We're going to start the second poll.
Thanks for joining.
The second poll will be about next cloud.
Yes.
I love the difference.
Exactly.
How can we communicate and collaborate privately
and secure all these things?
But I promise no politics.
So I will skip over that.
But I think all of you already know why we do what we do.
I'm not going to talk about it this time.
I did want to show because I bumped into this picture.
I thought it was funny.
That was in 2016 when we started.
We had 12 employees.
But of course, always been a community project.
So we had also a bunch of not employees there who were just joining us at our first meet-up.
I think this is, no, there's not a last conference.
It's a conference on the air before that.
But we've grown a little bit.
Speak closer to the microphone.
Would it help if I just hold it?
I'd be fine with that.
I just can't drink and talk.
But let's see how that goes.
Anyway, so the only little bit of politics I will throw in is, you know, obviously again.
You all know what's happening.
So I don't need to talk too much about that.
And so that's why next cloud does what it does.
Which is basically, we want to allow people to get control over the data.
The place, well, in particular, Microsoft 365.
It's not a very specific goal or Google workspace.
But that's why we're trying to replace.
Yes, it's not just fast-sharing or just video calls or just calendar.
It's also the whole package.
It's the way things are integrated.
But it's also the platform around it.
So the fact that you can build apps on next cloud is very important for us.
And these apps overlap sometimes the next cloud.
We have companies and we have partners that build apps that we do ourselves as well.
We work with, for example, ex-weekly right.
So the next cloud collectors app, which is also a bit of a weeky.
We have open project here.
But there's also next cloud deck.
But that's great.
That's what it is to be a platform.
There's a lot of choice.
There's a lot of variation, a lot of different ways of doing things.
And there isn't one way of doing it.
And if somebody says, can I do X, the answer is usually yes.
Here are five ways of doing it.
Can also be confusing for people.
You know, the brilliant open source, of course.
Now, it's a little bit frustrating.
I'm giving this talk about two weeks before next release.
But of course I can't talk about it yet.
So I'm going to instead talk about everything we did last year.
As I do, well, every year here at Foss Dam.
But, as I said, about two weeks, it's the 18th.
There will be the new release.
And you can go to our website, sign up.
And then you will get to see the release video at the moment.
It gets published.
And we're going to be recording it next week.
I am only a little bit nervous for it.
But yeah, let's see.
We're still trying to do the finishing touches on that.
So, but, back in time, what do we do last year?
So I made a summary.
I'm looking here at slide nine of 94.
So you get a bit of an idea.
I had to cut down a thousand slides to, well, something that fits in the time I have,
which is not really fitting that well.
It's very hard to make a fit.
Because there's always a ton happening.
We don't do small releases.
I want to hear our animations with slow me down.
Thanks.
So, up then, first release last year, focus was on these things.
So, integration, security improvements, stability and performance.
I just realize now that I don't see my notes.
But now I do.
Tell you how much I need them.
Well, improvements in core.
And there's, of course, always AI stuff.
I'm not going to be able to show everything, as I said.
I'm just going to cut out a couple of interesting things.
So, starting with Nexat files.
A lot of you are still using mostly files.
I think although there are also a lot of people tell me,
you know, Nexat is to focus on what it's good at,
it's calendar and contacts.
And, you know, people have very different ideas about what Nexat is all about for them.
But again, some of the beauties of it.
One thing I thought was cool and last release.
I'm one of the people who pushed to get this in.
There's been a community app for this.
It's that you can write the link yourself.
So, when you create a share link, there's this weird bit in the URL at the end.
Now, of course, if you have an instance of 10,000 users,
people to make up their own text there and therefore make it discoverable.
But if you run a private Nexat, it's nice that you can send people a picture or a link with your vocation photos.
That you can just say your URL slash share slash vacation in Mayorka or something like that.
And, well, with the release, you can do that.
We have new things also that we introduce in this release where there are profiles for every type of installation.
So, if you're a private user, you can choose that your private user and it will then enable, for example, this app.
Because for private users, this is cool and helpful.
If you're a service provider, you choose that profile.
It will not enable this app because that would of course be your way for people to start guessing all the stuff that your users are sharing.
So, we also put in education and large universities and, you know, small charities or kind of profiles we made.
And we've been iterating on that and adding more apps.
Like in the common release, we add a few more apps to that list as well.
Where we try and give you like an easy way to quickly configure Nexat for your use case.
Because again, so many ways that people use a Nexat in, right?
Yeah, I have then also introduced extended language support including left to write, right to left, sorry left to write was already there.
Another thing I thought was kind of interesting is document conversion.
So, in the web interface, you can, you know, on a file depending on what it is, you can then convert it.
For example, we even have some AI conversions, aka turn a audio file into a transcript of it.
