Notices by Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 (nextcloud@mastodon.xyz)

Another success for public administrations and digital sovereignty! 🤝

The Swiss City of Geneva is one of the many public institutions that use Nextcloud to keep their data safe, like the Italian Region of Venice and the Austrian Ministry of Economy.

https://nextcloud.com/customers/

Thinking about moving away from Microsoft Teams? 🤔 Meet Nextcloud Talk, now sleeker, smarter & packed with collaboration power!

🚀 New dashboard
💬 Polls, voice messages & file sharing
🔒 Sensitive chat mode

And more! https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub25-autumn/

Nextcloud is joining the call for an EU Sovereign Tech Fund, alongside dozens of organizations: €350M to secure Europe's digital infrastructure.

Why? Open source is severely underfunded, while it powers Europe's economy and ensures sovereignty.

As an open-source company supporting Europe’s digital independence since our inception, we support the movement by signing this open letter.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-signs-public-letter-calling-for-eu-sovereign-tech-fund-eu-stf/

What started as a hobby is now the world’s most deployed open source collaboration platform. 😎

Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn is here. Discover:
✔️ Fast, easy deployment
✔️ Smooth migration
✔️ No vendor lock-in

Read about it in the release blog! 👉 https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub25-autumn/

We’re live! 🎬 Join the global release of Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn and discover:

🚀 Sleek design updates and smart new features
💪 Maintenance and performance improvements
💬 Live feedback & community chat

Don’t miss it. Tune in now!
👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jcYJGQgenI

Tomorrow we also kick off Nextcloud Community Conference 2025! 🚀

Months of planning with a sustainable setup, bigger venue, and packed program.

See you there! 💙

All info 👉 https://nextcloud.com/conference-2025/

⚠️ Share your moments with #NextcloudConf25

Less than a week to go! 🚀 The full program for the #NextcloudConf25 is here. And it’s action-packed!

Lightning talks, workshops, panel sessions, keynotes, live launch of #NextcloudHub 25 Autumn, and more!

📍 Sept 27–28 at bUm, Berlin, Germany

👉 https://nextcloud.com/blog/full-program-nextcloud-community-conference-2025/

The EU wants to backdoor E2EE. 🚨

Under the #ChatControl law, all of your online messages would be scanned before encryption.

This is mass surveillance that poses a direct threat to democracy

Learn what’s at stake and how to push back 👉 https://nextcloud.com/blog/how-the-eu-chat-control-law-is-a-threat-to-democracy/

Amnesty International Spain needed secure #OnlineCollaboration for their members, partners, and employees, worldwide!

After comparing different options, they decided on #NextcloudEnterprise to boost productivity & ensure #DataSafety.

Read the full story 👇
https://nextcloud.com/blog/case_studies/amnesty-international-in-spain/

Watch as Frank Karlitschek, Nextcloud founder, and Kaj Arnö of MariaDB Foundation discuss:

- The synergy between #Nextcloud and #MariaDB
- How values translate into technology
- Why #OpenSource is essential to #DigitalSovereignty

And more!

Watch it now 👉 https://youtu.be/-dn6VET-7EY

@Karlitschek @mariadb

@aral @happyborg 🙌 💙

Amnesty International Spain needed secure #OnlineCollaboration for their members, partners, and employees, worldwide!

After comparing different options, they decided on #NextcloudEnterprise to boost productivity & ensure #DataSafety.

Read the full story 👉https://nextcloud.com/blog/case_studies/amnesty-international-in-spain/

Shall we push for Platinum once again in 2025? 😇

Last year, your support placed Nextcloud at the top of the CloudComputing-Insider IT Awards. Let's get there once again!

Here's how to cast your vote: https://nextcloud.com/blog/vote-for-nextcloud-in-the-cloudcomputing-insider-it-awards-2025/

Miss #Pocket? 🥲 We have a fix! 👋

Nextcloud Bookmarks helps you organize and sync your links, offering extra privacy and integration opportunities on top of that. And it's open source. And people love it!

https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/bookmarks

Sorbonne University chooses on-premises collaboration with Nextcloud 🤝✨

The university's 10k employees and 55k students use Nextcloud as their digital collaboration platform, a perfect match for their data sovereignty policy. Read our case study!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/case_studies/sorbonne-university-implements-nextcloud-solution/

“But the real magic happened once I started exploring what Nextcloud could actually do.” 🪄

Read the empowering story by Jeff McGinty on #howtogeek about de-googling his workspace with Nextcloud and taking back control of his data:

https://www.howtogeek.com/switched-to-linux-this-app-helped-me-drop-google-for-good/

What are Nextcloud release channels and which one is best for you? 🚢

Read our guide to understand our release process and choose what's the best way to update, depending on your needs!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-release-channels-and-how-to-track-them/

“The belief that open source is unsafe or unusable is simply not true.” 💡

The Dutch cooperative SURF aims to prove that — by creating a framework to support digital commons and assist institutions in adopting open-source collaboration tools such as Nextcloud Hub.

@SIDN
@wlaatje

🔗 https://www.sidnfonds.nl/nieuws/surf-bouwt-ondersteunings-framework-voor-digitale-gemeenschapsgoederen

Out-of-band maintenance updates for Nextcloud Hub 8 (29.0.14), 9 (30.0.8) and 10 (31.0.2) are available 🚀

Keep your server up to date! Read more about the update below and find the changelog on our website.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/out-of-band-maintenance-updates-for-nextcloud-hub-8-9-and-10/

80% of German SMEs use Microsoft Office versions ending support in 2025 — It's time for a change!

Switch to Nextcloud Office for #openSource flexibility, data sovereignty, and GDPR compliance.

Take control of your data and avoid #BigTech's grip!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-office-your-privacy-upgrade-as-microsoft-office-end-of-life-approaches/