A fireside chat with Nextcloud founder Frank Karlitschek

The Nextcloud Podcast

From Nextcloud’s inception Frank hoped to change the world, and today it’s clear Nextcloud’s original big ambition to be a private and open source alternative to Big Tech has achieved this goal.

Frank provides some insights and updates into Nextcloud’s anti-trust case against Microsoft’s monopolous cloud practices. He also shares how the introduction of Artificial Intelligence evolved from a perceived crushing blow for open source projects like Nextcloud, to a clear opportunity to grow the Nextcloud community’s vision and ambition for the project.

Throughout the conversation we learn a little more about Frank’s personal adventures as a long-time open source contributor to projects like KDE, his passion for travel photography as a means of deeply connecting with people of all walks of life, and his belief that privacy in today’s world is deeply important and yet vastly under-appreciated.

A thank you to Jupiter Broadcasting for the collaboration on this episode, where Frank and Brent’s conversation originally appeared in part on LINUX Unplugged and here today in full.

Episode Links

• Nextcloud Conference 2024: Register today!
• Nextcloud Conference 2024: call for speakers
• LINUX Unplugged 503: Berlin with Brent
• Beyond Secure: Air-gapped Nextcloud for highly confidential data
• Keynotes and Panel Sessions | Nextcloud Conference 2023 – YouTube
• Lightning Talks | Nextcloud Conference 2023 – YouTube
• Max Schrems: The EU-US Transatlantic Data Privacy Framework | Nextcloud Conference 2023 – YouTube
• Simon Phipps: Meshed Society and the Fourth Sector | Nextcloud Conference 2023 – YouTube
• Katrin Fritsch: A Fossil-Free Internet by 2030 | Nextcloud Conference 2023 – YouTube
• Panel Session: Trust, Transparency, Together. | Nextcloud Conference 2023 – YouTube

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Chapters

1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Interview with Frank Karlitschek (00:03:27)

3. Is open source good for business? (00:08:00)

4. Nextcloud around the World (00:22:50)

5. A Linux perspective (00:26:06)

6. The Microsoft anti-trust case (00:29:49)

7. Nextcloud's unique team (00:39:20)

8. People-first photography (00:43:44)

9. New to Nextcloud? (00:49:56)

10. Privacy: where to focus? (00:51:50)