I work in this field and am interested.
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Awesome! Next week I'll be organizing a brainstorming session. Will keep you posted.
I'd love to help but don't think my expertise is there, I specialise in Quality Assurance in software development.
Great initiative, best of luck!
I don't know. To start a co-op business we will certainly need diverse skills. At this stage we are just talking, so please stay in the loop if you want to.
I don't have mastodon (and no real interest in using it), any way to stay in the loop?
I think masto servers get RSS feeds for free. You may be able to follow some users or tags like that
Good question. IDK. I guess the public discussion is happening in parallel on Mastodon and here in this thread. Once we get the thing going we will think about some channels to communicate.
Could you develop your proposal?
At the moment it's just an idea and a call for like-minded people to gather. We are hopefully going to develop it together.
It's not just an idea, it is a huge idea. In order to provide service you need at least a CPD placed in each continent and a medium sized SRE team. And that's the beginning.
As a goal it is interesting but it needs a lot of resources.
I do software, systems, storage and data protection. I am interested.
Then you are my kind of person โค๏ธ
This sounds awesome! I work in a small IT firm in Europe and a lot of what we offer our customers is a way to host on local hardware and get away from the American cloud.
I don't think I'll be leaving my current job, but you go!
Nice work! Maybe we can partner somehow. Let me first get the team together. Once we decide on a business model we will sure look for partners.
I'm an aspiring patent lawyer but not trained in IT (although I learned coding just enough to understand some principles). Should you need any help regarding intellectual property rights, feel free to ask me anything. I'll do my best to help, as I support your cause! However, I won't be of much help otherwise as I'm currently learning for exams and have to small kids at home.
Thanks for reaching out. Good luck with your exams!
It's a great idea. I work in an IT company and I think it's a shame that we only use American products. I'm afraid I don't have any skills to contribute to the project, but I'm interested in following the discussions!
Thanks! Of course you are welcome to just follow, but please remember that we will need all kinds of talent. You might be able to bring something we need to the table.
Where can I follow this topic? On Mastodon?
Or here in this topic. The discussions are happening kind of in parallel ๐คท I don't really have any communication strategy.
Yes! As long as you can migrate me along with the software.
From the land of the brave and the home of the free? Sorry, I wish I could. Stay strong!
Yes, please loop me in, I'd like to help with all I can, I can't code for shit, but can business problem solve all day long.
You are officially looped in ;-) I'll be in touch next week.
Interesting read at https://lemm.ee/post/25506145. I'll be curious to hear your story.
Hey ! Sounds really great. I am working in IT and I would love to participate also.
What kind of skills are you looking for ?
I'm glad to hear you like it. I guess the most important is a bit of entrepreneurship and good team work. Certainly technical skills like yours, but also marketing, sales, client relations and probably more that I can't think of yet. We will need to figure this out together. Of course not everyone has to have every skill. We will need diverse people who can support each other.
Nice to hear. If you can loop me in it would be great.
I will certainly loop you in. My plan is to contact each of you next week and then organize some meeting and brainstorming. Just need to gather my thoughts and maybe give some more time for people to respond.
Hello, I'm up for this! I work in IT and infosec. I think we might need a chat to coordinate this
Yes, I will be reaching out to people who are interested (like you) next week.
I work with Open Source, Privacy (GDPR etc.) and cyber- and informationsecurity. Im in.
Great to hear that! I'll contact you next week.
Im a CS Student in my masters, backgrounds in web development, data science and HCI research! I'd love to talk.
Great to hear from you! I'll reach out to you next week to talk.
Hi. I got the idea to make a smartphone application to scan bardodes in supermarkets, to quickly check if a product is related to the US. I know it's not very difficult to make an android app that scans barcodes, (I did a proto). You just need to connect it to an open database of EAN barcodes. I am a phD student. I have very little time. I'm just giving away the idea.
I'm super happy with all your responses. Across different fedi channels I got 25 positive answers and even more expressions of support. That's more than I expected โค๏ธโ๐ฅ In a separate post I wrote a roadmap and will appreciate your constructive feedback. There's also a logo I quickly doodled and I plan to use as a visual identifications for our project until someone with real talent provides something better.
I'm in Europe, and I'm on the (VERY small scale) supply side, mostly as a hobby on the side of my day job, and I'm curious if the trend will remain in the future.
I found that most cloud-stuff is mostly run by huge corporations who can deliver dirt cheap, or by huge corporations who run their data center in an abandoned mine, so there's not much of a market segment for those of us who are interested in supplying "farm to table servers".
Put me down on the interested list.
I hereby put you down on the aforementioned list :D Will be in touch.
I'm a QA engineer, but have a DevOps background working with open telecom cloud and hetzner cloud from Germany as well as scaleway from France.
Good to hear from you. I'll reach out after the weekend too arrange a call.
i'm a social media manager, i'm afraid i can't be helpful :(
Why not? Of course you can! Business needs marketing and we need to meet our clients where they currently are. Promotion is important and I suck at it hard.
well if I can be helpful somehow I'd be thrilled to help!
I just left my 9-6 because I want to put my skills at serving useful projects
Good to hear. I'll reach out next week.
can't wait to hear from you!
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