Nextcloud was featured last week in heute journal. The topic is Digital Sovereignty and Open Source https://www.zdf.de/video/magazine/heute-journal-104/heute-journal-vom-3-juni-2026-100
Frank Karlitschek
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Founder and CEO of Nextcloud, Co-founder and Vice Chair Eurostack, Board Member MariaDB Foundation, Founder of ownCloud, Free Software Developer, former KDE e.V. board member, Photographer
It's hard to believe that Nextcloud had its 10th birthday this week. It's amazing what the community achieved. I'm looking forward to celebrate this properly next week at the Nextcloud Summit https://nextcloud.com/summit/ Join us in Munich
On the way to Bern to speak at the Nextcloud Enterprise Day tomorrow: https://nextcloud.com/de/nextcloud-enterprise-day-bern-2026/
Last week I was a visitor at The Dip Podcast from Deutsche Welle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upY5I_lr3_U
Is Big Tech a national security risk for Europe? | The Dip Podcast
The Euro-Office initiative is gaining momentum. A ton of security and performance and integration tasks are already fixed. Thanks to OX and Office.EU for joining and several involved companies are hiring developers for Euro-Office. https://nextcloud.com/blog/euro-office-building-momentum/
Happy that I have a few sessions at re:publica this year. The first is this interesting panel: https://re-publica.com/de/session/cut-me-loose-wie-der-eu-der-digitale-befreiungsschlag-gelingt
Today I'm in Kassel to speak at the ZKI AK Cloud Management event together with @hildi https://events.zki.de/frontend/index.php?folder_id=910&page_id=
We as Nextcloud published a detailed blog post regarding the Euro-Office licensing situation. Great to see that basically everyone including the FSF the SFC, Bradley Kuhn the inventor of the AGPL and other organization agree with our interpretation of the AGPL.
https://nextcloud.com/blog/euro-office-license-compliance-and-what-open-source-means/
https://nextcloud.com/blog/euro-office-license-compliance-and-what-open-source-means/
Fabrice Mous@Karlitschek is delivering a keynote on “sovereignty washing” at the Nationaal Cloud Congres at the @universityofgroningen to a room full of legal experts.
Curious how this lands.
Last year at the Nextcloud Enterprise Day in the Netherlands we had 327 people on site. This year we planted for 400. At the moment we have 690 registrations. 🔥 https://nextcloud.com/enterprise-day-utrecht-2026/ See you all on Wednesday!
