 Welcome, everyone. We are so happy to welcome you today to Nexla Conference 2020. We are so happy also that so many of you joined us digitally. I hope you will have a lot of fun and that you will also learn a lot. Let's just get started. Here is our first keynote speaker, our CEO, Frank Kalichek. Thank you, Maria. Thank you everybody who joins us to this special event online this year. I think it will be a really nice event with a lot of interesting talks, as Maria said. Of course, it will be a little bit different than last year. Here is a screenshot from our conference last year. Usually, we do this in person, where we have many, many people here directly to interact, to work together, to have a nice good time together. Of course, this year is a little bit different, unfortunately. The main reason for that is of course our COVID-19 situation that we have. It's a big pandemic all over the world, which changes a lot of things also here in the next cloud universe. A lot of people think it's already over. It's no problem, which is actually not true. If you look at the numbers, these are the total cases you see that the numbers still go up significantly. The number of deaths is also growing a lot. Unfortunately, our pandemic is far from done. There are only a few things we can do at the moment. One is keeping distance and wearing masks. That helps to keep the infection rate under control, hopefully. And also schools are closed, which is also a thing that affects a lot of parents, unfortunately. Also in companies, the usual crowded offices, like you can see here, they are not happening anytime soon. This is not coming back soon. Unfortunately, crowded meetings like that are also something from the past, so a lot of things change. So it looks like the future looks a little bit like that, where a lot of people do remote work, do home offices, work from the distance, not together with your colleagues in the same room and, of course, the same for students and people who go to school and basically all kinds of other meetings. So this is a big change. Of course, this is something where a next lot can help, and then I will talk about this a little bit later. Of course, there are already a lot of other companies and products and organizations and solutions who can help with distance working, with distance learning in schools and in companies. But most of them are proprietary, centralized internet services coming from the US. For example, which are often very useful, very nicely done, good usability, but you really give up control over your data, over your privacy, over your digital life. And that's something that's not good. Especially now that privacy shield is no longer valid, as ruled by the highest European court. What's really needed is something different. It's a new solution where you can work together from remote work in schools and universities, distance work, distance communication, but keeping your data under control, open source, on premise. That's something we want to provide as NextCloud. We have a nice video that shows you how you can use NextCloud from home office situations, and that's actually the first thing I want to show you today. There are many reasons to work in a home office. There are also reasons not to. Today, it matters that you can get work done from everywhere on any device. For that, you need the right technology. Even if you are not in your office, you have to keep your data accessible and safe. But how can you avoid having your documents and conversations float around on the servers of a dozen different, often foreign companies? NextCloud is a single platform that keeps you productive, while your own system administrators manage it in-house. NextCloud Home Office means to have comfortable access to everything. Manage your emails. Keep your schedule up to date and create video chat rooms for appointments. Communicate with chats or video calls one-on-one or in a team. Share documents and work together on them in real time. No mess, 100% control and transparency. NextCloud Hub does it all in one package. Yes, that is how I would love to work. Easy and relaxed from anywhere. Okay, so I think this is a nice video that shows you how NextCloud can help in the pandemic to work from home if it doesn't matter if you're a student, if you're a worker that usually goes to an office, if you're a student, whoever you are, that's a great tool to work together. Of course, today we want to talk about the future. So today we are launching the next big version of this NextCloud Hub 20. But before that, I want to use the opportunity to look a little bit back because it's a bit funny that we actually have number 20 now, the 20th release, and it's also 2020. So we thought it's interesting and good to know what happened in the last 10 releases. And there we created another video that I also want to show you now. I think it's really impressive to see what all happened in the last four and a half years, 10 releases. But now I think it's enough to talk about the history. Let's look forward because today is a big day. Today we are launching NextCloud Hub 20. NextCloud Hub 20 is our biggest release so far. There are a ton of improvements all over the place. But in this presentation, I want to concentrate on 10 big topics, 10 big things. So let's get started with the first one. The first one is Search. So as you might know, there's already a powerful Search feature in NextCloud for a long time. You hit the Search button in the header bar where you can click there and you can find your files. And also the Search works in some other places. For example, in the App Store, you can click there and find your apps. But it's not really a unified Search. So that's not really something that works seamlessly between the different functionalities. And that's actually something we are launching now with NextCloud Hub 20. That's a new unified Search and there's a ton of improvements. First of all, it has a complete new user interface. So we now use the operating system Hotkey like Command-F. They can press in the browser and it automatically opens this dialog here. And then you can start on typing. And as you type, it actually searches in all different places of NextCloud your information. You have this nice dropdown here where you can see that you find files and conversations and emails and calendar events and all kinds of things basically combined. You can search for Christmas party and find all information related to your Christmas party. It doesn't matter in what application, in what kind of content they are stored. You can find everything. So we implemented a bunch of search providers. There are a lot of places where you can find this information. First of all, files. You can find files based on folder name, file name. But also if you use the full text search like inside the file, you can then see if like a PDF or a Word file contains the keyword Christmas for example. Then of course we have comments related to files. You can also find files which has the right comments. If someone commented Christmas party in the file, you can also see it here. You can find talk rooms, conversations and also messages. So that's also a full text search over all your conversations in NextCloud Talk. You can find calendar events. You can find project management, NextCloud deck boards and also card project management to-dos that you might have mails. So if you use NextCloud Mail, then all your mail is of course in NextCloud. You can find all mails that has this keyword. Same contacts, your address book, task bookmarks, apps. If there's an app installed on your NextCloud or comes from the app store, it's also found in even settings. So you can even search for settings and you see, okay, there is now a setting. If you want to switch to dark mode for example, you can also find this easily. Okay, but maybe you know that you're only looking for one specific kind of content. Then we have this menu here where you can restrict this to files only or to messages only or to deck only because then you can actually like nail it down and you can also use a shortcut for that when you type. So this is something that makes it more powerful because maybe you know I'm only looking in chat messages. I'm only looking in emails. Okay, so this is NextCloud search, the new one, the unified search, and it's a super powerful tool. There's one more thing I want to mention about that because this is also a great example and we have more by the way, but it's a great example where you can see that a seamless integration between the different pieces of NextCloud becomes really important because the question is okay, why do I use NextCloud Mail and NextCloud Talk and NextCloud Calendar and everything together and I don't use like 10 third party tools because of exactly this kind of integration. This is exactly the kind of feature that works seamlessly and this is the strength of NextCloud to bring all those things together. Okay, so the next feature from the 10 big improvements I want to talk about today is Talk. So NextCloud Talk is of course, as you might know, our communication feature. It's used for chatting, it's used for audio and video calls. The chat interface is quite powerful. You can use it for group chats and one-on-one chats. You can use all the usual things. You can post emojis. You can reply to messages. You can mention people that can get a push notification if they're mentioned in a channel. You have moderators who can moderate the conversation. So all the usual features you expect. You can press the start call button and then a chat room actually converts into a video call. So you can have video calls with lots and lots of people, audio, video or combined. You can have different views. So this is our new grid view, but there's also a presenter view where one person is big and the others are at the bottom and bottom bar. That's also possible and there's also screen sharing if you want. So maybe one person wants to share a screen and then the screen is actually automatically put into the presenter view and you see the screen on top of the person. So that's really nice to communicate and collaborate. Another thing that's super important for next load talk are the mobile apps. So there are a lot of applications who rely on just normal web RTC in the browser and we do this, of course, but we also have native apps for iOS and for Android. And that can really do most of the features directly in the native app on your phone. And that's so much better than just the web view because you have the native features. I will show you a few in a few seconds with file uploading. Also notifications is something. You get like push notification if you're mentioned. You can get this like on the left-hand side. You can see a calling screen. So you really have a wipe calling screen if a call is starting. It really looks like a native application, a native communication tool. That's very important. But we improved, of course, this functionality a lot in the last release. For example, you can upload files directly into a chat channel. And here we have the option now to upload multiple files at the same time. We have a progress bar which is important if you upload like a big movie file and it takes a while, you can see how long it takes. And we have this confirmation dialogue here where in this case I drag and drop two files into the channel and then it asks, okay, this is the right file, click and then they are in the channel and share it with everybody in the channel. Another thing that's