of Nextcloud Assistant Context Chat is the first fruit borne from this collaboration. Read the full story to learn more.

A leap forward in global tech decentralization ✊

In our vision, data privacy and digital sovereignty don’t go well together with the Big Tech domination. Not only do we make software enjoyed by private users, government and businesses alike, but we also want to tip the scales in the global technological decentralization. In this regard, 2023 has been a success!

What made this year special:
Anti-trust coalition and Digital Markets Act

On behalf of the coalition of the independent European technology providers, Nextcloud has filed a collective anti-trust complaint with German authorities which spiked an investigation into Microsoft’s market domination. In September 2023, the Digital Markets Act went into effect, requiring Microsoft to revise its alleged market-distorting behavior by March 2024.

EU bets on Nextcloud to replace SharePoint

The impending end of support for the SharePoint Server leads to a growing need for alternatives. Government agencies in particular face concerns regarding data sovereignty and vendor lock-in, leaning towards on-premises collaboration tools. The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) sets the standard for data protection with Nextcloud, being one of the most prominent examples of Nextcloud implementation in the European public sector.

Roundcube joins the Nextcloud family

Earlier this year, Nextcloud and Roundcube announced a merger bringing the open-source email giant under Nextcloud’s stewardship. “The merger not only underscores the collective strength of the open source community, but also highlights our enduring commitment to privacy, security, and user empowerment.” – underlines Nextcloud founder Frank Karlitschek. Read the story in our blog and join the discussion on the forum.

Moments that mattered: event recap 🗺

34 events 🗓

We attended 34 events around the world, exhibiting, speaking, and meeting our community: FOSDEM, Cloud Expo Europe, it-sa, GITEX Global, Smart City Expo, and many other key industry gatherings.

60 webinars 📺

From educating our users about new functionality and administration to the use of Nextcloud in various professional settings, this year’s streams covered a hefty number of practical topics with over 5500 sign-ups.

Nextcloud Conference 2023

On September 16th and 17th, we hosted the annual Nextcloud Conference under the motto “Trust, Transparency, Together.” Packed with insightful talks and panels, the event aired the announcement of Hub 6, Max Schrems’ EU-US data privacy keynote, Katrin Fritsch’s keynote on green internet, and Simon Phipps’ talk about the Fourth Sector.

Looking back at the marvelous time we spent together at MotionLab.Berlin, we invite you to read the Day 1 and Day 2 recaps. Session recordings are available on our YouTube playlist:

Nextcloud Enterprise Day

This year, we organized two events for Nextcloud enterprise community — Enterprise Day in Munich on June 13 and a special Enterprise Day France on December 5. Often held bi-annually, Nextcloud Enterprise Day helps us understand the needs of the business and government markets, setting the right course for feature development and integration. If you wish to participate next year, stay tuned for the announcement!

New developer program 🛠

This year, we welcomed the new Developer Program that offers you free promotion and opens a new window of possibilities for growth.! Now you have the opportunity to build apps in any language for tens of millions of Nextcloud users worldwide. What’s more, all core apps are now fully documented with OpenAPI by OCS (Open Collaboration Services). Make use of our documentation and examples to build an app that may just become the next #1 tool of choice!

And, of course, we announced it at our conference and advanced the state of technology with Nextcloud Hub 7: you can now build Nextcloud apps in your favorite programming language! No longer is PHP the only option, but Python, Go, Ruby, Rust, Java – bring it on!

Last but not least — welcome a fully redesigned app store and the new app ecosystem offering a better UI as well as smoother downloads and installation.

Content that you liked the most 💌

This year, we wrote 126 blogs, published over 90 videos, aired 3 successful podcasts, and created 13 community newsletters — all with the biggest engagement yet.

Top reads of the year

Plug in: Nextcloud podcast

Most watched: Developer tutorials

Among multiple How-Tos, presentations, and feature updates, there’s a particular category of videos that stands out.

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Nextcloud on field: case studies 📰

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Sorbonne Université atteint la souveraineté numérique avec Nextcloud.

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Archdiocese of Cologne: More than 4,400 users collaborate on Nextcloud Hub

Learn how the Archdiocese of Cologne, Germany enables collaboration for more than 4,400 users with Nextcloud Hub

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The Republic of Serbia deploys Nextcloud for compliant, on-premises collaboration

Discover how the Republic of Serbia deploys Nextcloud for compliant, on-premises collaboration in this case study!

Growing connectivity: new integrations 🧩

Have fun in 2024! 🥳

Every year is a new challenge, yet the world keeps spinning and we remain a team of people who believe in the greater good. That’s why we built Nextcloud, a mighty open-source collaboration engine set to put you back in control over your data and make your working life comfortable. Thank you all, and cheers to all the great things that await us in 2024! 😍

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Nextcloud release channels and how to track them https://nextcloud.com/fr/blog/nextcloud-release-channels-and-how-to-track-them/ Tue, 19 Dec 2023 10:28:54 +0000 https://nextcloud.com/?p=189146 Discover Nextcloud's release channels, how to track them and more to choose the best versioning strategy that fits your needs.

