Usually when we hear about Cloud Computing we imagine a few big companies offering Cloud solutions. However, there is a privacy concern in sending personal and professional documents to some third party servers that grows as quick as the Cloud concept gets expanded over the media. Just as Linux appeared to offer a worldwide accepted and developed alternative to the closed source Operating Systems, in the scenario presented in this session will centre on eyeOS, a Free Software project started in 2005 to create the Cloud Operating System, which can be easily hosted from almost any web server, being Linux+Apache+PHP the perfect environment to create our own cloud system. More info at eyeos.org.

Pau Garcia-Milà é de Barcelona (Espanha) e aos 15 anos começou a desenvolver pequenos projetos. Com apenas 18 anos fundou o eyeOS. Em 2008, o eyeOs registrou mais de 400.000 membros por todo o mundo e quase meio milhão de downloads.