very important is, of course, that it integrates with other applications. So for example, if you're doing editing of a document here, in this case you can see we are editing a markdown file but it's really the same for an office document, word, Excel, PowerPoint file. If you drag it into a chat channel then everybody access to the file can click on it and then the editor opens and we can all edit it collaborative together and close it again and, of course, at the same time it's also stored in the normal next-load files view. So it's really easy to collaborate around files inside next-load talk. Another big feature, another big improvement we are doing now with the current version is that you can directly upload also from the mobile apps because in the past you can only share a file but here we can really upload directly from the mobile and we can upload from the files manager, here in this case from iOS or directly from next-load files, basically from the local files app in iOS or Android, directly into a channel. Another improvement is a new settings dialog where you can configure your microphone and your camera and there's an overview over the shortcuts and you just have a bunch of settings so you have more control over your call. Then one of the features that are really often requested is, of course, better handling of emojis. Emojis are very important nowadays as you know and we have this nice new emoji picker where we have here the common used emojis. You can search for them, you have the categories, everything you expect, so you can really have this rich conversation with emojis. This is all already possible and super easy on mobile devices but now on the desktop also nicely integrated and built-in. Okay, now we're coming to one of the, I think, maybe technically only, but I think really cooler features which is a way that a chat, next-load talk chat can be bridged into other talk rooms somewhere else. For example, you can actually bridge a conversation, a chat channel, basically, to a conversation that's running on a different server. So it can be a different next-load talk server and you can bridge it to this other conversation, which means that everything people chat in one conversation is automatically mirrored into this other conversation and the other way around, of course. But bridging next-load talk to next-load talk was not enough. We wanted to make this cooler. We also have this integration with IRC and XMPP, which means if you have an IRC channel somewhere or you have an XMPP chat group chat, you can actually bridge the group chat on one side with this next-load talk room. And then all the conversations are mirrored in both directions and we can have a conversation even if the people are not in the same room. And this is something the moderator of a room can set up easily in the sidebar and, yeah, that's quite powerful. The next feature I want to mention is our high-performance backend because next-load talk is using WebRTC peer-to-peer by default and you can have a call with lots of people in the same conversation. But if you're over a certain limit because everything is peer-to-peer, then you're running out of resources like Bandwidth, for example. And for that, we have this high-performance backend, which is a component that has a high-performance scalable signaling server and also a way to aggregate all the data, all the streams and send it out to everybody, which is just scaled to lots more users. And that's something that's open-source. That's a component you can install on a machine and use and you can configure it. You can see it on top of the screen. But for a lot of users, this is a lot too complicated and I don't really want to use it. And I'm really happy that we have this partnership with Struktur RG, another nice open-source company. And together with us, they offer a hosted high-performance backend. So if you want to have a call with, like, 100 people and you don't have the infrastructure, you don't have the server to actually, like, handle the Bandwidth because it can be a lot if you have 100 people in a room, then you can just use this service, this hosted service from Struktur with one click. You can actually, yeah, use that. And there, I even have a trial, so if you want to test it, if it really fits your needs in your organization, you can click there and you have a trial and use it. Okay, so for the next feature, which is a very exciting one, I want to ask Jan to come to the stage to tell us more about that. Thank you, Frank. Hello, everyone at home. Hello. So I hope you're all staying safe and you're all doing good at home. Thanks for joining us. And yeah, I'm happy to announce the next feature, which is very cool, especially in the current situation of COVID-19, where more and more of us are getting used to remote work and we need to kind of, yeah, rebuild this team cohesion or the feeling of being in the same office and it can be difficult and we as a remote company, we know all the difficulties of it, so that's why we're super excited to announce the status feature today. So you're basically going to be able to go to the top right in the user menu and there's this little entry to set your status. So for example, you can say that you're right now preparing the keynote if you want to be disturbed, or you can set it to anything you like, basically. So you'll have this, if you click there, you'll have this model which shows you all the different options. So for example, if you just set yourself to online, so basically you're available or you want to be away and so people know that you're not available right now and then there's also, yeah, do not disturb as I said, so that also includes that you actually do not get any notifications. You're in an important meeting, or you're just busy and you do not want to be disturbed at the moment, let's say for preparing the keynote, or you can set yourself invisible to appear offline as well. And then there's also the status messages that you can set. So there you can be more specific about what you're doing right now or you can communicate to your colleagues what your status right now. So for example, you can say you're working remotely so that people know that you might have other things you tend to or you're just working in your home office, you might do things as well in the home or you're in a meeting and there for example, we have these intelligent timeouts as well. So if you're in a meeting, we set it to by default timeout after one hour, so after that it will reset to your regular status. Or you're commuting for example, maybe for 30 minutes and working remotely for today or maybe for longer, probably it takes a long time for us to still work remotely and people are getting more and more the hang of it. Or you have a sick day maybe, hopefully only today, so that's why the timeout is for today. Or you're vacationing and that doesn't clear. So yeah, you're free to vacation. And the important thing here is that this communicates to your colleagues without needing to send everyone basically a message or sending to all your talk channels a message. So this is something that we've been using for some time and that we really like a lot and this really is a cool feature. So for example, I used to often always mention people in talk channels and then someone said, oh, they're actually on vacation and then I checked the vacation calendar and yeah, sure enough they were on vacation. So this is a very nice feature which just brings this directly to everyone. It makes it much easier to manage that. And you can of course also set a custom timeout for clearing the status message. And then once you set that, what is actually very cool is that it is integrated into all of the different apps. So for example, in talk, you have in the sidebar, you directly see the status of everyone else. So here for example, Frank is very busy preparing the keynote and I'm working remotely. Maria is arriving in Berlin so we know that she's busy or she's probably late, sorry, she's probably late to respond. And just on vacation, so yeah, he will probably not answer. So it's very cool that you directly have an overview of everyone, what they're doing, what their status is and when I can expect a response from them probably. And then also where this is integrated is in search. So here in the search suggestions, if I share with a new person in the sidebar and files, I get directly their status in the subline. So for example, you're also working remotely or someone else might be busy or vacationing and then you also know, oh, okay, if I want feedback on that file or on that photo from them, then I can probably expect to wait a bit or maybe I check the vacation calendar when they're actually back so that I know that I'm not going to get an immediate reply. And also this integration is happening in deck. So there as well, when you assign a user to a card, then you will know for example if they're busy right now or yeah, if they're on vacation, so then you know, well, their assignment, maybe you need to assign it to another person, maybe you need to check when they're back to make sure that this actually gets taken care of. And so this can also be integrated into other apps. So we have an API for that and if you develop any apps for Next Cloud, then yeah, please check it out so you can integrate it. But already out of the gate, we include it in many of the important main apps. And of course, we're also bringing this to mobile. So right now, this is how it looks in the iOS app and it will also soon come to the Android mobile app and to the desktop client so that you can set your status and view it, set your status and view other statuses from anywhere. And then you also get this nice overview of people's recent statuses so that you just have this very cool overview of what people were recently doing but more on that later. So yeah, then I would like to hand back to Frank for the next feature. Thank you. Okay, thanks a lot, Jan. It's still a bit weird to do this presentation without applause from the people, but I hope that you're all sitting at home behind your streaming devices and you enjoy this new feature. As Jan said, I think the status feature is super useful for us. We already tested this and used this for several months and it's really good thing. The next feature I want to talk about today is notifications. So notifications are of course a very powerful and useful tool to work together in a group because not everybody is looking at the same screen like all the time to see if something happens. Notifications, specifically push notifications are something where we can send notifications to people if something interesting happens and there are all kinds of notifications. I will talk about it for a second. The important thing is, as I mentioned, is that I push notifications, which means you get them on all your devices. Here you have just an example. I have a smartwatch. I have a mobile phone, can also be a tablet. I have the desktop. On the desktop, you actually get notifications from the next desktop client or here in this case, browser notifications that are also sent directly from your browser. You don't even need to install a client because browser nowadays can also do notifications and you get the notifications via all channels. The thing with notifications is, of course, that it can be overwhelming a bit. Maybe you get just too many things and you're just like, oh, another thing happens, another thing happens and for that it's very important that you can control