 Hello, hello, hello. Good morning again. We should be live on the live stream as well. It's kind of pointless to tell everybody where the URL is, perhaps because they're watching already, but for those of you who want to tweet about it, nexler.com slash live stream as usual. So again, welcome. Really cool that you're all here. I have a few practical things besides a thank you. So we'll first do the keynote by Frank. After that, we have a break for about 30 minutes. There should be drinks on outside. And you can discuss all the cool announcements that we had in the keynote, of course. After the break, we start the lightning talks. That will be one people talking five minutes, five minutes, five minutes. And after that, we have lunch that will be on the first floor on tables. After lunch, we have a second keynote. And after the second keynote, we have again a bit of a break. And then we go to workshops. The workshops will be on the seventh floor. There are two workshop rooms. There will be signs. Okay. So that's the practical stuff. I guess we should get started. So Frank, please kick us off today. Thanks. Also, for me, a really big welcome. I'm really amazing that you're all here, especially because it's so early in the morning. I heard that ten o'clock is really a bit early. But it's really great to be here again. And welcome you to the next conference 2018. So this is the biggest next conference we had so far. We have over 200 people. That's amazing. We're growing every day significantly, every year significantly, every day too. We have people from Kenya, from Brazil, from Japan, from South Africa there, from all kinds of countries. So this is really, really amazing that we have this international big community here of next-gen fans and contributors. For the first time, we also have booth outside from other projects. That's really, really good. And we have the most talks and workshops and lightning talks ever. So this is the biggest conference so far. So this is really amazing. Also, I want to take a little step back now and think about it for a second and think about the background because we all know what the mission of NextCloud is. So NextCloud, the goal is to create a decentralized open-source privacy-aware, security-aware network of clouds of features. And this is, of course, a bit crazy because we are trying to challenge the big guys here. There are really us here in the room and everybody else in the community. We are so, I don't know, a bit crazy enough that we think we can actually challenge Google and Facebook and Apple and Microsoft and so on. And this is, of course, remarkable, especially because we are growing all the time. So more and more people think that this is actually possible. There is this one quote that I really like. It basically means that we all have to realize that everything around us, and this is especially true for the Internet, for cloud services, everything around us is not done by nature or not by some kind of holy law or something. It's all done by other people like us. Other engineers and other enthusiastic people like us actually build this data silos that exist today on the Internet. And this also means that we can also challenge it. So we actually have a chance, we actually have a shot to change the world here and come to a future where everything is a little bit more decentralized and a little bit more open source and a little bit more privacy and security aware. So this is something that unites us here, I think. And yes, it is a big goal, but I'm really convinced that it is possible to reach and I think we can actually do it. Okay, so what happened since last year? What happened since the last conference a year ago? And I dig into some statistics and actually a lot. For example, if you look into the server repository in GitHub alone, this is only one of many repositories as most of you know. It's the main repository, but there are a lot more of them. And we have 2,500 pull requests alone in the server repository. So this is a pull request is usually like a new feature or improvement or bug fix then a change. And this is really a lot. You can think if you divide this by 365 days of the year and this is really a lot of activity. We did 20 server releases in the last 12 months. I mean, some of them were major releases, some of them were minor bug fix releases, but 20, that's a lot. We did 25 iOS releases. So Marina here, you're a bit crazy. There's really a lot of releases, a lot of work, so really cool. Thank you. And the Android team, a little bit less releases, but of course then the same amount of features and activity and it's really the Android community is really super active with a lot of contributors. And overall, we now reached over 1,800 contributors to the next cloud project. And that's really a big number. We really have to realize that we are one of the biggest open source projects out there. There are not a lot of other projects. That's how over 1,800 contributors. So this is really a big number. Okay, so what are all these pull requests? What is all these changes? What are all the commits? What did all the people do? So of course we worked on the software and improved things. And because of that, I'm really happy that today we can announce the next major version, so the next major version of NextCloud. It's the successor of NextCloud 13. And we have a really amazing marketing team. And I heard that you went to a mountain retreat with a lot of meditation and brainstorming for lots of weeks to think about what could be the name of the successor of NextCloud 13, right? So a lot of crazy work and even some drugs were involved. I heard, I don't know. And really I'm really happy that you come up with a really good idea. And of course the name is 14. So I'm really happy that we can announce NextCloud 14 today. So this is a really big release. So I tested a little bit of rough overview. And these are some of the features and improvements that went into that. I don't think we have the time to go over all of them. But I think we can focus on five main areas, five areas that I think are especially interesting and important. And I want to go through those five areas now. The first area is design accessibility. So this is something where I'm especially happy about because one of the missions of NextCloud is, of course, that is software that's very secure and self-hosted. But it has