Nextcloud gives you universal access to your files through a web interface or WebDAV. It also provides a platform to easily view & sync your contacts, calendars and bookmarks across all your devices and enables basic editing right on the web. Installation has minimal server requirements, doesn’t need special permissions and is quick. Nextcloud Server is extendable via a simple but powerful API for applications and plugins.
Nextcloud started as ownCloud with a keynote by Frank Karlitschek at Camp KDE’10 where he talked about the need of a self-controlled free and open source cloud.
Two years later, Frank announced the start of ownCloud, Inc. which was replaced 5 years later by Nextcloud GmbH
The company makes it possible for developers to work full time on Nextcloud, organizing Nextcloud events, marketing Nextcloud to a wider audience and supporting companies, governments and schools in their Nextcloud deployments.
The business model of Nextcloud GmbH is very similar to other successful Open Source companies, offering services and support around Nextcloud for the enterprise. The company is dedicated to working entirely in the open, accelerating development in the areas of its customers' needs while enabling a completely open development process where everybody can contribute.
June 2016
Frank and other core ownCloud contributors announce they will for ownCloud and start the Nextcloud company (announcement blog)
March 2016
introducing improved scalability (worked on with CERN), federation and collaboration tools including comments and tags (announcement)
February 2016
A 2.5 pound (1.1kg) aluminum cube with an oDroid and some custom hardware integrates ownCloud with the spreed webconferencing software, aiming at consumers and SMB.
January 2016
codebase grown to 2.4 million LOC average of 84 contributors/month estimated 8 million users worldwide
December 2015
Western Digital approached ownCloud to build a Raspberry Pi based private cloud storage and Collabora wants to bring LibreOffice Online to ownCloud.
October 2015
introducing improved Design, new Gallery app, Notifications and file retention control for deletions and versions (announcement)
August 2015
introduces multiaccount support (announcement)
August 2015
August 2015
Almost 140 participants (overview blog)
August 2015
July 2015
CERN developed a testing framework for ownCloud which was adopted for testing ownCloud. See this blog post with details.
July 2015
introducing improved Documents, Release Channels, Encryption 2.0 (announcement)
February 2015
introducing Federated Cloud Sharing, improved search and favorites (announcement)
February 2015
aiming for up to 500,000 ownCloud users (announcement)
February 2015
see the events blogpost
codebase grown to 2.2 million LOC average of 76 contributors/month estimated over 1.6 million users wordwide
November 2014
blog about the visit by Klaas Freitag
November 2014
November 2014
See the announcement blog
November 2014
introduces Universal File Access (announcement)
August 2014
August 2014
August 2014
100 participants (conference report)
July 2014
introducing server-to-server sharing and improved user management (announcement)
April 2014
March 2014
February 2014
February 2014
codebase grown to 2 million LOC average of 62 contributors/month estimated over 1 million users worldwide
December 2013
introducing improved design, activity feed, avatars, previews, conflict handling and more (announcement)
October 2013
September 2013
August 2013
First time at the TU Berlin brought together 50 participants (blog)
July 2013
March 2013
March 2013
introducing the trash bin and much security, stability and performance work (announcement)
February 2013
codebase grown to 773K LOC average of 35 contributors/month estimated over 650,000 users worldwide
November 2012
raising 2.5 million USD (press release, coverage)
November 2012
starts to appear everywhere (blog post)
October 2012
introducing external storage, syncing contacts/calendar, presentation and video players (announcement)
October 2012
Read the announcement blog and the report from the US meetup with four participants. There were over a dozen participants at the meetup in Europe.
August 2012
Read the announcement blog
August 2012
18 participants worked on ownCloud, as mentioned in this blog post.
July 2012
June 2012
May 2012
introducing file encryption and versioning, LDAP and more (announcement)
April 2012
April 2012
19 participants (blog)
April 2012
March 2012
First customer signed up, partners follow soon (announcement)
February 2012
January 2012
introducing text editor, introduction of ownCloud apps, PDF viewer and photo gallery (announcement, press release)
codebase grown to 212K LOC average of 12 contributors/month estimated 350,000 users worldwide
December 2011
October 2011
7 participants got together in Zurich, hosted by github.com/FreeMinded
October 2011
introducing calendar and contact syncing, sharing and a media player (announcement)
July 2011
April 2011
introducing much improved UI and many bugfixes (announcement).
April 2011
5 participants. Work on ownCloud 2.0 started, building a framework for apps. Read the meeting report here.
February 2011
codebase grown to 70K LOC average of 3 contributors/month estimated tens of thousands of users already
November 2010
introducing user management and built in text viewer (announcement).
July 2010
June 2010
introducing a web interface and webDAV, plugin system and notifications (announcement)
March 2010
January 2010
At Camp KDE in San Diego by Frank Karlitschek