Yeah, this kind of stuff is, I think, helpful for people who work a lot in the web.
I'm going to just go ahead and tell you, for the common release, we're also bringing this to the desktop.
It means that in the desktop client and in the mobile clients, some of these options can also appear.
So, that just on your desktop, you can use.
So, somebody can build a Nexat app that can convert one file type into another.
And then this will then work by the dynamic menu entry on the desktop.
That comes with a common release.
You already got a sneak peek there.
Yeah, because again, it's based with a plug-in structure.
Which I think is really cool to bring a lot of other new things there.
We did a lot of other stuff.
We gave, for example, reminders when the public link is about to expire.
Things like that.
But, yeah, let's move on.
The client.
We have client right for, for talk, for files, for notes, etc.
Both for desktop and for your mobile devices.
And one big thing we did for Habten was trying to make these work better in an offline situation,
or the German train situation, aka shitty internet.
Yeah.
So, you can still work.
You can still navigate browsers, open files, even when the internet connection is flaky or bad.
Okay.
Once again, I'm going to give you a hint for an upcoming release, where we also tried to make this work
in the web interface a little bit better.
We're a long way off there.
There's a lot of work to be done.
But, for example, a Nexat text, when you're editing a text file and you have bad internet.
At the moment, when a connection goes away, I mean, it's a collaborative text editor.
So, at the moment, there's no internet.
You can't collaborate.
Therefore, it kind of stopped working.
We're working on exceed extending the time that you can be offline.
Basically, if you're offline for like a minute, it'll still let you type and work and keep going.
And then it tries to merge everything, which, you know, so magic.
Habten also introduced mobile device management, so as a bigger company, you can enforce security settings
when you're phone.
So, welcome, screen, support, multiple accounts on out error reporting, controlling the sharing,
even blocking copy paste, for example.
All the fun that big companies like, and yeah, there was a lot more, but don't really have time
to go into that, of course.
Security, the biggest thing that we introduced in Habten is the ability to use antenna encryption
in the browser.
Of course, antenna encryption and the browser kind of an oxymoron.
You cannot really have proper security in the browser.
The browser isn't really secure.
You should use a device for that, but it can be worth the security trade-off.
There can be times when you say, okay, I really need to access the files.
In the browser, there's a big red warning.
You have to enable it first in private setting, but you can at least access the files.
And I'm going to do it again in the next release.
We're making this a little bit more powerful, because, you know, there are customers who
think that antenna encryption is a really important security feature for a big company.
But at the same time, they need, of course, access to all those files, because that
compliance related and, you know, companies are sometimes a little weird.
Other antenna encryption introduced was for Nexal Talks, so calls are an
fully antenna encrypted, even if you have calls that go via the Nexat
High Performance Backend.
Yeah.
Also, I think that was before that antenna encrypted calls were only possible in
one, and now also in group calls.
A lot more improvements, of course, in security area, TLTP, or improvements.
Nexal Talk.
Yeah, that's our video call thing.
We introduced it, it's integrated it more deep, you have the calendar.
So when you're in a Nexal Talkroom, you can see upcoming calendar
appointments, you can also create new appointments, and then all the people who
were in the room, they will get an email, of course, and they just get it in the calendar.
They can then join the next call, as you can see.
So that makes it a bit easier.
Of course, the other way around already exists.
So from the Nexat calendar, when you create an appointment, you can say, hey, you know,
do this with a talk room, and then people will get an invite, including a link to the
talk room.
We extended the VoIP integration, so if you have a video call system from
Nexasco, that also can do video and audio, then with Nexat Talk, you can do your video
using the Cisco machine, and some of these other devices are working as well.
And there were lots of other improvements.
Nexat Talk is always, but I'm already way down on time, so I'm going to go faster here.
Nexat Groupare, we made it possible to anywhere
a Nexat CD availability.
So in your calendar, you can set availability.
You can see, of course, if there are meetings, etc.
Now anywhere in Nexat, you're Nexat files, you're a Nexat project management, you're in
click on an avatar of somebody and see the availability, so you know, if they're
available for a meeting or not.
And don't have other improvements, which, again, I'm going to skip over.
Nexat Deck has a cool new feature, you can clone boards, so you can,
yeah, if you have regular projects, you can just say, okay, you know,
clone the project from last time, reset all the cards to the first,
you know, stack, and then you start the project again.
Nexat Office introduced user mentions, we also did it in Nexat Mail for this release.
All the text custom dictionaries and, you know, lots of more stuff, better integration
with Nexat in general.
Now the assistant, I mean, you know, we all love our AI.
For this release, I think we did something pretty cool.
I mean, Big Tech has been promising that you can just tell the AI to do stuff for you,
and it does it.
