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May 17, 2018
The announcement of the Efail vulnerability has led to a surge of contradicting opinions and statements. After having read the paper and having performed extensive tests against Kopano over the last few days, we can now state the following: To […]
April 12, 2018
If you have met with us in any of the recent months, had a look at the roadmap or visited our conference you probably already heard about one of the products we’re currently developing: Kopano Documents. On April 12th, we […]
March 8, 2018
Modern software such as the Kopano DeskApp or WebApp are based on a very similar functional concept as Outlook. Users can work as usual. The procedures for opening an attachment can be defined and controlled. With the same usability, this reduces effort and increases security.
March 6, 2018
Everyone collects data. Then why do many of us think it’s perfectly ok if Canonical collects data but are upset when Microsoft and Google do so? What is your opinion on usage data collection? What is acceptable and what is not?
February 13, 2018
A few months ago I started working at Kopano. And as is often the case, a new job means new technologies to work with. One of these new technologies is Mattermost. And I like Mattermost. It allows me to communicate […]
February 7, 2018
Giants of the software industry like Microsoft have control over our data and use it to make money. As long as you trust a cloud provider with your data, your data privacy is not guaranteed. Therefore, you have to decide. Either you benefit from the insights provided by them and accept that your data is being stored and used by others. Or you stay in control of your data by self-hosting your software.
December 21, 2017
At Kopano we love Christmas because Christmas is a time of sharing. And as an open source company, sharing is something we do every day. It’s in our veins. In 2017 we extended and optimized our own collaboration suite and in 2018 we plan to push the overall adoption of open source collaboration. Read more about how we'll do this in this blog.
November 29, 2017
This blog originally appeared on: http://blog.gestreift.net/2017/11/ich-mattermoste-jetzt/ It’s just over a year now since I first wrote about the popularity of Slacking und WhatsApping and explained how to install Rocket.Chat. For a number of reasons, I stumbled across Mattermost a while ago and the time has come to […]
November 21, 2017
Last week, Kopano’s CEO Brian Joseph signed the open standards suppliers manifesto of the Standardization Forum at the ECP Annual Conference in The Hague, The Netherlands. As a member of the advisory board of The Document Foundation (TDF), Kopano […]
November 7, 2017
I was invited as a speaker from Arch Linux to speak at the first ever freenode conference on 28-29 October. Freenode is the largest IRC network for Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) developers. IRC is one of the first […]
October 18, 2017
As we all know, communication-related data – especially in corporations – belongs to the most sensitive of all information groups. The newly surfaced KRACK attack brought up another attackable angle which reminded us: how can we help our customers to […]
October 12, 2017
Kopano's Pom Balledux is at the LibreOffice Conference and shares his impressions of the first day in this blog.