Welcome to Fast Forward, Nick & the OSI!! 
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Hi!
I am Ruud, and me and the team run a few Fediverse platforms, like https://mastodon.world, https://lemmy.world and others.
We look forward to working with Fastly on getting our platforms more secure and performant!
If anyone has any questions regarding the Fediverse, let me know! (Hannah also knows a lot about it 
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Welcome, Ruud! We’re so happy to have you as part of the Fast Forward and Fastly community. <3
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Hi there,
I’m Jordan from Orangopus, I build open-source apps and utilities for a non-profit organisation. I currently build Ollo which is a social library for creators.
We’re thinking of implementing streaming and we’re so excited that we got accepted for Fast Forward. Looking forward to what this brings for our org!
Thanks for reading and hoping that this will be a great venture.
Regards,
Jordan Nickless
Founder of Orangopus
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Welcome to Fast Forward, Jordan 
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Hi folks!
I’m June, aka “strawberry🍓”, aka “girlbossceo”! I’m the lead maintainer of conduwuit (you read that right :> ); a leading, permissively-licenced, independent, Matrix chat homeserver built in Rust and designed to be incredibly high performance, efficient, and featureful; easily usable by everyone.
I’m excited to be apart of the program to help assist with our Nix binary cache, used by our Nix/NixOS users and our CI/CD, and conduwuit’s public Matrix homeserver(s); both alleviating resource usages and costs, improve performance, routing, etc all using Fastly CDN. I’m also excited to explore what other usecases Fastly can provide for us!
conduwuit is getting popular in the queer/LGBTQ+ tech spaces for its name, the maintainer (me!), and our strong, fun, and healthy community and code of conduct. It’s very heartwarming to be the largest representation of queer Matrix techies.
I truly appreciate Fastly for accepting my project, and for @fillip:naamio.chat in our conduwuit Matrix rooms for introducing me to Fastly in the first place!
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Hey everyone,
This is Romain from the Internet Health Report. We are implementing open source tools to monitor Internet infrastructure. All our results are shared on our main website and we are very grateful to Fastly for helping us share that with the rest of the world 
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Hi! I’m James from the Open Contracting Partnership. Our vision is for the trillions of dollars spent on public contracts to better serve people and protect our planet.
Our technology work involves helping governments to publish open data about their contracts (according to a standard we steward), and it involves creating services and tools to help governments, businesses, watchdogs, academics and journalists to use this data, including our data registry. This data gets used to calculate red flags for corruption risk, to identify bidding opportunities for small business, and many more use cases as described on our blog.
Fastly’s products will help us deliver this information and data to our partners and users more quickly and reliably
Hi everyone,
I am Ameer Flippin the founder at Harlem Park Partners a financial engineering startup raising capital for new startups and innovative projects.
I am working on an early stage opensource startup project, “Ai World San Francisco.com.”
The fundamental idea is to launch a weekly ongoing “Symposium & Small Expo” in the Embarcadero area of San Francisco targeting tourists interested in learning about the rapid changes happening in San Francisco around Artificial Intelligence (Ai). Additionally, companies have the ability to collaborate on the production of new and innovative Ai products.
The project will be funded through sponsorship and VCs.
Any opportunity to collaborate with Fastly and community members will be highly appreciated.
Hey @AmeerFlippin – welcome, and I’d love to chat more about what you’re working on! Send me an email at austin@ fastly.com and we can talk more.
Hello! I’m Philip, and I’m the Founder and Project Director for CivicBand.
We’re the largest collection of civic meeting data for the US and Canada, with over 900 municipalities tracked across every state in the union, plus most states in Canada.
We index, OCR, and are about to deploy entity extraction for the 11+ million pages we index, which can then be searched individually by municipality or collectively at CivicObserver. CivicObserver also lets folks set search alerts to get updates when topics they care about get updated.
We’re mostly based in Python, and have open-sourced the majority of our code.
I’d love to chat with anyone doing CivicTech, Python, or Data work, and I’m super excited to be part of Fast Forward!
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Welcome @phildini – we’re excited to have you in the program! Don’t hesitate to reach out to us if we can help with anything related to Fastly or your mission.