from the previous posts I see the community feels Nextcloud Gmbh somehow doesn’t do what is expected. This may or may not be the case (my personal opinion this is the case and there is no room for community voice when decisions are made).
I feel Nextcloud develops pretty well but the focus is definitely not on the home user but more dictated by the enterprise customers. There is no question Gmbh looks for paying customers and fulfills their needs. I don’t generally disagree with this way to go - they have to compete with global players. When it comes to RFPs there are no points for goodness but only hard fact telling you meet or fail specific criteria.
Maybe there is a way to bundle the power of the community with the strength of Gmbh to hit our goals. Given the fact Gmbh is the most powerful player within Nextcloud development and the community is the basement, Gmbh could establish community voice department. This could have independent finances and review, coordinate and prioritize requests and needs of the community. It could collect funds from the community and provide financial value to needs and requests from small and home users.
I see the drawback as well, so far this council is not separated from Gmbh chances exist decisions are made just by money and user count but for me it’s worth to choose the cooperation path rather the competition by establishing another formal entity…
I would appreciate @frank and @jospoortvliet would comment to this discussion.