them properly and that's something we really improved a lot in slot 20 because you have this new notification settings screen where you can actually choose for which events you want to have a notification and for what event not and you can actually choose to get push notifications on your devices, as I mentioned, or get a mail. There are still people who prefer mail. Maybe some things happen that it's good enough to get them by mail and other things you want to know immediately. And yeah, there are a lot of default actions that are already built into the next cloud here, calendar and file stuff but also other applications can also register their notifications and you can also get them and see them. What's also important is that you can actually select how fast you get the email. So maybe you want to know to get the email immediately or you will want to say, okay, I want to have only once an hour or once a day or even weekly actually get what's going on because I just want to tone down the noise level a bit. It depends on how many people you're collaborating on how many projects. There's the option at the bottom where you can say, okay, I really want to have a nice summary of everything that happens in my next cloud in the morning. There you get like a notification, sorry, an email with all the notifications in it and you can see, okay, this is what happened. I don't want to like my phone beeping all the time. So it's enough for me to see that and you really have the choice as a user to control how much you are disturbed. Okay, the next feature I want to talk about today is groupware. Groupware is of course a very important component of next cloud. With groupware, you mean calendar, contacts, email and also deck our project management tool and we have significant improvements in groupware in next cloud hub 20. Let's get started with mail. That's our mail client which really got a lot of nice features. For example, the threaded view is improved. We have a better folder management. You can really manage your IMAP folders better. That's a lot more powerful and a lot better and of course we still have the feature for detecting tickets, itineraries. So if you have a booking for a train trip or a hotel or a flight or something, it's automatically detected and with just one click you can actually add it to your calendar and you don't forget it. So that's really next cloud mail becomes a really, really nice powerful tool, especially because as I mentioned before it integrates with the whole workflow into everything. The next feature I want to cover is next load deck. Next load deck is a little bit, I think is the hidden champion of next cloud because it's something that started really as a small project by just one person but it really becomes a super nice, powerful project management tool which is nowadays used by a lot of our users and customers. It works as a Kanban style board where you can have your different cards that you can move around with drag and drop and you can have a lot of metadata you can really say okay, this is a sound to a person, this is a do-day this is a comment, this is attached file to it and so on and so on. What we have now is an upcoming cards view that's important if you work in different projects together then you have one view where you can really see what's coming, what's really important for you soon. The next improvement here is this new model view, so if you really work on a lot of details on one card, like as I said you want to have the tagging or the deadline or signing to someone writing down the description then you have this new dialogue which is really a lot nicer than just on the sidebar, you can still have it on the sidebar I will show it later in a demo but this new view is just better for more complicated projects. And then the last thing I want to show you is that our project management tool NextLoudDec actually integrates with the calendar so it really integrates with the calendar so you have in the NextLoud calendar a special calendar where you see all the deadlines that are signed in your cards and NextLoudDec and of course because it's a normal calendar it's also synced to all your devices mobile desktop you always have like your overview what's coming up, what's going on. Okay, so next feature I want to talk about is number six. Number six is Office. Obviously it's a very important feature for people to work together in the NextLoud environment with office documents with office documents I mean all kinds of notes, markdown files but also Microsoft Office documents like Word Excel and PowerPoint and so on and I'm really happy that we have a lot of improvements in all these areas the first thing I want to mention is our built-in markdown editor so as you might know we have this nice editor that's built in where you can work like with relatively simple documents like just a headline a bullet list, some picture, some headline, something like that and here we have the new improvement that you can also set links to text so here you can see I marked here text and it shows me the option to add a link to that and that's actually quite powerful because you can just link to some URL somewhere on the internet obviously but you can also link a file from inside NextLoud and that's quite powerful because maybe you have different documents that actually belong together somehow and from one document you can actually link it to another so it's some kind of wiki that you can actually create here from one document to another so that's quite powerful and that's built in into every NextLoud obviously but if you really want to work with like really complicated office documents then we have our two big technology partners only office and Collabra Online and those that those built like full-fledged like full powerful office suites that you can use to basically work with all the office documents that you expect and I'm really happy that both actually did significant improvements lately to bring this to the next level. Here we start with only office and that's the new interface and they really have cool new features for example version history and compare changes so you can really see like who edited what when and this is colorly marked you can see who doing what and accept the changes track changes feature and so on. You can mention people and comments that are quite nice and you also have like content control over forms creation a lot more advanced features that you really need in a company environment but I'm really happy also that our second partner Collabra Online also did significant improvements in this case mainly in the area of user interface which is something that I think personally is very very cool so they actually offer this new ribbon style user interface which I think is so much better than it is still available if you prefer but you can also use this new ribbon interface which just looks cleaner and easier to understand better to access the features and the second thing I want to mention is that we're actually working together with Collabra Online for several months already to basically integrate next Collabra Online deeper into the next cloud and for specifically for example in the user interface area so here you can see this is just a test built so this is something that's not a few features that are not done yet this is a test built where you can see that the colors and the fonts that match the rest of next cloud and we're working more on icon integration and integration of the toolbar and so on so this is something where in the future this will look a lot more native and just will be faster and easier integrated and more powerful so I think we really have a nice integration nice improvement in the office integration area the next thing I want to mention is desktop because some people think that next cloud is just just this web interface our website with just a web tool which is not true because we really care a lot about the desktop experience and also the mobile experience so desktop here is something that's very very important for the story of next cloud and because of that we develop a very powerful rich desktop client for Mac, Windows and Linux and provides lots of functionalities so the first thing I want to mention is that we actually launched a few weeks ago our version 3.0 that's a major new version of the desktop client which has a complete new user interface so this complete new user interface is less technical it doesn't really talk so much about the syncing because this all still happens as before but a little bit more in the background it's basically the magic that happens in the background and the user interface focuses more on the things that are interesting for the users, for example in this case you can actually see what's going on in your next cloud if someone worked on a project assigned you a task, if an important email is coming, if you have a mention in the chat and so on, so you really have this nice overview of what's happening and you can also directly access all the different apps of next cloud directly jump to next.org if you want so that's more workflow oriented and usable and also looks a lot prettier I think and of course we also have the notifications as I mentioned before so for some of those events you also get the rich desktop applications notifications. The second feature that was very important obviously still is for the last release 3.0 of the desktop client is our end-to-end encryption so our end-to-end encryption is a feature that we developed for quite some time it took a bit longer than expected but I think it's a good thing we really reviewed it a lot it was audited and checked by security experts and this is something that's now production ready and this is part of the desktop client where you can end-to-end encrypt with clients and encryption, your secret documents and even if you don't trust your server admin, if you don't trust your someone who might have hacked your server I don't know that they still don't have access to the data because the keys and encryption everything is only under clients. The next thing I want to talk about as mentioned is mobile so our mobile apps are very powerful and very important I'm also happy that we have a lot of improvements in these areas so that's started with the Android app has improved user interface which is a lot nicer we have integrated unified search that I mentioned earlier that's already available and also supports same as a desktop client the end-to-end encryption feature and there's a ton more features I don't have the time to cover everything but it's something that's really really nice and powerful and you can really do like most of your work with the native clients you can still obviously use the web interface also works on mobile it's responsive but you can really do a lot with the native clients and native clients are something that's nice because you can work with files offline for example you can also receive push notifications as discussed so you just have the native experience here and similar the iOS app so the iOS app is also something that is very important for us as a similar functionality than the Android client and we also have a complete new fresh user interface here which I think looks a lot cleaner and nicer and easier to understand but a lot of improvements went into the media view the photo gallery view which is a lot nicer and smoother now it supports like live photos and has just better handling of photos overall it also supports the end-to-end encryption feature