I think about 20 people responded, willing to work on this initiative. They used different channels, so I don't have exact count. I'll sort it out over the weekend and start talking to everyone next week.
Your concerns seem valid. My hope is that the recent erratic and frankly hostile actions of the USA government will give business people enough fright that they might accept some hurdles. Once we form a team, the first order of business will be market research. Then we will know more.
Read @bert_hubert sounding the alarm and offer some advice around European data sovereignty in the Swiss magazine @republik_magazin . The interview with the tech reporter Adrianne Fichter is in German. As a teaser I tried some crude translation of choicest fragments.
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