Anyone interested in starting a cooperative business helping 🇪🇺 European companies and organizations migrate away from ⛓️‍💥 cloud platforms from USA?

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 ❤️‍🔥 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.

Devops/infra engineer/SRE here. I can do a bit of coding as well.

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.

@tad_lispy Exciting! Is moving out of the cloud in scope as well?

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

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

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.

I work in this field and am interested.

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!

Could you develop your proposal?

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

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!

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!

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.

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

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.

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

What kind of skills are you looking for ?

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

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 :(

Put me down on the interested list.

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