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." He says that people should have a basic right "to control their own data in the Internet age."
Free software
Karlitschek is a
KDE
KDE is an international free software community that develops free and open-source software. As a central development hub, it provides tools and resources that allow collaborative work on this kind of software. Well-known products include the ...
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, Karlitschek presented the vision of the Social Desktop for the KDE project. 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.
Karlitschek gives keynotes at conferences like LinuxCon, Latinoware, openSUSE Conf, and Akademy.
ownCloud
In 2010, Karlitschek started the
ownCloud
ownCloud is an open-source software product for sharing and syncing of files in distributed and federated enterprise scenarios. It allows companies and remote end-users to organize their documents on servers, computers and mobile devices and w ...
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
ownCloud is an open-source software product for sharing and syncing of files in distributed and federated enterprise scenarios. It allows companies and remote end-users to organize their documents on servers, computers and mobile devices and w ...
. 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
Nextcloud is a suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services. Nextcloud provides functionally similar to Dropbox, Office 365 or Google Drive when used with integrated office suite solutions Collabora Online or Onl ...
, a fork of ownCloud.
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Nextcloud
KDE
Free software programmers
German computer programmers
1973 births
Living people