to be end user-friendly. This is why I'm happy that we have such accessibility and design and UI and UX-focused team here. And for that, I want to ask Jan to present these improvements. Hello. Yeah. So first of all, I'm only here as a representative of our whole design team. Everyone who works on design on front-end and also all of you developers who are very design-minded. So I'd like to have another great applause for you all. Okay. And so I'd like to show you a few major things that we worked on during this release. And one of the biggest ones, which I'm very happy about, is actually accessibility. So we have, for example, we have these accessibility settings, but that's not the only thing. We also improve the accessibility overall. So for example, keyboard navigation in the whole app is now much easier. Like you can tap through everything and you can activate everything by enter. And we're continuously developing it. We're continuously making it better. And yeah, there's been a lot of help from the community improving that. And we're also testing it more. So if you want to get involved there, if you know more about this, if you use screen reader software, for example, your help is much appreciated. And yeah, we have a lot of these settings like high contrast theme or also a nerdy dark theme that a lot of you will like, which is currently in beta. And yeah. So please, if you want to get involved, help out there. Then another thing is a simplified navigation. So we have, we have broken it down basically. Previously, we had all this share stuff in there, all the different topics, but now we broke it down to just all files, recent favorites, shares and tags. And you can open it to reveal more. So for example, favorites, we now show all the folder favorites directly in the navigation. And since you know that already since a few releases, we saw the favorites up top in every view. So they're always relevant and available. And yeah, so it's much simpler in the beginning, but then when you open it, it also stays open and it remembers what you had open. So yeah, it kind of adapts to what you need. Then another really nice detail is the add mention avatars. So now when you mention a person, you have this avatar next to it and you have it nicely, nicely contained. And so yeah, you see whenever a person is mentioned and that's just a really cool, small detail that I really love. And then there was a lot of settings restructuring and yeah, this is only one of the screenshots that I could show you. So we have the personal page. We have for example, a new locale setting that we needed for our calendar. We have an admin overview page and as you know, we have these privacy settings for your personal details, but a lot of stuff is always, a lot of work is always going into the settings that make sense and have them sorted the way that they make sense and that they're in the proper categories and that even the settings, even though we don't have so many settings, luckily, even that they are sorted in a proper way. Then another thing is the user management. It was basically completely rewritten and it's now much more responsive and it loads quicker and it handles users much quicker. Adding users is much easier. You can add them with the email address for example and yeah, it's much less hassle to add people there. And the last thing is standardization. So yeah, we did a lot of standardization work of all these different aspects that we're doing in the main apps so that your developers can also use that and you basically just use the design documentation and the different elements to just make it look like a next cloud app. So it's very simple for the developers too but yeah, that's basically all of the design or the design things I want to highlight. So another great applause please for the design team and everyone working on that. Yeah, thanks Jan and the whole design team of course. You might think there's only small details here and there but this is really important for end users because as you know, next cloud has the goal to actually get a lot of normal users, not like IT experts as probably most in this room here but really normal users and this UI work is so, so important. So thanks for that. The second thing I want to highlight are improvements in sharing and collaboration. You might think collaboration, what do I mean with that? Well, from a strategic perspective I see the world a little bit like that. You could say that something like next cloud is in its core something like a file server, right? Like you have files and you can put them in and get them out and so on but of course this is the ancient history. Nowadays something like that is called file sync and share. This is a term that Gartner created like a few years ago and this means that there are additional functionality for offline syncing, for sharing links for mobile access, for web access and so on. So this is usually called the file sync and share market but we think that this is not the end of the road and the next step is collaboration. So it's great that you have access to all your files but you want to do something with the files, edit them and view them and all those additional things. So this is collaboration. I used this for a few months already, this slide here and it's funny that just a few weeks ago also Gartner renamed the market to content collaboration platform which is maybe a little bit of a strange word but I also think that collaboration is the future. So this is also where we focus on. So a few improvements in this area and therefore very small to very big. The first thing is a new feature in sharing where you can add a note to the share recipient here directly in the menu. I don't know, the next slide uses here. You probably know the situation that you want to share a file with someone and you can of course directly next slide share file very easily but then you usually send a second mail to the person and say by the way I shared a file with you and this is the reason why or this is what you should do or this is what it is and that's of course a bit stupid. So now you can directly type in in the share dialog also a message and this is in the mail that the recipient gets and it got the notification and this is much more streamlined collaboration process here. The next thing is improvements in the sidebar as Jan already showed we have this sidebar