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With millions of Nextcloud users, there are a wide variety of needs and requirements for a private cloud server. Release channels allow you to pick a versioning strategy that fits you.

The release process

Check out this video that goes through how our release channels work!

We make new versions available incrementally to user installations in our Stable channel. When a major new version comes out, we wait about one week and only when no problems are found, we start the roll out in steps of about 20% of our user base per week.

That means if you maintain several servers, some get it sooner than others. For instance, sometimes an issue is found that was not caught during our pre-release testing, so we delay the roll-out until the fix is available.

As a result, a new release is typically only available in the Stable channel after the first minor release. Sometimes it can take even a bit longer. Users can always upgrade sooner by choosing the beta channel, which typically tracks stable releases immediately after publishing.

After upgrading to the new major release from the Beta channel, you can switch back to stable where you will be notified of minor releases as usual.

Release and maintenance schedule

You can find the release and maintenance schedule on GitHub

Check it out

Types of release channels

Whether you want the latest features, want to help with testing, or just want to wait until everything is perfectly ready to go, we’ve got options for you. We offer 4 release channels: Production, Stable, Beta and Daily. See the table below and compare to find what works best for you or your organization.

Release channel   Use case   Get it here
Production This channel is used to deliver the Nextcloud Enterprise build to our customers.
Our customers have access to a special build of Nextcloud, giving them the reliable Enterprise solution they need for the best possible experience.
Learn more about our offering for customers.
Stable This channel delivers the latest feature releases ready for most users at minimal risk.
Note that Nextcloud does staged roll-outs, making releases incrementally available to the user base over time. We are very careful about new major releases, usually only making them available after the first minor bug fix release. To update sooner to the new version, use the Beta channel. Around big releases the Beta channel delivers the new major version.
You can get the latest Stable version from our installation page.
Beta Betas and release candidates are the versions of choice for testers in preparation for an Nextcloud release. They provide a short-term-stable point to report bugs against. Grab these to make sure the upcoming release works well on your infrastructure. Automatically generated snapshot tarballs and betas track daily Nextcloud development. These are suitable to check if bugs are fixed but can break any time.
Daily Daily builds are meant to reproduce bugs as well as to enable testers to follow the development of the next major version. Archive File (MD5)

Where to choose a release channel

You can choose a release channel of your preference in the Administrator settings in your Nextcloud instance if you have installed Nextcloud from an archive.

How upgrading works

When upgrading, you can only upgrade to a newer version. Skipping major versions when upgrading and downgrading to older versions is not supported by Nextcloud. For example, if you went via ‘beta’ to 14.0.0rc4 and ‘stable’ is on 13.0.5, you’d have to wait until 14.0.0 or later is in ‘stable’ until a new update will become available.

Note: If you are looking to grab an archive of a specific version you can find links to them in our changelog.

How releases function

Normally, releases don’t show up in the updater app right away. We usually stagger releases out to watch the impact and hold off in case very serious problems pop up. In practice, most bugfix releases are available within a week, major releases to a proportion of the users on release day in the Stable channel; we will increase that percentage usually to 100% after the first bugfix release. Packages for the Release channels might be available in distributions, docker images, Snap and so on, this is up to the packagers and communities developing for those platforms.

To upgrade in the safest way possible, always update to the latest minor release before upgrading to a new version. As an extreme example, to upgrade from 9 all the way to 12.0.5, upgrade 9.0.x to 9.0.6, then upgrade to 10.0.6, 11.0.7, then 12.0.5. We try to set up our updater to do this automatically for you whenever possible.

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Gardez vos données dans votre institution éducative : Utiliser Nextcloud localement dans les établissements scolaires et universitaires https://nextcloud.com/fr/blog/gardez-vos-donnees-dans-votre-institution-educative-utiliser-nextcloud-localement-dans-les-etablissements-scolaires-et-universitaires/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 10:05:46 +0000 https://nextcloud.com/blog/gardez-vos-donnees-dans-votre-institution-educative-utiliser-nextcloud-localement-dans-les-etablissements-scolaires-et-universitaires/ Nextcloud est une solution sécurisée pour les écoles, les universités et les instituts de recherche. En savoir plus sur les caractéristiques et les bénéfices que vous pouvez en tirer !

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Gardez vos données dans votre institution éducative : Utiliser Nextcloud localement dans les établissements scolaires et universitaires https://nextcloud.com/fr/blog/gardez-vos-donnees-dans-votre-institution-educative-utiliser-nextcloud-localement-dans-les-etablissements-scolaires-et-universitaires/ Thu, 07 Dec 2023 10:05:46 +0000 https://nextcloud.com/blog/gardez-vos-donnees-dans-votre-institution-educative-utiliser-nextcloud-localement-dans-les-etablissements-scolaires-et-universitaires/ Nextcloud est une solution sécurisée pour les écoles, les universités et les instituts de recherche. En savoir plus sur les caractéristiques et les bénéfices que vous pouvez en tirer !

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Qui détient les données dans votre université ?

