it's your open source advocate and we are back so i'm here with the ibracorp channel
and we're excited to tell you about a new project that we're going to be doing
let me let your corporate go ahead and make his introduction as well
hi guys and welcome back to the evercorp video thanks for joining us today we have some exciting
news to share with you we're going to be working with the awesome open source channel brian
from the awesome open source channel and uh we're going to be covering a pretty cool little project
i'll let brian start off explaining the project for you guys and we'll carry on from there
all right i've been really thinking about this for a while and i've been talking with the
hebrew corp guys here and you know my my favorite thing about open source software is that you
can use it for businesses you can use it in your daily life and it just kind of struck me that why
not try to build a business out of open source software a business that really just uses open
source products to run completely and see what we could come up with and what we could do so
that's what we're going to try to do and this is going to be a series of videos where we're really
doing a collaboration and and the way that we're going to work that is is going to be a little
bit unique but we'll be looking for input from our communities so be watching for those opportunities
to get out there and give us your feedback and your input on what you'd like us to cover
i'm super excited about this and i'm super excited to be doing this with people corp i think it's
going to be a ton of fun i'm going to let you kind of chime in here and give me your thoughts as well
can't wait brian it's been a long time coming we've been uh planning this in the background for
you guys our communities and obviously we share a lot in common with brian as and so we really enjoy
working together and it's going to be a really cool project i think it's going to give you
guys some insight into a lot of the tools that would really help you take off um whether it's
you know your own self hosted enterprise or you wanted to start a business of some sort
and you really wanted to know the tools that you could use to really cut down the costs
but also get the same quality and efficiency you'd get out of closed source software now
some of the options we have for the tools that we want to show you guys they range from just
a few to several you know tools depending on what you're trying to achieve so what we want to do is
actually hear from you guys and hear from you on what tools you would like to see us showing you
and showing others in order to achieve certain objectives whether the role be something like
consulting for it maybe a managed service provider desktop support server support
mobile support anything along those lines where open source tools can really shine we
want to hear from you guys and we want you to let us know what you think would suit
and my goal at the end of the day is to come up with a couple of business ideas that we would want
to start and really take those from the ground up from starting with nothing to really running
that business from day to day operations on open source software and open source i believe 100 of
this can be done for lots of businesses in this day and age and i believe that it is completely
the right way to go being the open source advocate i don't think that's a surprise to anyone but we
definitely want to get feedback from the community on what tools we're going to use as we go along
and then i think the the thing that really makes me excited is you and i will each kind of take
some different tools do a video on those things and then come back together and do a compare and
contrast and kind of decide like what's the best tool for the business that we're trying to build
so so that's the part that's got me really excited is that that we're not only going to do
separate videos on different tools but we're also going to come back together and compare
and contrast those things so that the audience and the viewers really get the most out of the
information that we collect for sure and i think part of the first process is we'll ask you guys
for your input if you have any suggestions be sure to drop it in the comments on our videos
we're both posting this on our channels and of course help support our channels you can like
and subscribe the video as well just to help get more attention and more people commenting
with their ideas on what they would suggest we'll also put up a community poll to try and
capture some of your information that way and help us direct where this new project will go
one of the things i think that really gives me the most excited is is that
it doesn't have to be new software that we haven't covered it can totally be software that we've
covered in the past and maybe we just take it from a different angle of not just the the install and
the setup but actually how do we get it really ready to run in the business that we're building
and i think that's the piece that's maybe been missing a little bit from my channel for a while
where i do get a lot of people asking me about it that want to use these things for businesses so
so even that kind of gives me excited that i i might get to go back and cover some things
that i've covered in the past and take a little bit different look at them so yeah definitely a
lot of the time when we're showing open source and free software it's with the impression that we're
using it at home for ourselves and for personal use in some cases though you might want to use
it for business which is where we're aiming to go with this and a couple of things that we're going
to be taking on notice is like how much money can we save or make by using the tool uh what kind of
equipment would we need whether that's self-hosted or do we need to hire a cloud server or all those
sorts of things to factor in advertising marketing you know is there tools that we can use for that
and of course internal it infrastructure as well so definitely really excited for
this one yeah when i came up with this idea i mean it immediately hit me that this would be
a great opportunity for you and i to really work together on some stuff uh you know just
knowing that you cover very similar software that i cover and you know i have even talked that you
know we've come out with a video and the other one sees and goes man i was just about to cover that
so it tells you that we're on the same wavelength and that we're really headed down the right
path in the same path so i think we're we're going to be just really having a blast with this i think
the audience is going to get so much out of it so i'm super excited to be doing this with you
definitely brian so we and uh let's get into it and hopefully we get some comments from you guys
that will steer us in the right direction stay tuned make sure you subscribe to get notified
when we post the videos about the project we'll start up a separate playlist so you guys can
easily follow along as we make the videos as well definitely if you like this video
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come along on the open source journey with us and we'll talk to you next time thanks guys
thanks for tuning in and we'll see you in the next ibra corp and awesome open source videos
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