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Why I forked my own project and my own company

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Frank
Karlitschek
Founder
Nextcloud
Type
Talk
Experience level
Intermediate
Duration
45 minutes
Room
3.02 hassium
Starts at
Ends at
Industry track
Summary

Frank Karlitschek founded the ownCloud open source project in 2010. 6 years later he founded Nextcloud, as the successor. This talks covers the reasons behind this move and gives interesting insights. 

Description

Frank Karlitschek founded the ownCloud open source project in 2010 and co-founded a company names ownCloud Inc. late 2011. After being the maintainer for over 6 years and CTO of ownCloud Inc. for over 4 years Frank decided to start over. Leave his own project and company to create a fork called Nextcloud. This talk will describe the reasons why ownCloud was founded as an open source project. The good and bad things when it was turned into a centure capital founded company, the thing that Frank and the core team do differently with Nextcloud and how the business model, licensing and community relations improved. This talk covers insights into different open source business models and how to create a working open source community and community.

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