Qui détient les fichiers de votre école ?

À qui appartiennent les données des élèves ?

La protection des données dans les écoles, les universités et les autres établissements d’enseignement est primordiale pour le bien des organisations et de leurs étudiants. Les mesures de sécurité protégeant les informations personnelles, la communication externe et le travail collaboratif doivent être préservées intégralement et en toute transparence.

Avec Nextcloud Hub, les établissements éducatifs peuvent facilement protéger leurs données stockées sur site afin de garantir une sécurité optimale. Voyons comment Nextcloud fonctionne pour les enseignants, les étudiants et les chercheurs.

Confidentialité des données et conformité pour le personnel enseignant

Les administrateurs scolaires et le personnel enseignant sont les garants de l’avenir de leurs élèves et de la protection de leur vie privée. Les informations personnelles des étudiants doivent être protégées et conservées dans les locaux de l’école ou de l’université. Nextcloud garantit une sécurité maximale afin que vous puissiez stocker, partager et archiver des fichiers en toute transparence et avec précision.

« Nous voulions offrir un service alternatif aux suites bureautiques de Google ou de Microsoft qui soit compatible avec notre politique de souveraineté des données ».

Sorbonne Université, étude de cas

Pour de nombreuses écoles et universités, la confidentialité et la conformité des données peuvent être difficiles à assurer lorsqu’elles utilisent des logiciels propriétaires. Avec Nextcloud, les écoles peuvent obtenir un hébergement local des données sur leur propre serveur et garder un contrôle total sur leur infrastructure informatique.

Apprentissage et collaboration à distance des étudiants

L’apprentissage des étudiants est facilité lorsque les technologies qu’ils utilisent sont fiables. Ils doivent être en mesure de collaborer facilement avec d’autres étudiants, de travailler sur leurs devoirs et de soumettre des travaux et des projets. Nextcloud offre une plateforme intuitive que les étudiants peuvent utiliser facilement et à laquelle ils peuvent se connecter de n’importe où. En matière d’apprentissage à distance, Nextcloud est là pour ça :

  • Appels vidéo avec salles de réunion
  • Edition en temps réel des documents
  • Tchat sécurisé avec des camarades de classe et des enseignants
  • Stockage de fichiers contrôlé par l’administrateur
  • Intégrations avec les plateformes électroniques les plus courantes
  • Accès à partir d’interfaces web, mobiles et ordinateurs de bureau
  • Et bien plus encore !

Quels que soient les besoins de votre école, université ou institution, ils peuvent être satisfaits par Nextcloud.

Les avantages de Nextcloud Enterprise

Seul Nextcloud Enterprise offre aux institutions éducatives la fiabilité, la sécurité et la conformité dont elles ont besoin pour déployer en toute confiance des applications dans des environnements critiques.

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Un logiciel puissant et évolutif pour les chercheurs

Les chercheurs universitaires et les doctorants travaillent avec une quantité importante de données. Certaines données sont faciles à stocker, comme les fichiers et les documents, tandis que d’autres, comme les images et les vidéos, les enregistrements sonores et les données de mesure, nécessitent une grande capacité de stockage. La plateforme Nextcloud peut gérer de grandes quantités de données, s’adapte facilement et peut être stockée localement sur votre serveur.

Success stories dans le domaine de l’éducation

Sorbonne University

Sorbonne Université à Paris

Nextcloud a fourni à l’université une solution cloud souveraine pour ses chercheurs, ses étudiants et son personnel.

Nextcloud Hub improves convenience for Meiji University

Université Meiji au Japon

Nextcloud Hub a considérablement amélioré la vie des étudiants et des professeurs.

Redonnez le contrôle à votre école ou université

Nextcloud offre aux écoles et aux universités un contrôle total sur leurs données, leur infrastructure informatique et leur avenir grâce à la solution Nextcloud Hub. Avec une facilité d’utilisation pour les étudiants, une collaboration transparente pour les éducateurs et de meilleures performances pour les chercheurs, Nextcloud peut répondre aux besoins de tous les départements.

Nextcloud dans l’éducation

Nextcloud est un pionnier dans l’accompagnement des institutions éducatives vers un futur souverain en matière de données.

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The Republic of Serbia deploys Nextcloud for compliant, on-premises collaboration https://nextcloud.com/fr/blog/the-republic-of-serbia-deploys-nextcloud-for-compliant-on-premises-collaboration/ Tue, 05 Dec 2023 10:03:00 +0000 https://nextcloud.com/?p=184498 Discover how the Republic of Serbia deployed Nextcloud for its 250 National Assembly deputies for secure and compliant collaboration.

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The Republic of Serbia’s National Assembly is the highest representative body holding constitutional and legislative power in Serbia. Made up of 250 deputies, they elect government leaders, adopt and amend the Constitution, and appoint state officials. Due to the nature of their work, it’s fundamental to utilize a secure and compliant platform that they can trust and rely on.

In this summary of our newest government case study, follow along and discover the Republic of Serbia’s unique challenges, how Nextcloud was implemented, and ultimately how our solution fits the needs for its legislators and their data.

