Boosting my own toot 🤞

  • Skeezix
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    21 hour ago

    I make a great pizza, I could run the lunch cafe.

  • @[email protected]
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    22 hours ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    418 hours ago

    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!

    • @[email protected]OP
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      313 hours ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    419 hours ago

    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.

  • Kualdir
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    111 day ago

    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!

    • @[email protected]OP
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      724 hours ago

      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.

      • Kualdir
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        223 hours ago

        I don’t have mastodon (and no real interest in using it), any way to stay in the loop?

        • @[email protected]OP
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          222 hours ago

          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.

  • Blackbeard
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    319 hours ago

    Hello, I’m up for this! I work in IT and infosec. I think we might need a chat to coordinate this

  • Javi
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    723 hours ago

    Could you develop your proposal?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      421 hours ago

      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.

      • Javi
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        321 hours ago

        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.

  • kc_enjoyerB
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    320 hours ago

    Hey ! Sounds really great. I am working in IT and I would love to participate also.

    What kind of skills are you looking for ?

    • @[email protected]OP
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      319 hours ago

      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.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          112 hours ago

          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.

  • @[email protected]
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    422 hours ago

    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!

    • @[email protected]OP
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      422 hours ago

      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.

  • Sunlightl
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    61 day ago

    I do software, systems, storage and data protection. I am interested.

  • @[email protected]
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    321 hours ago

    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.

  • @[email protected]
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    16 hours ago

    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”.