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Regain control over your time with Nextcloud Hub 8

Mikhail Korotaev — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:00:00 +0000

Hi Nextcloud community!

as we are announcing Nextcloud Hub 8 here at the Nextcloud Enterprise Day in Munich, our customers and partners are presenting their own and unique use of Nextcloud. Tens of millions of users trust Nextcloud to protect their data.

These include private users, running their own Nextcloud, or using a hosted solution from the likes of América Móvil or Deutsche Telekom. Businesses, keeping data on their own servers or hosting at one of our official partners. And the public sector, with universities, cities, governments and international organizations like Amnesty International using Nextcloud to stay safe. They maintain their own servers or host with partners like Bechtle that offers tender-free Nextcloud for the public sector in Germany.

We build Nextcloud to give you control over your data. In terms of who has access, but also what. Our world is digital, and AI is digging through all its data. It can use that for good – create fun meme, summarize your mails or help medical research. But should it operate heavy machinery or be used in the courts or HR departments?

While society finds its way through these dystopian questions, we make sure you have control. Different options, plus transparency over what AI does and how helps you make informed choices. That aligns with our core values of transparency, community and collaboration.

This release introduces many abilities specifically for the public sector. Some of those are AI related, developed together with public sector partners like the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, presenting here today. Others tick off important requirements like our new European accessibility certification, improved scalability or federated chat. But all of these benefit every Nextcloud user, at home, in an office or working in a cafe somewhere!

This release is faster, scales further, and gives you more control over your data than ever before. Whether you watch our release video or read the blog, we are looking forward to your feedback, and, as always, hope Nextcloud serve(r)s you well!

Greetings,
Jos & the Nextcloud team

Performance is now

Nextcloud Hub is the place where everything you need to be productive comes together in a connected, user-focused platform. Working on the improvements in Nextcloud Hub 8, we set a goal to give you half of your day back so you can take a breather!

Nextcloud Assistant 2.0

The first change comes in the introduction of the Nextcloud Assistant version 2. Context awareness mechanics introduced with Context Chat and Context Write lets the Assistant know even more about your work than you do. Worry not about privacy — Assistant is itself a part of your Hub and doesn’t send your data anywhere.

Nextcloud Teams

Shifting gears to teamwork, meet Nextcloud Teams — the next evolutionary leap for Circles. Teams arrives in Hub with the new team overview, quick access to shared resources, and a dashboard widget. And we are only getting started!

Speedy new Mail

A hefty part of your day you spend in Mail. With Hub 8 we made it faster — so you can go home earlier. The background sync is now twice as fast, the improved UI ensures comfort for a smooth morning catching-up, while replying takes less time with the addition of AI-powered suggestions.

Advanced Talk

Reaching out to users from another Hub is a breeze with federated messaging in Talk. More on Talk features, we added message editing, sparing you the delete-and-rewrite dance. Many improvements come your way in conferencing too, making presenting and group calls more comfortable and efficient.

Optimized Files

Hub 8 gets you to your files faster. Enjoy your private, clutter-free space with a Personal files section. Share downloads with confidence using one-time links. Preview and edit files linked across Hub with new interactive widgets. Discover optimized navigation for photos.

And so much more in Hub 8!

BITV 2.0 certification, incredible improvements in Tables, more automation in Forms, major performance updates in Office, and many other news are waiting for you in Hub 8. Get it now to see for yourself, or buckle up as we lead you through every new feature you need to know about.

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Nextcloud Assistant 2.0

Build an efficient, sovereign, AI-powered workspace with Hub. Welcome Nextcloud Assistant 2.0, new integrations and new AI deployment mechanics.

AI features already available in Hub

Ask Assistant about your own assets

Hub 8 enables Nextcloud Assistant’s new context awareness features. One of them is Context Chat, a smart chat bot that can access your data and answer questions about your documentation, contracts, papers, reports or anything else. You can manually define the scope and even limit it to a specific folder or file for more precision.

Here you can enter your prompt.

You can optionally choose what documents should be used

And here are the results!`

And it’s not limited to Files: we developed an API that allows Assistant to look into Mail, Calendar, Talk, Deck and other apps to fetch info about important meetings, tasks received via emails and chats, and any other data from those apps. Over the coming weeks and months, we are going to gradually implement the Context Chat API across the Hub ecosystem, making Context Chat ever smarter.

Texts written your way with Context Write

Context Write is another new feature of Nextcloud Assistant powered by context awareness. It can derive context from existing files to convey their unique tone, wording, and even structure to create new texts with the data you provide. Tell the Assistant about your working experience and give it a nice CV file, and it will create a custom CV for you. Share meeting notes and ask it to write a formal report similar to your reference – done!

Generate Mail replies and automate events in Calendar

With Hub 8, we add more Assistant features to Groupware tools. Get reply suggestions based on your conversation history in Mail. Create Calendar events from emails without leaving the Mail app, automatically generate event titles and descriptions, and even an agenda. Go ahead – take an extra coffee break!

Chat summaries in Talk

Summarization of team meetings and spontaneous brainstorms in Talk chats makes it easy to get a refresher on previous discussions. The new AI Talk bot can recap your conversations, describe the discussed topics and define tasks based on chat activity. Give it a preferred time to deliver the summary, and it will send it in the chat when scheduled.

Prompt history and even more tools in Assistant

Assistant 2.0 gives you even more control. Access prompt history when you need to reuse your past prompts, and ask the Assistant to stop unfinished tasks if no longer needed. We also gave even more functionality to the Assistant, adding built-in image generation and speech to text features.

Synchronous tasks in Text

Text now supports running Nextcloud Assistant tasks in a synchronous way. If your AI provider is able to return the results fast enough, the Assistant can deliver them in the window right away. If it takes longer, you can choose to run the job on the background and get notified once it’s done.

Assistant on-the-go

Access Assistant from any device on the go to draft texts, compose mail responses and create social media messages — with Nextcloud Assistant now available in mobile clients.

Deploying AI

For these AI features to work smoothly, you will need some serious hardware. This unfortunately will not be a fun experience on your Raspberry Pi. But! Luckily, a number of businesses have started to provide AI-as-a-Service, running various open source models that Nextcloud supports in a way that you can connect to remotely. While this is great, unfortunately nearly all these companies are American-based, with a few in China. If you live in the USA, that is of course perfect – the data stays in your jurisdiction, and you have a choice of local providers. But for our users in Europe, this is less than ideal. The US jurisdiction unfortunately treats the data of European users with less than ideal respect for privacy, in no small part thanks to the CLOUD act signed into law by the former US president Donald Trump.

we have been working closely with several major European hosting companies including IONOS, OVHcloud and plusserver to integrate their upcoming AI-as-a-Service solutions. This will make them available to Nextcloud customers and users who wish to take advantage of the advanced AI functionalities in Nextcloud Hub but don’t wish to host AI services themselves.

OVHcloud is thrilled to collaborate with Nextcloud in delivering state-of-the-art Digital Sovereign AI solutions to our customers. We are aligned with Nextcloud’s commitment to offering secure, privacy-conscious AI functionalities that safeguard training data and adhere strictly to GDPR regulations. We are excited to announce that this integration will become available in Q2 2024, marking a significant milestone in our journey towards responsible AI innovation.

Germain Masse, AI Product Marketing Manager at OVHCloud

We are proud to offer Nextcloud customers a solution that complies with European data protection regulations. Reliable, trustworthy, and local AI services will be key to protecting their digital sovereignty for both the public and private sectors in Europe.
IONOS

plusKI brings cutting edge, open source AI technologies in a compliant and digitally sovereign service to the German market. We are excited to work with Nextcloud to make this available to their customers as back-end to the new generation of the Nextcloud Assistant.
Christian Schmitz, Director Open Source at plusserver

Ready for mission-critical deployment

We know that AI works miracles when it comes to automation: it can make your work easier, save your time and hopefully get you back to your family and friends sooner each day. But we’re also aware of its downsides, some similar to the challenges brought about by the big tech firms, some unique to AI.

They say sunlight is the best disinfectant. We want to offer you the best of AI, but also provide transparency and choice. You’re the one who decides where and how to use AI in Nextcloud and equally how to balance its benefits with privacy, environmental impact, and more.

More about our approach to AI and Ethical AI Rating

Building sovereign AI in collaboration with the German government

Nextcloud teamed up with the government of German state Schleswig-Holstein to build sovereign AI tools for state administration needs. This will allow the state office to amplify process automation, create value for domestic digital economy, and notably set an example for AI strategy building within public sectors in Europe and beyond.

More AI updates in Hub 8

Nextcloud releases Assistant 2.0 and pushes AI-as-a-Service

Jos Poortvliet — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:00:00 +0000

Today, we bring you a major update to the Nextcloud AI Assistant with Context Chat, Context Write, GPU acceleration, the ability to split off the Nextcloud server & AI server, and MUCH more! And for those without $100K GPU’s (you know who you are), we have also incredible news: we are working with several prominent European hosting companies, including IONOS, OVHcloud and plusserver to deliver AI-as-a-Service solutions that respect your privacy and digital sovereignty! For our US users and customers, there are already several companies offering AI-as-a-Service and some we support (OpenAI in particular) while others are in the works.

Introducing Assistant 2.0

With a nearly complete overhaul of the user interface AND how our AI Assistant works on the back-end, plus a ton of new, big features, we decided that this is the moment to call this the Assistant 2.0. Let’s go over what’s new, but first a short summary of where we are today!

Nextcloud has a ton of AI features, some big and elaborate, others more basic. Some train a neural network on your data, on your own server to give you a smart inbox in Mail or warnings about unexpected logins from Suspicious Login Detection. Others rely on a pre-trained network that can recognize faces and objects in photos, generate a transcript of your video call or modify text. We can also generate images, translate text and chat messages, and much more. Many of the features are accessible through our easy to use Nextcloud Assistant interface!

Nextcloud Assistant in Text

Many of these features can help you, save you time, or improve your productivity. And best of all: as always we focus on making all these services available of running on your own server. Given even the US Congress doesn’t trust ChatGPT or Microsoft CoPilot, there are good reasons to want control over the data send to and from an AI service! Our Ethical AI Rating system provides you transparency about the AI used to generate your text, image or classify your photos:

Is it open source? Can I study how it works and re-train or optimize the model for my needs?

Is the model freely available? Can I run it on my own server?

Is the training data open and available so I can inspect it for issues and re-train or optimize the model?

Learn more in our blog post about our approach to AI.

Context Chat and Context Write

And now, let’s explore what’s new: The two biggest new features are Context Write and Context Chat. These both share a lot in common, both providing AI-assisted outputs for you, but they’re also distinctly different.

Context Chat, in short, is the ability for the Assistant to answer questions about your data. You can ask the Assistant questions about a document you have: Say, you have a PDF with the manual of your new digital watch… you’ll be able to ask the Assistant how to set it up, or how to replace the battery. And if your company has a nicely documented reimbursement process in its documentation in Collectives, you can ask the Assistant questions about this process. This is an absolutely amazing ability!

