I was REALLY wondering about the aws account XD but I get it for educational purposes <3
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Love your observation. You could offcourse setup your own maas-, lxd- or openstack which would then be usable just as well to deploy the Nextcloud. But, indeed for this workshop, I will be focusing on Nextcloud which is a higher order service which is also a good way to introduce Juju which is a great tool to create large and manageable software stacks. Deploying both a private infrastructure IaaS and a Nextcloud would simply take too long time. Hence, a AWS cloud is good enough for this time.
I’m glad you commented on it.
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Thanks for clarifying! It makes sense to focus on what’s important for the session.
I am also interested. Please RSVP me.
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We will have a preparation call tomorrow evening (18:00 CEST) to test the call tool and speak through the plan for the process.
Those who are interested can join, but this is an informal meeting. Follow this link to sign up and find the link the call room for the prep call tomorrow the 6th of May.
This is not required nor planned for participants of the webinar on the 8th, but a technical prep meeting that happens to be open to those interested 
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@erik_lonroth @MariaEuler I posted an invite (also freely translated to Swedish) on the DFRI blog here: Webbinarium: Own Your Cloud – :DFRI
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I’m interested
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Great liam, will add you to the sign up list 
I installed OwnCloud a while ago and played with it a bit. However, I didn’t end up using it… I can’t remember why, I seem to recall there were some features I wanted that weren’t available in the non-enterprise version. It might have had something to do with the applications that are available for various devices. Wish I remembered!
Didi that change with the re-branding to NextCloud?
I’m not sure, but the amount of development of nextcloud has exploded. Chances are that nothing is the same if you didn’t try it the last 12 months.
It’s a great piece of software at the moment with a high level of integrity.
@MariaEuler asking for a friend: Is there a possibility to join without registration here and RSVP’ing in public here? I could potentially share the invite to more people who could be interested to join but who are requesting ability to join without public RSVP/sign up here.
Hi, I’m interested
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@mattias, thank you for your question and for sharing the invitation.
At the moment we can only do it with the rsvp signup. Your friends can create an account on Edgeryders and sign up with that. After the experience with a zoombomber showing disturbing imagery during one of our community calls 2 weeks ago, we decided not only to move away from zoom, but also to be more careful in general. For now, the best way we can provide that is via the rsvp list. However, your friends could also message me in private if they do not want to do so via the thread.
We would like to record the webinar for research purposes. You can find more information about the research project, process and how we handle the data as well as where to ask for more information here: Edgeryders Calls and Webinars? - PARTICIPANT INFORMATION SHEET.
This information will also be send to you in the chat when you jion the call.
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There was already a lot I did like with OwnCloud, so I’m delighted to hear it has progressed as much as you say!
Not sure what will be covered in the upcoming webinar, but a few things on my mind are…
The tradeoff between ease of running the server in the cloud with the security vulnerability that entails. Spinning up an instance on AWS is so convenient, but Amazon are subject to governmental pressures. Are there hosting sites that are recommended as being more secure? Or, what has been the experience of people who simply set up a dedicated server at home?
Backups. Regardless of where I run the server, how easy is it to set up an encrypted backup, say on S3?
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