as I mentioned before which as I mentioned is very important because it works across all devices right you can synchronize your file with the desktop accesses from one phone to another it's seamless because it's implemented in all our clients also the iOS NextCloud app has a few especially cool features as I think for example text recognition that's something that's available there where you can take a photo of something like a print out document and it can do automatically text recognition and store it inside NextCloud and as I showed you earlier with the search you can also then full-text search over the document you can actually find then the document where it took a photo of so this all fits nicely together so far I only talked a lot about user-facing features but the thing is of course that it's also very important that NextCloud improves like the architecture the security the performance and everything because NextCloud is used more and more also by bigger organizations and sometimes you have like a university with like 100,000 students or you have like I don't know big company or maybe you have a setup where people work across the globe so having something like that which is really performant is very important also the architecture is something we always need to keep up to date obviously to be work with the latest technologies works with Kubernetes and work with object stores and all the modern technologies and security obviously I mean the whole point of NextCloud is to have your data under control and secure if it's not secure it's completely useless this is why we also invest a lot in security so let's go through it let's start with performance so just in the latest version NextCloud 20 which is just a few months after NextCloud 19 as I mentioned we already did a lot of improvements in the performance area first is the notification system that I mentioned earlier and then scales a lot better now so if you have a situation where you have to send a lot of notifications at the same second to like lots of users then this is something which works a lot better now then the preview handling is also improved I mean this is a change that really affects big installations so if you have an installation with 100,000 or maybe millions of users as we have with NextCloud then this improvement where you can distribute the previews over different object store as three buckets in the back end it's something which makes a big difference and this was our test in real life scenario and really makes it scaling to lots of users a lot smoother then we did a lot of general database query optimizations that's something which makes just the overall system faster and again scales better and the mail app the mail handling in the background was also hugely improved because if you really have like there are people who have like one million emails in their inbox I think I'm one of them and that's something which was a bit of a problem in the past and now basically all this background email handling is just a lot scalable and a lot faster now okay let's talk about the second topic which is security obviously security is super important so we again use stricter security headers that's something in the browser that we just up to date with the latest standards which really is super important to basically completely block cross-site scripting and other attack vectors we support web auth n standard as a w3c standard which is quite powerful because it automatically makes authentication in next load compatible with Microsoft Hello or Apple Face ID or Touch ID so basically all this authentication methods that are built into modern operating systems can then automatically be used to log into your next load that's quite nice last thing is architectural changes this is something as you know that we do all the time so we always improve the architecture we updated to make it compatible with the latest operating systems and the latest PHP versions and use the latest features and this release we implemented some lazy PHP service initialization which again makes the scalability a lot better another thing that's very very important and nice is that we use more and more huge JS which is a front-end JavaScript library framework and this has this concept of components which is very nice you basically develop like small components of a software which I can use in different places so basically you need to implement something like a file picker or you have one selector or some widget and you only need to do it once and you can use it in lots of places and that's something we really really do more and more for example a sidebar which we transformed lately we used a few components for that which really makes it so much easier to develop applications for next cloud because you only need to do it once which is just like you can use it everywhere and it's also pretty nice and usable and accessible everywhere because you only do it once so this is just some examples I don't want to bore you too much with technical things but next cloud is getting better and better with every release ok now this was number 9 of our 10 big improvements now I want to move to number 10 and this is a special one, this is a big one and for that I want to ask Jan again to come to the stage to tell us more about it thanks again Frank and hello again I hope you are really excited about next cloud 20 already and yeah we have more so we're not stopping yet so the next thing is I really really like it personally and I think everyone of you will like it as well and it's really like a natural progression of what we've been doing especially for example in January we introduced next cloud hub which was all the relevant apps for your workflow in one place in next cloud and now we're going a step further it's an evolution of hub it's basically all in one place all in one overview and so we'd like to show to you today the next cloud dashboard so it's one overview of everything that you have it has these widgets, so for example here we see recommended files talk mentions, upcoming events recent statuses the apps that we already have into files, into talk into calendar, into mail and a lot more apps it ties into the new status feature you can directly change the status from there you can change the weather from there so you have it all in one overview and what is really cool about this is that it always shows you the relevant information so for example for files it shows you the recommended files that you might already know from the files it shows you the latest mentions so where you were mentioned so it's always relevant to you when there's no mentions you get this nice no unread mentions so you're kind of done in box zero and you still get the other conversations for upcoming events also you get either feedback if there's for example no events today or if there are events you get the upcoming ones and so of course for statuses as I was already teasing before you get the status overview of the people who is on vacation or who is currently working remotely and so from here you can also see that you can directly see and change your status so there we made it even more present a bit and when you click that it's the same thing as if you would do it on the top right you get this model you already know about it you can change your online status you can set do not disturb if you start your day you can basically set what is the mode for today so this is something that is really the whole dashboard is also something where the idea was what do you do with your morning coffee for example you have this overview you need to set your status what you're going to be working on maybe or what's your current status really and then another feature that is really useful for that is that we have direct weather integration it directly shows you the relevant weather from Berlin in this case and it shows you a few hours in advance so that you actually know well will it rain later so do I need to bring an umbrella and so it just shows that directly there and of course you can change the location if you're somewhere else or it also uses the browser's location so basically it's all pretty much automatic and that's a really cool integration because that just directly works and you don't need to set anything you don't need to connect to any weather service because we're doing all that for you and then of course one thing that you can do everyone likes that customization you can suit this a dashboard to your needs you can change the widgets that are being shown if you don't want the weather if you don't want to hear anything about there being rain you can just disable it you can not show the status feature but more importantly you can add all sorts of different widgets from all sorts of different apps so for example the deck app has a widget the notes app lots of community apps like analytics there's a whole bunch of widgets out there so when you update to next cloud 20 make sure to check out the customization screen so that you see what else is out there and what you can enable and then of course what you can also do is you can change the background so by default we have a beautiful blue cloud background but there's also a ton of creative comments licensed pictures and they all look really cool you can also pick your own picture so you see it right there you can pick it from files and then you can just customize it completely so yeah that's the dashboard we're super excited about it because it really this is the new experience for next cloud so you're not landing anymore in files you're landing in the dashboard because next cloud is more than just files it's the files, it's talk it's events, it's mail contact and so on everything it's the whole collaboration experience and with this we really think that this brings it all together it brings it into one place in one overview and when you're either back from vacation or when you start your day and you have all this overwhelming all this overwhelming deluge of information like you need to check your mail you need to check your talk this kind of helps you to kind of focus and only do one thing and see what is really important at the moment and so to see more of that I would like to now switch to a demo and show you more of that in action so there we go with the dashboard so this is how it looks like and there we go with a good morning and it will switch to a good afternoon of course wherever you are and here you can set your status so right now for example we're actually not anymore preparing the keynote so we can say we're giving the keynote and we can say well we're going to clear it in 30 minutes maybe we're done let's see, maybe in an hour so we can set the status message and then you see it's reflected in the status and that's the same actually as here in the top right this in the top right will show in every app but for the dashboard we thought it would be cool if we would really add more presence even the status feature because it's such an integral part of your day and what you communicate to others so we gave it the extra presence here and then the weather of course oh it's partly cloudy but it's actually nice nice temperature so that's cool if I want I can change the location so if you're going on vacation or something you can check it here really quick as well but only for the current day right now plan is also to add more info to that right now it's the same day and then of course we come to the widgets so the really interesting part first of all the recommended files so