>> what possibly could I create, so that other people would find it useful? It seemed like everything was already there
I do not understand the problem. Just look at the high-priority projects by FSF [0]. There is a plenty of work to do...
I do not understand the problem. Just look at the high-priority projects by FSF [0]. There is a plenty of work to do...
Some items are still relevant, but IMHO some big priorities are:
* OS packaging tools that provide sandboxing and dependency resolution, in a saner way than containers. Contributing to Guix or Nix would be ideal.
* A mobile OS that has at least a completely free userland. In the short term, only Android derivatives seem plausible. The Guardian Project + Copperhead OS + F-Droid alliance seems very interesting and worth contributing to: https://guardianproject.info/2016/03/28/copperhead-guardian-...
* Decent multi-device messaging, to replace WhatsApp et al. Something like Matrix or Ring, or Signal without Google Cloud Messaging.
I take my ideas from my job. I mostly think of myself as a sysadmin, but I write in several languages, I'm interested in data processing (which leads me to various places, like topic maps, indexing semi-structured data, or event stream processing), and I see what we have to work with logs, with monitoring, with infrastructure inventory, and with documentation. This gives plenty of projects to improve my field, I just don't have the energy to carry them all out.