that's collapsible here and in the share area of course you can filter by shared with others and shared with you and so on and there's this new entry deleted shares, pending shares so you can actually when you delete the share it goes in there and from there you can recover it back. So this is just easier to handle and because in the past you have to ask the original person hey can I accidentally deleted the file can you please share it again with me and this is better now. The next thing is we completely restructured and this is also UI improvement of course restructured the overall sharing user interface. So this is an example of the options that you see with a share link and it's just a lot easier than in the past and if you imagine the old menu it was actually a little bit harder to understand and here this is a lot more straightforward and the end better. The next thing this is a more technical topic is open cloud mesh. So open cloud mesh is an initiative to create a standard for federation for federated sharing across different file sync and share solutions. So I think we as next cloud we are the pioneers here Björn who is not here invented the very first version of the sharing API that we use now for many years and all the other projects use the same. But there is this initiative called open cloud mesh and this is pushed forward by CERN and by Shion and some other organizations including us of course to create a real standard to get a real official standard and this the API went through a review process with a professional company that's doing API design and this is a real standard process and I'm happy to say that we are the first project or the first software that actually implements the standard. So in next cloud 14 we are the very first that implements open cloud mesh API and this is additionally to the old API so we are still backwards compatible. But this API is not only prettier it also has more functionality so another reason why we did this is because we will use this in the future for other features like federated calendars for federated video calls for federated chat messages and so on so it's very extensible. So this is only the first step here. Okay, then the next topic is global scale and specifically federated group shares. So this is another thing that we implemented because we could implement because of the open cloud mesh API that you can also do federated group shares which means I can actually share a file or a folder with a complete group on a different server. So this is a new feature that didn't exist before. First of all it is useful to collaborate with people on other machines but it's especially useful for us for the global scale architecture. The global scale architecture is an architecture that is distributed on a next cloud instance distributed over different hosting centers. And in the past it came with some functionality restrictions for example group shares were not possible and this is solved now. So with next.14 you can also do federated group shares. So these are some improvements and there are a lot more in the area to make sharing more powerful more useful and there's a lot more. We'll talk about these things later but this is a very important area for us. The second, sorry the third thing I want to talk about are clients. So this is something that's interesting because I don't know I and others we tend to look at the web interface. I mean I showed you just many screenshots of our web interface just now but when we talk to users of next cloud some of them say well I never use the web interface. However because the clients are so good I can do everything with the clients. So this is why we also think that there should be a focus on really good clients and also have a lot of functionality. This is why I want to go through some improvements we did in the client area here. The first is the iOS client. So I talked with Marino. I think there are just some of the big improvements from the last six months. So really really a lot. First of all it's of course we implemented the end-to-end encryption as you know. That's a feature we announced earlier. So this is now fully supported here, fully working in iOS. The second thing is document provider. This sounds, it's a boring term but this is actually very cool because this means that next cloud is a first class citizen in the iOS file management. So in the file manager from iOS there is just next cloud is directly in there. You don't even have to open the next cloud app itself. It's just directly in the file manager from there. You can open, every application can save in there and open from there and can delete and basically do everything same as with Apple iCloud. It's really in the same level of functionality here. So really first class citizen in iOS here. And I think we are also like the first project of our kind which has this deep integration. Next thing is push notifications. The notification is just a few weeks ago. We got push notifications which means I actually got a notification on my phone if someone mentions me in the comments as Jan showed earlier with the auto completion. You can mention someone and the phone beeps and you'll see what's happening or if a new server version is available or if you get a federated share invite or if running out of quota or something else you actually get nice push notifications which is really nice and you can also see the activities. Media streaming is very cool. You can actually, if you click on a very big file, a video file for example, you can actually skip around and it only loads the right pieces. It's very good to watch videos and other big files. And server theming is something I personally find very cool so if you change colors and stuff on the server it automatically updates also the app. So actually your iOS app changes color if you change the color on the server. That's also, I personally find this very cool. Then Android. Really also a lot of improvements on the Android side and to end encryption of course, again, we have this in all clients. Push notifications of course, activities and comments. Comments is also very nice. You can watch all the comments on files. Huge speed improvements lately. Very nice video streaming. And very cool new also trash bin and versioning support. So you can really access the trash bin and the versions of files directly in the next cloud app. So there are