 This started as I said a few years ago it started with the first meeting well started before but I think this was really a key event to get a bunch of people together and start getting stuff done And the cool thing is all these people are still involved to the point where they are actually here So I thought it was cool to get these people I thought it was super cool to get these people on stage and ask them You know why they started this and you know a little bit about their motivation Maybe a fun anecdote or two. So Frank, Arthur, Jan, Icewind, Jacob So Frank, well you started of course earlier with a keynote, but this was the first time you met your four first collaborators Any interesting things that happened or? I'm sure. Yeah, thanks a lot. So yeah, I don't have a lot of time but I mean the original idea of on cloud at the time was was this was announced during the keynote of a KDE event of Actually, so at the very beginning no one noticed anymore Besides some people that it was actually a KDE project at the beginning. We took different paths then But this was all it's a lot of people they jumped on board and worked together Here on mailing lists and on github and other medium and at some point I thought wouldn't it be nice to just email To send a mail to the mailing list and say hey if you maybe we should meet in person like because we've never met in person before I said hey, why don't you come just took my office in Stuttgart for a weekend and then we hack together Like work on these things and this is why yeah I mean we all met there for the first time like here in this in this room here and my idea was that okay Everybody arrived on Friday and like in the afternoon or evening and then yeah, maybe we go to a pub together and then over the weekend We talk and do things but this didn't turn out that in that way it's actually completely different so everybody arrived if we sit we sat there and Basically start to work and that actually was the meeting where we basically created like on cloud 2.0 at the time and Well, I mean we really barely left this room the whole weekend Yeah, I mean now I mean back then I could not imagine to what it really kind of leads like what we are today and what we are kind of sir Purchasing or pursuing so it was yes really cool really cool event and yeah Super awesome kickoff and it's pretty awesome to now have this huge conferences and Worldwide projects and that's really amazing what we're doing. So it's really cool So for me there were two reasons to contribute to own cloud first one was I was a long-term Linux user and wanted to get something back to the community and I always thought about her. Okay. I'm using Katie all the time. So Let's do something to Katie universe and then Frank came with own cloud and a PHP web apps. That's oh something that I really can contribute because I'm doing this for a long time and Second reason was basically very selfish. I wanted to host a service for myself my family where I can share files contacts and calendar entries so I Just wanted to create an app for myself and well it worked out pretty fine. I must say So from my point of view on cloud is feature complete our next cloud as it's called today and I must say it's an amazing community and it's really fun to be here every year and Just just asked for an anecdote. So Frank already told the one with five more minutes the other sentences that statistics It doesn't make sense Jan as a designer who killed every great idea about configuring everything and so just that doesn't make sense Keep it simple. I think during the meeting. I hated her for that. But in the end it turned out he was right Yeah, I started working for back in the day their own clouds for two many reasons the first one is the same as Jacob that I was a long time Katie and Linux user and wanted to give something back and then when a PHP project came around Which I'm actually technically able to contribute to I took the chance and the second one Which is pretty lucky that it all worked the way at a time I wasn't really bored high school students and I wanted something to do and Here I am six and a half years later still having something to do So yes, like I want to thank also all of you and everybody else is not here to contribute it That helped us getting from five people in a small office room to the entire group we have here today Yeah, so I was at the time Yeah, it was more of a coincidence. I was studying in Stuttgart finishing up my design studies and yeah Unlike most designers I was using some free software I was using Ubuntu and did some translations for it but not yeah a bit of design a bit of usability testing and Then and I was of course looking for an alternative to Dropbox to Google Drive because during studies you use that a lot and I found like by coincidence. Yeah, this this email you talked about and yeah, so I saw okay next week There's gonna be the second on okay, like five people are gonna be there. So yeah, I'll join and That's basically the story Essentially and yeah, we had a fun time the the anecdote from my side is that there's a second picture Of this hackathon like they're both very very low resolution and on the other one I'm on the whiteboard and I'm scribbling something and you can see Frank on the right side and he does like a bit like But yeah, and all in all it was it was yeah very cool event. Yeah, and it was a very good start For what I can tell it doesn't make sense is still your slogan and Everybody still hates it when you say it, but you always turn out to be right So nothing changed in that regard. Oh, yeah, and of course today, you know I mean this is just a couple of the people who are now contributing in our next cloud GitHub repo It's really amazing. I think that we've got so far from such a small project So I want to thank everyone