The OER Foundation has launched a set of community services for helped educators providing online education, using free code software like Discourse, Mastodon, and RocketChat:
https://oer4covid.oeru.org/
@strypey This seems like a great initiative. Is the use of free code software in education common? I know here in Manitoba, Canada, my kids' schools are stumbling all over themselves to connect them to proprietary platforms and services. The other day, they both got logins to their very own Microsoft Teams accounts!?
I'm hoping to learn more about better practices elsewhere, so I can make the case for a shift to open over time.
@stuartcroall
> Is the use of free code software in education common?
Not really, but that's something the OERF and others like @ntnsndr are working to change. There was a primary school in Aotearoa that had a policy of using only free code software where possible, but that's because the Principal was a GNU/Linux user and software freedom activist.