Cusy’s founding idea, external starting conditions and internal organisation

1. Cusy
Presentation
Frank Hofmann
Cusy GmbH, Berlin
Grünhof Freiburg, 17.09.2020
de.slideshare.net/cusyio/about-cusy

2. Frank Hofmann
• self-employed since 2004
• IT trainer and author for Linux
and Python topics as well as
technical documentation
• Co-author of the Debian
package management book
• since September 2020 working
for cusy GmbH, Berlin
you + me + cusy

3. We’re from the internet
• Only formally Cusy is
Berlin-based, but we
live on the internet

4. Founding idea
Data protection and data safety
• for the GDD
• Safe Harbour, † 2016
• Privacy Shield, † 2020

5. IT infrastructure
• Devops platform

6. IT infrastructure
• Research and
development platform

7. Python
• Organisers EuroPython 2014
• Organiser of the Python
Users Berlin with 6.200
members
• Python trainings for Data
Scientists and Research
Software Engineers

8. Open Source
• Microsoft alternatives

9. Internal organisation
• unlimited vacation
• no hierarchy
• self-organised groups
• transparency

10. Kontakt
cusy.io/fho
info@cusy.io
@cusyio

11. Picture credits
• Michael Gernhardt in space during STS-69 in 1995; PUBLIC DOMAIN: NASA
• ILLUSTRATIONS; ANDRÉ HENZE; © CUSY GMBH