Serbian government

The challenge

The Serbian government believes digitalization is expected to bring many benefits to the general public, civil sector and government institutions. Through its national digitalization project, they intend to promote digitization of state and civil institutions. One way to achieve this is through implementing a more innovative IT solution for its government.

In the past, the Serbian government relied on a VPN and SMB (Server Message Block) for
accessing and sharing files. However, it wasn’t user friendly and there were often issues that arose
that wasted IT staff resources. It was time to look for a solution.

Requirements for the project

  • All data kept in Serbia
  • Compliant with data privacy laws
  • Supports large files
  • Meets reliability and performance standards
  • Supports mobile clients
  • Integrate with Serbia’s national digitalization project

Choosing a new solution

IT company NETcom System d.o.o. worked closely with the National Assembly’s Operations, Communication and IT sectors to find a new solution. They proposed Nextcloud because of its ability to run your own server on-premises, enable secure document sharing, and facilitate team collaboration.

“Data security is paramount when choosing software solutions that our institution needs.”


Dario Kukolj, Head of Operations and Technical
Affairs and Information Technology Sector

A digitally sovereign state

With the implementation of Nextcloud, the Serbian government regained control over their data and achieved digital sovereignty. The National Assembly leaders can now collaborate on projects easily and rely on everything they need in one place. They can also benefit from secure sharing of documents to external parties and be reassured by overall increased security.

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Souveraineté numérique pour les organisations gouvernementales et les services publics avec Nextcloud Enterprise https://nextcloud.com/fr/blog/souverainete-numerique-pour-les-organisations-gouvernementales-et-les-services-publics-avec-nextcloud-enterprise/ Fri, 10 Nov 2023 10:04:42 +0000 https://nextcloud.com/blog/souverainete-numerique-pour-les-organisations-gouvernementales-et-les-services-publics-avec-nextcloud-enterprise/ Les gouvernements, les agences et les services publics ont l’immense responsabilité de protéger les données des citoyens. Compte tenu de l’immense choix d’outils de collaboration en ligne hébergés par des dizaines de fournisseurs différents, il est difficile de garder une vue d’ensemble sur l’endroit où sont hébergées les données. Dans le même temps, des politiques […]

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Les gouvernements, les agences et les services publics ont l’immense responsabilité de protéger les données des citoyens. Compte tenu de l’immense choix d’outils de collaboration en ligne hébergés par des dizaines de fournisseurs différents, il est difficile de garder une vue d’ensemble sur l’endroit où sont hébergées les données. Dans le même temps, des politiques strictes interdisant aux employés d’utiliser des plateformes tierces aléatoires limitent leur productivité et il est difficile de s’assurer que les règles soient respectées.

La meilleure solution consiste bien sûr à proposer une plateforme de collaboration unique, facile à utiliser, offrant toutes les fonctionnalités dont les utilisateurs ont besoin ET à laquelle on peut se fier pour la gestion des données sensibles. Mais pouvez-vous faire confiance à un fournisseur tiers disposant d’un tel pouvoir ? Le choix d’un fournisseur a des conséquences sur le plan juridique, mais aussi sur le plan de l’image publique.

Et si vous ne deviez pas dépendre d’un tiers et pouviez garder vos données sous votre propre contrôle ?

Alors que la souveraineté numérique suscite de plus en plus d’inquiétudes, de nombreux gouvernements et services publics découvrent les avantages d’une plateforme de collaboration open-source sur site telle que Nextcloud. Voyons pourquoi les gouvernements du monde entier choisissent la solution Nextcloud.

Hébergez vos données dans vos locaux

Les fournisseurs étrangers de services cloud, tels que Microsoft et Google, attirent des clients du monde entier, mais pour ceux se trouvant hors des États-Unis, il y a des conséquences juridiques et pratiques.

L’une d’entre elles est d’être soumis à la pression d’un gouvernement étranger. Les États-Unis disposent de lois qui obligent les entreprises technologiques à communiquer leurs données aux agences de renseignement américaines, ainsi qu’aux entreprises ou aux agences gouvernementales lorsqu’un tribunal l’ordonne. Cela peut même se faire sous le couvert d’une ordonnance de secret, de sorte que l’entité dont les données sont transmises n’en aura pas connaissance – ou seulement longtemps après que cela se soit produit. En bref, les données d’entreprises ou d’organisations étrangères sont en danger et peuvent être compromises à tout moment dès lors qu’elles sont hébergées par des entreprises américaines. Notez la formulation – cela s’étend au-delà des frontières des États-Unis ! Même les données hébergées dans un centre de données européen d’une entreprise américaine sont soumises au CLOUD Act, signée par le président américain Donald Trump. Malgré les efforts internationaux pour remédier à la situation, même le cadre transatlantique UE-États-Unis sur la confidentialité des données n’élimine pas le risque encouru.

