Frank Karlitschek

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Frank Karlitschek
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Karlitschek, 2018
Born (1973-07-25) 25 July 1973 (age 50)
Reutlingen, Germany
Nationality German
Occupationopen source developer
Known for ownCloud, Nextcloud, KDE contributor and KDE e.V. vice president
Website karlitschek.de

Frank Karlitschek (born 25 July 1973) is a German open source software developer living in Stuttgart, Germany. [1]

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Karlitschek argues on his blog that "Privacy is the foundation of democracy." [2] [3] He says that people should have a basic right "to control their own data in the Internet age." [4]

Free software

Karlitschek is a KDE contributor since 2001 when he mainly worked in web community and artist team. He is a member of the KDE e.V. since 2003. In summer 2009 he was elected as a board member and vice president of KDE e.V. [5]

In 2001, Karlitschek started KDE-Look.org. [6] At Akademy 2008, Karlitschek presented the vision of the Social Desktop for the KDE project. [7] Karlitschek further started the Open-PC and the Open Collaboration Services projects. He is also a cohost of RadioTux, the biggest German Linux Podcast. In 2012, Karlitschek started the User Data Manifesto initiative. [8]

Karlitschek gives keynotes at conferences like LinuxCon, [9] Latinoware, [10] openSUSE Conf, [11] and Akademy. [12]

ownCloud

In 2010, Karlitschek started the ownCloud project during a CampKDE keynote [13] and released the version 1.0 in June 2010. [14] He was the project leader and maintainer.

In 2011, Karlitschek co-founded ownCloud Inc. to offer an enterprise version of ownCloud. He served as the CTO and oversaw the product development and community relations. [15]

In April 2016, Karlitschek left ownCloud Inc. [16]

Nextcloud

In June 2016, five weeks after leaving ownCloud, he started Nextcloud, a fork of ownCloud. [17] [18]

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References

  1. ↑ "Warum der Softwareaktivist gegen Microsoft mobilisiert". Handelsblatt.
  2. ↑ Watkins, Don. "What's next for the privacy-conscious ownCloud project | Opensource.com". opensource.com.
  3. ↑ "Frank Karlitschek_ » The privacy endgame". 5 May 2016. Archived from the original on May 5, 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  4. ↑ "User data manifesto seeks to give people control of their data". ZDNet .
  5. ↑ Sebastian Kügler (2009-07-07). "KDE e.V. Elects New Board of Directors". KDE. KDE.NEWS. Retrieved 2011-05-14.
  6. ↑ Fabrice Mous (2004-01-28). "The Person Behind KDE-Look.org and KDE-Apps.org". KDE. KDE.NEWS. Retrieved 2011-05-14.
  7. ↑ "Presentation of the Social Desktop as keynote of the Akademy 2008 from Frank Karlitschek". Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2011-05-14.
  8. ↑ Karlitschek (2012-10-19). "The User Data Manifesto". Karlitschek. Karlitschek. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  9. ↑ Linux Foundation (2014-07-01). "The Linux Foundation Announces Early Keynote Speaker Line Up for LinuxCon and CloudOpen Europe". Linux Foundation. Linux Foundation. Archived from the original on 2014-09-07. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  10. ↑ Latinoware (2012-09-04). "LatinoCLOUD". Latinoware. Latinoware. Archived from the original on 2016-03-26. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  11. ↑ Jos Poortvliet (2010-11-02). "Frank Karlitschek Introduces Bretzn". KDE. KDE.NEWS. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  12. ↑ Anika Kehrer (2008-08-01). "Community Congregation". Linux Magazin. Linux Magazin. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  13. ↑ Frank Karlitschek (2010-01-21). "Camp KDE 2010 Continues with More Talks". KDE. KDE.NEWS. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  14. ↑ Frank Karlitschek (2010-06-24). "ownCloud 1.0 is here". Karlitschek. blog. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  15. ↑ Markus Rex (2011-12-23). "Well we did it and happy Holidays". Karlitschek. blog. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
  16. ↑ Frank Karlitschek (2016-04-27). "big changes: I am leaving ownCloud, Inc. today". blog. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
  17. ↑ Frank Karlitschek (2016-06-02). "Nextcloud". blog. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
  18. ↑ Steven Vaughan-Nichols (2016-06-02). "OwnCloud founder forks popular open-source cloud". ZDNet . Retrieved 2022-06-19.

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