It is not just limited to your files either: we developed an API so apps like Mail, Calendar, Talk and Deck can make their data available too. You’ll then be able to ask “When do I have my next meeting with my boss?” (from the Calendar) and “What tasks did she ask me to work on as high priority this week?” (from Mail). Or “Give me a summary of the status of project X.” (Deck + chat perhaps?)

Context Write, on the other hand, lets the Assistant rewrite something in a certain requested context, or style. Say, you have a nice poem and want to write another in that same particular style. By providing the original poem, then new text of what you want to say, the Assistant will then create a masterpiece. But you can also give it a form, give it your data, and ask it to provide the text you would need to fill in the form. Impressive, and useful!

Big user interface overhaul

Over the last year and a half, we have introduced a wide range of AI features in Nextcloud. Translation, transcription of audio, text and image generation, and more. Then the Nextcloud Assistant came – and we’ve now integrated most of our AI features into the Assistant itself, all available from a unified interface. It is no longer limited to text, but can also generate images and transcribe audio.

Another improvement many of you will appreciate is that you can now see a history, a list of earlier generated images, text or audio transcripts in the Assistant interface. You can even go back and generate more based on your earlier prompts. It is now also possible to cancel a running operation, if desired.

Lastly, as possible inputs to the Assistant you can paste or type text or record audio, and now… select one or more documents as input too!

Behind the scenes

We also did significant work behind the scenes. We made it possible for administrators to make use of AI models we’ve not yet explicitly integrated into Nextcloud, giving more flexibility and versatility to your choice of models to use.

Especially for larger deployments, we have made it possible to run the LLM and other AI operations like Transcription and Context Chat on a separate server, using our new external app ecosystem for one-click, Docker-based deployments. You can also now use a GPU for text generation, transcription and context chat. This means transcribing an hour-long audio file could, on a CPU, take many minutes while taking only seconds on a GPU!

More coming soon

And, of course, this is not all. We have developed an API which can be used by apps like Deck, Calendar or Mail to support Context Chat. This will allow the Assistant to answer questions about your mail, tasks or upcoming appointments! We look forward to these and other apps implementing support for this feature.

Nextcloud Hub 8 – our next version out very soon – will also feature two more app integrations of the Assistant: First, Nextcloud Talk will be able to show you summaries of conversation in Talk rooms, and Nextcloud Mail will introduce email ‘suggested answers’! If you haven’t yet registered for our Nextcloud Hub 8 Launch Event on April 24, this is the time to do so to find out more!

How to get it

So now, you ask: When can I get it? We have good news! Nearly all these features have been backported to Nextcloud Hub 7, meaning they are available in the Nextcloud app store right now. All you need to do is update. If you have not yet tried out the assistant, perhaps this is the time to do it!

To run the AI locally, it’s easiest to use LocalAI. A community container exists for our All-in-one, so users of the AIO can simply go to this page to learn more about adding extra containers and then enable the LocalAI container. Be sure to check out our documentation and ask questions in the forums – you could just start below this post!

IONOS, OVHcloud, plusserver and others bring you…

This brings us to the final piece of the puzzle: For these AI features to work smoothly, you will need some serious hardware. This unfortunately will not be a fun experience on your Raspberry Pi. But! Luckily, a number of businesses have started to provide AI-as-a-Service, running various open source models that Nextcloud supports in a way that you can connect to remotely. While this is great, unfortunately nearly all these companies are American-based, with a few in China. If you live in the USA, that is of course perfect – the data stays in your jurisdiction, and you have a choice of local providers. But for our users in Europe, this is less than ideal. The US jurisdiction unfortunately treats the data of European users with less than ideal respect for privacy, in no small part thanks to the CLOUD act signed into law by the former US president Donald Trump.

But today, we announce that we have been working closely with several major European hosting companies including IONOS, OVHcloud and plusserver to integrate their upcoming AI-as-a-Service solutions. This will make them available to Nextcloud customers and users who wish to take advantage of the advanced AI functionalities in Nextcloud Hub but don’t wish to host AI services themselves. Several Nextcloud customers have expressed interest in these features and are preparing to or in the process of testing them. Here’s what our partners and customers have to say:

OVHcloud is thrilled to collaborate with Nextcloud in delivering state-of-the-art Digital Sovereign AI solutions to our customers. We are aligned with Nextcloud’s commitment to offering secure, privacy-conscious AI functionalities that safeguard training data and adhere strictly to GDPR regulations. We are excited to announce that this integration will become available in Q2 2024, marking a significant milestone in our journey towards responsible AI innovation.

Germain Masse, AI Product Marketing Manager at OVHCloud

We are proud to offer Nextcloud customers a solution that complies with European data protection regulations. Reliable, trustworthy, and local AI services will be key to protecting their digital sovereignty for both the public and private sectors in Europe.

IONOS

plusKI brings cutting edge, open source AI technologies in a compliant and digitally sovereign service to the German market. We are excited to work with Nextcloud to make this available to their customers as back-end to the new generation of the Nextcloud Assistant.

Christian Schmitz, Director Open Source at plusserver

We at SUNET are happy that that Nextcloud Assistant is 100% Free and Open Source, runs on-premise and provides useful features that we hope will benefit our users going forward. We enjoy the very productive collaboration with Nextcloud.

Mike Nordin, Sunet, the Swedish University Computer Network

In the future, we will make AI services available to colleagues in the state administration directly at the workplace. We want to drive the development of digitally sovereign and open solutions in addition to the use of existing AI services such as ChatGPT. Because, the administration of the future will work in an automated, algorithmized, cloudified and data-based way. To make this vision of the future a reality, we must provide the appropriate tools. This also creates value and jobs in our domestic digital economy.

Minister of Digitisation and Head of the State Chancellery Dirk Schrödter, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

US technology firms have a large head start on European companies offering large language models and other AI services to smaller firms and end customers. There is a significant number of offerings either using their own models like OpenAI, or providing one or a choice of open models like Llama, Gemma or Mistral as a service. In Europe, Mistral and Aleph Alpha are still working on offering their own models while only a few large hosting providers are looking to offer various open LLM’s in an AI-as-a-service model.

At the same time, there is a growing demand from our customers and users for European AI services. Running AI locally is expensive, and AI-as-a-Service from foreign tech firms is not a solution for most Nextcloud customers in Europe, given the privacy and sovereignty risks inherent to shipping large amounts of crucial data overseas. For this reason, we have been working with a handful of providers to offer their AI services. To speed up the process, we connected them with potential customers. As you can imagine, offering a service when it is unclear who its customers might be is not easy. But several universities are interested in the ability to outsource some heavy AI operations, so there is now movement towards AI services. This means not only our users, but the wider European ecosystem will be able to benefit from this!

Public availability of the European AI services is expected in the course of spring and summer, with some even aiming for late April/early May!

Thank you!

We are super excited about this release and we’d like to thank everybody who contributed, with testing, reviewing code but also the universities who are willing to test the AI services, and of course OVHcloud, IONOS, plusserver and our other partners who’d like to provide these services!

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Nextcloud Hub 7: advanced search and global out-of-office features

Mikhail Korotaev — Tue, 12 Dec 2023 11:55:00 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YohQfObl3I8

Nextcloud Hub 7 announcement

Hello everybody

This year is nearly over and the last months have been busy! Our community, Nextcloud and Frank have been recognized for their accomplishments by the European Software Freedom award and, just last week, the Acteurs du Libre award. Meanwhile, our team keeps growing quickly; the company is on track to grow its customer base by over 60% with more than 5 million new users getting access to Nextcloud this year!

Though this isn’t all the news! Our yearly Nextcloud Conference was a great success and we just published a podcast interview with one of its keynote speakers: privacy lawyer Max Schrems.

In other really big news, open source email giant Roundcube also joined our wonderful Nextcloud community!

Today though, we’re diving into Nextcloud Hub as our 7th Hub release is shared with the world. We’re sure you are super excited to learn about all that is new, so let’s get to it!

Thank you all for your amazing support this year!

The Nextcloud team

Connected, efficient and productive

Today, we’re introducing our most integrated platform yet – Nextcloud Hub 7. Imagine your work space interconnected, with your files seamlessly accessible in Talk, your calendars integrated in Mail and your tasks visible in your Calendar.

Nextcloud is designed as a unified platform, bridging all the functionality you need to get your tasks done. With Hub 7 we improved our Unified Search which finds chat messages, emails, calendar items, documents and even external content like support tickets or memes. You can bring up search wherever you are in Nextcloud.

Another major improvement was done around your out-of-office status. This can now be configured in your availability settings. It is applied not only in an out-of-office email, but also in Calendar (with an automatic out-of-office Calendar item) and in Talk, where others get notified that you’re not around.

Are you the backup for your colleague that is on vacation? Covering for them has never been so easy. Find all items you two share in their profile via Contacts: files, tasks, events, emails, and more.

From new integration features to AI enhancements and a completely rewritten Files app, Hub 7 delivers the solutions you need to foster efficiency, collaboration and productivity. Read on to discover how you can transform your work through Nextcloud Hub 7.

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Search everywhere with Unified Search

Unified Search brings items from all core apps and even external locations at your fingertips. Now you can find every file, task, or communication related to your inquiry through a single search box with convenient filtering at your disposal — all in one window.

Unified Search is accessible through the magnifier icon on the toolbar’s top right corner. When searching for a popular item, it helps you stay in focused with adjustable date range. Filter search by people to find items belonging to selected authors.

Explore all of Hub…

Search and preview any items In Hub. Find apps and their contents, use multiple filters to narrow down or expand your search the way you need.

Where you can search

German state & Nextcloud build digitally sovereign AI for public sector

Jos Poortvliet — Fri, 22 Sep 2023 09:02:34 +0000

Nextcloud’s momentum continues strongly after last weekend’s announcement of the first private AI assistant embedded in its collaboration platform, with a first significant partnership announcement. As covered in the prominent German public sector-focused Tagesspiegel newsletter, Minister of Digitisation and Head of the State Chancellery Dirk Schrödter, and Nextcloud Founder and CEO Frank Karlitschek shook hands last Tuesday, on a collaboration to build digitally sovereign AI. As part of the AI strategy of the German state, the collaboration will create a generative language model for the state administration that is adapted to the specifics of administrative texts.

Minister of Digitisation and Head of the State Chancellery Dirk Schrödter and Nextcloud founder and CEO Frank Karlitschek shake hands after meeting to discuss collaboration on AI development.
Photo credit: Staatskanzlei SH

Opportunities and risks around AI

As Margrethe Vestager aptly remarked, “With artificial intelligence, trust is a must, not a nice-to-have.” The evaluation of AI should focus not only on its technology but also on its societal and environmental benefits.

