 Okay. Hello everybody. My name is Johannes Ernst. I have a special announcement that says here. That's actually not true. It's several special announcements. But before I get there, I want to say I am so happy that Next Cloud exists. Because if it didn't exist, we would have to invent it. And this is why. It seems to me that everybody out there, and I live in Silicon Valley, I should say that. Everybody out there seems to want to collect our data and grab it and collect it and hold it and never ever give it back. And if data is indeed valuable going forward, then how come that everybody has the valuable stuff and we don't? So something is wrong here. And in order to get that valuable stuff back, we have to put it somewhere. Right? If we don't have technology where we can put that valuable stuff, then all we can do is complain. So what's the technology we have where we can put our valuable data? And if Next Cloud didn't exist, what would we use? There's not so much around. So from my perspective, it is absolutely crucial to make this thing successful, because otherwise we'll never get our data back. Now in that respect, why isn't everybody running Next Cloud? Well, I went to the forums and I found my answer. Here's some random posts about trying to get Next Cloud to run. And I think you've seen them all, right? It is really difficult. Why is it difficult? Well, you know, how many people know what a tar file is? I would say that 99.9% of all people in the world do not have the skills to get it to run. There's nothing wrong with that, but we can't expect them to run it if nobody has the skills to do that. But even if you get it running, there's a second problem, which is upgrades. A whole bunch of people get things running somehow, and then it breaks sometime down the road. And I'm happy to say that I have two suggestions on how to solve this. This is my announcements all about. Let me introduce UBOS first. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. UBOS, of course, is the operating system that we've built, a Linux distribution specifically for user-owned servers that run web applications. You may or may not probably don't remember from last year I had a video talk at this conference. So UBOS is a Linux system we built to make it easy to have self-hosting applications in places that you control. And we took that and let me introduce a UBOS box next cloud. Here it is. I was planning to do a live demo, but given how complicated things are today, you will have to come by later at the table downstairs where I can do you the live demo. If you look at this, it looks very familiar probably to a lot of you. This is an Intel NUC. It's a PC, a mini PC produced by Intel. It's very nicely built. We have taken it, we're putting UBOS on it, and in order to get next cloud to run, the only thing you need to do is take one of these little things. I have a picture here, actually, which is basically a USB stack. You put it into the box the first time you boot it, but time is booted. Next cloud is up and running on this machine. So I think the people who don't know TAR files will be able to take this out of the box, push the button, actually right here, put that stick in there, and get it up and running. Let me tell you quickly about the hardware spec. So this is something that we put together and it's available now. It has a low-power Celeron processor, quad-core processor. It has 4GB of RAM. It has a terabyte disk. It comes with the UBOS staff, which I talked about in the second one. It's called the staff. It has the operating system pre-installed and next cloud and the selection of apps pre-installed upon the first boot. Here's the things we pre-install. If you tell me that I should pre-install other things, let me know what that is. Let me first actually talk about why we call this staff. If you have ever watched a shepherd and their flock, then they control their flock in a particular way. They have a little thing that's called the shepherd's crook in English or a staff, which is a stick by which they grab out and grab their sheep. So that's the equivalent. This is the shepherd's staff, the UBOS staff, by which you grab out and control your devices. Now why would you want to control your devices? Well, it turns out that these kinds of computers are servers. They're not desktops. If you put next cloud on something, you consider it to be a server, so you're going to put this into the closet or into your basement or somewhere, but you're not going to put it in your desktop. So a keyboard and a monitor are going to be pretty far away. If you're going to want to do anything with it, looking that that monitor into the basement is just not going to happen. So we invented this thing called the UBOS staff, which lets you do a lot of administration activities by doing nothing else and inserting it here, doing boot, then taking it out and putting it into your laptop or your other PC. Here's a screenshot of what one page looks like. Because it booted when the staff was in the device, it writes down, oh, there was a device that was called the UBOS box, and there's an app installed here at a certain URL. When you click on it, it sends you right to next cloud on that box. So you don't have to know what your IP address is because it wrote it down. You don't have to rely on MDNS, which sometimes works and sometimes doesn't. It's just right there. And if you would like to know how to log in, how you are the front-line page, how do you log into your new next cloud instance? Well, it automatically generated a instance-specific admin password, and when you click on here, it shows you what that is, and she can log in. So the staff is very interesting in terms of making your life easier. You don't have to hunt around with your router and try to figure out what your IP address and makes it more secure because we can have instance-specific passwords and other credentials, and it is something that's fairly easy to use. Now, I talked about two problems. How do we get people to get this thing installed and running, which is what I just talked about. There's a second problem. How do we keep it running? And here's a second announcement. We are operating a system we call UBOS Live, which is a systems management service. You may or may not want to subscribe to that, but if you do, you basically outsource system administration to us. So what do we do? Well, we do things such as upgrading and patching the operating system on your UBOS box, the upgrading next cloud and whatever apps you have, and we do hardware monitoring so that if your hard drive is about to fail, we can tell you before you know, and as a consumer, you can understand what this is. You basically outsource this to somebody else. Now, obviously, if you do that, then you have to trust us because we do have access to your device. With a special purpose VPN, we run for that purpose. Now, if you don't trust us, you shouldn't subscribe to that. On the other hand, you probably shouldn't buy one of those boxes either because if you were to destroy you, we can do this in lots of different ways. But