20 May, 2016

Moving on from ownCloud

A few days ago, I published my last blogpost as ’ownCloud’ on our blog roll about the ownCloud community having grown by 80% in the last year. Talk about leaving on a high note!

Yes, I’ll be leaving ownCloud, Inc. - but not the community. As the numbers from my last post make clear, the ownCloud community is doing awesome. It is growing at an exponential rate and while that in itself poses challenges, the community is healthy and doing great.

I joined in 2014, when ownCloud, Inc. had about 36 employees. The community grew that year, according to our history page, from 1 million users to 2.2 while the number of average coders per month went from 62 to 76. For me, the coolest thing that year was the ownCloud Contributor Conference, that brought together 100 contributors for a week of hacking at the university of Berlin. A stressful, but awesome week. Though, my first meeting most of my colleagues was some months earlier at the Stuttgart meetup and my first release was ownCloud 7 not long before the event.

2015 was more of that - our history page has a great overview and I’m darn proud of having been a part of all those things. 2016 brought ownCloud 9, a major release, which was accompanied by an overhaul of owncloud.org, I hope you like our new website!

Not everything is finished, of course. We’re still smack in the middle of awesome work with Collabora and Spreed as well as the WDLabs PiDrive project - I just finished and published this page about it. All great stuff which has great momentum and will certainly move forward.

Myself, I’ll stay around in the community. I’ll talk about the awesome stuff that is coming next early June but until then, don’t hesitate to contact me if you’ve got any questions about ownCloud or anything else. You can still catch me on jos@opensuse.org ;-)

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