not a lot of reasons to actually use the web interface. You can do really a lot with the clients. So the last thing I want to mention, the client area is the desktop client. The desktop client, if you follow the history of next cloud then you know that you are not able to a lot of improvements at the very beginning but this has changed now. So we have a really super active desktop team with a nice contributor community and we really do a lot of improvements here. This is for example a screenshot of the completely redone share dialogue. So this is the share dialogue where you can directly share things from your desktop and the layout with the drop-down menu and everything is actually done that it looks the same than the web interface. So there is basically synchronization of the UI between the different clients, the web interface and the desktop interface. So this is a lot more usable and better now. Next thing is the activities view. This is also improved a lot. And I mean you could always see, I don't know if you have someone uploads or downloads a file. But now we can also show the more advanced actions that next slide can do. For example you can see that someone wants to talk with you in next slide talk with a video call or someone invites you to a chat room or something or some other actions. So this is a lot more interactive and of course you can also directly accept and join things directly in the activity view. So this is very nice to get notifications. And there is a lot more of course end-to-end encryption again in the desktop client implemented than working notifications. And this is something I personally am really happy about. In the past it was a bit weird. You get a notification with the text that you have a notification. I don't know, some of you will notice. That's a bit useless. Now we actually get the real notification. You actually get a notification which says hey, you're running out of quota or someone chat something with you or just a new comment or something. So this is actually usable now. And a lot of other UI Polish in the desktop client. And we are really close to release the next version, the 2.5 version. I heard from the team that there is an updated beta coming just the next few days. The only problem is at the moment that I don't know, some server doesn't respond, I don't know. But if this is fixed, then we have a totally usable beta of all these new features out and I'm really happy about that. Okay, the first area that I want to talk about is the app ecosystem. So as you might know from the very beginning in Nextcloud and before we had this app concept we always had this apps like plugins. But we didn't call them plugins, big-post plugins such as that it's just small extensions. But we see Nextcloud as a real application platform. So this is why we call this apps. And the app ecosystem is something that's really, really important for us. So this is of course our app store. I checked it like yesterday. We have over 150 apps in there. So this is really a lot, it's growing all the time. And therefore all kinds of things. Of course you don't really have to go to the app store because you can do everything from inside Nextcloud itself. This is the new app management which was also completely rewritten similar to the user management as Jan presented. And this is a lot better now. For example you have this new sidebar where you can see nice screenshots and ratings and change logs and links to web pages and so on. So it's really a lot easier to browse through the apps and find good ones. The search now searches over all categories. The categories were restructured. The app bundles were improved. So it's really a lot of improvements where we think we can help our app developers to make their work more prominent and become really first-class citizens in the Nextcloud ecosystem. Now I want to highlight a few apps that I find especially interesting that were updated lately. The first is of course Calendar. So this as you all might know is one of the most popular apps we have. And this is making so much progress over the years. It's just amazing. In the last release there were features like free busy support added but it's a real enterprise class feature where you can send an invite to someone and maybe the calendar is not shared but you can still see if the person has time or not. So it's very nice and in this release we added resource booking so you can book like a meeting room or a company car or something directly from inside your calendar. And I really have to say that this is a lot missing too that this is a real exchange killer or a really professional great group there here. So we are working on this enterprise great calendar features and it's really amazing what functionality is there over the years. Next thing I want to highlight is the deck app. This is very interesting because this is a bit of a hidden gem I think not a lot of people might know this but this is actually a super powerful and super nice applications Kanban style project management tool and it's really nice that for example customers of the next cloud GmbH they come to us and they really say hey we want to use this deck app in production for our company and we want to have support for that, we want to pay for that and we want to pay you to add new features so I know that Julius lately had some additional features for customers like direct file upload and so on. So this is really getting more and more popular and we will also officially as next cloud support is in the future. The next thing is of course Collabra online. This is a tool to do collaborative document editing in the browser and we have of course very close relations to the Collabra guys for many many years and in this area we also do a lot of improvements so we are super close to release new features like a file picker for example in the past if you ever to insert a picture into a document you first have to download the picture from your next cloud to your desktop and then in Collabra then upload it again and add it into the document which is of course not optimal in the future you can directly insert Collabra picker file from next cloud and you can also share documents directly from inside Collabra and we do a lot more improvements, speed improvements and other things together so this is getting getting better all the time but I'm also happy to say that we have a