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Revision as of 19:39, 11 October 2018
Frank Karlitschek | |
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Frank Karlitschek, 2018 | |
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Nationality | German |
Occupation | open source developer |
Known for | ownCloud, Nextcloud, KDE contributor and KDE e.V. vice president |
Website | karlitschek |
Frank Karlitschek (born 25 July 1973) is a German open source software developer living in Stuttgart, Germany.
Karlitschek argues on his blog that "Privacy is the foundation of democracy."[1][2] He says that people should have a basic right "to control their own data in the Internet age."[3]
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.[4]
In 2001, Karlitschek started KDE-Look.org.[5] At Akademy 2008, Frank presented the vision of the Social Desktop for the KDE project.[6] Karlitschek further started the Open-PC and the Open Collaboration Services projects. He is also a cohost of RadioTux the biggest German Linux Podcast. In 2012 Karlitschek started the User Data Manifesto initiative.[7]
Karlitschek gives keynotes at conferences like LinuxCon,[8] Latinoware,[9] openSUSE Conf,[10] and Akademy.[11]
ownCloud
In 2010 Karlitschek started the ownCloud project during a CampKDE keynote [12] and released the version 1.0 in June 2010. [13] 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. [14]
In April 2016 Karlitschek left ownCloud Inc.[15]
Nextcloud
In June 2016, five weeks after leaving ownCloud, he started Nextcloud, a fork of ownCloud.[16]
References
- ^ "What's next for the privacy-conscious ownCloud project".
- ^ "Frank Karlitschek_ » The privacy endgame". 5 May 2016. Archived from the original on May 5, 2016.
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- ^ Sebastian Kügler (2009-07-07). "KDE e.V. Elects New Board of Directors". KDE. KDE.NEWS. Retrieved 2011-05-14.
- ^ Fabrice Mous (2004-01-28). "The Person Behind KDE-Look.org and KDE-Apps.org". KDE. KDE.NEWS. Retrieved 2011-05-14.
- ^ "Presentation of the Social Desktop as keynote of the Akademy 2008 from Frank Karlitschek". Retrieved 2011-05-14.
- ^ Karlitschek (2012-10-19). "The User Data Manifesto". Karlitschek. Karlitschek. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
- ^ Linux Foundation (2014-07-01). "The Linux Foundation Announces Early Keynote Speaker Line Up for LinuxCon and CloudOpen Europe". Linux Foundation. Linux Foundation. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
- ^ Latinoware (2012-09-04). "LatinoCLOUD". Latinoware. Latinoware. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
- ^ Jos Poortvliet (2010-11-02). "Frank Karlitschek Introduces Bretzn". KDE. KDE.NEWS. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
- ^ Anika Kehrer (2008-08-01). "Community Congregation". Linux Magazin. Linux Magazin. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
- ^ Frank Karlitschek (2010-01-21). "Camp KDE 2010 Continues with More Talks". KDE. KDE.NEWS. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
- ^ Frank Karlitschek (2010-06-24). "ownCloud 1.0 is here". Karlitschek. blog. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
- ^ Markus Rex (2011-12-23). "Well we did it and happy Holidays". Karlitschek. blog. Retrieved 2014-09-07.
- ^ Frank Karlitschek (2016-04-27). "big changes: I am leaving ownCloud, Inc. today". blog. Retrieved 2016-06-02.
- ^ Frank Karlitschek (2016-06-02). "Nextcloud". blog. Retrieved 2016-06-02.