this is based on for example files that have been recently edited or that have recently been shared with you so often times for example when we have a company meeting it's really cool because the minutes or the meeting notes will directly show up there because they've recently been edited so you can just go in there and open them and can basically just just open them directly so you can for example an image you can directly view from here or folders you can directly open from here you can open a file for example and here you can do Christmas party planning directly from here or sorry or you can close it again and you can also share it you have the sidebar there everything is directly there so you're directly in the dashboard and you don't have to leave it to actually do things then the next thing is a talk mentions so I said that when you get mentions you actually get the mentions nicely shown here but when there's no unread mentions at the moment you still get relevant info so for example here the recent messages and then when you click them you go to talk and that actually takes you out of the dashboard but then of course you can go back again and similar with upcoming events so here it's very cool very nice overview oh yeah you need to book the photographer until tomorrow and do the Christmas party planning and decided dress code so you all have this in this one overview you don't need to necessarily switch to the calendar you can of course if you have more more planning but this shows like all the upcoming events that are important to you and especially focus on the events that are today and in this case you also know you're good for today so this actually gives you feedback that this is all done so you can focus on the other things this I think is also really important that it also gives you this kind of feedback and this kind of safety or feedback that you're actually done and that you can do other things you can focus on other things because it's not meant to pull you in it's not meant to take your attention but it's meant to give you the relevant stuff and then you're done with it basically and here we saw what I showed before briefly the recent statuses so for example and Jan or me I'm Frank here so Jan is working remotely actually Maria is arriving in Berlin Toby is also there and he also is vacationing so here you see a nice little overview of the other people, of your colleagues and so yeah this is quite cool and people are also setting funny status messages so here you can check out the newest emojis to use and the latest funny status messages and that's kind of nice and then of course down here we see the customize button so you can already to your liking drag and drop the widgets so for example here you can say well upcoming events is something more important to you or maybe recommended files you want at the end but what is really cool is this customize so when you open that you see more widgets so here for example is the upcoming cards view from deck or the important mail from mail of course and here you can also for example remove widgets so for example you can say maybe recommended files I don't actually want or the talk mentions maybe I don't need at the moment and you can suit it to your liking and here as well you can just drag them around like you want in whichever order you like and then of course here you see get more widgets from the app store because you can install a lot more apps that are currently already supporting widgets like I said like the notes app the analytics app and way more apps so that's really cool you can really personalize it to to your heart's content and there's another thing that I'm also really excited about also because I spent a lot of time curating all these nice pictures that are all creative comments licensed is that you can customize your background so very easily here you can just set a nice background picture and to kind of set your favorite background just like on the desktop and so here you have a nice picture or if you want maybe more colorful one you could go with this one for example and here you also for example see it directly automatically switches the icons to to dark so that you see them better the navigation icons and then you have the other widgets so for example mail mail account you can from here set up the mail account and okay I hope you're all back I'm really really sorry we have some technical difficulties actually a power outage that's quite interesting what happens sometimes so I'm really sorry for that I hope you all use the time for some bio break and grab a coffee or something in the morning but now we are back so again sorry for that okay so as Jan just showed you our new dashboard is quite powerful and also very useful obviously that's something we actually worked on for several months in internal testing and with several iterations around it to make it really useful and not just the gimmick but something that really improves your productivity and your life obviously so as mentioned we have all the different components we have the files we have the talk mentions we have and of course you can even from there directly jump into the right app where something is happening for example here in talk where I can see okay here is some discussion happening in about the Christmas party and the Christmas party channel where I can just then directly click here and then I jump directly in the right conversation and I can really see what's going on and participate in the in the conversation or let's going back to the dashboard if you see the recommended files recommended files by the way is a feature where we use some intelligence to really recommend the interesting files for you that you might be interested in and as Jan showed you can already directly open office documents and pictures there but of course you can also jump directly into the right folder here then you enter in the files app and basically directly in the right location okay let's show you a little bit more about the files app it's of course a good way to upload all your documents and organize them in folders you can favorite them, you can share them with others you can also here select what you shared with others what is shared with you what is shared by link and so on as you know you can tag documents you can have favorite documents look at the recent documents and so on all the usual features you expect on top again we have the recommended files as lots of you might know and then we have this new feature here since a few months where you can actually document the folder for example if you go into the Christmas folder, Christmas party folder here that you can see that here on top we have this documentation where you actually describe to your colleagues what's going on, what kind of documents are there and you can directly click in there and you can of course edit it these are important files or something and everything is stored in this readme file which means it's also synced to your desktop and accessible from the command line and everywhere where you want to access it obviously you have the documents here for example it's PDF you can directly open this nice Christmas song PDF if you want to celebrate Christmas with some nice music you have some pictures on everything you expect a cool new feature that we actually introduced in Hub 20 that I haven't mentioned before is something which I think is very cool if you share a file share this nice picture here with someone where you have here on the sidebar the option to share a link you press here and you created the share link and obviously you can customize it as before but the new thing here is that you can actually give it a title you can say that this is like a secret link or something and then actually you can see that this link is here has a name and you can do this with several links and links can have different permissions and different names so you can actually know which link you send to whom so that's a nice new feature to organize your workflow that we haven't mentioned before then of course you have the usual other applications oh by the way maybe I should talk a little bit about the navigation as Jan already mentioned we did some fine tuning here so as you can see we have now space for more applications here in the header that's also an often requested feature and we have this nice animation here which helps to highlight the current application and you also have more space for more text so the text is not clipped so this is all like improved but let's go through it a bit let's click on the first one photos which again gives you a nice overview of all your media files where you can then directly open it and share them and talk about it and so on then the activity view that's something you of course know it's very useful because you basically see a timeline of all the changes that happen in your next cloud and you can filter them what you did what others did, what happened with your favorite files and so on and so on but let's go into next load talk because there we actually have some nice improvements as I mentioned before as I said we have the side channels here we have the conference side channel here Christmas party side channel and again I can share pictures in there and images and office documents let's see maybe share I don't know here not a nice picture here click and then this is shared with everybody in the channel and I can do the same with office documents edit them together collaboratively that's quite nice and powerful and as I mentioned we have this nice emoji picker so you can click here and you have all the emojis and then you can also search for nice Christmas related emojis I don't know here that one looks nice and then you can actually communicate with nice emojis and pictures and document with your colleagues and your coworkers and your friends that's nice and powerful in the settings here in the sidebar we still have the option to combine a chat channel with a project management and bought with a shared folder and with other resources to bind them together into projects but the new thing is of course that we also have this new way to select your devices I can even see myself fancy and your microphone and you can configure for example where all the documents that are shared into a channel are stored you have a shortcut for your documentation for your shortcuts and all the other settings that might have so that's quite nice powerful production tool then let's go into deck that's our project management tool here we have this mentioned upcoming view where you can see everything that's going on combined from all projects but let's go into one thing here the Christmas party where you have the different cards as I mentioned we can nicely with drag and drop like move them around here if something is done or not done you have a visual and drag and drop and then obviously you can go to the details have this have this sidebar that you can open if you want and let me see sidebar that you can open if you want doesn't want to but you can now it opens it's maybe a slow network there you can have all the details here where you can assign it to people assign text, have due dates and so on attachment to files comments and timeline and so on and we have this new modal view where you can actually press here and you see then everything in a bigger view that's quite useful if you have more detailed descriptions and just more information around it more than you just want to cram into the sidebar okay and as mentioned before