second option now this is only office and this is a solution which is similar capabilities then Collabra and some areas sometimes can do more sometimes less but it's a similar solution and this existed for some time already as a community maintained app but I'm happy to say that from now on only office is also like an official partner from us and really officially support this together so if you need Collabra if document editing you have two options now you can choose then the last thing no not the last one before I want to show are some cool apps in the app ecosystem around GDPR compliance the GDPR as you know is these new data protection requirements and there are some cool apps available that make this possible for example to add the terms of service link to the login page or to have the terms of service that you have to approve before you can download a file or in the screenshot here you also can request to have data exported or data or the account deleted these are all requirements that might not be necessary for you on your private instance but this is for companies and service providers that's important to be GDPR compliant so there are all kinds of apps to enable that which I find also very cool the last thing I want to show is this dashboard this is an app that exists for a while but it was a little bit rough at the beginning and it was completely rewritten just a few weeks ago and this is really nice you can have all these different widgets that you can place there and there's a new API available where all kinds of apps can create these widgets and you can then show them here so this is also something that's quite popular okay so the last area I want to highlight now is next lot talk that's a really special and really amazing project it is a communication solution so it's a chat and video call solution this is less than a year old this is just if you look at the functionality that's already there, this is really amazing of course one year old is not the complete truth because we're building on top of all the experience of spreet which was a previous solution we're not reinventing everything but the code is completely new and the concept is a bit different and this is really nice now you might think that okay why do I really need this I use like signal or telegram or threema or something there are a few things fundamentally different with next lot talk and I think lot better first of all it is 100% open source so the server component all server components are open source 100% of app are also open source so this is not the case with this other messengers and video call apps and second thing as important is of course all self hosted you can just with one click in the app management click on talk and then you have it running on your local instance and you basically have your own chat system your own video call telephone system locally available and this doesn't exist anywhere else but this is quite unique and of course we have the full next lot integration you can use all the same login and the same web interface and notifications and so on so this is quite nice this is a screenshot of the chat of the chat interface this is a group chat here so you can you can mention people you can invite people and the people can be from the same instance or you can also send out public links to someone this public links can also be passive protected or not so you can if you have an internal chat or something invite an external person to also join the channel that's possible of course and you can also press the call button on top and then this turns into a video call with multiple people actually the number of people is not really limited from a software perspective there are some limitations from bandwidth and CPU need which makes it practical or not but there are ways to scale it really up to lots and lots of users with the right backend and we have some talk about this later with more details and of course screen sharing here you have screen sharing which is also available so something I find really nice about talk is our mobile apps so here you see the android app and the iOS app one of the cool things is that these apps are fully feature complete with the web interface so there's nothing you can do in the web interface that you can't do on mobile so you don't really have to use the web interface if you don't want to you can download those apps they are obviously completely open source they are for free in the app stores and then you can do everything there as you do with signal and three more and telegram so if you are looking to your own server that's very nice so those are the five main areas that I wanted to highlight design improvements, accessibility, sharing, collaboration clients, app ecosystem, next load talk so a lot of improvements all over the place for next load 14 so if you hear all this announcement, all this feature some deck and calendar and talk and mail and things you might think this is a lot this is a lot what you're doing here and some people that come to us and say hey why do you do all those things why don't you concentrate on file signature you're doing too much so the reason we are doing this is because I really believe that this belongs together these features that really belong together there are so much options for synergies and for nice collaboration that we think that this really belongs together and it's not only our opinion I mean if you look at what Office 365 is doing for Microsoft it's exactly the same they have all these tools that are connecting closer and closer Google Suite, Google Apps they are the same, they also have different components but they work together this becomes one big suite for everything and even as I said before Gartner as a research company also called as a collaboration market now also thinks that these things belong together so we really think that it's different components that really belong together and I want to show you some examples that I haven't mentioned before that demonstrate how this all fits together this is why we are doing this the first is this is a screenshot from the sharing dialogue and here you have Morris here with an avatar and we use the avatars in more and more places as Jan showed earlier the thing is with every avatar in nextcloud you can actually click on the avatar and then you get this menu and then you can directly for example send a mail to