Speaker: Frank Karlitschek, Founder Nextcloud
Info: https://2018.fossasia.org/event/speakers.html#frank-karlitschek3139

"We are heading into a world were the files of most users are hosted by 4 big companies. This is the case for most home users, companies but also education and research institutions. If we want to keep our sovereignty over our data, protect our privacy and prevent vendor lock-in then we need open source self hosted and federated alternatives. The internet and the web use a distributed and federated architecture. Now we have to make sure that cloud services follow the same model. 

A new challenge is the increasing blending of application hosting and storage as seen at Office 365 and Google Suite. This has the danger to lead to a very strong vendor lock-in. 

This talk will discuss the ongoing trends in this areas and possible solutions. It will also give an overview of newest Nextcloud features and the long term roadmap to provide an alternative to centralised services."

Track: Open Data, Internet Society, Community
Room: Lecture Theatre
Date: Sunday, 25th March, 2018

Event Page: http://2018.fossasia.org
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