# I Make FOSS notes - Thomas

*Time Goal - 30-45 Minutes*

## Introduction

* Thomas Markey
* CEO and Founder
* FOSShost.org

## Origin Story

* April 2020
* COVID-19
* 90 Projects now
* Not a developer or coder
* Experience in bare metal and infrastructure and ecosystem

## FOSShost classic use cases

* open source projects affected by COVID
* Donations for project dried up
* Full-time devs worried about cash flow
* Above increased applications
* FOSShost gives them the infrastructure they'd had previously, to an extent

## FOSShost 'left field' cases
* Internet Archive

## Established projects
* FSF Europe
* Various projects, including COVID track and trace for Germany

## Good causes
* Health projects, especially COVID-related
* GNU Health

## FOSShost benefits
* Agility and speed
* Often 24 hour decision
* Can be built within hours, if necessary
* Friendly and approachable community
* Applicants can talk to FOSShost and current projects
* IRC and Discord

## Current volunteers and opportunities
* Currently, 10 volunteers
* Mostly devops and sysadmins
* much of the infrastructure is standalone
* Volunteers helping with standardization for scalability and sustainability
* Volunteers needed in security and operations/admin

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