Well, they have had a very hard time delivering on that, but we actually managed to do that,
so you can, this should be playing.
Yeah, you can basically say, hey, get me the chat messages from talk,
bothers the weather in Brazil, please post it as message in the talk room,
and it will look up the weather on weather.com,
and then create a chat message for in talk, and we'll post a chat message there.
Yeah, it can do lots of other stuff.
You can, for example, say, hey, in our documentation in the company,
we have something about travel support.
Well, how does that work?
And then it can get a summary from that.
They can say, hey, can you put it summary in the PDF,
and then email it to a colleague, and then it can,
and that's a PDF to an email sent to email to the colleague.
Yeah, lots of cool stuff.
It can even read your email and create a spreadsheet out of emails.
You've got, for example, in support inbox, and then post it in the chat room.
All kinds of cool stuff.
And all of this stuff, of course, either you host it yourself,
because, well, if you really want, you can connect it to chatGPT,
but I wouldn't.
But you can also get to one of these companies,
and they offer AI as a service, so they will run an LLM,
so rather than, you know, sending all your queries for big text,
AI models to be trained on, you can run an open source AI at one of these companies,
and use that for your smart stuff at next slide.
As usual, lots of other improvements,
was a lot of performance improvements in this release as well,
that I will not go over it because, you know, time.
There were a bunch of improvements to the next platform.
We worked a lot on integrations,
improved integration, for example, of open project,
easier uploading of data between open project and next,
for example, and, you know, permissions, access control, these kind of things.
We also worked on the X-week integration,
which, you know, the X-week team has made a very nice integration in the next slide.
So, if you search, for example, in a universe of search,
and any of the next-out apps on your mobile phone,
you can find results from the X-weekee,
there's a dashboard with it as well,
and the app looks pretty decent in next-out app.
So, there was HUB-10 in a rather fast-paced.
I'm going to jump to the second release we did,
and that was actually not the next-out app release,
but it was the next-out talk release,
because there was a lot ago,
and on last year, as you might remember, politically speaking.
And there was a lot of talk about, you know,
people being locked into Microsoft Teams.
Microsoft Teams needs a proper replacement.
I had not a separate video call on a separate chat
and a separate, you know, a tool for webinars, etc.
You need something that integrates document editing
and document sharing and task project management, etc.
All in one platform, it is what Microsoft Teams does,
and that is, well, what next-out talk is as well.
And for this release, well, that was quite the animation.
For this release, we added support for,
well, I think we call it secure sharing.
So, watermarking and document blocking downloading,
but you can still give editing rights.
So, when you share a document in the next-out talk chat,
people can just edit it right there, in this case,
it's a few only, but you can click the edit button.
You don't need to go to another tab, you don't need to open on the window, etc.
But it will be, yeah, it will still follow the rules
of these secure sharing.
So, if you have confidential files,
and next, that can automatically detect
when files have confidential information.
And then, either from the metadata and the Microsoft documents
or by looking in the document itself,
and looking for, like, I don't know, personal information,
and task board numbers, that kind of stuff.
Then, I can give it a tag, and then, if you configure it,
then you say, okay, files with this tag,
cannot be downloaded, and when you view them,
they can only be viewed with watermarks,
and that works, and even within next-out talks.
So, that's really nice.
We also added the ability to mark a conversation
as sensitive, that means that, for example,
when you look in the list of conversations,
normally we show the last chat messages,
but not for sensitive conversations.
Yeah, there you go.
Or when you get an notification,
normally we show an notification the message,
but we don't, for sensitive conversations.
So we hide that a little bit, and the other way around,
we add that important conversations.
So, in next-out, if you're out of office,
it automatically then adjusts in all your applications
that you're out of office,
and you can set in one place, hey, I'm out of office for two weeks,
on vacation.
You will not get notifications and talk.
You're email out of office is configured
automatically when people try to put you in a project.
They will, the project manager can see that you're out of office, et cetera.
So, it's immediately visible everywhere.
But, you know, sometimes you still want to be able
to get messages from one specific person,
or one specific chat room, because it's really important,
or you don't think you deserve privacy,
while your on vacation or you don't deserve real time off.
Anyway, you can mark a conversation as important,
and you will still get these messages,
even if you're in, do not disturb.
So, that's just next to the sensitive option.
We improve the sidebar, so you can get some more information
about the people that you're in a call with,
or that you're chatting with, you see upcoming meetings,
you see files, you have shared with them,
other information, phone number, you can call them right there, et cetera.
And we did a little bit of work to introduce a dashboard,
so you can see upcoming meetings, you can see, you know,
reminders that you've said, other information,
make it easier a bit to manage all the stuff that you're handling
in next-lar talk.
