Jos Poortvliet

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Jos Poortvliet
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Jos Poortvliet is co-founder and Communications Director at Nextcloud, the open source, privacy-focused collaboration software company. He is a long time technology enthusiast and all-things-open evangelist. He has previously been community manager at SUSE & worked as business consultant at government, finance and telecom companies in the Netherlands. He is based in Berlin and loves cooking for friends, family and colleagues. Is also nurturing a bit of a boot 🥾 and hat 🎩 obsession. Website: http://www.jospoortvliet.com Blog: http://blog.jospoortvliet.com
Soooo if you're in NL, I'll be at the #Nextcloud Enterprise Day in The Hague coming Tuesday, talking about the move of an Austrian ministry to Nextcloud as well as what Nextcloud Talk can do for you. And, of course, to meet, greet, and answer questions! We have nearly 350 registrations up but I believe we still have space 😅
Nextcloud
Nextcloud Enterprise Day The Hague 2025
Designed for IT professionals, project managers, and decision-makers, Nextcloud Enterprise Day The Hague 2025 will help you shape your strategy and...
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You know that Windows 10 is end of life soon? If you are still stuck with a Windows 10 laptop, you can upgrade it to Linux! I'm joining a wonderful team at #KDE #AKADEMY to help you in a #EndOf10 installation party. Bring your laptop, we do the rest! Not in #Berlin today? Good news - there are other events all over the world!
End of 10
Upcoming Events
Here is a list of events where you can get help with Linux. You can also look for places that provide help more regularly. Please note that the inf...
I find it deeply troubling that the @European Commission is using #Signal to communicate. End-to-end #e2ee encryption and disappearing messages have no place in public administration. Society has a right to #transparency from the people who work for them. We pay their salaries and we deserve to know what they do with the power we give them. The worst part: While they hide THEIR communications they want to enforce #ChatControl to break OUR #privacy
Follow the Money - Platform for investigative journalism
Von der Leyen sets messages on auto-delete
The European Commission has previously said it didn’t automatically delete messages.
Saw a Dutch TV item about the concept of "enshittification" from @Cory Doctorow - it is translated quite well. Triggered me to think of an interesting article by @Paul Krugman (on his substack) where he generalized the concept to all business. He does disagree with Cory that enshitification ends with death - pointing to Facebook as example. I think he's right about this being a general problem and his article is worth a read:
The General Theory of Enshittification
It isn’t a new phenomenon, but it seems to matter more
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Did you know #Microsoft is shutting down Chinese universities by blocking access to their services? When will this come to Europe and the rest of the world? How dependent on Microsoft or Google is the day to day work in your organization? Here's an example, one of many:
South China Morning Post
Microsoft abruptly cuts services to Chinese university, genomics firm
Concerns about technological decoupling have risen after Microsoft ended commercial services for some clients in China.
Daniel Stenberg, Curl maintainer in his keynote at #FOSS-north, talking about the lack of knowledge of OSS among politicians: “If you don’t know what world is built on, how can you make good decisions? And the tech world is built on open source”