Il est beaucoup plus sûr d’héberger vos données dans des serveurs de confiance situés dans votre pays. Avec Nextcloud, les gouvernements et les services publics peuvent contrôler leurs données et n’ont pas à se soucier des réglementations étrangères ou de l’évolution des lois. De tous nos clients gouvernementaux, l’hébergement des données dans leur propre pays est la priorité la plus importante qui peut être atteinte en déployant Nextcloud.

Par exemple, la ville de Genève a accordé une grande importance à une solution cloud sécurisée et conforme à la législation sur la confidentialité des données suisse. Avec Nextcloud, ces exigences étaient toutes possibles et, pour le prouver, un audit approfondi a même été réalisé pour s’assurer que notre solution était la mieux adaptée.

Ville de Genève - étude de cas

Éviter la dépendance à l’égard d’un fournisseur

Un risque important avec les fournisseurs de SaaS est celui de la dépendance envers le fournisseur. La dépendance envers un fournisseur, souvent inhérente aux produits SaaS, est une situation où le client ne peut changer de fournisseur, car les coûts de changement seraient très élevés. Il ne s’agit pas seulement d’une question financière : souvent, le changement de fournisseur implique la perte de (méta) données ou une longue période d’absence de service. Le retrait de données d’un service cloud, par exemple, peut prendre beaucoup de temps et entraîner l’arrêt des opérations. Voici quelques risques identifiables :

  1. Si les sanctions obligent le vendeur à arrêter son produit ou son service, s’il fait faillite ou si l’entreprise est vendue, le client peut se retrouver en difficulté. S’ils veulent mettre à jour leurs conditions générales qui vont à l’encontre de vos protocoles, ils ont le pouvoir de le faire sans vous en informer à l’avance. Ce type de manque de fiabilité ne peut être toléré par les organisations gouvernementales et les entités du secteur public.
  2. Si le vendeur augmente ses prix, vous devez payer le nouveau prix.

Microsoft a réussi à multiplier par cinq ses prix indexés sur l’inflation pour son produit Office destiné aux entreprises depuis 2003, soutirant ainsi beaucoup plus d’argent à ses clients au fil des ans. Si cela bénéficie à leurs actionnaires, les clients, eux, sont moins ravis.

  1. Si votre entreprise dépend d’un produit, d’une fonction ou d’une intégration essentiels fournis par le vendeur et que celui-ci décide de le ou les supprimer, vous n’aurez pas vraiment le choix et devrez trouver une nouvelle solution.

Quel est l’antidote idéal contre les risques de dépendance envers un fournisseur ? La réponse est l’open source. Lorsque vous utilisez une solution open source comme Nextcloud chez vous ou chez un hébergeur local, personne n’a le pouvoir d’arrêter votre service ou de vous interdire l’accès à vos données. Même si, pour une raison quelconque, Nextcloud n’était plus un fournisseur fiable, la disponibilité du code source et nos politiques en matière de normes ouvertes permettraient aux clients de migrer vers d’autres solutions tout en conservant leur service pendant la période intermédiaire.

Protection des données des citoyens

Avec la numérisation croissante, le défi de la protection de la vie privée et de la sécurité devient de plus en plus important. Les institutions publiques ne doivent pas être perçues comme étant à l’origine de fuites de données concernant les citoyens. Il est primordial que les institutions gouvernementales disposent d’une solution qui leur donne, ainsi qu’à leurs citoyens, la certitude que la manière dont elles stockent et traitent les données soit sécurisée.

Avec Nextcloud Files, les entités gouvernementales peuvent compter sur un échange de documents sécurisé en interne et avec d’autres organisations. Les fonctions de sécurité telles que le dépôt de fichiers (File Drop), les dossiers de groupe avec des autorisations avancées et la gestion des versions persistantes créent un environnement de travail sûr.

9 fonctionnalités de Nextcloud pour les utilisateurs des organismes publics

Favoriser la numérisation

Avec la multitude d’outils de productivité disponibles sur le marché, il est facile d’en choisir quelques-uns que l’on considère comme les meilleurs pour leur utilisation principale : Le tchat interne le plus rapide, le système de messagerie le plus élégant et le stockage de fichiers le plus polyvalent. Cependant, le fait de passer constamment d’une application à l’autre peut entraîner une surcharge cognitive, c’est-à-dire le passage d’une tâche à l’autre, ce qui est très éprouvant sur le plan intellectuel. Elle accroît également votre dépendance à l’égard de multiples plateformes et des entreprises qui les soutiennent.

La collaboration en ligne avec Nextcloud Hub

Avec une plateforme unique comme Nextcloud, toutes vos applications, du stockage de fichiers au courrier électronique, sont réunies en un seul endroit et sauvegardées par vos soins.

L’utilisation d’une plateforme unique permet de renforcer la productivité, la collaboration et la sécurité, tout en réduisant considérablement les coûts et les travaux de maintenance.

Ce que Nextcloud propose

Nextcloud propose une plateforme collaborative de gestion de contenu moderne et facile à utiliser, accessible par le biais d’interfaces mobiles, pour ordinateurs de bureau et web. Les équipes collaborent de manière transparente dans des documents en temps réel, tchatent et participent à des appels vidéo, accèdent à leur courrier électronique ou planifient des réunions dans leur agenda. En tant qu’éditeur de logiciels, Nextcloud n’oblige pas ses clients à un hébergement dans ses centres de données, mais travaille avec divers partenaires de premier plan pour fournir des solutions SaaS ou sur site.

