Notices by Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 (nextcloud@mastodon.xyz), page 3

Digital whiteboards for two, ten, or 50 people to collaborate over a video call? Try with Nextcloud Whiteboard! 🎨

Read a guide to our new app that lets you sketch and present your ideas with a variety of visual tools in an infinite collaborative space.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-whiteboard/

Installing Nextcloud on Ubuntu 24.04!

JayTheLinuxGuy shares an updated tutorial exploring how to host your own Nextcloud on your favorite VPS 🚀

👩🏼💻 A great weekend project!

#selfhosted #datasovereignty #degoogle

https://youtu.be/fpr37FJSgrw

📢 3 years after our complaint the German antitrust agency (Bundeskartellamt) has decided that, yes, Microsoft is a big tech gate keeper.

Next step - they are going to supervise them. Maybe some day investigate.

Meanwhile, Microsoft continues to block competition. Even big tech firms like Google and Salesforce complained - and, interestingly, their complaints did result in relatively swift action from the European antitrust agencies.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/germany-recognises-microsoft-as-tech-giant/

Our new Nextcloud Hub 9 is live! 🎉

From federated video calling and chat, to new designs and dynamic backgrounds, full mobile sync folders, and more!

Available to install immediately with updates rolling out now - stay tuned!

#decentralized #federation
https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-hub9/

Feeling grateful and excited ✨

Thank you for being a part of #NextcloudConf24! 🙏

Today has been truly unforgettable 💙

🎉 Huge thanks to everyone who traveled to be with us

🎉 A special shoutout to our speakers and contributors

🎉 And of course, thanks to all who joined us online

🎉Kudos to the incredible team who made this event possible

See you tomorrow at 9 AM for Day 2! 🌟

What an incredible talk! 🙌

Huge thanks to Constanze Kurz for sharing your valuable findings with us in the keynote "Mass surveillance: The haystack has only grown bigger".

#NextcloudConf24

Switzerland goes all-in on open source!

Switzerland pioneers a decision mandating all government software be released as open source: enhancing transparency and security.w

Public money, public code 🚀

#OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #GovernmentTech @fsfe

https://www.zdnet.com/article/switzerland-now-requires-all-government-software-to-be-open-source/

If you're a hosting company or university running or planning to run a large Roundcube webmail instance, this is the news you've been waiting for! 🚀

We're launching the first-ever enterprise support offering for Roundcube, ensuring you get the most out of this super popular, lightweight webmail platform.

For more details, check out our blog below 👇

#hosting #opensource #Roundcube #webmail #Nextcloud

https://nextcloud.com/blog/introducing-enterprise-support-for-roundcube/

The recent CrowdStrike outage is a wake-up call: centralized services are a single point of failure. 🌐

For true digital resilience, we must decentralize and diversify our technology. Read Nextcloud's take on this event.

https://nextcloud.com/blog/global-outage-shows-lack-of-digital-sovereignty-and-resilience/

📢 Nextcloud featured in DIE ZEIT: “Does it always have to be Microsoft?”

The antitrust initiative lead by Nextcloud since early 2021 is finally paying off. But what does it take to fully restore fair competition on the European market?

https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-for-die-zeit-microsoft/

🎤✨ Next keynote speaker announcement at the Nextcloud Community Conference 2024: Prof. Björn Lundell!

Professor Lundell will give a must-see talk "Recipes for getting stuck in proprietary clouds: How public sector organisations discriminate against OSS solutions".

https://nextcloud.com/blog/speaking-at-nextcloud-community-conference-2024-bjorn-lundell/

Is Microsoft 365 tracking European schoolchildren against the #GDPR? 🕵🏾

Our friends at @noybeu are concerned: "Hundreds of thousands of European schoolchildren are likely being tracked by Microsoft education software widely deployed in schools"

#dataprivacy

https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/06/04/microsoft-software-accused-of-breaching-data-rights-of-eu-schoolchildren

Happy 8th birthday, Nextcloud! 🎂 🎉 💫

Today, we celebrate 8 years of awesomeness! We look back at our big journey with gratefulness for all the great milestones and thank everyone for being a part of it 💙

Here's our letter to you. Celebrate with us!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/eight-years-strong-happy-birthday-nextcloud/

Got an idea for a Nextcloud app?
The sky is the limit! ☁️

From cookbooks to maps, our community has created a world of apps that everyone can use, and the app store keeps on growing! 📈

With our developer tutorials, we take the stress out of app development and give you a jump start, with a supportive community to help along the way:

https://nextcloud.com/blog/develop-your-own-nextcloud-apps-check-out-our-new-tutorials/

Interested in migrating to Nextcloud?

We want to help you succeed! 🎯

Nextcloud customers migrate from a wide range of other solutions. Premium customers receive our free migration assistance from solutions like ownCloud, Dracoon or SharePoint.

https://nextcloud.com/migration/

A victory for privacy and encryption advocates! 🎉

The European Court of Human Rights confirms:

"...Weakening of encryption can lead to general and indiscriminate surveillance of the communications of all users and violates the human right to privacy."

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/european-court-human-rights-confirms-undermining-encryption-violates-fundamental

Appalled by the AfD's Potsdam meeting news, Nextcloud asserts its commitment to democracy, freedom, diversity, and inclusion.

Our mission is clear and should be for everyone: to strive for a better world for all. Read more in our statement!

https://nextcloud.com/blog/statement-nextcloud-stands-for-an-open-and-free-society/

AI in Nextcloud is advancing!

From our Ethical AI approach to the industry's first local Nextcloud AI Assistant, Brent provides a comprehensive overview of the AI features integrated into Nextcloud Hub 7.

Take a tour of Nextcloud's AI features:

#EthicalAI #dataprivacy #youchoose

https://youtu.be/_T5cqNWkky0

To our entire community of users:

We agree completely - accessibility is an essential human right, no question!

We deeply apologize...

Accessibility has always been a first-order priority for us. It's important as well to not see such essential feature sets as binary - an either "have" or "don't have", and our intention today was to receive feedback on whether we're currently excelling in these areas or if you, our dear users, feel we can do even better.

We're also currently in the review process of an accessibility certification, and will share the results when that comes to fruition.