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[โ€“] oxytocin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Im a CS Student in my masters, backgrounds in web development, data science and HCI research! I'd love to talk.

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago

Great to hear from you! I'll reach out to you next week to talk.

[โ€“] skeezix@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

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[โ€“] AceStructor@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Good to hear from you. I'll reach out after the weekend too arrange a call.

[โ€“] truthfultemporarily@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I work in this field and am interested.

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

Awesome! Next week I'll be organizing a brainstorming session. Will keep you posted.

[โ€“] Kualdir@feddit.nl 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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!

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Kualdir@feddit.nl 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 days ago

You guys could consider Matrix, probably more suited for instant messaging: https://app.element.io/

[โ€“] bent@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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!

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day 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.

[โ€“] javilopezg@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Could you develop your proposal?

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] javilopezg@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day 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.

[โ€“] privsecfoss 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I work with Open Source, Privacy (GDPR etc.) and cyber- and informationsecurity. Im in.

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Great to hear that! I'll contact you next week.

[โ€“] cotardious@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day 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.

[โ€“] Sunlightl@fedia.io 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

Then you are my kind of person โค๏ธ

[โ€“] original_g@jlai.lu 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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!

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] original_g@jlai.lu 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Where can I follow this topic? On Mastodon?

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Or here in this topic. The discussions are happening kind of in parallel ๐Ÿคท I don't really have any communication strategy.

[โ€“] blackbeard@feddit.it 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Yes, I will be reaching out to people who are interested (like you) next week.

[โ€“] Zardax@jlai.lu 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

What kind of skills are you looking for ?

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] Zardax@jlai.lu 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nice to hear. If you can loop me in it would be great.

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day 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.

[โ€“] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Put me down on the interested list.

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

I hereby put you down on the aforementioned list :D Will be in touch.

[โ€“] fakir@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[โ€“] arotrios@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes! As long as you can migrate me along with the software.

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

From the land of the brave and the home of the free? Sorry, I wish I could. Stay strong!

[โ€“] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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".

[โ€“] gildadriel@feddit.org 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i'm a social media manager, i'm afraid i can't be helpful :(

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] gildadriel@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] tad_lispy@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good to hear. I'll reach out next week.

[โ€“] gildadriel@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

can't wait to hear from you!