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# 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

## arm-64.com

## @imakefoss 'what could the open source community use?'