Incubation Ideas…. FOSS Operations Service Company
- Posted by Rob Darwin
- Posted on February 27, 2011
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I’ve decided to kick this idea onto the Blog, it’s early days and ready for some outside ideas/critique. Sometimes you need to push an idea out into the wilds to see what it becomes. I’ll ask some of my <ingratiation>wonderful and kind friends </ingratiation> and any other kind spirited people to comment and make suggestions.
The idea approximately:
- To incubate an ethical FOSS operations company
- Ethical
- Committed to educating the client base, with knowledge transfer
- Good documentation on all work so that the client is empowered
- Contribute to FOSS
- Open published test cases on development and bug cases
- FOSS orientated
- because my company uses it a lot
- and I like the spirit of FOSS
- I think that this would help FOSS to be adopted more within small companies without IT specialists
- Operations
- My company would buy its services
- Various other friendly companies have said that they would buy its services
- Good operations makes for a good user/customer service
- Ethical
So I’m looking around for some people who would like to do a startup, and hopefully would regard this project as a “good thing”, as well as earning crust/huge fortune to retire in luxury!
My company (Digital Mail Limited) would provide all the incubation facilities, including a distribution channel and team, so the start up team would be able to focus on building the business and getting on with things.
How the team will grow:
- A technical person who will do some of the initial creation, they will like the idea of doing something a bit disruptive!
- A commercial/consulting type person, who will do some of the initial consulting
Then later on when we have established some product and revenue, the company will grow
- More technical and consulting
- then when it gets closer to a critical mass, it will become more independent from the incubation
I would be interested in hearing from people with:
- Interest in joining the startup
- Ideas on where I should spread the word
- Similar ideas and beliefs on how such a company could help more companies use FOSS
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