Things you're allowed to do (2020)
This is really great. I especially like the idea of online tutoring (for languages and other stuff) which looks to be a nice cheap option [0].<p>One piece of advice that I think is actually quite bad, or at least I&#x27;ve had extremely bad experiences with, is asking people for something. I&#x27;ve often cold-emailed artists, programmers and other hobbyists asking them to make their work libre&#x2F;free (artists CC-BY&#x2F;CC-BY-SA&#x2F;CC0, programmers GPL, hobbyists some type of OSH or CERN license) and I don&#x27;t think I&#x27;ve ever gotten a positive response. The only exception is when I haven&#x27;t read the documentation in depth and the project is already libre&#x2F;free.<p>Most times, asking artists or others to put their work under a libre&#x2F;free license, even if it&#x27;s decades old, is met with outright hostility. I usually try to couch the &quot;ask&quot; in passive language and signal understanding if they don&#x27;t want to but, from my limited experience, this only seems to make people angrier.<p>I&#x27;m sure there are better ways that I could ask and I&#x27;m sure I&#x27;m framing it in some way that triggers anger but I also don&#x27;t think there&#x27;s an actual good way to ask that from someone to try and get them to put their work under a libre&#x2F;free license.<p>Talking to people in person is another matter and that I&#x27;ve had good success with, but asking online, through email or otherwise, often ends in them ridiculing me and calling me names.<p>[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.italki.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.italki.com&#x2F;</a>