Yeah actually in general, if education does move more and more online, we
should get together some libre tools and do it very quickly because before
you know it there's going to be proprietary software for EVERYTHING and
avoiding that is HUGELY important.
This means Xournalpp needs to be polished- it's incredibly unstable,
A full-featured video conferencing software that's easy to download needs to
be developed
A libre version of "Blackboard" where we can post people's grades securely
needs to be developed.
and we need to be push very hard for the option to use these things and be
able to make them available to everyone.
Luckily, Mike Gage who invented "WebWork" (very popular online homework
software) and who is a professor at my university is super friendly towards
open source mentality although I don't think WebWork has a copy left license.
In any case from what I can tell he is always really overwhelmed and people
don't help him with that enough.
I would be willing to help anyone who wanted to do these projects but
unfortunately I do not know anything about actually making software so I'm
pretty useless and feel silly even proposing these things without being able
to "do" anything about it.
Nonetheless probably I, and other people, should be a lot more "whiny" about
this because it has some pretty bad consequences.
Also at least in the math world, people don't really care about free software
but I do not feel like they equate it to tin hats either. It's just a
combination of ignorance and laziness on their part. They usually believe
it's something for techies and it's not.