if you go to the calendar again there's this new Christmas deck party calendar where you can already see the due dates the deadlines that I configured in the project management tool so that's another example where everything nicely nicely binds together same as with the search that was from Berlin and you can see like the different things here again the chat channel that I can jump to okay so this is a nice overview of all the major features of the next lot 20 let me actually then back here so I think next lot 20 is a really nice release you invest a lot of energy into bringing all the pieces together have the unified dashboard have the unified search the status feature that shows in all the different pieces and this is something that really as I mentioned we tested this internally already this really improves the productivity of our team a lot but this is only half of the story so next lot 20 is actually only half of the thing that we wanted to show you today because there's something more and that's what we call the next lot platform okay so let's bring this into context what we want to say with that as you might know this all started with a file synchronization tool so it's all started with a file synchronization something like you bring in your files you share them with other people you sync them with your devices and this was basically the core functionality of everything but as you might know earlier this year with next lot 18 next lot 18 hub we actually expanded what we want to do with hub to become a full collaboration suite so we really made like the talk calendar and email and notes and all the different components basically all made them first class citizens and brought them together into one solution that basically covers everything that you need to collaborate but this again is for us only one step because there is actually something that comes after that and this is something that we called the next lot platform platform means that we want to encourage a lot of other developers to build applications on top of next lot and it also means that we want to talk and communicate with all other software services solutions open source or not open source that's available basically bring everything together to basically maximize the productivity of the users to become like a central component a central hub again where all the different pieces are connected and again these are like applications that are built specifically for next lot for next lot hub or things that we integrate so as you know we already have a lot of dedicated applications for many many years in our app store so we have our app store where everybody can publish extensions and applications and lots and lots of examples for that you really should know that it's really amazing new stuff pops up all the time but that's only the first step because we really want to focus on bringing this to more users and also to work on integrations integrations means we want to connect other software into the next lot ecosystem and for that we did several things this time the first is we have this new category called integrations in our app store this is a place where you can publish connectors and extensions where next lot talks to other software this is not software that's specifically done for next lot but something we integrate and with this new category there and everybody can upload it with an app store in our app store and make it available to all next lot users of course this all can be accessed from inside next lot too so we have this very nice app management extension management inside next lot this is the screen where you have this category inside again you can see the integration category the new one and you have all this apps again you can also find them with our new unified search too and on the sidebar you can see the screen just the descriptions and the new thing we added here is the changelog so you can even see what happens in the last version so this is a nice way where everybody who wants to connect to the next lot ecosystem the next lot platform can easily access their app store extensions but then of course the question before that how do I actually develop this kind of connectors and extensions on top of it and for that APIs are super important so really need nice documented stable standardized APIs to connect different software pieces together and for that we actually launch a new initiative a new standard called the open collaboration services standard the open collaboration services this is an API standard that we push forward it's already obviously supported by next lot but already from other software too and we want to work with more platforms more solutions to also support the same API which means then applications will be compatible between different platforms so this should be an open standard which is based on open source implementations open documentations and basically everybody can use it and can use it to integrate their services with each other that's called open collaboration services we have a nice website opencollaborationservices.org where you can see the basic information what it is how it works and of course we have our actually API documentation where you can see okay how can I authenticate how can I share something how can I access a file how can I write a widget and so on and so on to have all the documentation in place of course we still have our developer portal so our developer portal and the next lot website is a place where you can go if you want to start writing an application or integrate into the next lot platform here you have information how to set up a development system how to make an application that's secure and well designed we have our guidelines there we have actually have a tiny application generator even there we can just like fill in some metadata and there's a basic boilerplate application generated for you that you just can take that's already completely working and running and you can use it to fill in your business logic and you already have a widget or connector or search provider or whatever it's quite easy if you have more questions there are also links to our developer forum where you can communicate with others and we even have a new developer chat channel using next lot talk obviously where you can directly talk with other people and ask questions hey how can I do this how can I do that so really want to encourage everybody to connect to next lot to the next lot hub to work together to build this environment where you can be productive but still secure and protect your privacy obviously okay now you might think that okay this is nice in theoretical right does this really work well the thing is we didn't stop there because we actually the last a lot of this integrations ourselves and also in collaboration with other companies and other organization and open source projects so we have a bunch of applications already ready and a bunch of integrations already ready that I want to talk about now okay let's get started with the first category that's something that is about social and communication so the first thing I want to mention is our integration into discourse into Reddit and into Twitter these are obviously services on the internet are very popular and this is a bit of a surprise because the dashboard widgets that Jan showed earlier these are not all so we actually have a lot more and here are three of them you can actually directly access this other services which don't come from next cloud obviously their third party services but they can talk with standardized APIs to next cloud and you can show the information directly on the dashboard so you just go to the apps page you download I don't know the discourse app and then you have this new plugin that you can use on your dashboard then of course you might wonder okay how do I actually authenticate in the settings we have a new section called linked accounts and for all the accounts then it automatically shows the section it shows up in this case Twitter with a button connect to Twitter and then the authentication process works like OOS for example you click there and then you are basically connected your Twitter account to your next load account and then you have the widget and you can do all the information of course all those services I mentioned earlier they are like centralized proprietary services we like open source and decentralized services more this is why we also integrated with the mastodon community mastodon community is of course a very nice decentralized open source community very similar to next cloud and they are building this decentralized Twitter alternative and we have another dashboard there where you can see all the dashboard notification and the mastodon notification in your dashboard and again you can directly click on it and jump to the right conversation but here we want to do a little bit more and as you might know we have next cloud social network component that is using the same APIs as mastodon so this is the activity pub API that's a standard from the W3C using the same API than the mastodon community which means you can actually see the same messages here that you see in your mastodon so your mastodon client and it's really compatible and fully integrated so this is about social network and for the next thing which is video calling so of course you might know this nice project called big blue button there are a nice open source decentralized video calling solution and I'm really happy to say that we have nice deep integration into deep blue button now so not everybody is using next cloud talk yet some might use some other solutions like big blue button and for that you can just install the app you can configure your rooms your conversations and then it's deeply integrated in this case in the next cloud files where you can jump directly to the right conversations and it's really nicely integrated and quite powerful this was done by one of our community members by Klaus who will give a talk about this integration later so this is a nice example where we can show that we as next cloud want to work with our own components what we want to work with everybody we want to bring everybody into the same experience so they can collaborate together in the same way you want okay let's talk about the next integration that we did the last year month is rocket chat rocket chat is a chat solution that's also again open source and it works very similar to next cloud talk again we of course prefer next cloud talk but if you want to use rocket chat that's totally fine and it's totally integrated for example you can inside rocket chat directly already if you receive an attachment or a picture in this case click on the button and directly save it into next cloud and the other way around if you want to post a picture from your next cloud into a rocket chat channel that's also possible okay let's talk about the next integration because we again didn't stop there let's talk about more matrix matrix again you might know is another very nice decentralized communication solution and framework and here we also developed very nice integration the first is that we have a dedicated app dedicated interface it's the element web interface that you can then use directly inside next cloud really basically as one piece you can chat and communicate with your matrix friends directly from inside next cloud but again we didn't want to stop there because we want to really combine next cloud talk even closer with matrix and here we implemented something