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title: Introduction to Nextcloud
osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/conferences/seagl2021/program/proposals/854
beginning: '2021-11-05T13:15:00.000-07:00'
end: '2021-11-05T13:45:00.000-07:00'
resources:
  internet_archive_identifier: SeaGL2021-der_hans-Introduction_to_Nextcloud
  slides_url: https://lufthans.com/Akten/Presentations/2021/SeaGL/SeaGL.Introduction_to_Nextcloud.2021Nov05.pdf
presenters:
- name: der.hans
  affiliation: Object Rocket
  osem_url: https://osem.seagl.org/users/363
  gravatar_id: 26d7f047c161637f6f5459bfad4d5e32
  biography: |-
    der.hans is a Free Software, technology and entrepreneurial veteran.

    He's chairman of the Phoenix Linux User Group (PLUG), BoF organizer for the Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE), and founder of the Free Software Stammtisch and Stammtisch Job Nights.

    Currently, he's a CDE manager at Object Rocket. Most likely anything he says publicly was not approved by $dayjob.

    <https://floss.social/@FLOX_advocate>
---

Nextcloud for private, secure cloud features such as collaboration tools, Enterprise File Sync and Share and phone syncing.

Your data, your cloud.

Nextcloud integrates with Collabora Online for collaborative office suite.

In addition to the Nextcloud Talk for video calls it integrates with Big Blue Button for full classroom and meeting style video conferencing.

Nextcloud also has options like phone contact and file sync, web forms, project management and password management.

Nextcloud is used by large, enterprise organizations, but can also be self-hosted at home for personal use. There are commercial vendors that offer hosting and some Free Software organizations offer hosting as well.

Nextcloud was created to be Free Software. Using the AGPL helps ensure it will remain Free in the future.

Attendees will learn about:

* Basic features of Nextcloud
* Integrations with Collabora Online office suite and Big Blue Button
* Nextcloud apps
* Nextcloud history
* Hosting options