The public sector across the EU faces questions around AI with regard to digital sovereignty and data leaks. The latest technologies enable AI’s to access troves of documents and then answer questions from them or generate content out of them. These functions would allow great advances in the speed of handling bureaucratic processes, but current solutions require large swaths of data to be handed over to third-party AI providers. This creates unacceptable risks for the digital sovereignty and security of government data. A digitally sovereign AI is needed.

AI strategy and Nextcloud at Schleswig-Holstein

The German state of Schleswig-Holstein has made a strategic bet on Nextcloud’s on-premises content collaboration platform as part of its focus on digital sovereignty. The latest developments by Nextcloud in the area of ethical AI align strongly with the state’s commitment to digitization of its services. As one of the most innovative states in Germany, it is aiming to dramatically accelerate its bureaucratic processes so that, for example, the approval process for wind turbines or other economic developments can move forward much faster.

In the future, we will make AI services available to colleagues in the state administration directly at the workplace. We want to drive the development of digitally sovereign and open solutions in addition to the use of existing AI services such as ChatGPT. Because, the administration of the future will work in an automated, algortihmized, cloudified and data-based way. To make this vision of the future a reality, we must provide the appropriate tools. This also creates value and jobs in our domestic digital economy.

Minister of Digitisation and Head of the State Chancellery Dirk Schrödter

The plans: digitally sovereign AI

As the Minister points out, AI systems like ChatGPT are already integrated in Nextcloud and used at the state. For some limited use cases, these can be useful.

But Nextcloud has also integrated several open source large language models that can be run locally. These were released as part of Hub 6 last weekend, providing an integrated, private AI Assistant that can summarize, translate, or reword texts, summarize email threads, transcribe video calls, create project plans and so on. Hundreds of organizations in the private and public sectors are expected to deploy these in the coming months.

The next step for Nextcloud will be to develop large language models that can help in specific domains. This way, the Nextcloud AI Assistant will be able to help write specific government documents, answer questions about state processes, and so on, in the style and language used in the government.

Based on Nextcloud Hub, the State Chancellery will expand its current approach to providing artificial intelligence-based services at the workplace. Embedded in the state government’s AI strategy, Nextcloud and the State Chancellery will create a generative language model for the state administration that is adapted to the specifics of administrative texts. For this purpose, the state of Schleswig-Holstein will make anonymized training data available. The model will be available as Open Source.

Schleswig-Holstein and Nextcloud recognize that Europe needs reliable AI technology that protects Europe’s economic and digital sovereignty. Our strategic initiative will lead to the first digitally sovereign AI that can deliver insights based on sensitive government data, without the risk of third-party access.

Frank Karlitschek, Founder and CEO of Nextcloud

The future

The use of AI in the public sector comes with strict privacy, security, and digital sovereignty requirements. Together with Schleswig-Holstein, Nextcloud will develop local, private, digitally sovereign AI technology that can deliver on these needs, 100% open source and able to run locally.

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Nextcloud Hub 6: Healthy meeting culture and the first local AI Assistant

Mikaela Schneider — Sat, 16 Sep 2023 09:45:00 +0000

Our latest release supports a healthy meeting culture, introduces the Nextcloud Assistant and emphasizes user-centric design, transparency and user control.

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Thank you to our community!

Nextcloud would not be the same without our dedicated, encouraging community. A huge thank you to the thousands of community members for making this release the best it can be and continuing to show your talents and passion for Nextcloud.

To the millions of home users and the tens of thousands of companies, government entities, public organizations, schools and universities that have used Nextcloud to regain control over their data, thank you for trusting us as your digital workspace and collaboration platform. We hope you enjoy all this new release has to offer.

Build a healthy meeting culture with Nextcloud

An enormous part of our work life remains online today making it important to foster a healthy environment around it. Over are the days where the primary focus is supercharging productivity. What matters now is you and your well-being. Nextcloud has honed in on what makes a healthy online culture – from meetings to file storage. This release brings you accessible, helpful and powerful tools that allow your work life to be less stressful, cluttered and overwhelming in Nextcloud Hub.

With Nextcloud Hub 6, there are countless ways to support your mental health and keep a healthy work-life balance. Read on to hear what we did in Hub 6 to help you be more productive in a sustainable way!

Start fresh every day

When you start your day with Nextcloud, you first open your dashboard. It’s filled with all the highlights you need: see who’s messaged you, the files you recently worked on and important emails, allowing you to jump right back in.

Remind me… later please!

An important aspect of a healthy work life is eliminating distractions to avoid feeling overwhelmed. To help with this, we introduced a “remind me” feature in a few places:

Set a reminder in Talk

Set a reminder on a file or folder

Snooze emails

(they will return to your inbox after the snooze period is over)

Set a reminder on Talk messages

Talking time collected

Do you have a colleague that takes over the whole call, leaving no one else the chance to speak? Our new talking time feature shows how long participants speak during a call. We enabled this so people can be conscious of their own talking time, while giving others the opportunity to speak more in calls. We hope this little piece of social engineering makes a difference in your next call!

60-minute call popup

That’s a wrap! Nextcloud Talk now provides a warning message once your meeting reaches 1 hour. In an effort to avoid endless meetings and have a cap on your calls, this feature may be particularly helpful in using your time more efficiently.

Less switching.. use the Smart Picker

When you need a piece of information or data, you often have to switch to another app or website. This not only takes time, but also energy. We have a solution: the Smart Picker lets you pull in information from various sources while staying in the app you’re working.

For example, if you’re in a call and want to remember a new task you’ve just been given, you can use the Smart Picker to create a new Deck card for you – right in the chat! You avoid switching to another app – in this case Deck – and remain focused in your current context. Or, you remember a nice YouTube video you want to share – use the Smart Picker! Share a ticket, link to a file or a chat room – we got you covered.

There introduce some new Smart Pickers in Hub 6, like the super cool Sketch Picker which lets you draw on an image or blank canvas. There are a few more new Smart Pickers – read on to find out which ones!

Learn more about the Smart Picker

Notifications minimized

Notifications can really pull you out of focus. To be mindful about the attention of others, you can send a chat message ‘silently’ without causing notifications to others in a room, and you can even silently start a call which doesn’t ring everyone’s phone! Also, you can:

Set your status to Do-Not-Disturb mode. For example, you could put your status to “out for lunch” if you’re away from your desk. If you’re in a call, Nextcloud automatically updates your status so colleagues see you are busy.

Set your working hours and enable Do-Not-Disturb mode. This means you won’t get notifications while someone is active in a Talk conversation outside your preferred working hours or time zone.

Gifs are cool, but can be distracting. Hide gifs sent in a Talk chat message to create a clearer space.

Efficiency administered

Making life easier, saving you time – much of Nextcloud is designed to do that.

Click on someone’s avatar anywhere in Nextcloud – even in Files or Deck – to start a chat, send a mail and more.

Book a meeting with someone from their profile – you don’t even need to open Calendar.

Instead of asking your whole team a question in a chat, you could speed up the process (and limit extra notifications) by just starting a quick poll!

See when someone’s typing in a chat and a read status – to know a colleague is engaged or not as to avoid extra explanations.

If the conversation has too many people you can use break-out rooms to split up in smaller groups.

Benefits of a Single Platform:

Seamless integration

Create a task or calendar item from an email

Hundreds more!

AI in Nextcloud Hub 6

AI features in Nextcloud already available in Hub 5

Artificial Intelligence is still quite ‘hot’. There’s hype, but also substance – there are a ton of ways in which AI features can help you get work done faster and easier. Nextcloud comes with tons of smaller and larger AI features, from a smart Mail inbox that shows you only relevant emails, to face recognition so you can find photos of a person across your entire collection.

But, AI also has issues. From its carbon footprint and issues with bias to data leaks and more existential risks, we totally get it when the term ‘AI’ doesn’t make you feel all warm and fuzzy!

For that reason, our approach to AI is built on flexibility, choice and especially transparency. Nextcloud Hub is the only self-hosted Content Collaboration Platform to provide AI features in an ethical and secure way!

Flexibility

Users have the flexibility to experiment with and try out our AI features, with a wide range of options. We offer self-hosted solutions like image generation with an on-premises StableDiffusion AI besides the integration of an external service from Dall-E. We offer self-trained voice recognition and translation services you can run on your own server as well as integrations from external services like DeepL for translations or ChatGPT for text generation.

Choice

The power rests in users to choose what type of AI features they want or choose to not use any at all. If at any point you decide you don’t want to use an AI feature anymore, you always have the option to uninstall it. By default, these functions are opt-in.

Transparency

To provide full transparency, we have created the Ethical AI Rating which rates every AI feature based on the risk you take with your data and its ethical implications.

You can choose how you want to provide an AI feature – and we made sure there’s an on-premises alternative for every ability we offer. Your Nextcloud – your data – your choice.

Want to learn more about what options we provide, how to install a feature or find its rating? We have an earlier blog covering just that!

All AI Features

Introducing the Nextcloud Assistant

Tons of companies are introducing text generation features courtesy of “large language models”. Typically, they just send your data to OpenAI or another big tech firm. We did offer a similar integration, but you know that’s not our way. So, we made a promise. We said we’d work on providing you these abilities, WITHOUT data leaks. And, today, just 3 months later, we deliver.

And, as always, we didn’t just replace the feature we had, but we did one better!

The on-premise Nextcloud AI Assistant is here! You can now call upon your Nextcloud Assistant at anytime, anywhere to assist you with your tasks. And, because we believe this can be so helpful, we integrated it in a very powerful way in Nextcloud.

As a start, you have the Assistant everywhere, with the icon in the top-right, as you can see in the animation above.

Next, we integrated the Assistant specifically in a few places where it would be super helpful.

Your Assistant with Text

First, we integrated the Assistant in Nextcloud Text. Select some pagragraphs and have the Assistant summarize, generate a headline, re-word or translate it! Just click on the star icon on the right for a pop-up with all the options to get the results you want.

Nextcloud Assistant in Text

Assistant in Mail

Do you have email threads that are way too long? We often find ourselves scrolling through them to find what someone said or refer back to something. With Nextcloud Assistant, you can now have your email thread summarized for you!

Of course you can also have text generated for you in Mail too, so you don’t need to come up with every subject line and content to send out.

And with all these, your AI can run locally meaning users can access the full power of large language models without having to worry about data leaks.

Assistant in Talk

Last but not least, the Nextcloud Assistant is coming to Talk! You’ll be able to ask it questions during your conversation(s), getting suggestions on content, headlines and more in a super easy way. This Talk bot should be available a few weeks from now.

100% on your server, without any leaks

The Nextcloud Assistant is the only integrated AI assistant in any collaboration platform that won’t leak data or use your activities to train a new AI. If you work at a company and are worried your competitor might find out about your new strategies and plans because the Zoom call you did was used to train an AI – this can’t happen with Nextcloud.