very cool we implemented another with the meta bridge community another bridge to matrix between next cloud talk and matrix remember when earlier I talked about next cloud talk it has support for this bridging feature you can bridge IRC channels and XMPP channels into next cloud talk be directionally well that's not all we have more of those connectors and we have more of those bridges for example here matrix so that's quite cool a moderator can just set this up in talk and then everything you write in one channel and talk appears in matrix when you write in the matrix channel appears in next cloud talk in both directions so that's super useful of course well not everybody is using nice open source software yet some are still stuck in centralized services very popular one is Slack as you might know I personally don't like it too much it's too centralized and proprietary but it's very popular and again for Slack so there is now a Slack to next cloud talk bridge so if you want to use or you have to use I guess a Slack channel for something you can actually connect this to your next cloud talk channel you can use your native next cloud talk mobile apps, all the workflows the search everything you want as before but every message you write is automatically posted to the Slack channel and in the other direction so that's the right example with everybody even with the solutions that we're actually competing with like in this case Slack okay so this was the first segment this is about communication on social let's talk about developer integration obviously in next cloud community we have a lot of developers and we really care about using different tools and connecting them nicely together so the first thing that I want to talk about is GitHub, GitHub is of course a centralized code collaboration platform where you can write code and we know it quite well because we actually use GitHub for developing next cloud itself so we are also next cloud is developed on GitHub as you know we developed nice integration into GitHub which again we have another widget that we didn't mention before where you can see all your GitHub notifications directly on your dashboard that we didn't mention before is that it really gives you an overview of everything that's interesting for you not only what's interesting inside next cloud really all the services that you use are basically shown there you can download the app and configure them and then you see all your GitHub notifications also in the next cloud dashboard and another thing we did is we integrated into the unified search so as we showed you earlier in the search you can find like all the data in your calendar your files in your chat and your project management and all your sources in your bookmarks and so on but you can also find them in external integration services in this case we implemented a GitHub search inside the next cloud unified search which means if you type in Christmas party not only find your own pictures and chat messages and files you can also find GitHub tickets and pull requests and things on GitHub in the same search overview I think this is quite powerful and quite nice for a lot of people of course GitHub again is a centralized service and we prefer open source decentralized services more this is why we did really exactly the same for GitLab so GitLab is the decentralized open source alternative to GitHub where again we have the dashboard widgets with all the up to date GitLab notifications and the integration into the search and I'm really happy about that because this is a feature we actually developed together with GitLab and here we have this nice quote from Brandon he says it's great to see an open source project like next cloud integration with GitLab providing value to our shared customers and users across the globe the power of open source is deep integration and collaboration and this development is a great example of that I couldn't agree more that's the power of open source that all these different projects can actually work together basically together provide the user experience is really nice for the end users and I'm really happy about this GitLab integration that we did the last few months so next service I want to mention is JIRA JIRA is a very popular issue tracker that you also might know and again with JIRA we have nice integration, we have another dashboard widget that you can use again please only select the ones that are useful for you please you have your JIRA notifications directly on your dashboard and again integration into the search too so if you search for Christmas you can also like find your tickets in JIRA directly in the same search results you can click on them and directly jump to it so that's quite nice here we did a little bit more and even integrated the notifications so if you actually have a notification for example if you have a new open ticket in JIRA it's automatically communicated to next cloud and it's triggered like a normal next cloud notification that you receive on your phone and tablet and all your devices and it's just part of your normal workflow you don't really notice it that it's not the same software well it's obviously a different software but it's the same process and the same experience connected together okay so this was the developer experience now I want to talk a little bit about education education that's like a topic for me which is really close to my heart especially now with distance learning and what's happening with COVID-19 and in schools that are close partly that's something that's really really important and here I'm really happy that today we are announcing a close partnership with the HPI School Cloud so HPI School Cloud is an open source e-learning solution which is developed by the HPI by HPI and it's actually publicly funded and it's completely open source and it's very popular in a lot of schools but they're focusing on e-learning they have all the e-learning functionalities that don't really have the collaboration features that we have so this is a very natural partnership that we have here we're working together with them for several months already we're implementing talk integration, files integration calendar integration and a lot of new things so really stay tuned there's a lot of cool things are coming and if you're looking for a solution for a school that basically combines the power of next cloud combined with the power of a real e-learning solution like from HPI and you all want that open source and GDPR compliant and running locally and compliant and integrated then I think this is a very nice solution of course the HPI School Cloud is not the only relevant solution there's also Moodle so Moodle is a really nice project another e-learning solution they're really friends from next cloud we're working together for many many years and here we already have a lot of nice cool features for example again another dashboard widget where you can see everything that's going on in Moodle directly inside next cloud and the search integration where you can inside the search you can find your courses your module, your events everything that's important for you that's happening in your school, direct or your university or whatever you do directly inside next cloud too and inside Moodle you already have the option that you can select a file from inside next cloud and basically integrate directly into your Moodle data maybe it's a course or some class, something you do you can really link this together based on files this by the way was really improved lately where the whole authentication flow is a lot nicer now a lot better for the normal users so here I have another quote from my personal friend Martin the founder and CEO of Moodle he says the crisis has increased the need for online collaboration solutions and next cloud and Moodle are extremely popular in the education space an expansion of our integration as initial in develop in 2017 is said to benefit millions of students and teachers exactly so this is a long time partnership where we bring our solutions together and I think together this is a really nice this is a really nice answer for the problems of that schools have at the moment with COVID-19 I'm also happy to say that maybe you saw it in the schedule already that Martin will also give a keynote at our conference here this year and he will talk a little bit more about our integration and how this all works together okay let's go to the next segment that's productivity again we didn't stop there we really wanted to do as many as nice example integrations as possible to show how next cloud can become a platform that works with everybody that brings everybody on board and provides one unique user experience for the optimal productivity so the first thing I want to mention here is Office again as I showed you before we have our two very close technology partners only office and Collabra online and they both have very nice online office solutions that tie directly deeply into next cloud but of course there are more options and there's another nice online office developed by Hancom so Hancom is a company from South Korea and they actually have a very powerful very nice online office and this is something that we also now fully integrated into next cloud lately so you can just click on a Word file or Excel file and you can open it directly in Hancom office it shows up inside your next cloud it has a sidebar with talk where you can chat around it you can do collaborative editing you have a video call while working on the same document same with these other solutions so there's just another option this is not like replacing anything replacing one of the other solutions the whole next cloud platform idea is all about choice we want to work with everybody we want to bring everybody into the next cloud user experience and now we have another option for online offices deep inside next cloud here's another screenshot of the presentation module it's actually very nice you really have to try it it's quite powerful and another spreadsheet we're working together with Hancom for several months already we have another quote here from the president of the Hancom group which says with this next cloud partnership Hancom will bring Hancom office online it's flagship cloud-based office productivity application into the world most popular on premise content collaboration platform so this is a very nice partnership Hancom they are very active in the Asian and in Asia one of the most popular offices there and I'm really happy that we're working together another integration I want to feature here is Kaspersky that's something we mentioned or we launched a few weeks ago already inside next cloud you already have the virus scanner app that lots of users use and we can use all the usual open source virus canners there but there's this new option that you can also use Kaspersky if you want to obviously Kaspersky is a proprietary commercial software you have to pay for it, you have to buy it maybe you get a little bit more it's definitely different than the open source canners out there and that's something you can integrate directly into next cloud again using our open APIs here and you can use that that's now fully supported so Alexandra the head of Kaspersky technology alliances says the integration of Kaspersky and the malware technology into next cloud provides its customer with the certainty that files accessed through or downloaded from their collaboration platform will be secure that's just a way to