Free Code for Remote Working
With a huge proportion of the world's population facing weeks of lockdown, as part of the attempts to reduce the spread of COVID-19, a lot of those people are having to figure out on the fly how to work from home, teach/ attend online classes, or socialize with family and friends without leaving the house. This is an opportunity to test the capacity of existing free code software to provide for these needs, as well as the capacity of community-hosting groups that provide non-geeks access to these tools when they require a server. It's also an opportunity to identify gaps that might require new apps or hosting services, new ecosystems for deploying and connecting them, and new revenue models for sustaining it all. - Strypey
Related discussion in the Open App Ecosystem group: https://www.loomio.org/d/toQPagFG/software-for-remote-working-learning-socializing
Examples of the software freedom movement responding to community needs during the pandemic
- NZ Open Source Society: https://nzoss.nz/covid-19-response-help-those-working-home
- Disroot.org: https://disroot.org/en/blog/covid19-kit
- Open Educational Resources universitas: https://tech.oeru.org/working-home
- Purism: https://puri.sm/posts/our-essential-list-of-free-software-for-remote-work/
- Scaleway: https://blog.scaleway.com/2020/building-jitsi-solution-powered-by-scaleway/
- COVID-19 OSS help: https://discourse.covid-oss-help.org/
- Matrix: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/04/06/running-your-own-secure-communication-service-with-matrix-and-jitsi
- CoTech: https://community.coops.tech/t/tech-co-ops-and-covid-19-solidarity/1972
- Hypha Cooperative: https://covid19.hypha.coop/
- Linphone: http://linphone.org/news/linphone-desktop-42-public-beta
- OER Foundation: https://oer4covid.oeru.org/