ownCloud 1.0 is here

Today we are releasing ownCloud 1.0

This is the first step of the 1.x series with a planed 1.1 really soon.

You can download ownCloud 1.0 now and put it in a webspace with PHP support and it should work.

So what is ownCloud?

ownCloud is a central place where you can store your files and documents. You don´t have to upload your personal data to central closed services like Google Docs, Dropbox or Ubuntu One. All the data is under your own control.

You can access your files via WebDAV from Linux, Mac and Windows Desktops without a special client because WebDAV support is build into all modern operation systems and distributions. On Linux you can use the KDE KIO-Slaves or mount it via FUSE into your home directory.

If you can´t use WebDAV for example on your smart phone you can use the webinterface to access your files.

The data transfer is encrypted if your web-server supports SSL and ownCloud has no problems with firewalls and proxy servers.

ownCloud support the Open Collaboration Services API so your ownCloud can push notification to your KDE Desktop if something interesting happens, like your storage is full or somebody is accessing a shared file of you.

So 1.0 is only the first step and we are already working on the next versions.

Future plans are:

- Versioning of all files using git as a backend.

- Easy sharing of your files with others.

- Storage for KDE applications to save and share configuration data. (Martin Sandsmark is working on this)

- Syncing client so you can access your files offline. (work has already started)

We already have a basic plugin system and plan to improve this a lot for version 1.1.

So in the future developers can write add ons for your ownCloud.

Examples are:

- A photo gallery plugins. So you can share your photos with others without uploading it to services like Flickr or Picasa.

- Music server. You can listen to your music from every device without copying it around.

- Podcast catcher. A central place to collect your audio and video podcasts and access it via a HTML5 interface or a native media player.

I´m thrilled by the current development speed. It´s only 5 month after I started the project during Camp KDE in San Diego in January and we already have the first enduser ready release. The reason for this speed is that we already have a very active and motivated developer community of great people. Thanks a lot to everybody who contributed to this release.

You find the download file and more information on the website ownCloud.org.

If you want to help with the development or integration with other projects send a message to the ownCloud mailing-list.

I will give a talk about the future of ownCloud at Akademy in Tampere in 2 weeks. Please join as there if you are interested in KDE and cloud computing. I also plan to organize a BOF session to discuss the future of this project with everybody who´s interested.

You can find more information here:

http://owncloud.org

http://www.gitorious.org/owncloud

https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/owncloud

Cheers

Frank

Linuxtag day one

I´m at Linuxtag in Berlin again this year. As every year it´s a great event, interesting people and interesting talks.

Together with the fanstastic weather here in Berlin we really have a great time.

My personal highlights of the first day are:

Launch of the Individual Supporting Memebership Program "Join the Game" together with Jos on the Stage Wednesday morning.

Please check out jointhegame.kde.org if you like what KDE is doing and you want to help us. I´m proud that we got Georg Greve the founder of the free software foundation europe at a first member of "join the game". He is also holder of the german "Bundesverdienstkreuz"

The KDE booth team is doing a teriffic job in explaning the visitors what KDE is doing and what the "Join the Game" campaign is.

Our second member of the "Join the Game" program is Vincent Untz the current release manager of GNOME and president of the GNOME foundation. Cornelius will become a "Friend of GNOME" in exchange. We want to show that the KDE and GNOME communities are friends and that we enjoy working together.

My next highlight of the first day was the release of ownCloud 1.0 RC1 of course.

This is probalby the final release candidate befor the release of our first und user ready release 1.0. But I have already several ideas and some code for new features in 1.1. So 1.0 is only the first step.

You find more information on the website ownCloud.org. Please test it and report your bugs if you find problems.

I was also as part of a groundtable about free software and cloud computing in the afternoon on the Univention Stage. I thing it was a very interesting discussion. The Audio Podcast should be available soon.

I can also announce that I´m willing to sponsor an internship to work fulltime on ownCloud for the next few month. The ideal candidate is at lease 18 years old and can work at out office in Stuttgart. You find more information here: http://opendesktop.org/jobs/?id=109

So please apply if you are interested. :-)

In the evening we had our yearly LinuxTag dinner sponsored by our friends from Nokia. Thanks a lot. It was great.

I´m looking forward to the next few days of Linuxtag and we have a few more interesting announcements in the pipeline ;-)

Cheers

Frank