I think this is an interesting service for two kinds of people. Number one, the about 99.9% of all people who don't know how to administer a server. So that opens up a much broader market for next cloud. And number two, for those people who do know how to do it, but really don't want to do it. And my use case is this. If your significant other says, hey, I can't get at that file and you respond, I have to do some server maintenance first. Then I don't think that is going to work too well. So if you have some actual data that actually needs to be available when you want it, you don't want to be in ticker mode, you want to be in production mode. And even if you know how to administer things for a bunch of people, this might be a useful thing to do. Now, how do you price this? And this is a little complicated because I don't think anybody really has done something like you was live before. Harder is a little easier to price. But so we looked at prices out there and here's some example prices for what people charge for stuff. It starts at $35 for the Raspberry Pi where you can almost run the next cloud on. The cheapest laptop from Apple these days is $999 and it goes up to more than $6,000. Can you believe that? A smartphone costs you so many hundred dollars and probably to get another first year about $1,000 with subscription and all of that. Now, the box, a next cloud box or a UBUS box next cloud is actually more useful in terms of price because the number of users who use it is more than one. Most people will use have more than one user on them thing. So we pricing it at $399. This is as I showed it. And if you would like to have the the Systems Management Service UBUS Live, we charge an extra hundred dollars for that per year. That's a subscription. And we actually think that's a feature rather than bug that it is a subscription that you have to pay for extra on an annual basis because it keeps us honest. All right, it's not a fire and forget kind of product where you pay all these things up front and then the window walks away. So you don't pay us if you don't actually do what you're supposed to be doing. Now you look at this and say maybe this is a little expensive. Can we do it a little cheaper? And I have another thing for you, which is this. Almost looks the same. But it is different in the sense that what's in it is a Raspberry Pi. It comes in an enclosure. Let me just pop this up here. An enclosure is commercially produced by a company called Element 14, which it has a Raspberry Pi model 3B plus in it, which is the currently fastest Raspberry Pi around. It comes with a 120 gigabyte M-SATA disk. And this one comes as a kit, the knock based model we sell ready to go. This one comes in a bunch of hardware parts. You have to put into each other and screw some screw in. I think it's not very hard to do, but it saves basically on cost. And we sell that from $249. Same thing if you want the management service, it costs another $100 extra. And then there are those of you who think, what? I want the fastest and the biggest that I could possibly get. So there is going to be a UBUS Box Next Cloud Model B that looks just like this one. It's basically indistinguishable, but what's inside is basically about twice the performance of the hardware. That has an Intel i5 processor, 8GB of RAM, 2TB disk. And that is from $699 that will be selling in the fourth quarter of this year. Now I haven't said anything about ones that I showed. When will they be selling? And the answer is you can order them today. They will start shipping in September. If you go to indycomputing.com, which is the name of my company, you'll find links from where to find out more and where to order. And just because it's a show, you've got to do a show special. So the first 20 orders get added also. You have to say next cloud on 2018 as the code during checkup. So now I said a lot of things and I'm going to put it all on one picture so you can see one more time what that all was. So we announced three pieces of hardware, the UBUS Box Next Cloud on the Raspberry Pi, the Model A on that, and then Model B on that. The software and the service is identical for all of them. The difference here is really just the hardware bit. And that's all the special announcements that I have. And I can show you how it works if you come down to the table. Some of you have seen it already. Any questions? So this is intended for consumers and families. So the user is somebody who has personal information that they might want to share within their family but not beyond. And I take my own family as an example. Between my wife and me, we share a bunch of documents. What comes to mind is tax preparation documents. You know, she has some stuff. I have some stuff to put in the same place in our same Next Cloud instance. Same thing, family calendar. I have talked to so many women particularly who really hate the idea of putting the family calendar on Google calendar. One of the most fascinating stories for me is that I've heard it on so many occasions that I say, I can stop lying to my calendar because they have like doctors appointments for their kids and things like that where they don't want to write down exactly what this was all about because I don't want Google to know. Now, if you can put it on your Next Cloud instance at home, you suddenly can actually say what it meant because you have it under control. So that's the focus. Obviously, you know, other people might want to use it as well, but our focus here is consumers. Can you repeat the question? Okay. So the question was, what about accessing the device from the public internet across firewall that you might have? I'm rephrasing, right? In your house. So the UBOS Live, as we have it right now, is the bare bones functionality. And if you subscribe to it, you will actually get more over time. We're just not quite ready yet for doing that one. Currently, in order to access the device of the internet, we have an integration with a service called PageKite. Do you know what who knows what PageKite is? Not too many people. So PageKite is a piece of open source software and a paid hosted service run by some guys out of Iceland. And it basically sets up a HTTP or HTTPS or even SSH endpoint in the cloud and then tunnels that behind the firewall to your device. And the way they set it up is very cute, technically, in that they cannot actually see what the data is that goes across, even if it's HTTPS. And there's an integration there. It's not as nice as it should be. Right now, you have to SSH into it. I mentioned, that one of the things that the Yuba staff does is it generates an SSH key pair when you boot with it. So if you'd like to SSH it in your box, then you can find your key, how to do that right on here. So at some point, it will be pointed click, but not yet. Does that answer your question? Anything else? Sounds good. I think if you have relatives who complain to you as the technologists, that the world is awful and out to spy on them, but they're not technologists, you might want to provide one of those as a Christmas present.