 Good morning, my name is Robert Meisen. I'm just gonna do a super quick introduction. I Am from the UK live in Sweden Speak three languages Spanish Swedish English I am the IT Education Programme lead at Paulham school and it's a vocational school in Javelin, Sweden Training mostly students for SMB enterprise network and security deployments Consulting sometimes on the side and if I have energy at the end of the week I make videos on YouTube for home labs network security and Linux a lot of evangelism What is FOS by stealth? Quite simply it's about growing open-source grassroots everywhere The reasons for that should be aware to all of you, so I'm not going to try and preach to the choir But why do we care? Every single FOS project was born out of someone's idea to help other people and Also open-source software tends to come with it an absence of certain motives the focus tends to be on user experience Driving forward a certain mission or goal that they had when they started development in the first place And we should also honor the work that's done in FOS and privacy When I was putting together this presentation actually I was trying to come up with like okay There are like five companies, you know the top five companies that do all the software and services fair all the Organizations we use and actually I found it very difficult to find five We are Scarily reliant on just like basically two companies. They're a Microsoft. It's Google. It's very difficult to find a third in organizations and We kind of rely just on these two companies And that's like a monoculture of software and services that is just not sustainable So only projects like next cloud for example can deliver things like privacy and very importantly Data custody which is a massive issue right now To have a solution firstly requires a problem and as far as I see it there are two main actors IT policy makers typically within governments and municipalities and companies IT policy makers For the most part in my experience and not the most technical people. They're more organizational. They are more political And yet they make decisions that have huge huge implications for the people below them usually irregardless of privacy or user experience In my own municipality, they make a decision that affects Thousands of people even if we use and have completely different use cases and Because these people are usually less technical they listen to the loudest in the room Companies more money means you shout louder and often the case is if you speak to a hundred people Not people like us obviously, but not our people outside of this conference If you ask a hundred people 99 out of them would not have heard of next cloud and that is part of the main problem The solution is to seize every opportunity that we possibly can to grow Foss from the grassroots from the ground up whether that's at home whether that's at work Even if it's a single process within a larger workflow that you have in This presentation. I'm actually announcing like publicly that I've been doing a stealth Project in my own organization where I've been using a combination of next cloud matter most and only office and No one has noticed any year I've been doing all of the stuff that I've been that my job requires and more Because actually I've got better control over custody and data So There's a few people who do know that I've been doing this they've watched me do it and they're really like oh, this is really cool we like this software and That kind of proves the point that demonstrating the software is much better than advertising it and This is kind of like planting the seeds, you know, there are lots of examples here But I'm kind of running short on time I teach my students next cloud is one of the first applications that I show students They install it they use it for their entire studies for two years. That's what they use then they go out And that's what they want to use that's kind of planting the seeds which ultimately brings me back to That is what open source is right Planting seeds the more seeds you plant that more grass roots we have Next cloud for all of their awesome work that you guys do there have a very finite team They go after the whales they go after the organizations and the companies To try to get next cloud adopted in more places that they can possibly do But we everyone else there are thousands Tens hundreds millions of open source users and I think that we can do more to promote FOSS and privacy based software right from the ground up That is my goal and I would like to hopefully have that with everyone else We can share ideas and that's why I want to give this talk because this is something I'm very passionate about I think that we could do a lot of work that we can help companies like next cloud Thank you very much for the talk