Keeping your data yours is in our DNA, and we’re definitely proud of this industry-first!

Nextcloud Files

Nextcloud Files is the premier file sync & share solution

Files is the core of Nextcloud Hub. It’s where you access and share your files all in one place. In this release, Files received improvements in two of its core functions: accessing and sharing.

Selecting files

Given Nextcloud Hub is a single platform that combines Talk, Office and Groupware functions in one interface, having everything you need all in one place makes it easy to achieve a cohesive workflow. Our new File Picker Selection Dialogue is the perfect example – in a chat, document or email you can easily select a file to share, insert, attach or link! The new file selection dialog has a quick filter on top, remembers your last sorting method, shows you recent files and favorites and is overall super easy to navigate.

In chat

In a chat, select ‘share from Nextcloud’ and a pop-up will appear with all your files. Easily share a file you’ve recently worked on or one you’ve favorited. The new dialog remembers sort order and the last file location making it so much more convenient to use.

Advanced file versioning

We’re constantly making edits to our documents and the more the edits, the more versions there are. Now, it’s easy to see older versions without having to download them: just click them and they load immediately. Even better, we made it possible to compare two versions with side-by side viewing. Notice the changes made in a snap, rename the version and don’t lose track of your file’s history again.

Simpler sharing

We always get a ton of feedback on Nextcloud. We got input from the millions of users at Magentacloud about our sharing dialog, and worked on improving the flow.

Now when you want to share a file, you enter the recipient’s name or email. Then, you set settings like a password and expiration date, or the note to the recipient – before you finally hit the share.

We also simplified the flow of sharing a public link. You can now set multiple options without having to re-open the menu.

Nextcloud Talk

Nextcloud Talk is the best chat and video communication tool that keeps your data yours!

Nextcloud’s video conferencing and chat platform is bringing some snazzy new features to the table! Inspired by on our goal of helping you maintain a healthy meeting culture, many of these features help to reduce work stress and create a more positive virtual environment. We already mentioned the 1-hour call pop-up and the speaking time features, to help keep meetings in check. What else does Nextcloud Talk offer you in this release?

Group system message

If you’re hosting or are part of a call with many participants, you’re used to seeing everyone’s name pop up one after the other stating that they joined the call. To reduce the flow of messages so you can focus on what matters, the call will now only state a few names and the rest as “others joined the call.” It’s sometimes the small things that make our time online stress-free and simplistic.

Conversation filters

Too many chats open? In your chat bar on the left, you’ll see a new filter icon. Here, you can filter unread mentions – when you’re tagged in a chat – or any unread messages that you haven’t gotten to yet. This helpful feature acts as a reminder to get back to someone that needs your assistance, without you needing to remember.

Text formatting in chats

Want your chat conversation to be more structured and organized? It’s now possible to use basic formatting in chat. Using markdown, try out **bold**, *italics*, –~~strike-through~~-, # headings, * bullet lists, “`code“` and more!

Task bot

During a conversation, you may want to write down a note or future task for a teammate. It’s now super simple: just type the note or future task in the chat with ‘todo’ or ‘task’ in front and at the end of the call they’ll all be summarized for you in a bullet list. Talk about working efficiency!

Find open conversations

If you haven’t joined a chat, you won’t see it. That’s why we’ve now created a search bar for you to find any available, open chat room easily. You can find the search bar in the left sidebar of Talk. This behavior keeps your interface clean of unneeded distractions that may be unimportant to your current work.

Nextcloud Office

Nextcloud Office brings collaboration to a whole new level, with several new features

Nextcloud Office is more than creating documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Our Office stack also consists off:

Tables

The impressive Microsoft SharePoint Lists or Airtables alternative

Collectives

The knowledge management space for your organization

Notes

The ideal note-taking app with simple features and markdown

Text

The editor extraordinaire integrated in Nextcloud Deck, Files, Collectives and Notes

With this release, we’ve got tons of improvements and new features for all corners of your office. Read on to learn about them!

What’s new in Nextcloud Tables?

Nextcloud Tables helps businesses and organizations manage their structured data. With Tables, you can manage your employees’ time off, customer data, health tracking and much more.

We developed Tables in response to requests from customers, especially in the Government sector, who were not happy that some prominent tech companies offering similar functionality are forcing their customers to the cloud. Many governments take digital sovereignty serious, and being completely dependent on the whims of some foreign cloud firm is of course not acceptable.

In this release, we’ve made key improvements to make it an even more powerful tool.

Selective viewing and filtering – Finally, Tables introduces a very powerful feature: views. You can create any number of views on a table, and share them with different people or groups with different access permissions. This way, for example, the employees can enter a vacation request and only see their own requests and their status, the manager can only see and approve requests from members of their team and HR has a full overview of all vacations.

Employee – Requests vacation

Manager – Reviews/Approves vacation

HR personnel – Tracks vacation

The advanced filters make it possible for employees to only see the status of their own vacation request, while the HR manager has access to everything. That way, the information in the Table stays confidential while simultaneously having one space to manage all the separate processes.

Watch the video below to see these new features in action!

Share a view with the Smart Picker – With the Smart Picker, you can now can insert an interactive table or a view of a table in a document.

The Smart Picker can be enabled with a slash (/) in a Talk chat, Text document, Deck card, Collective, Notes and more. Some apps like Mail and Nextcloud Office have a menu item or a button to insert content from the Smart Picker.

Link column type – From within Tables, it is also now possible to search for and link to any type of content supported in Nextcloud search. This list goes on – chat rooms and messages, calendars and calendar items, YouTube videos, GitHub tickets, locations, and much more.

New in Collectives

Collectives is a convenient place to store and manage knowledge. It’s the knowledge base for your business where all the important information and know-how is. The new features include:

New landing pages!

For each new Collective you make, there will be a dedicated landing page for it. See pages you’ve recently worked on to jump right back to where you left off. See who’s part of the Collective, and more!

Easier to manage members

A pop-up now appears when you want to add, view or remove members in your Collective

Restore pages again!

Phew! If you accidentally delete a page you’ve been working on for hours, you can easily restore it

Create diagrams with Mermaid

Nextcloud now has powerful support for creating diagrams with a text-based syntax called Mermaid. In Nextcloud Text – which is the primary text support for Nextcloud Office, Deck, Collectives and some other apps – can now use Mermaid to produce simple, visually appealing and helpful diagrams with code!

There’s no better way to share an idea or workflow than in visual form with easily identifiable shapes, lines and text boxes.

Add-ons to the Smart Picker

Earlier this year, we introduced the Smart Picker – a tool to quickly insert content into a chat, document, task or email. New Smart Picker integrations regularly appear in our App Store and we wanted to highlight a few additions:

Draw a sketch! – Can’t put it into words? Sketch it out instead! In a Nextcloud Talk chat, activate the Smart Picker with a slash (/) to get started. Also available in Office, Deck, Notes, Collectives.

Formatting shortcuts – Do you sometimes forget the shortcuts or markdown codes for bold, italics or headings? Enable the Smart Picker and all these are just a slash (/) away!

Nextcloud Groupware

Nextcloud Groupware consists of Mail, Calendar and Contacts

Nextcloud Groupware, consisting of Calendar, Mail, Contacts and Deck, is a completely integrated client and the cornerstone of productivity. In the Hub 6 release, we’ve focused on automation of tasks with other clients like Talk to facilitate seamless collaboration.

Calendar

For instance, in Calendar, we’ve improved the one-step process to set up a remote meeting. As you can watch in the video, simply create a meeting in Calendar and click ‘create a Talk room.’ Not only does this automatically create a Talk room with the same name from the Calendar meeting! We now also set the description, and the link to the Talk room will be in the Location and clickable in your Calendar. We also add the participants to the Talk room, so when the meeting starts, they will get a notification – if they hadn’t seen it from their calendar. In just one motion, you’ve created a Calendar event, invited the team and organized and set up a meeting location.

Simple and stress-free!

Mail

In Mail, we bring you more automation so you don’t have to think about the small things. For example, spam mail will be marked automatically and moved to the spam folder, so you don’t get distracted by junk mail. Also, old mail that you’ve already thrown away in the trash will be auto-deleted. Just set up how many days you’d prefer so unwanted mail will be out of sight and out of mind. It’s also easy to forget about your running storage quota, so we now offer a quota depletion warning so you can take care of it on time.

Deck

Are you ever in a meeting and need to note down a new task for later? With the new Deck Card Picker, you can create a new Deck card directly in Talk without ever leaving your conversation. Just type a slash (/) in the chat box to activate the Deck Card Picker and you’ll be able to make your card – and even select the board or list it’s in. This new feature is an excellent example of how Nextcloud as a single, integrated platform can make your work life so much more efficient.

The Deck Card Picker works in Talk, Office, Notes and more so wherever you are in Nextcloud, you can create tasks and get them done faster. See the video below how the Deck Card Picker works in Nextcloud Talk!

For Developers: build apps in your favorite language!

We are happy to announce that all core apps are now fully documented with OpenAPI by OCS (Open Collaboration Services). With OCS, apps and integrations can be developed in other languages and are super stable. A great benefit of OpenAPI is that it can help you automatically generate code to help integrate the API into applications.

To make it even easier, we introduced the OCS Viewer app. With this app you can, in a super intuitive way, browse our API, try out a request with various parameters, and see the result or grab pieces of code that can request certain data or perform various operations against a Nextcloud server. For example, upload files, view a folder listing, create or modify a share, and so on. Just copy-paste in your app, whether you write in Python, Go or OCaml.

If you develop a server app and want YOUR app API to also be nicely documented through OpenAPI, we have good news: there’s a tutorial on our developer site now!

We also write 4 other, new tutorials, with tons of more advanced app development information, tips on debugging issues and much more.

We very much look forward to the apps you’ll built!

But, there is more. Something much BIGGER!

No more “just PHP”!

For a long time, PHP has been the only language you can use to have direct access to the Nextcloud code and develop apps. While PHP certainly scales well, it isn’t for everyone. Everybody has their favorite language, and we thought it was time to bring you some good news: In Hub 6, we are excited to announce that developers can now write server apps in other languages other than PHP!

Yes, that means you can use pretty much any programming language you like! To kickstart development, we’ve built a Python library and two example apps using Python. But you can use any language you like, of course!

These new apps will be independent from the Nextcloud core, by interacting with the Nextcloud through the Open Collaboration Services API. This brings 4 benefits:

Having a clear separation between apps and the Nextcloud core clients avoids any issues in the core of Nextcloud. For example, if there’s a bug in a new app, it won’t cause any damage to the rest of Nextcloud.

As we maintain these API’s independently, we can commit to keeping them stable for many, many years!

It’s also easier to distribute compute. For example, you could create a separate node in the server network that runs Nextcloud with special hardware for heavy AI operations.

Lastly, we have control over what data apps have access to, ensuring the utmost security.

