SeaGL 2025

Edward Ly

Dr. Edward Ly is a Portland, Oregon native who now works as a software engineer at Nextcloud, where he is part of a team that develops ethical AI solutions and supports the greater Nextcloud and free software community. Previously, he obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of Aizu, with the resulting research also being released as free software. He has also successfully given public talks at various academic research conferences (AES, EvoStar) and open source events (FOSSY, Nextcloud Community Conference), all while being openly autistic.

In his spare time, Edward enjoys playing free software games.


Your web links

https://edward.ly/
https://github.com/edward-ly
https://sr.ht/~led/


Session

11-07
14:00
50min
Developing on Nextcloud in 2025: What's New?
Edward Ly

Have you ever wanted to contribute to Nextcloud or develop a Nextcloud app, but do not necessarily have any experience with PHP? In this talk, we will share some recent developments that have been happening around Nextcloud in order to make the Nextcloud ecosystem more welcoming and accessible to developers of all skill levels and programming languages. In particular, we will introduce the new AppAPI framework, which enables the ability to produce "external apps" that can be written in any programming language (yes, really!), as well as provide some examples of such apps being used in production today. As one of the leading FLOSS alternatives to many of big tech's product offerings, Nextcloud needs you now more than ever!

Languages and Tools
Room 145