#+SETUPFILE: ../../../template/level-2.org
#+TITLE: Free Software In Schools
#+DATE: <2016-02-19 Fri 00:00>
#+AUTHOR: vaeringjar
#+EMAIL: vaeringjar@land
#+DESCRIPTION: Response on freepost to a question about free software in schools.
#+KEYWORDS: software freedom


* Post

For what I will call the area of or near Portland, Oregon, and the
region of the Oregon and Washington.

Concerning free software:

Some high schools in my area use moodle.

Most colleges/universities in my area use Drupal, Wordpress, or
Joomla.  Also, over the last few years noticed a shift to jasig CAS
and shiboleth ID for sso. And also, many new website projects I have
implemented jquery and bootstrap.

Some colleges/universities computer labs have at least some kind of
unix-like system alternative to Windows and OSX, though mainly only in
the engineering/sciences. Ubuntu and Debian probably the most common.

Widespread use of vlc, GIMP, keepass2, and eclipse, even on
windows/osx systems.

On the other hand:

Most colleges/universities in my region have outsourced all email to
gmail. With that has come a massive shift to using other google
softwares, particularly chrome and drive/docs.

Also, noticed a massive shift over the last several years to Windows
web servers, along with Oracle (non-mysql) and MS-sql-server databases
(which btw, not only have freedom issues, but turn into a pain to deal
with!).

I have seen a massive shift to using Atlassian softwares and from irc
to slack chat.

I see a divide between the math/art and the engineering/sciences, for
examples: Most math labs in my area use Matlab instead of Octave. And
also, most "art" labs still seem to focus on "PRO" softwares from
proprietary suppliers, instead of GIMP or Inkscape.

Most people I know frown on Firefox maybe almost the way I frown on
IE.  Though I know a handful of non-tech people who call it "Internet
Exploder".
