Open letter to KITE CEO on forcing teachers, students and parents to use WhatsApp
Pirate Praveen
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This letter was started as a response to @Nandakumar Edamana sending an email to SMC mailing list (see the thread here: http://lists.smc.org.in/pipermail/discuss-smc.org.in/2020-June/thread.html). You can see the draft here https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/edit/CLrd8men4PdS4n9+iPs+OzBT/ please contribute.
Update 1: I think we should offer to help teachers interested to provide Free Software based services and some of us should share our phone numbers. Please add your numbers to the cryptpad if you don't mind sharing your number in public.
Update 2: Govt order https://education.kerala.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/GO-Online-Class-First-Bell.pdf (it dies not specify WhatsApp)
Update 3: Join #FreeSoftwareFirstBell:poddery.com matrix group to coordinate future actions as we got reply from KITE CEO and one school teacher.
Follow up: Open Letter to teachers https://codema.in/d/u3EDIs4x/kerala-schools-choose-proprietary-google-suite-for-online-teaching
and dedicated group (separate group for Malayalam and English) to work on Free Software in Education https://codema.in/d/PeEx5bHZ/created-a-new-group-for-free-software-in-education
Pirate Praveen Sun 7 Jun 2020 7:13PM
Vote on the poll to make it easy to track.
Athul Tue 9 Jun 2020 2:15PM
It says I m not having permission to vote the poll
Aji Ahamed Sun 7 Jun 2020 3:11PM
I would like to
Pirate Praveen Sun 7 Jun 2020 7:13PM
Vote on the poll to make it easy to track.
dnlcv Sun 7 Jun 2020 3:28PM
I'd like to volunteer to support using Matrix clients
I'd like to volunteer to support using Signal
I'd like to volunteer to train Jitsi
Nandakumar Edamana Sun 7 Jun 2020 3:34PM
I'd like to volunteer to help the school community migrate to any libre and privacy-respecting system from the current proprietary and privacy-killing solutions including (but not limited to) WhatsApp and GMail.
Akshai M Sun 7 Jun 2020 3:36PM
I'd suggest Bigbluebutton + Moodle for live sessions that need live feedback. Telegram + Matrix Bridge for sharing contents like videos (non-live streaming), books, assignments and more.
Nandakumar Edamana Sun 7 Jun 2020 3:51PM
Can we really endorse Telegram, for it has a bad reputation when it comes to privacy and security?
Akshai M Sun 7 Jun 2020 5:17PM
No End - End encryption by default is a let down but that 1.5GB max upload limit , ability to stream videos and plenty to bots to automate daily tasks make telegram a good option
Athul · Sun 7 Jun 2020 3:11PM
I m ready to give training on usage of Matrix and Jitsi