ownCloud - A Kiteworks Company

One year of the European #Accessibility Act. Real progress, and still a lot of gaps. Accessibility doesn’t end with WCAG. It starts there. Legislation sets minimums. #WCAG sets minimums. Both matter, and neither is sufficient on its own. The hard part is the space between “compliant” and “actually accessible.” A concrete example: a user uploads an image to your platform without alt text. Happens constantly. The audit passes anyway. The person relying on a screen reader still hits a wall. That gap is why we shipped this week: an AI image alt text sidebar for ownCloud Infinite Scale by Kiteworks. Drop it in your oCIS apps folder, it generates alt text automatically. v0.1.0, open source, available now. (GitHub release in first comment) #OpenSource #a11y #EAA #OSPO

Organizations relying on ownCloud Server recently encountered sync issues after upgrading to Desktop Client 7.1, which only supports ownCloud Infinite Scale. Fortunately, ownCloud provides a detailed recovery process to safely restore Desktop Client 6.x for continued sync with ownCloud Server instances: https://hubs.ly/Q04mPjdG0 For organizations planning to migrate to ownCloud Infinite Scale for its enhanced data exchange capabilities, upgrading to Desktop Client 7.x is the supported path forward. Visit the blog to ensure your ownCloud deployment maintains secure data exchange and compliance.

The European Commission's new strategy solidifies open source as a pillar of digital sovereignty and resilience for the EU. The €264 billion spent annually on third-party cloud and software products underscores Europe's strategic vulnerability to proprietary lock-in. Real sovereignty requires: - The ability to run software yourself - Transparency into code supply chains - Verifiable open governance models - Legal clarity through open source licenses Kiteworks' Open Source Program Office, launched ahead of this policy, delivers on all four requirements for the ownCloud open source file platform: - Apache 2.0 licensing by default - Supply chain security with SBOMs, signed builds, and VDPs - Published open governance and community engagement model - No copyright assignment, retaining contributor IP The EU is signaling that digital sovereignty – and open source – are strategic imperatives. We've been building toward that future. Read more: https://hubs.ly/Q04mCQtF0

ownCloud web-extensions is now Apache 2.0. First repo through the OSPO relicensing audit since we launched in May. REUSE compliant, NOTICE file in place, automated licence checks in CI. Not glamorous work. But this is what governance actually looks like: one repo at a time, no silent regressions, a paper trail you can trust. 107 left. https://hubs.ly/Q04m3DJ20

PSA for ownCloud Server users: Desktop Client 7.x only talks to ownCloud Infinite Scale. If you upgraded by accident and your sync broke, you're not alone. Your 6.x config was backed up automatically, and there's a clean rollback for Linux, Windows, and macOS. https://lnkd.in/eiM3qibQ

We at ownCloud & Kiteworks ❤️ Collabora and accept this amazing award, as well as the gentle ribbing, with a chuckle and a smirk (while mumbling something about "not dead, just unfortunately silent"). We look forward to continuing our great partnership and being more visible and available.

We're at the halfway mark of the ownCloud OSPO series. Seven posts down. If you've missed any: 1. A (re)-introduction to the ownCloud community 2. What happens when you fork twice, get acquired, and keep shipping anyway 3. We killed our own CLA. Here's why that's a good thing. 4. PHP 8.3. Yes, for Classic. Yes, we heard you. 5. What 108 repositories taught us about open source hygiene 6. I'm a script kid running an OSPO. That's the point. 7. Your PR was written by an AI. We don't care. (But we do have rules.) Through-line: governance that's legible to the community member, the procurement officer, and the reviewer all at once. Seven more posts to come. Read them on https://lnkd.in/eQEuJQJk

Two forks. One acquisition. Still shipping. This second installment of our blog series is about what actually happens to an open source project when part of the team leaves, when a competitor spins out of your own contributor base, and when a larger company (Kiteworks, in our case) decides the project is worth keeping around. None of it was tidy and we learned a lot. https://lnkd.in/eEXRddV2

To our community, customers and partners: we owe you an update. Since the Kiteworks acquisition, we've been heads-down building — oCIS 5.0 through 8.0.1, continued ownCloud Classic releases, new desktop and mobile clients. The product has never been more active. What we didn't do well enough was keep you in the loop. That's changing. We're launching a formal Open Source Program Office on May 5th, and our new community team is committed to regular, transparent communication going forward. If ownCloud matters to your organization's data sovereignty strategy, this series is for you. → https://lnkd.in/e7SXK9d5