As some of you know a few good people and I are starting a co-op to help European organizations switch from USA big tech to FOSS software and EU based service providers. Thanks for all the supporting words and early feedback. I’d like to draw from the well fediverse wisdom again.

My hypothesis is that in Europe there is some number of business owners and organizations who want to change (for example they hate Trumpism or want to support local businesses), but they don’t know how and would pay for support. That’s who we want to reach. It might be a minority, but enough to feed our team.

Do you think it’s a sound hypothesis? If so, how can we verify it?

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    1 day ago

    I guess there is quite some truth to your hypothesis. Organisations who want to switch probably need help in Identifying the less desirable service providers and then in understanding how to substitute or upgrade to equivalent or better services. Imagine proposing an alternative to MS Teams and showing off a combination of services that could achieve the same or better things than Teams. also: your logo looks promising but could be improved quite a lot with minor adjustments.