A fireside chat with Nextcloud founder Frank Karlitschek

About this episode

This episode features a discussion with Nextcloud founder Frank Karlitschek about the origins and evolution of Nextcloud.

Today's episode features a fireside chat with Nextcloud CEO and founder Frank Karlitschek, where we learn of the values and ideals that motivated the very idea of Nextcloud - how it all began and evolved into the World's leading open source content collaboration platform.

People in this episode

Guest: Frank Karlitschek

Topics covered

• open source
• content collaboration
• technology
• founder story
• values and ideals

Keywords

• Nextcloud
• Frank Karlitschek
• open source
• content collaboration
• technology

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Nextcloud

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