With this new ecosystem, we hope it makes developing for Nextcloud more accessible for everyone and empowers user choice. Whichever programming language you prefer, whether it be for accessibility, stability or security reasons, we hope this opens major doors for you and your future contributions to Nextcloud!

Develop for Nextcloud

New integrations

Nextcloud Hub is a powerful application platform, closely integrating with tons of third party applications and tools. Take a look at what’s new!

Pexip

Manage and access Pexip calls from within Talk, Calendar, Mail and more
Activate with the Smart Picker to use anytime

Install the app

Slack

Share Nextcloud Files directly to a Slack chat room
Keep your files safe by storing them in Nextcloud and conveniently sharing to Slack

Install the app

The bots are coming!

Bots are an excellent way to connect various services and make life easier. They can take information from a monitoring service, an issue tracker or other applications and allow users to interact in chat. In Nextcloud Talk, we now support bots using web hooks which opens the door for greater chat integrations between Nextcloud and other tools.

What bots do we have so far?

Call Summary bot – At the end of a Talk call, this bot will compile all tasks that were written in the chat by participants and make a call summary.

Welcome bot in Talk – The Welcome bot, written in golang, responds to “Good morning” and “Hello” by welcoming new attendees into a Talk room. This bot was written as a basis for you to create your own bot.

Mobile/Desktop Clients: New features!

Nextcloud is available on Android and iOS, to make storing and sharing files from documents to images easy to manage on the go.

Image editing – on the go

Now it’s easy to edit images – wherever you are! Introducing image editing operations for Android and iOS. Rotate, resize, add color effects and so much more to any image!

Other new features & improvements:

Upload booster for S3. Operations have been sped up (move, upload, copy, rename) on S3 based storage by up to 10x!

Automatic locking for Office files while they are being edited on the Desktop

Store E2EE (End-to-End Encryption) key on hardware token

Enhanced image preview view

View location and other meta data of photos

Tighter integration on apps within Nextcloud ecosystem

How to install Hub 6

Ready to foster a healthy meeting culture in Nextcloud? Start developing apps in Python? Then we invite you to install Hub 6! For those new to Nextcloud, let’s make sure you know how to install it.

In general, we offer Hub 6 for download right away. Existing users will only be offered the new version in some time, as we do staged roll-outs. It can take 6-8 weeks, but you can always manually get the latest and greatest! See below for how:

Users of the Snap can switch to the testing channels to get the latest version. If you installed Nextcloud through the zip or tarball, you can switch the release channel to Beta to receive the latest version asap.

Note: Your Nextcloud caches the results coming from our updater server, so it can take a bit for the new version to show up and you likely have to refresh the page, wait a bit and do that again. Don’t forget to switch back to stable after you updated to Hub 6!

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Presentazione dell’Hub 5: il primo a fornire uno spazio di lavoro digitale autosufficiente alimentato dall’AI

Mikaela Schneider — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 12:35:00 +0000

La nostra missione è aiutare individui, aziende e organizzazioni a raggiungere la sovranità digitale e a riprendere il controllo sui propri dati. Nextcloud Hub 5 segna un enorme passo avanti verso la realizzazione di questa missione, mettendo la potenza dell’intelligenza artificiale nelle tue mani – in un modo che ti permette di mantenere il controllo.

Nuova versione, nuove possibilità

Hub 5 si basa su tutti i miglioramenti introdotti all’inizio dell’anno, tra cui lo Smart Picker e le sue integrazioni con l’intelligenza artificiale, la nuova app Nextcloud Tables e molto altro ancora. Continua a leggere o guarda il nostro video di lancio per scoprire le novità!

Il primo spazio di lavoro digitale autosufficiente alimentato dall’intelligenza artificiale

I recenti sviluppi dell’intelligenza artificiale promettono di aumentare la nostra produttività. Tuttavia, le aziende e i governi di tutto il mondo sono preoccupati per i rischi, e molti bloccano l’uso di questi strumenti da parte dei loro dipendenti o stanno studiando regole severe in merito. Il rischio di fughe di dati, fake news e violazioni del copyright rappresentano una vera e propria sfida.

Nextcloud è il primo a offrire uno spazio di lavoro digitale integrato con l’AI che può essere eseguito sul tuo server e che offre trasparenza sul modello di formazione e sui dati grazie alla nostra iniziativa Ethical AI..

Se da un lato l’intelligenza artificiale offre incredibili opportunità per migliorare la produttività dei dipendenti, dall’altro i rischi sono altrettanto grandi. Sono estremamente orgoglioso che Nextcloud sia il primo nel settore a offrire queste funzionalità senza compromettere la sicurezza e la riservatezza dei dati sensibili.

Frank Karlitschek

CEO at Nextcloud

Funzionalità e integrazioni AI

Le nostre funzioni AI sono facili da usare. Molti lavorano con il nostro Smart Picker che è perfettamente integrato in tutte le principali applicazioni. Sono accessibili attraverso il menu o cliccando su una barra (/). E la cosa migliore è che le funzioni di intelligenza artificiale vengono eseguite sul tuo server, senza che i dati vengano trasmessi a terzi! Le nuove funzioni AI sono opzionali e possono essere installate dall’app store. Abbiamo aggiornato e migliorato le funzioni AI esistenti e ne abbiamo aggiunte di nuove. Un rapido elenco:

Smart Inbox in Mail e risorse correlate

Riconoscimento di volti e oggetti in Nextcloud Photos

Immagini di sfondo in aggiunta alla sfocatura dello sfondo in Nextcloud Talk

Generazione di immagini in base a un messaggio

Traduzione con Nextcloud Translate, integrato in Nextcloud Talk e Nextcloud Text per tradurre i messaggi di chat e i documenti di testo.

Nextcloud Dictation per il riconoscimento vocale integrato in Nextcloud Hub

Trascrizioni delle chiamate registrate

Queste integrazioni vengono eseguite interamente sul server Nextcloud e sono completamente opzionali. Continuiamo a sviluppare alternative on-premises per altre funzioni di AI, con ulteriori aggiornamenti previsti nel corso dell’anno.

Per coloro che desiderano utilizzare servizi di intelligenza artificiale esterni e online, è possibile installare applicazioni dal nostro app store che offrono la traduzione opzionale attraverso Deepl e ChatGPT, DALL-E per la generazione di immagini e ChatGPT per la generazione di testi.

Clicca qui sotto per vedere un video di alcune di queste funzioni AI in azione!

Nota: tutte le funzioni AI sono opzionali e possono essere installate o meno come qualsiasi altra applicazione.

Se vuoi saperne di più sui nostri standard etici relativi alla gestione delle funzioni AI, consulta il nostro blog sull’iniziativa Ethical AI.

Una piattaforma di collaborazione pensata per te

Abbiamo costruito Nextcloud in modo che tu possa farlo tuo, per soddisfare le tue esigenze.

Per far sì che ciò accada, ci concentriamo su 4 principi di progettazione.

Concentrati sui contenuti

I tuoi dati sono al centro di tutto. Il design di Nextcloud ti permette di concentrarti sul tuo lavoro con tutto ciò che ti serve a portata di mano.

Facile da usare

Nextcloud può essere configurato per automatizzare le attività e tutti i prodotti sono integrati, in modo da non intralciarti.

Accessibilità

Poiché vogliamo che tutti possano utilizzare Nextcloud, offriamo opzioni di accessibilità come il supporto di uno screenreader e le preferenze per i caratteri.

Personalizzazione

Fai di Nextcloud una casa per i tuoi dati e personalizzala come vuoi con gli sfondi

Di recente abbiamo introdotto alcuni nuovi sfondi in Nextcloud Hub. Per la prossima versione, vorremmo chiedere il tuo parere su quale sarebbe lo sfondo migliore da utilizzare! Quindi partecipa!

Invia il tuo background qui

Guarda il nostro video sul Design in Nextcloud Hub 5

Nuove funzionalità, aggiornamenti e miglioramenti in Nextcloud Hub 5

Negli ultimi mesi abbiamo lavorato per aggiungere una serie di miglioramenti per i team che lavorano insieme utilizzando Nextcloud. Molti di voi utilizzano Nextcloud come spazio di lavoro digitale ed è proprio qui che ci impegniamo.

Continua a leggere per scoprire le nuove funzioni di Nextcloud Files, Talk, Office e Groupware che aiuteranno te e il tuo team a essere più produttivi che mai!

Nextcloud Files

Nextcloud Files è la principale soluzione di sincronizzazione e condivisione di file

Nextcloud Files è la migliore soluzione self-hosted per la sincronizzazione e la condivisione dei file che ti offre l’accesso in qualsiasi momento e ovunque ai tuoi file, da condividere, sincronizzare, ricercare e gestire da parte tua.

Files è anche il cuore di Nextcloud Hub, la nostra soluzione integrata a piattaforma unica che ottimizza il flusso di collaborazione e ti dà il controllo. Nell’ultima release abbiamo introdotto diverse nuove funzionalità, come il versioning avanzato che ti permette di identificare e nominare le versioni più vecchie di un file, miglioramenti della sicurezza come il File Drop con E2EE e molto altro ancora. In questa versione ci siamo concentrati sulla collaborazione online.

Gestione di uno spazio di lavoro in collaborazione

Se avvii un progetto all’interno della tua università, del tuo comune, della tua azienda o di un ente di beneficenza, il primo passo è quello di mettere insieme un team e creare uno spazio in cui lavorare. Per aiutarti a farlo, abbiamo messo insieme due popolari strumenti di collaborazione: Circles e Groupfolders. Facciamo una passeggiata!

In Nextcloud, l’utente project manager va nei suoi Contatti e crea un nuovo Cerchio, un gruppo personalizzato. Poi aggiungono nuovi membri, scrivono una descrizione del progetto e impostano le autorizzazioni, ad esempio “i membri devono accettare un invito” per essere aggiunti al Cerchio. Il project manager chiede quindi all’amministratore di creare una cartella di gruppo con uno spazio di archiviazione assegnato per il proprio Circolo.

Quindi un Cerchio è un gruppo personalizzato. Qualsiasi utente può crearli, aggiungendo membri o gestendo i permessi. Possono essere aperti, visibili sul server, o su invito. Il tutto senza bisogno di un amministratore.

Una cartella di gruppo, come dice il nome, è semplicemente una cartella di proprietà di un gruppo anziché di un singolo individuo. Ha una propria quota di archiviazione e in Hub 5 le cartelle di gruppo sono accessibili dalla barra laterale di File e sono facili da trovare anche nelle app mobili.

Con una Groupfolder assegnata a un Circle, hai il tuo spazio di lavoro digitale gestito dall’utente!

Gestire il tuo spazio di lavoro digitale

Abbiamo apportato una serie di miglioramenti per rendere più semplice la ricerca e la gestione del tuo spazio di lavoro digitale. Potresti sapere che puoi inserire le informazioni in cima: un ottimo modo per assicurarti che tutti sappiano cosa fare, dove e quando. Con lo Smart Picker puoi collegarti con estrema facilità ad altre risorse come le Deck board o la tua base di conoscenze.