Morris and if you use the nextcloud mail app then it automatically opens and you can write a mail there and if not then this is normal mail tool link which means your native mail application opens and you can also directly start a video call from everywhere in nextcloud you can directly call or chat with a person and this is very nice because maybe you see a comment someone did a change of a document or you're working together on a document and you want to talk to the person then this is very very easy so it's all integrated second is here in the share dialogue again I typed in ENG and I get this auto completion here and this auto completion is actually a chat room so you can when you want to share a file you can share a file directly into a chat room and that's very nice because everybody in the chat room then gets this link directly placed into the nextcloud and you can then work together on those things and it's even so clever that if you later add more people they also gonna get the file so really have the connection of files and call and maybe in the future more so this is all nicely integrated you can imagine how this could work I don't know a discussion a discussion around a customer project or your wedding or whatever and then during the discussion where is this picture can I collaborate on this document or something you can just type in go to documents there, share it in the channel and then everybody in the channel gets the document and you can talk about it and of course then collaborate work collaboratively together on the document so this is all fits very nicely together another example is the Outlook plugin we have so this is a nice feature where you when you send a big attachment in a mail then you have this plugin installed it's automatically in background uploaded to nextcloud and the sharing is generated and the sharing is put into a mail so this is again then also nextcloud together with mail another mail feature and this is a bit the other way around is this feature this is a feature an app that you can install and it works like that that every attachment you get by mail automatically is automatically placed into a folder in nextcloud so every attachment you get you connect it to your imap server and every attachment you get is automatically placed in this server and in this folder and of course if your desktop client automatically downloaded and you can search them it's also very nice that integrates email workflows with file sync and share workflows but as one last feature I wanted to show because this is a bit special and very unique I don't think exists anywhere else so for this feature we created actually a very nice video that demonstrates it you can watch it on our website later today I can't show it here because of audio problems but I can explain what it is of course so video verification is a solution for the following problem if you want to share a very confidential file with someone you can of course generate a share link and send the share link to this person but at the end of the day you send it by mail to some mail account you really don't know who this mail account belongs to who is on the other side who is reading the mail it could be someone else who is using the same PC the kid who is playing with the smartphone I don't know and if it's really needed and really reaches exactly one person and no one else then this is something that's really hard to do with just sending a share link to someone of course you can protect it with a password but the same problem, right? you have to get this password and also to someone and you don't really know who gets this who gets this password so this is a challenge that others solved for example in Germany there is this post-ident for found this is a system where you have to go to the post office you have to show your password and the person compares the face on the passport with the person there you have to sign a document and then it's basically certified that you're really that person in other cases like with GPG for example this is done with key signing you have this key that's associated to an email address but you don't really know that this key is also actually owned by this person this is why you have this key signing and you have to go to other parties where you basically match keys to people and this is a problem that is not really solved in file sync and share so far but we think we have a nice solution here with video verification so it works like that that in the sharing dialogue there is this new option which is called password protect by talk and I can just go there this is a very confidential document you can click this button and I choose a password type in here and then this share link is sent to this person by mail and this person then clicks on the link and the browser opens and then you basically see that you type in the password here that you don't know but you can press the request password button and if you do that you can call to the person who shared the file okay so you can actually the phone of this person rings because we have as discussed push notifications for next lot talk your phone rings you answer the phone then you have a video call to the person who got the link and you say hey how are you do you recognize the person yes this is the guy that I mean and then you tell them the password this is the password this is the document so this is a way to verify to not share to an email address to really share to a person this is very unique so this is the last feature I wanted to show which shows why we integrate all those nice tools together and this is also fully working now in nextload 14 of course so because of that I really think that we can call nextload the most advanced content collaboration and share platform because we have all those improvements in all different areas and it all fits together okay now is the question of course how do people get nextload right the nextload I showed you all this nice functionality all these nice features that's great but how do people get nextload as I told you at the very beginning we have these crazy goals to really reach a lot of people on this planet not only us who can install a linux package or run a docker container or something how do we actually reach a lot of people like many many millions maybe billions of people all over the world and this is something where we talk a lot and brainstorm a lot around that and I think we have two we have two solutions for that so that I want to announce today the first solution is called simple sign up and to talk about that I want to invite Jos to tell us what is simple sign up and how does it help to get many millions of more users hello so I'm Jos and I have a question for all of you how many of you think that with the current tech most people can quite easily run a server at home there's two really enthusiastic three really enthusiastic people I think the rest is slightly more realistic so with that in mind let's take a little step back and Frank already talked about what we're doing here we're pretty ambitious I mean what we're working on we don't do it just for the people in the room we don't do it for all the people watching even though they're all very cool hello everyone there we do it because we really want to give everyone a chance to take control back over the data and with everyone I mean there are 7 billion people on this planet and you know ideally we would have all data decentralized as much as possible so where are we today with that this is in 2015 when Frank gave a keynote also here at the university and he put up numbers rough estimates of how many users there are in next slide how many people were using a private cloud and back then he estimated between 2 and 4 million people I think today a more realistic number would be between 15 and 25 million which is I think a big improvement that's cool so last time when he gave this keynote everybody also applauded for this slide because this is a very nice number and Frank who never really let's go of an opportunity to I guess ruin the mood then came with this slide if you can read it it puts it next to the other players Google with hundreds of millions Apple I mean if you add up the numbers that are at the big cloud players Amazon, Google, Dropbox Apple we're probably talking about well over a billion so what we're doing together is basically putting all our eggs in one of like half a dozen baskets everybody has the data at one of a handful of huge companies I mean you wouldn't be here probably if you thought it was a good idea so I'm not going to talk extensively about why it's a bad idea I think we're all on the same page on this one the question is what are we going to do about it now we had in our clients for a long time a way to sign up to next slide there was like a button or a link where you could go to nextfile.com you could download the zip file and then have no idea what to do with it or you could go by a device and then at home when you got it you would configure your router if you knew what the router was or you could look for a provider you pick one out of 100 providers some of them have the data in the mountains probably very safe from alien attacks another one would have green windmill powers which always reminds me of a french night from a long time ago all kinds of options there and that's pretty hard for normal people to figure out what is the right choice for me how much storage do I need how much should I pay for it should I have all SSD storage daily backups a lot of options and once you've made a choice you have to then figure out I need to get the technical data I need to then give the link into the client username password and then you log in and you have your data how is this at Dropbox for example or Google to sign up to Dropbox all you need to do is give your email address and a password that's quite a bit less work than everything I just was talking about so we fix this it is now just as easy to sign up to next cloud to get a privacy-protecting decentralized cloud as it is to sign up to a centralized cloud thank you so I'm going to show you if you start up the client and you click on the button sign up you just have to enter an email address we pick a provider for you we pick a provider based on where you are so it's a matter of distance if you don't like it you can change the provider we don't have to you can just enter your email address now and click on the sign up button then you give a password and you log in you can start to upload your files right away done you can pass to it it's as simple as that email, password and it's running you logged in so right now we have six providers that we're working with so I want to thank you to all of them some of them are here let's give them an applause for being awesome so they give two gigabytes of data to everyone minimum free storage some of them give there's a whole bunch of apps available as well and it's for free just as with the big cloud providers so again you get the same as what you get with centralized cloud where you actually have a choice over time we will add more providers we will work with them to make sure that the quality is good, that you can trust them and again in here at the conference several of them are here you can literally walk over to them and figure out whether you think they're trustworthy or not if not come talk to me I might do something about it so now you know where your stuff is we have a bunch of nice posters and stickers of this because I think it's important to help people figure out where the data is and who has access to it so please tell everyone that they can now sign up the next cloud even if they're not very technical, if they don't want to go through the hassle of running their own server or even figuring out what provider they want to pick it's as easy as it gets you can go to this page and see your options or you can just immediately go to nexel.com, register sign up it's literally email address and a password, it's all you need thank you very much thanks Joss yeah this is really nice so of course we announced this feature like here now on the stage today but the feature was already active for a few days in our mobile apps in iOS and Android and it will be in the next desktop version of course too and there will be a sign up button on our website too so lots of different ways to sign up and some of them were already online for a few days mainly for testing and we already heard from some providers they got like a ton of new users via this channel, I don't know how much and I don't really want to know anyways but it really seems to work people seems to like that that really solves the problem as Joss said that in the past you downloaded the app and the first thing you see is what is