Frank Karlitschek
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Frank Karlitschek (born 25 July 1973) is a German open source software developer living in Stuttgart, Germany.[1]
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| Born | 25 July 1973 Reutlingen, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Occupation | open source developer |
| Known for | ownCloud, Nextcloud, KDE contributor and KDE e.V. vice president |
| Website | karlitschek |
Karlitschek argues on his blog that "Privacy is the foundation of democracy."[2][3] He says that people should have a basic right "to control their own data in the Internet age."[4]
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.[5]
In 2001, Karlitschek started KDE-Look.org.[6] At Akademy 2008, Karlitschek presented the vision of the Social Desktop for the KDE project.[7] 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.[8]
Karlitschek gives keynotes at conferences like LinuxCon,[9] Latinoware,[10] openSUSE Conf,[11] and Akademy.[12]
ownCloud
In 2010, Karlitschek started the ownCloud project during a CampKDE keynote[13] and released the version 1.0 in June 2010.[14] 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.[15]
In April 2016, Karlitschek left ownCloud Inc.[16]
Nextcloud
In June 2016, five weeks after leaving ownCloud, he started Nextcloud, a fork of ownCloud.[17][18]
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