Risorse correlate

Abbiamo migliorato la funzione Risorse correlate, rendendo più facile trovare altre cose condivise dallo stesso team. Se hai creato un’area di lavoro come Circle con una Groupfolder, troverai Deck board, Talk room e altri file e cartelle condivisi con lo stesso Circle nella sezione Risorse correlate.

Taggare i file: un’esperienza superlativa

Se ami l’organizzazione, allora ti piacerà la nostra funzione di tagging. Puoi creare e impostare tag per qualsiasi file, che in Hub 5 vengono visualizzati nella normale vista File. In modo simile a come si possono impostare i tag in Nextcloud Deck, i file possono essere organizzati per argomento, nome del progetto ecc. I tag sono ora disponibili anche sulle app mobili, facilmente visibili e configurabili!

Automatizza il lavoro con i tag

I tag non sono solo uno strumento utile per trovare i tuoi file. È possibile automatizzare una serie di azioni in base ai tag e ad altri fattori. Ad esempio, vuoi che venga inviato un messaggio di chat quando un file in una cartella specifica viene modificato? Vuoi trasformare i file con un determinato tag in PDF? Si può fare!

Proteggi i tuoi dati

C’è un altro aspetto in cui i tag possono essere utili: la protezione dei tuoi file. Puoi utilizzare i tag e altri fattori, come il proprietario del file o il luogo di accesso, per creare dei criteri che limitano l’accesso ai file quando l’accesso non è conforme alle regole impostate. Oppure, invece di bloccare l’accesso, puoi imporre delle filigrane sui documenti.

Poiché l’etichettatura manuale dei file con dati sensibili è soggetta a errori, stiamo introducendo un metodo per etichettare automaticamente i file in base al loro contenuto: Classificazione dei file. Un amministratore può definire quali dati sensibili deve cercare, ad esempio i dati della carta di credito o i dettagli del conto bancario. E quando viene trovato, viene impostato un tag predefinito sul file.

Insieme, queste caratteristiche permettono a Nextcloud di essere utilizzato in organizzazioni che hanno a che fare con classificazioni di sicurezza come la VS-NfD in Germania e altre simili in altri paesi.

Aggiornamenti nei clienti

iOS

I file in iOS hanno ricevuto diversi miglioramenti, tra cui un nuovo visualizzatore di video e audio per massimizzare le tue capacità di streaming.

Riproduci il filmato per URL

Cartelle di gruppo

Riproduci il filmato per file

Riproduci un filmato tramite URL: Riproduci un video direttamente tramite un URL

Supporto per le cartelle di gruppo che possono essere visualizzate nella scheda “Altro”.

Riproduci i video per file: guarda qualsiasi tipo di video, compresi i video MKV / AVI e altri ancora – trova un video in qualsiasi cloud tramite Nextcloud

Android

Allo stesso modo, l’applicazione per Android ora supporta le cartelle di gruppo, i tag e offre una nuova e migliorata visualizzazione dei file per tutte le cartelle e i file. Dai un’occhiata qui sotto!

Vista dettagliata del file

Vista dettagliata delle cartelle

Etichette negli archivi

Visualizza l’attività e le opzioni di condivisione di qualsiasi file nella nuova vista dettagliata

Visualizza tutte le tue cartelle anche nella nuova vista dettagliata.

Etichetta tutti i tuoi file o le tue cartelle per organizzare meglio il tuo lavoro.

Client desktop

Il Desktop Client introduce il blocco automatico dei file, che rileva quando apri un file localmente e lo blocca sul server per evitare conflitti di modifica. Quando chiudi l’applicazione, il file sarà nuovamente sbloccato. Ci sono anche molti miglioramenti all’interfaccia utente, come l’aggiunta di alcune impostazioni di condivisione (nascondi download, solo upload e altro) e diversi miglioramenti delle prestazioni.

Drop e condivisione dei file per la crittografia end-to-end in tutti i client

Questi miglioramenti del client si aggiungono alla recente introduzione del supporto per la condivisione e il file-drop che è stato aggiunto alla nostra crittografia end-to-end. Da tutti i client ora puoi condividere file criptati end-to-end con altre persone della tua organizzazione e puoi condividere un link per il drop di file a una cartella criptata end-to-end in cui persone eterne possono rilasciare file che saranno subito criptati.

Tabelle aggiunge la gestione avanzata delle colonne e la ricerca

La spinta delle grandi aziende tecnologiche verso il cloud lascia molte organizzazioni bloccate senza una soluzione sicura e on-premise per i loro dati interni e sensibili. Questi sviluppi, in particolare per quanto riguarda SharePoint, hanno spinto i clienti e i potenziali clienti di Nextcloud a richiedere alcune funzionalità aggiuntive per facilitare la migrazione. Nextcloud Tables è stato progettato per dare potere agli utenti che gestiscono dati strutturati, semplificando molti processi dell’organizzazione.

La nuova versione introduce una serie di miglioramenti dell’interfaccia utente e delle funzionalità. Tra le altre cose, la selezione delle colonne è stata migliorata e le finestre di dialogo delle tabelle e delle colonne sono state ridisegnate, l’ordinamento, il filtraggio e la ricerca sono stati integrati nei campi di testo per i commenti. L’importazione avanzata di CSV e XLS e l’accesso API alle tabelle rendono più semplice l’inserimento dei dati nelle tabelle e la loro manipolazione da altre applicazioni.

See how easy it is to import a table – even if it has a row extra!

Integrazioni con Outlook e Teams

Insieme al nostro partner Sendent, continuiamo a lavorare per migliorare l’integrazione con gli ambienti Microsoft. Sono in arrivo tre grandi aggiornamenti:

una riscrittura dell’integrazione di Outlook, con il supporto dell’interfaccia web di Mac OS e Outlook

Un connettore per Exchange che può sincronizzare i calendari e i contatti tra Outlook e Nextcloud.

Integrazione con Microsoft Teams, che consente di condividere facilmente i contenuti di Nextcloud in una chat di Teams.

Puoi saperne di più nel blog dedicato che abbiamo pubblicato oggi.

Nextcloud Talk

Nextcloud Talk è il migliore strumento di comunicazione con chat o videochiamate

Cosa c’è di nuovo in Nextcloud Talk? Che tu stia comunicando via chat o tramite videochiamata, ci sono un sacco di nuove funzioni che miglioreranno la comunicazione e la collaborazione in Talk.

En chat

Malik sta digitando…

Ora puoi vedere chi sta scrivendo in una chat! Per rafforzare la collaborazione, dobbiamo essere in grado di lavorare con i colleghi in tempo reale, come se fossero seduti accanto a noi. Questa funzione può essere attivata/disattivata nelle impostazioni di conversazione (nell’angolo in basso a sinistra di Nextcloud).

Icona della chat di gruppo

Identifica e personalizza facilmente i tuoi gruppi di chat preferiti impostando un’immagine o un avatar sull’icona!

@Team Project

Cita una chat di gruppo nella tua chat – ad esempio, @Team Project – in modo da avvisare rapidamente un intero gruppo.

Traduzione di messaggi istantanei

Lavori in un ambiente in cui la comunicazione è nella tua seconda o terza lingua? Allora questa funzione potrebbe essere utile per te! Se hai impostato un’applicazione di traduzione sulla tua istanza Nextcloud, questa funzione può essere attivata. Forniamo un’applicazione di servizio di traduzione AI che funziona completamente sul tuo server.

In video

Immagini di sfondo virtuali

Imposta un’immagine di sfondo personalizzata nella tua prossima videochiamata! Scegli tra una serie di sfondi predefiniti, l’effetto sfocatura o aggiungi il tuo! Le immagini di sfondo creano l’atmosfera di una videochiamata, garantendo al contempo la privacy per non esporre la tua vita privata.

Chiamate reazioni

Reagisci durante le videochiamate con un’emoji! A volte è più facile esprimere la propria eccitazione o mostrare i propri ringraziamenti con una reazione emoji invece di interrompere la chiamata.

Trascrizioni per le registrazioni delle chiamate

Se installi un’applicazione di trascrizione, le registrazioni delle tue chiamate possono essere trascritte automaticamente attraverso la funzione Speech-to-Text. Questo può essere fatto utilizzando l’AI al 100% on-premises, quindi nessun dato lascia il tuo server!

Questo può essere fatto utilizzando l’AI al 100% on-premises, quindi nessun dato lascia il tuo server! Non preoccuparti: puoi usare lo Smart Picker per collegarti al loro profilo! Facile facile.

Nextcloud Office

Nextcloud Office porta la collaborazione a un livello completamente nuovo, con diverse nuove funzionalità

Nextcloud Office è molto più che creare documenti, fogli di calcolo e presentazioni. Nextcloud Office è molto più che creare documenti, fogli di calcolo e presentazioni. Anche Nextcloud Collectives – lo spazio di gestione della conoscenza – fa parte di Office, così come Notes – l’app ideale per prendere appunti che ora viene fornita con Nextcloud e Text – l’editor straordinario integrato in Nextcloud Deck, Collectives e Notes! Con questa release abbiamo apportato un sacco di miglioramenti e nuove funzionalità per tutti gli aspetti di Office. Continua a leggere per scoprirli!

Menzione in un documento

Diciamo che ti stai preparando per il lancio di un prodotto importante nella tua azienda. Hai scritto un ordine del giorno per il tuo team per informare tutti i membri del team sulle caratteristiche del nuovo prodotto, sulla tempistica, ecc. Hai una riunione virtuale su Talk e poi vuoi condividere le note dell’ordine del giorno con ogni membro del team in tempo reale, quindi le tagghi nel documento. Invece di aprire Mail per inviare a ciascun membro del team un’e-mail con le note dell’agenda in allegato, ti basterà notificarle direttamente nel documento. Risparmia tempo e fatica e stimola una maggiore collaborazione tra i team.

Oltre a menzionare un collega, ora puoi anche inserire facilmente un link a un membro del team utilizzando lo Smart Picker. Questo funziona in Office, ma anche in Talk, Text e in tutte le altre applicazioni che supportano lo Smart Picker! Guarda come è facile usare lo Smart Picker qui sotto.

Modelli per l’ufficio

Hai bisogno di un modello veloce e immediato? Abbiamo pensato a te con nuovi modelli di documenti! Ecco alcuni esempi:

Fotolibri, fatture, lettere, curriculum, inviti a feste e molto altro ancora.

Nel caso dell’esempio precedente, potresti creare un modello per le future agende di lancio del prodotto, in modo che la prossima volta la preparazione del lancio sembri un gioco da ragazzi e sia molto più efficiente.