  • Ne confiez pas vos données à un prestataire tiers
  • Code entièrement vérifiable
  • Pas de dépendance envers un fournisseur
  • Fonctions de sécurité de premier plan
  • Environnement de collaboration intégré
Nextcloud Hub - plateforme collaborative de gestion de contenu

Ouvrez votre propre voie vers la souveraineté numérique

Il n’est jamais trop tard pour prendre le chemin de la souveraineté numérique. Avec Nextcloud, c’est possible et une fois que vous aurez repris le contrôle de vos données, vous ne reviendrez jamais en arrière.

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8 innovative AI features to use in a content collaboration platform https://nextcloud.com/fr/blog/8-ai-powered-content-collaboration-tools/ Wed, 25 Oct 2023 09:37:37 +0000 https://nextcloud.com/?p=148262 Our routine has completely transformed with the arrival of AI-powered content collaboration tools, as many frustrating creative challenges have been successfully tackled. Content generation, chatting, information search, spellchecking, you name it. To keep up with today’s rising quality standards and enjoy the new level of working comfort, you may want to introduce a few AI […]

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Our routine has completely transformed with the arrival of AI-powered content collaboration tools, as many frustrating creative challenges have been successfully tackled. Content generation, chatting, information search, spellchecking, you name it.

To keep up with today’s rising quality standards and enjoy the new level of working comfort, you may want to introduce a few AI tools in your software deck. Even more so, when your content collaboration platform seamlessly integrates those like Nextcloud does.

AI-powered content collaboration tools

In modern workspaces, a very fast cycle of implementing new generation productivity and collaboration instruments is evident. AI software is not an exception here. Artificial intelligence has proved to be useful in groupware and content creation apps, integrating seamlessly into the office IT. This diversity of apps allows teams to choose the tools that suits their workflow best, promoting efficiency and creativity.

One of the key benefits of integrating AI into content collaboration platforms is the significant boost in productivity and quality. AI can automate repetitive tasks, such as data analysis and formatting. This enables team members to focus on more creative and strategic aspects of their work. Moreover, with an ability to train the generative AI models on selective datasets, the outcome is technically configurable. Adding a custom touch, you can make the final content adhere to the desired industry standards and best practices.

Ethical AI concerns

However, ethical concerns surrounding the use of AI, and especially the publicly available cloud tools, are valid. One of the primary issues is the potential for bias and misinformation. AI may inadvertently generate content that perpetuates stereotypes or inaccuracies. Secondly, models provided by proprietary vendors often receive the training data in real time. It comes from the very users of the software, putting your data and your privacy commitments at risk.

And the law might not be there to protect you, at least not yet. AI companies keep successfully appealing international privacy charges to continue capitalizing on your pictures in someone’s interest.

Can AI be used ethically? The solution to the efficient and safe use of the AI in creative work is to promote conscious choice of AI-powered content collaboration tools. Equally important is to encourage continuous training and upskilling of the users.

At Nextcloud, we believe that ethical AI should:

  • Be open source when it comes to the code behind the solution and the training routine.
  • Be available as a self-hosted AI model within user’s infrastructure to provide ultimate control over the data.
  • Grant open access to the training sets to ensure ethical and legal compliance.
Nextcloud Ethical AI

Let’s discover eight AI-powered instruments that you can start using today and learn how to make informed decisions with principles of AI ethics in mind.

Nextcloud Hub

Open source AI-powered content collaboration platform

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AI text generation

Let’s start with the simplest and the most widely applicable use for generative AI — text generation. Text tools see a booming success in creative writing since it takes a very little effort to achieve high quality results. And it doesn’t need a detailed input: even a very short prompt will bring you a rich, informative text based on massive knowledge database it has been trained on. Accessed from a browser tab or embedded in a text editor, text generation AI software is a handy addition to your routine.

However, developers of artificial intelligence models, including text generation tools, achieve the impressive delivery through exhaustive training. Very often they train the language models using your own input data. This makes online AI tools a questionable choice when working with sensitive business information.

At Nextcloud, we try to challenge this culprit. We give you freedom to choose what model to use and how your AI-powered content collaboration tools will handle your data.

Nextcloud Assistant is a text generation tool integrated in the Text app and the navigation bar that can write, summarize, and create headlines for any texts. You can host it on-premises, making sure your data doesn’t leak out to any third party. How? Read the Nextcloud AI guide to learn more about all AI apps you can use to power Nextcloud Hub.

Giving a free prompt to Nextcloud Assitant - AI-powered content collaboration tools

AI Image generation

Image generation, though less applicable in wide use scenarios, gains popularity due to rapid advancement of GANs (Generative Adversary Networks). AI delivers contextually accurate visuals that look appealing and mostly natural. With the right prompt, it can easily troubleshoot problematic image search. Image generation with apps like Dall-E and Replicate can become a staple in creating artworks for articles, social media, web pages, and even ads.

