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@notjustbikes I am part of a group of experienced IT people that have experience in building cloud platforms (a la aws / azure etc).

We'd LOVE to build a NON-profit, European created & operated public cloud and only charge for costs... (since we don't like the idea of yet another big tech firm squeezing money from people)

Problem is that we have no clue where to even get started with support from government or Europe.... which we'd need because I doubt we'd get VC funding.

@chaosmonkey @notjustbikes does that group have a name?

@jfbucas @notjustbikes No, we're an as of yet informal band of colleagues. We have the smart, we have the knowhow and the desire to do something positive. Just no idea how to do something like this from a financial point of view.

@chaosmonkey @notjustbikes @eu_os seems to be starting something.

@darth made a video explaining what this is about.

@jfbucas @notjustbikes @eu_os @darth Yeah saw that, but that is only an OS as near as I can tell. Our group is hoping to replace AWS and such.

@chaosmonkey that’s a big goal @jfbucas @notjustbikes @eu_os

@darth @jfbucas @notjustbikes @eu_os Well... didn't say we'd get anywhere close, but we (as a community) should be setting our goals high if we want to protect and improve freedom and open source IMHO.

@chaosmonkey @darth @jfbucas @notjustbikes @eu_os
That's quite a goal! Compared to software dev, when it comes to hardware, even more in that scale you are talking about the sums needed get increasingly high!
That's nothing you can do in your garage!
But nevertheless an intriguing and fascinating project!