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.

@tad_lispy Exciting! Is moving out of the cloud in scope 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.

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.

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!

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.

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 a QA engineer, but have a DevOps background working with open telecom cloud and hetzner cloud from Germany as well as scaleway from France.

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

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

What kind of skills are you looking for ?

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.

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

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

Put me down on the interested list.

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 :(

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 work in this field and am interested.

Could you develop your proposal?

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