Nationality German Education University of Tubingen Name Frank Karlitschek | Website karlitschek.de Occupation open source developer Residence Stuttgart, Germany | |
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Born 25 July 1973 (age 50) ( 1973-07-25 ) Reutlingen, West Germany Known for ownCloud, KDE contributor and KDE e.V. vice president Similar Cornelius Schumacher, Matthias Kalle Dalheimer, Celeste Lyn Paul Profiles | ||
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Frank Karlitschek (born 25 July 1973 in Reutlingen, Germany) is a German open source software developer living in Stuttgart, Germany.
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- Open source region stuttgart frank karlitschek
- Nylug presents frank karlitschek on owncloud when the cloud is not someone else s computer
- Free software
- ownCloud
- Nextcloud
- References
Karlitschek argues on his blog that "Privacy is the foundation of democracy." He says that people should have a basic right "to control their own data in the Internet age."
Nylug presents frank karlitschek on owncloud when the cloud is not someone else s computer
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.
In 2001, Karlitschek started KDE-Look.org. At Akademy 2008, Frank presented the vision of the Social Desktop for the KDE project. Karlitschek started and maintains the Open-PC and the Open Collaboration Services projects. He is the main developer and maintainer of openDesktop.org websites. Karlitschek is also a cohost of RadioTux the biggest German Linux Podcast. In 2012 Karlitschek started the User Data Manifesto initiative.
Karlitschek gives keynotes at conferences like LinuxCon, Latinoware, openSUSE Conf, and Akademy.
ownCloud
In 2010 Karlitschek started the ownCloud project during a CampKDE keynote and released the version 1.0 in June 2010. 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.
In April 2016 Karlitschek left ownCloud Inc.
Nextcloud
In June 2016, five weeks after leaving ownCloud, he started Nextcloud, a fork of ownCloud.