Jos Poortvliet

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Berlin, Germany

People person, technology enthusiast and all-things-open evangelist. Head of marketing at Nextcloud, previously community manager at ownCloud and SUSE and a long time KDE marketing veteran, loves biking through Berlin and cooking for friends and family. Find my personal blog here.

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Authored Content

6 creative ways to use ownCloud

ownCloud is a self-hosted open source file sync and share server. Like "big boys" Dropbox, Google Drive, Box, and others, ownCloud lets you access your files, calendar…

Why and how to plan lightning talks

For the last two years, we had only lightning talks and workshops at the ownCloud Contributor Conference. As chair of the paper committee at Akademy, I introduced a single…

Authored Comments

jospoortvliet

23 Aug 2018

5 open source alternatives to Dropbox

https://civihosting.com/blog/nextcloud-vs-owncloud/ has a pretty decent comparison...

jospoortvliet

30 Jan 2017

10 open source tools for your sysadmin toolbox

And you published just before Nextcloud 11 came out! Let me link to that: https://nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-11-sets-new-standard-for-security-…

Note that it was 'the' founder who left, not 'a' founder - ownCloud was started by Frank in 2010. I know some other folks like to be called 'co-founder' but they didn't even know what ownCloud was until the project was 2 years old... ;-)