Category: Nextcloud

  • Nextcloud – Installation on shared hosting & first steps

    Nextcloud – Installation on shared hosting & first steps

    back to A Personal Cloud – But How and Why To run your own personal cloud you have to install the server component somewhere. After that you can access it from everywhere in the world with every suitable device. The best and most personal scenario would be to do that on your own machine in […]

  • A personal cloud with Nextcloud – But How and Why?

    A personal cloud with Nextcloud – But How and Why?

    As you may have noticed I attended the Nextcloud Hackweek last week (day 1, day 2, day 3, day 4, day 5). I decided to help out with documentation in Github and I did a few little changes. The documentation ist separated into an Admin-, a User and a Developer Manual. I struggled a bit with […]

  • Nextcloud Hackweek – Day 5 – Version 11, Foundation, Conference

    Nextcloud Hackweek – Day 5 – Version 11, Foundation, Conference

    Today was about the features of Nextcloud Version 11, “the foundation” and the first Nextcloud conference. Nextcloud Version 11 The first meeting was set up to collect and decide about features for the upcoming version 11 of Nextcloud. Each feature has it’s own history and story, e.g. 4 Byte support means, among other, Emojis support ;). Each feature has also it’s own difficulties or […]

  • Nextcloud Hackweek – Day 4 – Spreed, Version 10, Burger

    Nextcloud Hackweek – Day 4 – Spreed, Version 10, Burger

    Today we had a meeting about the integration of Spreed into Nextcloud. With Spreed you can make phone calls, send messages and do video conferences (may be even more). It is a cool service which will be integrated in Nextcloud. Your Nextcloud installation of the future will have then something inbuilt like Skype. Simon told […]

  • Nextcloud Hackweek – Day 3 – GitHub, Playground, Mail App & the Forum

    Nextcloud Hackweek – Day 3 – GitHub, Playground, Mail App & the Forum

    Today I created a playground on my github profile to become a bit more familiar with command line git commands. After my bad experiences from yesterday using visual tools and the browser I created my own repository and edited everything via command line. I started simple and created a file, edited it, created different branches, learned about the […]

  • Nextcloud Hackweek – Day 2 – Documentation, GitHub, Barbecue

    Nextcloud Hackweek – Day 2 – Documentation, GitHub, Barbecue

    The morning started with carrying 6 bottles of Fitou wine from the hotel to the office because in the evening there will be a barbecue. Concerning my success with documentation yesterday, we discovered today, that someone merged another pull request that did exactly the same than mine. So today in the morning we decided to revert my […]

  • Nextcloud Hackweek – Day 1- People, Cloud, Vision, Documentation, Pizza, Beer

    Nextcloud Hackweek – Day 1- People, Cloud, Vision, Documentation, Pizza, Beer

    Yesterday I started my trip to Germany for attending the hackweek at Nextcloud headquarters in Stuttgart. The photo on top is taken where I started from. As you can imagine one has to be really motivated and curious to leave a place like this ;) I arrived on time today in the morning, my phone noticed […]