We (a University, in India) are trying to get out of the Google ecosystem, and CryptPad is the greatest thing that has happened to us.
Google has been whittling the 'Google for Education' now and the free version called 'fundamentals' has been stripped of many things and we can see the future where the cost of using Google might be a significant impactful expenditure on our tight, already stretched to the limits budget.
Also, the word, 'Crypt' is cool.
Our teachers feel like Hackers.
Seriously - that was some of the great feedback we received.
Actually we are still discovering and learning about the biology of birthing.
We can now support extremely premature babies outside the womb, but as of now, the risks of growing a baby in an artificial womb is not overcome with the benefits.
Why?
Because you are trivialising the emotions of pregnancy and motherhood. It is not stress all the time, it is also joy and satisfaction and like everything in life, a roller coaster.
To nitpick, can't compare dog meat's acceptance in western society to Beef in Indian culture.
The Cow is revered at different levels in India. From a 'mother' to a 'diety'.
The comparator would be eating pork in a Islamic State.
In the multicultural society, we need tolerance. The ban on beef is not intolerance, but a form of tolerance. You are welcome to eat any meat, but beef. This is at best an inconvenience, but of great significance to Hindus.
This again brings up a similar topic of tolerance of intolerance.
Here is the bargain that exists in a multicultural, multilinguistic, multireligious society like India (There is no other country that comes even close) - We don't eat Beef or Pork. There, all accomodated, tolerated and agreed upon.
You really need to learn that the beef that India exports is largely Carabeef.
Buffalo meat.
If you had googled for it, you will find the following AI generated summary:
Carabeef is a meat that comes from the Asian water buffalo and is the primary agricultural export of India:
Production
India is the world's largest producer of carabeef. In 2023, India's carabeef production was estimated at 4.4 million metric tons (MMT).
Exports
In 2022, India exported 1.44 MMT of carabeef, which was 33% of its production. India is the fourth largest exporter of red meat in the world.
The Indian Voting Machines are the answer.
No operating system, no passwords, no connections, no bruteforcing anything, system on a chip, so widely distributed devices that hacking even a few of them is challenging, etc.
The US voting machines are just waiting to be hacked, just a matter of when, not if.
I count Ravikanth as one of my gurus. From working as a professor in a medical school to starting up a small microSaaS, I attribute it all to Ravikanth who condensed everything one needs to know into a few tweets, followed by its expansion on his podcast.
Now, I preach seeking of Specific Knowledge to all my students and the principle of leveraging bots through programming as well as learning marketing no matter which field you belong to.
You need to partner with Universities, Colleges, small specialised schools and preferable a couple, in every major area.
E.g. 1. American system: the US, Canada
2. The Commonwealth system: the UK, Singapore, New Zealand, Australia, and don't forget the largest student population in India and Indonesia.
3. EU: France, Germany
1. Canvas is not really open source. It was open source a long time ago, but now it is open-code really.
Instructure was taken over by a Hedge Fund and since then, all the new developments are not part of the Open Source. The open source is a bit crippled now.
None of the new features such as the New Quizzes (yes, its called that), New RCE Text Area, New Analytics, etc etc are not available on the Open Source Version.
So yes, the Billion dollar market is desperate for a new true AGPL LMS.
And it is time for one to disrupt the market.
2. Good Question.
3. Flexibility in grading and marks is really, really, really important. Because the systems, curriculum, standards are not flexible. Even with a University or College, different programs have different grading standards. It is not an option not to support the different types of grading unless the education system itself changes. If you can't support the diversity out there, you quickly risk becoming obsolete even before you start.
Yep, it is LTI time now. Not SCORM or even xAPI, TinCan, etc.
Agreed. We run a self-hosted Canvas LMS as well as Moodle LMS in our University.
On Canvas Open Source, We don't have access to the new quizzes, new analytics, RCE text area, and a host of other 'new features'.
We are always on the lookout for new LMS.
Canvas is okay (speed is a concern) but some things are very counter-intuitive.
Like matching quiz questions to competencies/outcomes/standards. Also assignments.
Moodle has a hundred different settings for anything - so people get confused and standardisation is hard.
India has set an example by banning Platform owners from owning companies that sell on the same platform, therefore ensuring a better level playing ground.
It is not perfect, but can be a start.
Amazon's subsidiaries must not be able to sell on Amazon marketplace. The giant needs to be broken up.
The Marketplace, the Warehousing and the Logistics must be three different businesses and other players in warehousing and logistics must be able to offer their services.
You are attributing some kind of consciousness and purpose to what was a popular movement.
The Hindus of that time were used to different sects within Hinduism, some denying Vishnu the supreme godhead, some denouncing the entire pantheon and vedas, etc.
The pansyncretisism came quite naturally and 'brahminism' is a myth created recently to claim victimhood (woke ideology of suppressors and suppressed, very similar to the worker class and bourgeoisie of the communist thought)
The Bat, Pegasus and the Becky were three favourite clients at our University.
Till GMail and the browser based email thing took over.
I wonder if we will be remembering gmail and the browser clients with such fondness a few years from now.
This is oversimplification.
Not just on basis of allegation, but the material facts are open to see.
Excise duty on Liquor is a huge source of revenue for any government around the world. Mr. Sisodia was the powerful home minister and solely responsible for the Excise. The excise duty policies were manipulated to accrue benefits to some alcohol cartels, all led by politicians.
The changes in the policy is in public domain and the results of profiteering is clear to all. The result is not disputable, that dealers profited immensely and disproportionately at the cost of the state while the policy also promoted alcohol sales by extending hours of sales.
The profits were routed to multiple shell companies and distributed among a small cartel divided into the north group and south group of well connected politicians. Tracing of these funds is not so easy since the companies are usually headed by proxies.
The issue now is two fold - was there a conspiracy being probed by a federal agency. Second the money trail (money laundering) probed by a federal agency similar to the FBI and Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN).
The crimes that Mr. Sisodia is accused of, have very stringent bail conditions, very similar to those in the US for multiple serious federal crimes.
Also, it does not help that Mr. Sisodia had used and disposed of >15 phones, setup a secret intelligence unit to snoop on political opponents and run a fiefdom that reported only to him within the government.
The most balanced position is not to politicise this too much. All politicians are corrupt and the corruption isn't that easy to uncover and prove.
Google has been whittling the 'Google for Education' now and the free version called 'fundamentals' has been stripped of many things and we can see the future where the cost of using Google might be a significant impactful expenditure on our tight, already stretched to the limits budget.
Also, the word, 'Crypt' is cool. Our teachers feel like Hackers.
Seriously - that was some of the great feedback we received.