ownCloud Foundation Officially Launched
The ownCloud Foundation will focus on supporting the collaboration of the developer community and establishing different working groups. Other tasks are further technical improvement, knowledge exchange and any community related activities.
ownCloud and seven board members have officially established the ownCloud Foundation. The organization is dedicated to preserve a sustainable community ecosystem around ownCloud in order to accelerate technology development, improve open source collaboration and provide an open, manufacturer independent governance model. It provides developers, users and the entire global ecosystem with a set of shared resources to grow the footprint of public, private and enterprise ownClouds, producing the best decentralized cloud platform.
Like the software, the membership in the ownCloud Foundation is free and accessible to everyone. The ownCloud Foundation forms the basis for the continued existence of the ownCloud project as an open source solution operated and further developed by the community. At the same time, it acts as a mediator between the professional developer community, stakeholders and administrators who use ownCloud in daily operations. Development and operation also find a permanent platform in the foundation, which meets the DevOps idea in the best possible way. This gives the community more freedom for creativity, thus ensuring the guaranteed long-term independence of ownCloud.
“The huge community of contributors has made ownCloud the largest open source file sharing project in the world. It is in our best interest that all contributors find an open, developer-friendly atmosphere in order to promote the further development of ownCloud according to their ideas. The ownCloud Foundation guarantees this through independent governance and thus provides the necessary framework to ensure a thriving open source ecosystem focused on secure clouds with guaranteed data sovereignty,” says Christian Schmitz, Acting Chairman of the Board of the ownCloud Foundation, about the official launch of the foundation.
Governance is executed and ensured by a board of seven representatives of strategic stakeholders in the ecosystem, plus two community elected contributor members.
The Board of Directors had its inaugural meeting on August 14th, 2018. The voting process for the Contributor Members will be announced on the 1st of September with ballots being open for sixty days.
The activities of the ownCloud Foundation will focus on promoting and supporting the close collaboration of the developer community, the establishment of different working groups and any other developments related to ownCloud, including further technical improvement, knowledge exchange and any community related activities.
The Board of Directors consists of representatives of the following organizations:
