With all the recently unemployed people in tech nowadays (3+ years of rolling layoffs), I wonder if there's enough available skill and drive to form local co-ops dedicated to getting their city/state/county off of Microsoft/Google/AWS tech stacks and onto something open and non-corporate?
It'd almost certainly be cheaper than what the city/state/county are paying now and would actually boost local employment.
@audAsta [AMP] I went on a thread about this back in December, except I was thinking about media streaming: https://ruby.social/@flashesofpanic/115713560082616054 I love your idea of a cooperative of laid-off tech workers supporting public services like this, it closes some of the gaps in my ideas. (Also, a co-op starting with library-type services might have fewer compliance hoops to start with, but the licensing issue is still a question in my mind. Maybe just document sharing and cloud storage to start?)
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