• The entire US public school system was taken over by Google, Microsoft and Apple.
  • Schools have good intentions but cannot spend a lot of time to adapt, thus prioritizing short-term/quick solutions.
  • Some examples of using #freeSoftware in schools.

“My sister’s university is subscribed to the educational suites of both Microsoft and Google. Lectures are delivered on Microsoft Teams”

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    My university is going to set up a Mattermost service because every major and student club is using Discord, even some classes are using it, which is a shame. What also really bothers me is that since the crisis began a year ago, we’re still using Blackboard Collaborate which is proprietary, I don’t see why we don’t use BigBlueButton

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    The university I work at was full Foss until 3 years ago. I liked that plus it is literally called “université libre”.

    Last week they forced the last of us from their email to outlook.

    It was cheaper to go full Micro$hit than to scale the email service.

    Owncloud is still running but good luck getting someone to use it when they have that sweet sweet onedrive integration …

    You need leadership that understand the long term impact of those issues over the yearly bill.

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        thanks for the link I’ve bookmarked it. I’m fine tho :) They haven’t disabled IMAP/STMP and I found a plugin to parse those annoying “safelink”

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        Nice too see cooperation over here

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        Thank.

        I’m in Belgium and our gpdr institution is a joke ATM.

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