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I do hope the platform idea gets serious consideration (from yourself, or perhaps a reader in search of project ideas).

Looking at your profile, I'd venture we're around the same age. A teacher who started their career when I was a highschool freshman would be eligible to retire with a pension at this point. My interactions with university professors were even more impersonal at the time, and completely non-existent since graduating.

I may have been mistaken in including myself in the target audience. If not, something better than cold calling strangers (which is what I feel I'd effectively be doing) would be a massive help in getting development resources to teachers who could use them.

To reiterate, I love the general idea, but from my (limited) perspective it's only actionable for a very specific subset of developers.