Trova e collega in profondità

Questa versione di Nextcloud Office è dotata di un modo semplice per sfogliare documenti complessi e di grandi dimensioni: una barra laterale di navigazione. Qui puoi vedere la struttura basata sui titoli, ma anche oggetti come tabelle e immagini.

E se volessi risparmiare ai tuoi colleghi la fatica di trovare tale sezione in un documento, anche con la nuova barra laterale di navigazione? Perché non collegarsi direttamente ad esso? Il nuovo Smart Picker ti permette di collegarti direttamente a queste sezioni in un documento Office ed è facilissimo da usare.

Questa versione introduce anche la modalità Dark e migliora le funzioni aggiunte di recente, come la gestione delle citazioni di Zotero. E come al solito sono stati apportati molti aggiornamenti per migliorare le prestazioni e la compatibilità dei documenti.

Deep link Smart Picker

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Nextcloud Text con la funzione di traduzione self-hosted

Nextcloud Text è un’app che offre semplici funzioni di scrittura per l’uso quotidiano. Il testo è integrato nelle carte Nextcloud Deck, nelle Collettive e nelle Note. In questa versione sono stati apportati miglioramenti alla robustezza e alle prestazioni della sincronizzazione. La novità più importante è Nextcloud Translate che permette di tradurre al volo il testo all’interno dell’editor senza trasferire i dati a un servizio esterno. Guarda le funzioni AI in cima al blog.

Note nuovo design

Nell’Hub 4 abbiamo annunciato l’arrivo di Nextcloud Notes, l’app per prendere appunti facile e ben integrata con Nextcloud. Abbiamo anche reso disponibili gratuitamente le app per dispositivi mobili! Per questa versione, Nextcloud Notes ha ricevuto un nuovo layout a tre colonne e un elenco di note che separa le note in base al mese in cui sono state create. Inoltre, il dialogo con le impostazioni è stato migliorato.

Notes app with new 3 columns design

Notes settings

Notes shared to a Circle

Notes on iOS

Collectives

Collectives è lo sportello unico per l’archiviazione e l’organizzazione della conoscenza. Ad esempio, un team di risorse umane potrebbe creare un manuale aziendale che contenga decine di pagine sulle politiche aziendali come le ferie e i permessi per malattia. Ora anche il team delle risorse umane può allegare documenti, accessibili nella nuova barra laterale. Gli allegati possono essere visualizzati all’interno di Collective, scaricati o mostrati all’interno di Nextcloud Files.

Inoltre, Collectives ora supporta la crittografia lato server nel suo archivio.

Nextcloud Groupware

Il Groupware di Nextcloud è composto da Mail, Calendario e Contatti.

Nextcloud offre un client Groupware completamente integrato, il che significa che puoi lavorare con i prodotti Nextcloud Files, Talk e altri ancora direttamente all’interno di Groupware. Questo perché tutte le applicazioni di Nextcloud Hub lavorano insieme per semplificarti la vita e rendere più efficiente il tuo flusso di lavoro.

Un esempio è la possibilità di creare facilmente una sala di conversazione durante la creazione di un appuntamento del calendario. Ora questa funzione è disponibile anche per gli appuntamenti!

Crea una stanza di conversazione con ogni appuntamento

Prenotare una riunione con un collega o con un esterno può essere una seccatura. Puoi mandare avanti e indietro la posta per 5 volte fino ad ottenere una data, ma con Nextcloud Hub c’è un modo migliore. Il calendario ti permette di creare un link per gli appuntamenti in cui gli altri possono prenotare un incontro con te, direttamente nel tuo calendario. Puoi vedere come è facile per gli altri prenotare un incontro con te nel breve video qui sotto.

Con questa versione, puoi configurare il Calendario in modo che crei e includa automaticamente un link alla sala di conversazione per ogni riunione.

Questo è solo uno delle centinaia di esempi di possibilità di integrazione di Nextcloud Hub. Puoi scoprire i vantaggi di lavorare con un’unica piattaforma integrata qui.

Ora diamo un’occhiata ad altre nuove funzioni di Groupware!

Rubrica di sistema in Contatti

Se tutta la tua organizzazione utilizza Nextcloud, ora puoi beneficiare della rubrica degli utenti a livello di sistema. Nella Rubrica di sistema viene creato un contatto per ogni utente dell’organizzazione in base alle sue impostazioni personali. Questo contatto mostra il nome dell’utente, il titolo del lavoro, l’e-mail e altro ancora, oltre alla novità dell’Hub 5: il suo manager. Il contatto è modificabile dagli amministratori di sistema (e dall’utente se ha i permessi), mentre è di sola lettura per tutti gli altri utenti. Se non vuoi che alcuni utenti vedano un contatto, ci sono delle impostazioni di privacy per regolare questa funzione, descritte qui.

La Rubrica di Sistema crea automaticamente anche un organigramma, quindi, soprattutto se sei un’azienda di grandi dimensioni, ora è molto più facile trovare e conoscere meglio i tuoi colleghi.

Calendari delle vacanze

Hai un collega o un team in un altro paese?

A volte ti dimentichi delle prossime festività?

Per tenere traccia delle festività in tutto il mondo ed essere attento al tuo team internazionale, ora puoi impostare dei calendari delle festività. La nuova funzione supporta centinaia di paesi e si integra perfettamente nel tuo calendario.

I dati sono stati raccolti dalla comunità di Thunderbird qui. Grazie a loro per il loro fantastico lavoro!

Nuovo design nei Contatti

Hub 5 introduce nei Contatti un nuovo design a colonna singola per un look più semplice e accessibile. Ogni contatto può essere facilmente modificato e riportato in modalità di visualizzazione. Speriamo che il nuovo stile ti piaccia!

Nuove funzionalità di Mail:

Le aziende hanno bisogno di comunicazioni sicure e la crittografia PGP e ora anche S/MIME sono supportate da Nextcloud Mail. Anche le grandi organizzazioni utilizzano spesso cartelle di posta elettronica condivise e con questa versione l’invio di e-mail a nome di un collega o di un team è diventato facile da configurare. Sono stati apportati una serie di ulteriori miglioramenti:

autorisponditore aggiornato che supporta i segnaposto

Riduci al minimo il compositore di posta elettronica in modo che gli utenti possano guardare le altre e-mail mentre lavorano su una di esse.

Annullamento dell’iscrizione alle newsletter con un solo clic

trasformare le e-mail in schede o attività Deck (oltre ad aggiungere appuntamenti e itinerari di viaggio al calendario)

Nuove integrazioni

Nozione

Cerca Notion nella barra di ricerca di Nextcloud
Utilizza lo Smart Picker per cercare le pagine, i database e i link di Notion.

Installa l’applicazione

GPTZero

Rileva i contenuti generati dall’intelligenza artificiale dai file
Invia testo o file a GPTZero API

Installa l’applicazione

Un grande ringraziamento alla nostra comunità!

Nextcloud non sarebbe lo stesso senza la nostra comunità dedicata e incoraggiante. Un enorme ringraziamento a tutti i membri della comunità che hanno reso questa release la migliore possibile e che continuano a mostrare il loro talento e la loro passione attraverso Nextcloud.

Per tutti i consumatori, le aziende, gli enti governativi, le organizzazioni pubbliche, le scuole e le università che aspirano al progresso, vi ringraziamo per aver scelto Nextcloud come piattaforma di collaborazione e spazio di lavoro digitale. Ci auguriamo che possiate apprezzare tutto ciò che questa nuova versione ha da offrire.

Per gli sviluppatori

Per gli sviluppatori, Nextcloud Hub 5 introduce alcuni importanti miglioramenti che rendono più semplice lo sviluppo di applicazioni. Innanzitutto, la nostra documentazione è ora basata su OpenAPI: puoi trovarla sul nostro sito web.

In secondo luogo, per rendere l’utilizzo ancora più semplice, abbiamo sviluppato un’applicazione OCS Viewer che permette di navigare facilmente e persino di testare le API di Open Collaboration Services che Nextcloud supporta per l’integrazione di applicazioni di terze parti. Nell’app, puoi scegliere un endpoint API, inserire alcuni dati di prova e vedere cosa restituisce Nextcloud.

Infine, ma non meno importante, l’introduzione di quattro Developer Toolkit per Rust, Python, TypeScript e Go facilita notevolmente lo sviluppo di integrazioni con le app che utilizzano questi linguaggi! Puoi trovarli, insieme a tutorial e altro, sulla nostra pagina dedicata agli sviluppatori.

Come installare l’Hub 5

Sei pronto a utilizzare tutte le nuove funzioni di Hub 5? Allora assicurati di sapere come installarlo!

In generale, offriamo Hub 5 da scaricare subito. Agli utenti esistenti verrà offerta la nuova versione solo tra qualche tempo, in quanto il roll-out avviene a tappe. Possono volerci 6-8 settimane, ma puoi sempre ottenere manualmente le ultime novità! Vedi sotto per sapere come fare:

Utenti AIO

Per i nuovi utenti di Nextcloud All-in-One (AIO), puoi installare direttamente Hub 5 selezionando la casella “Installa Nextcloud 27”.

Per gli utenti AIO esistenti, abbiamo una guida per te! Segui la guida per configurarlo oggi stesso!

Gli utenti di Snap possono passare ai canali di test per ottenere l’ultima versione. Se hai installato Nextcloud tramite zip o tarball, puoi cambiare il canale di rilascio in Beta per ricevere al più presto l’ultima versione.

Nota: il tuo Nextcloud memorizza nella cache i risultati provenienti dal nostro server di aggiornamento, quindi potrebbe volerci un po’ prima che la nuova versione venga visualizzata e probabilmente dovrai aggiornare la pagina, aspettare un po’ e rifarlo. Non dimenticare di tornare alla versione stabile dopo aver aggiornato l’Hub 5!

Divertiti!

Ci auguriamo che l’Hub 5 ti tratti bene e saremo lieti di ricevere il tuo feedback!

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Nextcloud complaint precedes investigation into Microsoft market dominance by German antitrust authorities

Jos Poortvliet — Tue, 28 Mar 2023 15:52:00 +0000

After a complaint filed by Nextcloud on behalf of a coalition of dozens of European cloud tech providers in November 2021, the German Bundeskartellamt (federal antitrust authorities) has now begun an official investigation into Microsoft to assess if the company has a dominant position in the market.

We welcome this development, as this is a first step towards investigating the anti-competitive behavior of Microsoft with regard to OneDrive bundling and other gatekeeping actions. Rapid developments in AI only serve to strengthen the need for oversight, as the Bundeskartellamt itself also points out.

Since the initial complaint to the European Commissions’ Directorate-General for Competition, Microsoft has continued to limit on the freedom of choice for consumers. Bundling of software with its operating system continues to expand, while on-premises solutions are eliminated, decreasing the control organisations have over their data. Microsofts’ influence on openAI has already resulted in a decrease in openness about AI research, coinciding with Microsoft firing its ethics team, increasing societal risks regarding artificial intelligence. While Nextcloud has responded to these developments, introducing a Microsoft SharePoint migration service to enable organisations to keep data on-premises, and introducing an Ethical AI solution with integration across its products, anti-competitive behavior limits access of customers to these services.