the server address and normal users are like server address what is that, I don't know what this is then they go away and they use Dropbox and this is something that we really think we solved here ok so this is the first option the first way where we think that we get a lot more users for next cloud but there is also a second a second thing because this is a way where you can go to a service provider of course a service provider is still not you at home, it's still a company that you have to trust but we believe that it's already a lot better if the data is decentralized between like, I mean our website we have over 100 service providers listed already that of a next cloud we were not able to all put them into those program but over time we expect that we have a lot of service providers there and if the data is distributed over 100 or maybe a thousand service providers in the future it is so much better than one data silo at Google so this is really good but of course there are also there's this other way to think about it where people think ok I really really want to have my data at home I really want to have my data here in this box I want to I want to touch it this is here this is where it is I don't trust anyone ok so this is the question this is the second thing we want to we want to solve I mean at least make progress here to get the next cloud at home in a very easy way so if you might know that two years ago I think also here at the TU the next cloud box so the next cloud box was a project that we did in collaboration with Western Digital Labs and Canonical it was just a Raspberry Pi with a hard disk and next cloud on it and it was a device that you could buy for including the Raspberry Pi like a hundred bucks depends and then you can run next cloud on it the thing is of course for us this was always meant as a proof of concept as a test device because we definitely don't want to become a hardware company we're not in the business of selling hardware but we did this and we sold like a few hundred of those how many did we sell? how many boxes did we sell? one and a half thousand one and a half thousand even then they stopped production because for everybody it was just meant as a proof of concept so there was this demand that we don't become a hardware company here but this is just a test device that we did because we hoped that other companies that are actually in the hardware business see this and then come up with an idea, oh we can do the same and actually I'm really happy to announce today that exactly that happened so we are actually working together with NEC and Japan it's a company called Waffle Cell and us of course and we are actually doing the same idea of course a lot better, I will talk about it in a second and to really bring it this time to millions of users not to like 1,500 so the idea is that NEC is one of the biggest home router manufacturer in Japan they really have millions and millions of customers and NEC will put next cloud on those home routers so this is very cool because of a few reasons first of all the customer, the end user they don't really have to pay for it because it just comes as the normal box it's just a feature because the next cloud box is of course you have to convince normal people on the street that they should pay like 100 bucks for this box when they get everything from google for free and in this case it's also for free and this is just built into the normal router that everybody has at home anyways that they need for their normal internet access that's the first thing that's really cool the second is the speed in Japan 70% of the people they have actually fiber channel internet connection with gigabit upstream and downstream okay so these next clouds that are deployed by the millions there are actually really fast really suitable for federated collaboration between all those different home routers you can have shared links and have calls between them and chat between them and so on and it works super fast and very nice the next thing that's really cool about that is that all this network configuration problems to go away because with a device like a next cloud box of course it's sitting behind your router you have to configure some kind of port forwarding you have to configure some dynamic DNS to access it from the outside all this goes away because it actually runs on the router so this all works automatically so this is actually actually very nice and we all optimized this of course for this federation that you can really share photo galleries with your neighbor in an easy way and everything very nicely decentralized so because of that I'm really happy to ask our guest from Japan here on the stage Mr. Masayoki Note thank you to find a little bit about this project I'm so happy to be here at next cloud conference 2018 next cloud is a great product and great community I think you can change the world much better and next cloud NEC platforms manufacture and waffle computer that makes this operating system called waffle cell are the best partners to make this happen and I want to tell you something NEC platforms and waffle computer is trying to make the network distributed and this infrastructure is just can do anything by itself so we need developers like you guys and I want you to remember that just imagine there will be millions of the next cloud instances running on the network I think the world will be much better with your help thank you okay thanks a lot so those were our announcements for today so the big summary of this morning is the solution we have video verification which is I think a solution doesn't exist anywhere else which is very important if you are a bank or you are a doctor or someone who really handles a very confidential document once we share them so this is a very unique security feature doesn't exist anywhere else simple sign up where we can really bring the help of our great providers and then of course together with NEC we can deploy many many millions of next cloud instances at home so these are the announcements for today and I'm really happy the next cloud evolves so fast because of the community because of you thanks a lot and I really wish you a great next cloud conference there will be a lot more talks about keynotes and presentations and everything and Joss will tell you all about the next things that happen and other logistics thanks a lot