 OnCloud is a really new project about two years old now. It's basically a personal cloud storage solution so if you know Dropbox it's really comparable from the features. The good thing about OnCloud is that it's open source of course completely free software so you can put it on your own hardware so you can have all the cool features from solutions like Dropbox or some Google services like syncing files, sharing files with others, like having versions and having all kinds of nice interface, for example nice web interface, mobile access and have everything but it runs on your own hardware on your own server so you don't have to give up the control over your data, don't have to upload all your stuff to Dropbox or Google or Facebook or Flibber, you can have the features without losing the freedom. There are lots of different ways to use OnCloud. I mean if you have your own server and even know how to set it up you can put it on your own server of course but you can also rent it from some providers so we have on our website oncloud.org as a list of providers where you can get OnCloud services or in the future build like appliances like small plug computers which you can plug in your power plug in your wall and you have your own like small server at home with your own cloud on it that's possible then there's also OnCloud is also suitable for using companies so if your company or your university or whatever organization can run an OnCloud service for all the people that's possible and of course I mean you can just rent a really cheap web space somewhere or sometimes you get a website at university just copy OnCloud in it it works you don't need system administration skills don't need root access or something just some web server somewhere put it in and it works. OnCloud 3 was released last week so that's a few days ago we have a release cycle of three months so we release a new major version every three months so really fast this version three we have an online editor that you can edit your text files directly in the browser I mean you can sync it and access it from your desktop your laptop whatever of course but you can also edit it and direct it in the browser if you're from your tablet for example then we have a photo gallery so you can look at all your holiday pictures and show it to your family without uploading it to Facebook and Flickr still stays on your own on your own server but everybody can look at it where you get access to um then we have a greatly improved calendar and address book application so you can sync all your calendar and address book data with your phones for example always KDE or GNOME application Thunderbolt yeah and we also have an app store integrated like an easy way to download new add-ons and new plugins for OnCloud so a lot of users the right extensions for new features like syncing bookmarks or syncing rss fees or something like that and you can just easily download it and install it and use it OnCloud was started by me two years ago mainly for home users and for people who can set up their own server and want to use it and their own hardware but it seems that the idea behind OnCloud is also very interesting for companies so we got a lot of requests from from enterprises who want to offer like OnCloud services for their employees and share data and sync data and stuff like that and of course they could just use the existing free software free open source version of OnCloud that's possible but some of the companies they need some help that they want support they want services around it they want to have release cycles patches every every time when a problem occurs they want to have custom integration with the existing servers and this is what we want to offer as a with our company so the software is complete free software we just offer like hardened versions or support or installation support together for companies it's it's moving faster forward than expected we we started at the end of last year with a small team of just the CEO Marcus Rex who was the former CEO of SUSE so a really experienced open source guy and to me i'm doing the technical part and we have a marketing person too and we have a few developers most of them are from the community so it's really good for the community to have a job of course to work on OnCloud now but it seems that we have we get far more interest from the from the companies than expected so we are still hiring so if you like the idea behind OnCloud and you have XP with this PHP or other technologies just send us a message because you're really growing fast because we really need more people thanks to all the contributors it's really amazing to be part of this growing and fun community and i think we can build something great together