Devops/infra engineer/SRE here. I can do a bit of coding as well.
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Good to hear! I am just collecting a list of interested people and will be in touch with you and others shortly. Enjoy the evening!
@tad_lispy Exciting! Is moving out of the cloud in scope as well?
Thanks, but would you elaborate please? I'm not sure how to interpret your question. If by "moving out of the cloud" you mean migrating to on-premises or self hosted solutions, then sure, I don't see why not.
@tad_lispy Indeed I'm thinking of moving things from the cloud to (self) hosted solutions, or maybe just data migration in general, not just from US clouds, but anything hosted on US servers - if that distinction makes any sense...
It does make sense. If you are thinking about it as a commercial service, then of course we can offer help. Currently I'm in the process of assembling the core team (see https://lemm.ee/post/58578768 for details). Once we are together, we will have to do market research and see for what kind of services people are willing to pay us. But we will almost certainly have people competent for such work.
If on the other hand you are thinking about your personal services, then I expect that within the co-op there will be plenty of mutual support and learning opportunities for that. But it's important to remember that we are starting a business, so the first focus is to generate income.
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 work in this field and am interested.
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.
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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.
I make a great pizza, I could run the lunch cafe.
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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.
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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.
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.
I work with Open Source, Privacy (GDPR etc.) and cyber- and informationsecurity. Im in.
Great to hear that! I'll contact you next week.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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".
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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