In comparison to text generation, casually creating an image using artificial intelligence requires more skill. In practice, a detailed prompt with clear structure promises a much better result. Plus, in many cases, it takes lengthy trial and error practice before you receive the anticipated outcome. That, and still a not-so-perfect state of training make professionals reluctant to use it for more serious purposes like big budget advertising, for example.

However, the technology is already here, and everybody can use it to draft imagery for web content, illustrate ideas with sketches, and create simple visuals for social media posts. In Nextcloud, you can generate images in Talk chats and text documents using the Smart Picker feature. Choose one of several available options to run via an API or on your own server to enjoy a helpful tool that you can use for a multitude of tasks.

Text Summary

Need to skim a conversation, article, or technical document? There’s no easier way to do that than generating a summary with AI. Text processing capabilities of large language models allow quickly figuring out key points and grasping the text structure to build an accurate outline of bulky text input.

Imagine having to read a 10 page paper or a long web article just to understand key findings and conclusions. AI can save hours of work without missing important points. Based on your preference, you can get a brief one-paragraph summary or a structured rundown containing all analyzed problems, examined data and proposed solutions.

Nextcloud Assistant is not only here to help with writing, but also with text analysis. It can provide compact summaries for any texts you throw in to easily paste in a text file or a message.

Generating text summary with Nextcloud Assistant - AI-powered content collaboration tools

Nextcloud Assistant is a great tool for text analysis. It can provide compact summaries for any texts you throw in to easily paste in a text file or a message.

Headline generation

A good headline is a major part of an article’s success. However, creative block or a lack of outsider’s perspective can sometimes get writers stuck with otherwise straightforward tasks. With generative AI, getting inspiration for a sharp and professional headline is a piece of cake.

AI Headline generation with Nextcloud Assistant - AI-powered content collaboration tools

In Nextcloud Hub, you can use Nextcloud Assistant to create headline ideas for your articles and web pages, summoning it from the navigation bar or right in the Text app. The command is pre-configured for you and doesn’t require a prompting skill.

Email thread summary

We all deal with bulky email threads at some point, and fairly often it is easy to get lost in the year-long conversation when you need to find certain information or provide a summary of your discussion. Just like getting a plain text summary, you can easily generate one based on the email history.

There are two ways to do it: manually via chat like with ChatGPT and by using a specialized summary tool. The ‘Thread Summary’ feature in Nextcloud Hub powered by Nextcloud Assistant brings the quality of communication to a whole new level while caring about your privacy.

Packed in an easy-to-use interface inside your Mail app, Thread Summary is reachable right from your thread to sum up the ideas, questions and to-dos brought up by participants. Nextcloud Assistant is open-source and hosted where you want it: on your server, in a data center you trust, or in the cloud of your choice.

Thread Summary for Mail powered by Nextcloud Assistant - AI-powered content collaboration tools

It’s not a surprise that some email threads contain sensitive business information. Exposure of such texts may threaten not only your and your company’s privacy, but also that of your valued partners and clients. We strongly advise you to only use the tools you can trust to summarize your emails unless you want to end up in somebody’s database, or even a publicly available one.

AI speech-to-text dictation

Remember the time we all dreamed of typing from our spoken word without a keyboard? In fact, the speech recognition has been around for years, but with the arrival of tools like OpenAI and Whisper it really began to shine.

Speech-to-text dictation enables you to save a great deal of time when composing texts in both communication and writing, making it a great addition to all types of AI-powered content collaboration tools. Using voice typing to compose emails, chat with colleagues, draft documents, or make notes — those are just a handful of possible applications.

Voice typing using speech-to-text by Whisper in Nextcloud - AI-powered content collaboration tools

In Nextcloud, dictation with AI of your choice is available suite-wise via the Smart Picker menu. It only takes one command to activate the feature, no matter where you are. Use the Smart Picker in Talk, Mail, Deck, Collectives, or other native Hub apps.

Speech transcription

Not quite the same as dictation, speech transcription helps convert pre-recorded audio to text. Multiple apps offer such tools to get summaries for YouTube videos, converting audio and video content into articles and more.

In Nextcloud, we found a way to improve the videoconferencing experience with the very same tool. Using the features of OpenAI or LocalAI in Talk, you can record team calls and get accurate written records of the meeting delivered to you in a text file. When enabled, the feature provides you with a transcription upon the end of the meeting together with the video recording. Use it to keep the meeting records for future reference, provide summaries to your team members, or even write interview articles based on calls.

Nextcloud Talk call transcript

Why use Nextcloud? If you value privacy and want to keep your collaborators at ease, you can keep the recordings and transcriptions locally. Running on your server and being open-source, AI tools available in Nextcloud are ethical, transparent and leak-proof.

Translation

Quick translation in chats, documents, marketing texts, or mail communication saves time and keeps browser tabs clean. With many AI-powered services available today, you can decide where your texts are processed and what translation model is used.

