Indeed these feel like very disruptive times - and I appreciate the conversation!
Admittedly superficial - but I’m pouring much of my creativity into setting up a fun and innovative modded Minecraft server - initially for entertainment over Easter. Placed on part-time leave (working only tuesdays and wednesdays), as my consultant client move to salvage their cash flow, I also have much needed energy to attend to our home and make staying at home sustainable.
Professionally, my domain is system development tools and methods - so my long-time efforts to enable better development and communication abilities among colleagues suddenly received tons of attention when everyone needed to work from home. Fortunately, my department seem to be riding the storm better than most, as we connect through Microsoft Office 365, VPN and Citrix. Nothing particular Open Source there, but @matthias and others’ Distributed Collaboration Manual was very timely and inspiring (eventually I also found Matt Mullenweg’s distributed.blog and other fine resources).
I’ve described what feels like “the new normal”, hope others can contribute some “new and disruptive” ![]()