secure your files inside the next cloud so the next integration I want to talk about is Tzammat so Tzammat is a very nice ticketing system it's open source on premise so it really fits into our philosophy we are talking with Tzammat people for a long time the reason is that we actually use it ourselves so in our support system and our internal support system that we use for our customers we actually use Tzammat so because of that of course this was an obvious example where you really want to basically build very nice deep integration into the software each other so if you are next cloud and Tzammat user you can use this widget and you see all the notifications all the status changes of the different tickets that you're working with directly in your dashboard and again the search integration where if you search for something like a customer name for example you can not only see like the folder and the chat conversations and the calendar entries you can also see the tickets in Tzammat directly in the same search result so again full overview of everything which is quite nice and again we integrated notifications so you get like notifications for next cloud also for things that happen in Tzammat and here an example you can for example receive it in a watch or smartphone or it doesn't matter you can directly see what's going on so really nicely connected experiences so Martin the founder and CEO of Tzammat says Tzammat enables users to manage an incoming customer request open source self-hosted cloud technologies allow networking integration with each other that is again that's the power of open source that we can work together okay so I'm now coming to the end of my list and I want to talk a little bit about some other software which is there's something that we compete with but we still want to integrate with software even if they're competitors of us the reason is that sometimes if an organization is moving away from this centralized proprietary software platforms to self-hosted open source decentralized platforms like next cloud sometimes you can't do the migration all in one step sometimes you have to migration piece by piece sometimes we hear from our users that it's still useful to have some older platforms before they move step by step to next cloud another thing is of course that if you're working together with organizations partner companies for example suppliers other companies sometimes they use other software, proprietary centralized software solutions so it is valuable to have this integration with these other platforms so here are some examples here to show you first is Dropbox Dropbox obviously is a competitor to next cloud but we have this nice external storage connector so inside your next cloud you can mount your Dropbox as a folder directly inside your next cloud and this can be used to access your Dropbox files because maybe you have a shared you can still pull it in into your next cloud and use it just on part of your normal workflow and of course you can also use it to migrate you can just take the files drag and drop them from the Dropbox folder into your next cloud folder and then the files are migrated so actually this is a very nice feature the second company I want to mention is Google Google obviously with G Suite they also have in Google Drive and other solutions they obviously have services and software that are competitors to next cloud but again we want to be open and working with everybody because as I said before there are some scenarios where you actually have to be interoperable the first is Google Drive Google Drive again is another thing that we can mount directly inside next cloud you can mount your Google Drive inside your next cloud as a folder and then you can collaborate with people maybe they haven't seen the light yet maybe they haven't used next cloud yet but you can actually work with them because you can mount it as a sub folder and if you want to migrate you can mount it and just drag and drop it over your files are over and then you can unmount it and then you're migrated away from Google which is also nice talking about migration that's also something that we expanded a lot lately where you have this new option that with one click you can migrate your Google contacts directly into the next cloud as next cloud contacts and again you can migrate your Google calendars directly inside next cloud to next cloud again with one click and if you use Google photos again with one click you can import all your Google photos into next cloud it's very nice if you really want to get rid of your Google account and be using these open APIs to really connect with this services and you can move your data around or just do some of course okay so the last company I want to mention is of course Microsoft so Microsoft is one of our biggest competitors especially in the enterprise space they have products like Office 365 where we are the alternative to we are like open source and GDPR compliant and decentralized in the open source and I think the better and secure alternative but some people still use Microsoft products that's unfortunately how it is so we also want to work with them we want to integrate the APIs again to provide a migration path to move it over to just be interoperable the first thing we do is again same as before you can actually mount your OneDrive inside next cloud and collaborate with people who are using the Microsoft platform also inside next cloud maybe there's a SharePoint in an organization you can mount your SharePoint directly inside next cloud and collaborate with people and you don't have to use SharePoint but you still work on the same files so that's something that's quite powerful the second thing is of course Office Online so Microsoft has this online editor that we can now also use directly as a fourth online office inside next cloud so that's not nothing we would recommend we prefer the other solutions because they're open source and on-premise but if you really really have to if you really want to use Word Online, Excel Online PowerPoint Online you can actually use them inside next cloud now we build a connector and that's now possible if you want to obviously you need a Microsoft license and Microsoft instance for that yeah that's how it is and the last feature I want to mention is chat so as you know Microsoft really is pushing Microsoft Teams forward a lot so Microsoft Teams is this group chat that lots of people use the most people I talk to there don't like it too much but I have to use it but we developed this bridge again so we have a bridge now from next cloud talk to Teams which is a next cloud talk room into a Teams room and everything you write on one side appears on the other side and the other way around so you can really collaborate with people who still use this proprietary software and then basically slowly convince them hopefully to switch over to the light and to an open source solution which doesn't have the vendor login from Microsoft so these are the example integrations that we developed the last few months of course we want to encourage more and more organizations to work with us to connect the software to collaborate together and yeah there's a lot more there's a lot more integrations we did or others did we work together I don't have the time to talk about all of them there are a lot more but we really want to encourage everybody to use our open APIs our open app store to bring the connector and bring your software into the next cloud ecosystem so that we provide this unified experience as I showed you with some examples of course it's still possible and still encourage to write not only integration app but real applications on top of next cloud platform real productivity applications that's also something where we have a lot and this is of course still important and yeah very impossible and really I hope the future okay so this is where we want to go we want to go from a pure file sync and share solution to next cloud hub which is a full collaboration solution to a platform to a software that can work with everybody that can talk with everybody that's using open APIs and everybody can integrate it and we provide them together the user experience which is hopefully good good for everybody so this is what we have for you today so this is next cloud hub 20 this is the biggest release so far I think we showed you a lot of interesting cool features improvements the search status the dashboard performance improvements and so on and so on so there's really a lot and of course the second piece which is the platform so next cloud as a platform that really connects with everybody so this is what we have for you today which I think is very exciting of course people then ask okay when is this available when can I get all of that when I can get a nice integration when I can get the dashboard widget and so on so as you might know we from next cloud are not like other companies we are not really big fans of pre-announcements we only talk about things when they are ready so I'm happy to say that everything available today is available also today actually I think it was released a few hours ago already so it can already go today to our server and you can download the software everything I showed you can already use today and again it's 100% open source 100% free software 100% self-hosted so I really think that next cloud hub is the solution for digital digital sovereignty 100% open source we are not affected by the whole privacy shield discussion we are not affected by cloud act we are per definition GDPR compliant because you can run it as you want as it is compliant that's something that's really important and I really think we can provide you with the great usability and productivity combined with the security that you want so I really think that in the current situation the current COVID-19 situation where well this is a big burden this is a big problem for the world a lot of people are really struggling working together communicating staying in contact socially from a work contact and I really hope and I really think that next cloud hub can help here by providing software where everybody can work together and collaborate and communicate but it's very important that we do all of that without giving up control over our data and our digital freedom and our digital sovereignty and our private life and everything we really have to do this by staying in control of our digital life and I think the only solution for that the only solution which is helps with COVID-19 and also still helps with our independence and privacy and security is software that's 100% open source and 100% on premise and this is what we are building with next cloud and I hope we can help here to improve the current situation okay so this is what what we have prepared for you today please enjoy our conference our online conference you can still sign up by the way you can still go to www.conferencenextcloud.com if you haven't you have access to our own conference next cloud www.conferencenextcloud.com like a server where all the features I just showed you are installed and you can use all those features well to test it obviously but also to collaborate with everybody else so this is not just a stream this is like actually a virtual collaboration conference so please sign up join our server and talk and chat and everybody learn listen to all the other talks and hopefully become part of the community and hopefully help to shape the world a little bit to make it better thanks a lot