With even a well-known comedian like John Oliver addressing the challenges with big tech, there is growing awareness. But real action still has not been taken and the tech giants continue to push out the competition by all means available to them.

Dozens of European SMEs organisations support these efforts to push back against Big Tech and create a level playing field, supporting innovation and local (European) businesses. A full list of these companies as well as non-profits and industry consortia can be found on https://antitrust.nextcloud.com.

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EU Governments bet on Nextcloud to replace SharePoint

Jos Poortvliet — Wed, 01 Mar 2023 08:01:00 +0000

Privacy and compliance conscious government organizations won’t be forced in the cloud, settle on on-premises solution that protects independence.

Proprietary SaaS plaforms like Sharepoint and MS 365 have become major cash cows, and on-premises solutions get discontinued across the tech sector to force customers into vendor-locked clouds. Organizations dealing with critical or sensitive data respond by looking to maintain their strategic autonomy by deploying on premises solutions. In collaboration with a number of European government organizations, the market leader in the open source, on-premises collaboration space today announces the expansion of it’s offering to provide a full SharePoint replacement, complete with migration services. Showing the strong trend towards digital sovereignty, the announcement comes shortly after the highest EU Data Protection authority, the EDPS, announced they deploy and recommend Nextcloud.

We believe that development based on real world requirements and demand, rather than a strategy of forcing customers into a vendor lock-in, results in better products. Demand for an open, on-premises structured data platform as part of Nextcloud has been huge, and several customers have already signed up to deploy our technology.

Frank Karlitschek, CEO and founder of Nextcloud GmbH

The imminent end of SharePoint Server support has created a huge demand for solutions that offer similar functionality without compromising user control over data and meta data. The risks around data sovereignty and vendor lock-in is particularly pronounced for government agencies, many of which for reasons of autonomy, cost and compliance, tend to rely on on-premises tools for collaboration and document management.

Nextcloud Tables complements the document management features in Nextcloud.

A number of customers from the public sector has worked with Nextcloud to integrate a structured data management application into Nextcloud Hub. German state Schleswig-Holstein already announced their intention to replace SharePoint with Nextcloud in 2020 and since then several government organizations have already committed to the platform. Even more are providing feedback and information on their requirements with an eye to adopting Nextcloud as their on-premises SharePoint replacement.

Nextcloud’s initiative to offer a digitally sovereign, open-source alternative to Microsoft Sharepoint is to be welcomed. That’s why we work together with Nextcloud to optimize Nextcloud Tables.

Ralf Sutorius, Leitender IT-Architekt, Stadt Köln

Nextcloud Hub is well established as a collaboration platform, providing easy document collaboration and sharing for teams and work groups, as well as integrated knowledge management. The introduction of Tables rounds the platform out with management of structured data. It allows customers to build, manage and work with data structures, putting together easy ‘apps’ and connecting them to various other components in Nextcloud for automation.

Users will be able to create a table to track any other type of data that is relevant to their organization, such as expenses, projects or sales leads. The flexibility of Tables allows users to tailor the table to their specific needs.

The first release of Tables is available now on the Nextcloud app store.

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Il supervisore della protezione dei dati dell’UE stabilisce lo standard per la protezione dei dati con Nextcloud

Jos Poortvliet — Fri, 24 Feb 2023 11:11:18 +0000

Mettendo in pratica ciò che predica, il GEPD distribuisce Nextcloud per la collaborazione interna e lo mette a disposizione di altre istituzioni dell’UE.

Photo by Guillaume Périgois on UnsplashMettendo in pratica ciò che predica, il GEPD distribuisce Nextcloud per la collaborazione interna e lo mette a disposizione di altre istituzioni dell’UE.

Il Garante europeo della protezione dei dati è un’organizzazione indipendente che ha il compito di monitorare e garantire che le istituzioni dell’UE rispettino il diritto alla privacy e alla protezione dei dati dei cittadini. Un anno fa, in una relazione sui sistemi di gestione delle informazioni personali, il EDPS aveva già citato Nextcloud come esempio di un’ottima soluzione per gestire in modo responsabile i dati personali e sensibili alla privacy.

Oggi siamo orgogliosi di dirle che il EDPS stesso ha implementato Nextcloud e, ancora di più, sta lavorando con il nostro partner TAS Cloud Services per renderlo disponibile a tutte le istituzioni dell’UE! Ciò significa che l’UE dispone ora di una piattaforma di collaborazione potente e completa, conforme alle leggi sulla protezione dei dati dell’UE e non solo approvata, ma utilizzata e offerta dal supervisore indipendente della protezione dei dati dell’UE. Citiamo lo stesso Garante europeo della protezione dei dati, Wojciech Wiewiórowski:

Wojciech Wiewiórowski

Il software open source offre alternative rispettose della protezione dei dati ai fornitori di servizi cloud su larga scala comunemente utilizzati, che spesso implicano il trasferimento dei dati personali delle persone in Paesi non appartenenti all’Unione Europea. Soluzioni come questa possono quindi ridurre al minimo la dipendenza da fornitori monopolisti e il dannoso vendor lock-in. Negoziando un contratto con un fornitore di servizi cloud con sede nell’UE, il EDPS sta rispettando i suoi impegni, come stabilito nella sua Strategia 2020-2024, per sostenere le IUE nel dare l’esempio di salvaguardia dei diritti digitali e di trattamento responsabile dei dati.”

Wojciech Wiewiórowski, EDPS

Come molti di voi sanno, molte organizzazioni governative dell’UE, come in Svezia, Francia e Germania, che si preoccupano della privacy e della sicurezza, raccomandano e impiegano Nextcloud da anni.. È fantastico vedere la più alta autorità di conformità alla privacy dell’UE guidare questo sforzo!

Il EDPS ha implementato Nextcloud per “condividere file, inviare messaggi, effettuare videochiamate e consentire la redazione collaborativa, in un ambiente cloud protetto“. (enfasi nella citazione originale). Per consentire l’adozione di Nextcloud nell’UE, il EDPS ha collaborato con noi di Nextcloud e con il nostro grande partner TAS Cloud Services per migliorare l’integrazione di Nextcloud con EU login, il servizio di autenticazione degli utenti della Commissione Europea. I servizi cloud di EDPS e TAS offriranno ad altre istituzioni, enti e agenzie dell’UE la stessa soluzione implementata presso il EDPS.

Ciò significa che qualsiasi istituto dell’UE, dalla Corte di Giustizia al Parlamento, può ora disporre di una piattaforma di comunicazione e collaborazione sicura, facile da usare e pienamente conforme. Non è più necessario rischiare la sovranità dei dati affidandosi a piattaforme cloud non UE!

Nextcloud offre il modo più semplice per ottenere il controllo e la sovranità digitale sui dati e sulle comunicazioni per le organizzazioni che trattano contenuti sensibili o business critical. Come piattaforma di collaborazione open source e on-premises, offre trasparenza e controllo che nessuna piattaforma SaaS non europea può offrire. Citando il comunicato stampa del EDPS:

Acquistando il Software Open Source da un’unica entità nell’UE, si evita l’uso di subprocessori. In questo modo, il EDPS evita i trasferimenti di dati verso Paesi non appartenenti all’UE e consente un controllo più efficace sul trattamento dei dati personali.

Le parti interessate possono contattare Nextcloud o il nostro partner TAS Cloud Services per implementare un proof of concept della piattaforma di collaborazione che il EDPS ha implementato.

The post Il supervisore della protezione dei dati dell’UE stabilisce lo standard per la protezione dei dati con Nextcloud appeared first on Nextcloud.

Shadow è la prima a collegare la tecnologia del PC remoto con la collaborazione sui contenuti.

Jos Poortvliet — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 12:01:11 +0000

Come si legge su Tech Crunch, la collaborazione di nuova generazione è in arrivo nel servizio di cloud computing globale.

Shadow è probabilmente più conosciuta per la sua piattaforma di gioco remoto su PC, descritta come “l’unico servizio di gioco cloud completamente realizzato” e “l’esperienza di gioco cloud definitiva” da cloudwards. Vantava 100.000 giocatori nel 2020 e ha ampliato la sua piattaforma da quando è stata acquistata dal fondatore di OVHcloud Octave Klaba. Shadow annuncia ora la disponibilità immediata di Shadow Drive basato su Nextcloud in tutti i Paesi europei in cui operano i servizi Shadow. Questo include Francia, Regno Unito, Belgio, Svizzera, Lussemburgo, Germania, Paesi Bassi, Austria, Italia, Svezia e Danimarca. La Spagna verrà lanciata il 7 dicembre.

Shadow Drive consentirà agli utenti di archiviare i propri dati mantenendoli accessibili da qualsiasi luogo. I dati saranno accessibili tramite la sua interfaccia web e attraverso le applicazioni Windows, macOS, Linux, Android e iOS (ancora in beta).

La nostra ambizione di liberare la tecnologia dai suoi limiti hardware passa anche attraverso Shadow Drive, la nostra soluzione di archiviazione cloud, con l’aiuto del nostro prestigioso partner Nextcloud, una partnership per la quale ringrazio Frank. Siamo particolarmente entusiasti di questo progetto europeo congiunto

— Eric Sèle, CEO di SHADOW

Lanciato inizialmente in modo soft quest’estate, Shadow Drive conta già quasi 25.000 utenti prima del suo lancio generale. Il servizio sarà disponibile anche il 7 dicembre in Spagna e nel 2023 in Nord America.

Shadow è gratuito per un massimo di 20 GB di spazio di archiviazione. E per gratuito non si intende freemium: “i dati dei nostri utenti non saranno mai venduti o utilizzati, e non integreremo mai annunci pubblicitari”, condivide Shadow. Una versione premium del servizio offre uno spazio di archiviazione fino a 2 TB.

Controlli la pagina dei download per maggiori dettagli. Come per tutti i servizi SHADOW, si tratta di un’offerta non vincolante e indipendente da qualsiasi abbonamento a Shadow PC.

Viviamo in un’epoca in cui tutta la nostra vita digitale, tutte le nostre comunicazioni sono ora nel cloud, e la maggior parte di esse è ospitata all’estero. Non desidero vivere in un mondo in cui cinque giganti possiedono tutti i file del mondo. Ecco perché sono entusiasta della collaborazione con SHADOW, in quanto le nostre due aziende condividono i valori di eccellenza, apertura e sovranità europea.

— Frank Karlitschek, CEO di Nextcloud

Shadow Drive is a European owned and based service, which means that the data of European users will always remain in Europe, through European sovereign solutions. Può scoprire di più su ciò che la sovranità digitale significa per Shadow e Nextcloud in un precedente post sul blog.

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