Jan-Christoph Borchardt


Jan-Christoph Borchardt is a German open source interaction designer. He is primarily known for his work on Open Source Design, Terms of Service; Didn't Read, ownCloud, and now Nextcloud.

Free software

Borchardt contributes to several open-source projects and communities. This includes Shotwell, Diaspora, elementary OS as well as the Nextcloud and ownCloud projects.
In 2012 he co-founded Terms of Service; Didn't Read, a community project aiming to analyze and grade the terms of service and privacy policies of major internet sites and services. He is co-chair of the W3C Unhosted Web Community Group.
Based on his belief that contributing to open-source is already difficult enough he is also a cofounder of the Stuttgart JS and Tel Aviv JS meetups. As well as several other community events such as AfricaHackTrip.

ownCloud and Nextcloud

Since early 2011 he has been the lead designer of ownCloud. As of 2016 after the fork of ownCloud into Nextcloud he is employed by Nextcloud as design lead.