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## Why is this so awesome? 🤩

* 📁 **Access your Data** You can store your files, contacts, calendars, and more on a server of your choosing.
* 🔄 **Sync your Data** You keep your files, contacts, calendars, and more synchronized amongst your devices.
* 🙌 **Share your Data** …by giving others access to the stuff you want them to see or to collaborate with.
* 🚀 **Expandable with hundreds of Apps** ...like [Calendar](https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar), [Contacts](https://github.com/nextcloud/contacts), [Mail](https://github.com/nextcloud/mail), [Video Chat](https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed) and all those you can discover in our [App Store](https://apps.nextcloud.com)
* 🔒 **Security** with our encryption mechanisms, [HackerOne bounty program](https://hackerone.com/nextcloud) and two-factor authentication.
* 📁 **Access your Data:** You can store your files, contacts, calendars, and more on a server of your choosing.
* 🔄 **Sync your Data:** You keep your files, contacts, calendars, and more synchronized amongst your devices.
* 🙌 **Share your Data:** …by giving others access to the stuff you want them to see or to collaborate with.
* 🚀 **Expandable with hundreds of Apps:** ...like [Calendar](https://github.com/nextcloud/calendar), [Contacts](https://github.com/nextcloud/contacts), [Mail](https://github.com/nextcloud/mail), [Video Chat](https://github.com/nextcloud/spreed) and all those you can discover in our [App Store](https://apps.nextcloud.com)
* 🔒 **Security:** with our encryption mechanisms, [HackerOne bounty program](https://hackerone.com/nextcloud) and two-factor authentication.

Do you want to learn more about how you can use Nextcloud to access, share, and protect your files, calendars, contacts, communication & more at home and in your organization? [**Learn about all our Features**](https://nextcloud.com/athome/).

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* [🦋 Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/nextcloud.bsky.social)
* [👥 Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/nextclouders)
* [🐘 Mastodon](https://mastodon.xyz/@nextcloud)

You can also [get support for Nextcloud](https://nextcloud.com/support)!


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5. 👍 Fix things that come up during a review
6. 🎉 Wait for it to get merged!

Third-party components are handled as git submodules which have to be initialized first. So aside from the regular git checkout invoking `git submodule update --init` or a similar command is needed, for details see Git documentation.
Third-party components are handled as git submodules which have to be initialized first. So, aside from the regular git checkout, invoking git submodule update --init or a similar command is needed. For details, see the Git documentation.

Several apps that are included by default in regular releases such as [First run wizard](https://github.com/nextcloud/firstrunwizard) or [Activity](https://github.com/nextcloud/activity) are missing in `master` and have to be installed manually by cloning them into the `apps` subfolder.
Several apps that are included by default in regular releases, such as [First run wizard](https://github.com/nextcloud/firstrunwizard) or [Activity](https://github.com/nextcloud/activity), are missing in `master` and have to be installed manually by cloning them into the `apps` subfolder.

Otherwise, git checkouts can be handled the same as release archives, by using the `stable*` branches. Note they should never be used on production systems.

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`git config blame.ignoreRevsFile .git-blame-ignore-revs`

## Contribution guidelines 📜

All contributions to this repository from June 16, 2016, and onward are considered to be
licensed under the AGPLv3 or any later version.

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Please review the [guidelines for contributing](.github/CONTRIBUTING.md) to this repository.

More information on how to contribute: [https://nextcloud.com/contribute/](https://nextcloud.com/contribute/)
More information on how to contribute: [https://nextcloud.com/contribute/](https://nextcloud.com/contribute/)