We advise you to take better care of how your work travels around the web. That’s why in Nextcloud there are different translation apps available for integration. Some of them you can even run locally.

Available on-premises tools include Local translation built using Opus models developed by the University of Helsinki and LibreTranslate. Both apps are open-source and operate independently without external processing. Another option is using the DeepL translator. It provides a wide range of available languages, but uses proprietary model and connects to the DeepL website.

Face and object recognition

A technology called ‘computer vision’ allows the machine to analyze images and videos to understand and interpret their content. Based on the training data and methodology, the AI can identify patterns and features, categorize media, and select independent objects.

Tags based on recognized objects in Nextcloud Photos - AI-powered content collaboration tools

It is a truly vast field of artificial intelligence. Image analysis with AI introduces multiple useful applications of visual recognition and media generation, from image and video editing to real-time visual effects in video conferencing. For example, the iPhone camera roll puts photos in automatic categories and Zoom applies dynamic backgrounds to your streams using computer vision.

As with any AI that manipulates your content, you must be aware of the privacy risks. For instance, Zoom’s March 2023 TOS update directly states that the company is permitted to use your content to train its AI model:

In Nextcloud, we offer locally running object recognition tools that won’t share your content with third parties for training purposes. Recognize app in Nextcloud categorizes media in your Nextcloud Photos collection based on objects it recognizes on your pictures. For instance, faces, landscapes, food, vehicles, landmarks and buildings, and more. In Nextcloud Talk, machine learning is used to apply backgrounds and blur to your picture during the calls. To implement this feature, we use the Jitsu library and a model called MediaPipe. Both are open source and self-hosted, securing a Green rating among our AI apps.

What is Nextcloud’s Ethical AI Rating and how do you choose the right AI-powered content collaboration tools consciously? Read below!

Nextcloud’s Ethical AI Rating 🔴 🟡 🟢

Nextcloud recognizes the growing importance of AI in technology. However, we are committed to providing our users with the benefits of AI without compromising on control over data and privacy.

We ensure that data remains under your control. First, by providing you with the choice of self-hosted AI features to run on your server. And second, by offering external integrations where the data is only sent to third parties when explicitly enabled.

To help you make informed decisions, we introduced an Ethical AI Rating. It ranks the apps based on whether they are open source, model accessibility, and availability of the training data. This rating system assists you in understanding the ethical implications of our AI features.

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Nextcloud’s push notifications for iOS and Android https://nextcloud.com/fr/blog/nextclouds-push-notifications-for-ios-and-android/ https://nextcloud.com/fr/blog/nextclouds-push-notifications-for-ios-and-android/#comments Tue, 24 Oct 2023 09:00:04 +0000 https://nextcloud.com/?p=148114 What is a push notification? Push notifications are alerts that notify users of a new message or update while an application is in standby or not actively running. At Nextcloud, push notifications are designed to protect users and their data. Since push notifications on your iPhone or Android phone depend on Apple and Google, we […]

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Push notifications

What is a push notification?

Push notifications are alerts that notify users of a new message or update while an application is in standby or not actively running.

At Nextcloud, push notifications are designed to protect users and their data. Since push notifications on your iPhone or Android phone depend on Apple and Google, we made an effort to implement ours with your data privacy in mind.

How do push notifications at Nextcloud work?

Thanks to the Nextcloud Push Proxy, the free, hosted service from Nextcloud, notifications are sent through the proxy and not directly to Google and Apple to prevent any data going to them from your instance.

Nextcloud’s push notifications are this secure because of encryption. When you log into one of our mobile applications (like the iOS Files app), a public and private key are generated on the device itself and the public key is sent to your Nextcloud instance. When a push notification is sent to your device, that public key is used to encrypt the data before sending it to the Nextcloud Push Proxy. Only after receiving the notification on the device, it is decrypted using the private key of the device.

Overall, our push notifications enable you to be the one in control – not even Nextcloud can gain access to your data.

Benefits of mobile push notifications

1. Doesn’t drain your battery

If you always kept your application open, your battery would drain quite fast and not be efficient at all. That’s why our push notifications are implemented right into your operating system.

2. Speed

Push notifications are instant, without delay. This makes them great for calls and messages in Nextcloud Talk.

3. Convenience

When a file or chat message is shared with you, you’re informed right away on your mobile device.

For a new chat message on iOS, a notification banner will pop up even if your phone is locked and you can directly open the file from the push notification.

For a new file on iOS, simply click on the push notification and you’re taken to your notifications page where you can then go to the file.

Whether you’re away from your laptop or not, you won’t miss any important updates.

iOS push notifications
iOS push notifications

Enterprise customers

If you’re a Nextcloud Enterprise customer with branding support, you have the possibility to host and employ your very own push proxy on your hardware. However, you can also rely on Nextcloud’s service without any limitations set by the Fair Use Policy. That enables you to keep all internal communications under your control.

Want to learn more?

In Nextcloud Talk for iOS and Android, we have extensive documentation for debugging and troubleshooting push notifications available. Get access in the links below!

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