And all of that is of course also available in the desktop client,
for talk as well as the mobile clients.
So, that was, up then, and we did have 20,
so that was talk, of course.
The last release of the year was, next-lar,
had 25, where we did a rather big design change,
that those who are ready might have noticed,
you know, different rounding, different colors, different phones,
et cetera.
I think it also looks very nice and dark-mouth,
actually I like it more and dark-mouth.
So, this is the new look in dark-mouth.
We added a bit of color to that few that you,
I showed earlier in next-lar talk.
I'm going to try and go as quick as possible for this,
but I still also want to give a little bit of time for questions,
and the animations are slowing me down a little.
We improved the search in next-lar, files a little bit,
search is in all the subfolders.
For iOS, we used the new design of Apple Liquid Glass,
which looks, I think, quite nice.
If you're an Apple user, you might appreciate that.
On the iOS, on the iPad, you can also run the next-out files
at multiple times.
If you have multiple accounts,
you can even drag and drop files between them.
So, if you have two next-out accounts,
on your iPad, you just start the app twice,
you're logged into one account,
and one of the apps in the other account,
and the other drag and drop files between them,
so that makes working with that very nice and easy.
Yeah, lots of other improvements,
once again, the animations are a bit of a pain here.
Let me see if I can go a little quicker.
Well, of course, improvements in next-out talk again.
There was, well, the new design, of course.
We introduced threats in talk,
so there was a modest requested feature.
We introduced live transcripts in talk,
so when you're in a call with people,
I know, AI faces, it's scary,
but, you know, that's what I came up with.
It proved that telephony supports,
so in next-out you can call people from talk.
You can dial them into a meeting.
You can give them a phone number to dial into a meeting themselves,
but you can now also assign a phone number to an individual,
so that you can basically use as a telephone routing system.
Again, we're replacing Microsoft Teams here, right?
And it does that kind of stuff.
And the nice thing is if somebody's on vacation,
and again, as I said, you have this, like,
out of office system, next-out-wide,
there you can also choose a replacement,
and when somebody then calls that person,
the call will automatically be routed to the replacement.
Of course it is.
Whiteboard did a lot of work on the building.
Whiteboard app, scalability stuff,
but also diagrams.
You can use your assistant to generate a diagram.
So you just describe what kind of diagram you want.
It makes it, and then you can go and edit and change the diagram,
which, of course, you will not show in here,
but that's quite a quick way sometimes to get started with that.
So yeah, a lot of improvements there again,
sorry for all the animation's slowing me down.
How much time do I have for questions?
So is it total time?
Sorry?
Okay, that's not going to be at home.
Yeah, email, we added quick actions,
that's a thing a lot of people are using very heavily in outlook,
so we added those abilities there as well,
and text snippets.
We introduced a feature in the calendar
to help you plan meetings.
So basically in the calendar you can say,
hey, I want to plan a meeting with like five people.
You then two times that work for you,
and you sent them basically the invite,
and they will then get a poll where they can then choose
when they would be available.
This works for both internal and external people.
And then people can just choose,
and when everybody has made their choice,
you then get to pick at what time you will then actually do the meeting.
So that means all these males back and forth.
When do you have time out tomorrow at 10 o'clock?
Well, no, me not, et cetera.
You can skip by just sending people a meeting proposal,
and then they can choose what works for them.
Yeah, this is once again going rather slow.
Next at office, you might have seen a lot of improvements
were down there.
The biggest improvement apparently for a lot of people over time
is that we've adopted the color scheme of Microsoft Office.
Of course, we can't say we adopted the cost key of Microsoft Office.
We adopted the cost key in people of familiar ways.
For a lot of people that makes a big difference,
you know, how some people get really confused when,
you know, what button became blue instead of red,
as it was before.
This really helps, you know, the less technical people.
Yeah, move over for Microsoft Office to next at office.
So that was really helpful.
It was also some nice performance work.
I have a slide that summarizes it much nicer than all this text.
Basically, if you're a gamer, you know, that,
well, this is terrible and, you know, this is good.
So that's more or less about the menace to do with next at office
in last release.
I think, yeah, really a big improvement in the feel of the whole thing.
Well, I think when it gets for all my slides,
because we have just a few more to go.
We are the suggestion book bar in next at text.
So because next at text can do all these different things,
like adding all kinds of content there.
It's not just for text, right?
You cannot tables.
You can add, you know, locations.
You cannot images.
You can add sketches.
You can add deckboards and other documents.
And it's a little easier to get.
And in collectors, we are the tags, templates,
that are versioning and lots of other stuff.
So I'm going to move again to the ecosystem,
but there's a lot of improved there.
I only have a summary for that.
I'm just going to jump to this one.
Time's up.
Well, 96.
Questions?
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