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  13      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21       <div class="title">Debian Edu interview: Angela Fuß</div>
  22       <div class="date">13th November 2012</div>
  23       <div class="body"><p>After begging for a long time, I finally managed to lure another
  24 one of the people behind the German "IT-Zukunft Schule" project out
  25 from maternity leave to conduct an interview.  I am happy to present
  26 Angela Fuß to you. :)</p>
  27
  28 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
  29
  30 <p>I am a 39-year-old woman living in the very north of Germany near
  31 Denmark. I live in a patchwork family with "my man" Mike Gabriel, my
  32 two daughters, Mikes daughter and Mikes and my rather newborn son.
  33
  34 <p>At the moment - because of our little baby - I am spending most of
  35 the day by being a caring and organising mom for all the kids.
  36 Besides that I am really involved into and occupied with several inner
  37 growth processes: New born souls always bring the whole familiar
  38 system into movement and that needs time and focus ;-).  We are also
  39 in the middle of buying a house and moving to it.</p>
  40
  41 <p>In 2013 I will work again in my job in a German foundation for
  42 nature conservation. I am doing public relation work there.  Besides
  43 that - and that is the connection to Skolelinux / Debian Edu - I am
  44 working in our own school project
  45 "<a href="http://wiki.it-zukunft-schule.de/">IT-Zukunft Schule</a>" in
  46 North Germany. I am responsible for the quality assurance, the
  47 customer relationship management and the communication processes in
  48 the project.</p>
  49
  50 <p>Since 2001 I constantly have been training myself in communication
  51 and leadership. Besides that I am a forester, a landscaping gardener
  52 and a yoga teacher.</p>
  53
  54 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
  55 project?</strong></p>
  56
  57 <p>I fell in love with Mike ;-).</p>
  58
  59 <p>Very soon after getting to know him I was completely enrolled into
  60 Free Software.  At this time Mike did IT-services for one newly
  61 founded school in Kiel. Other schools in Kiel needed concepts for
  62 their IT environment.  Often when Mike came home from working at the
  63 newly founded school I found myself listening to his complaints about
  64 several points where the communication with the schools head or the
  65 teachers did not work.  So we were clear that he would not work for
  66 one more school if we did not set up a structure for communication
  67 between him, the schools head, the teachers, the students and the
  68 parents.</p>
  69
  70 <p>Together with our friend and hardware supplier Andreas Buchholz we
  71 started to get an overview of free software solutions suitable for
  72 schools. One day before Christmas 2010 Mike and I had a date with Kurt
  73 Gramlich in Gütersloh. As Kurt and I are really interested in building
  74 networks of people and in being in communication we dived into
  75 Skolelinux and brought it to the first grammar schools in Northern
  76 Germany.</p>
  77
  78 <p>For information about our school project you can read
  79 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html">the
  80 interview with Mike Gabriel</a>.</p>
  81
  82 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
  83 Edu?</strong></p>
  84
  85 <p>First I have to say: I cannot answer this question technically. My
  86 answer comes rather from a social point of view.</p>
  87
  88 <p>The biggest advantage of Skolelinux / Debian Edu I see is the large
  89 and strong international community of Debian Developers in the
  90 background which is very alive and connected over mailinglists, blogs
  91 and meetings. My constant feeling for the Debian Community is: If
  92 something does not work they will somehow fix it. All is well
  93 ;-). This is of course a user experience.  What I also get as a big
  94 advantage of Skolelinux / Debian Edu is that everybody who uses it and
  95 works with it can also contribute to it - that includes students,
  96 teachers, parents...</p>
  97
  98 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
  99 Edu?</strong></p>
 100
 101 <p>I will answer this question relating to the internal structure of
 102 Skolelinux / Debian Edu.</p>
 103
 104 <p>What I see as a major disadvantage is that there is a gap between
 105 the group of developers for Debian Edu and the people who make the
 106 marketing, that means the people that bring Skolelinux to the
 107 schools. There is a lack of communication between these two groups and
 108 I think that does not really work for Skolelinux / Debian Edu.</p>
 109
 110 <p>Further I appreciate that Skolelinux / Debian Edu is known as a
 111 do-ocracy. Nevertheless I keep asking myself if at some points a
 112 democracy or some kind of hierarchical project structure would be good
 113 and helpful.  I am also missing some kind of contact between the
 114 Skolelinux / Debian Edu communities in Europe or on an international
 115 level. I think it would be good if there was more sharing between the
 116 different countries using Skolelinux / Debian Edu.</p>
 117
 118 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 119
 120 <p>On my laptop I am still using an Ubuntu 10.04 with a Gnome Desktop
 121 on.  As applications I use Openoffice.org, Gedit, Firefox, Pidgin,
 122 LaTeX and GnuCash. For mails I am using Horde. And I am really fond of
 123 my N900 running with Maemo.</p>
 124
 125 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 126 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 127
 128 <p>I am really convinced that in our school project "IT-Zukunft
 129 Schule" we have developed (and keep developing) a great way to get
 130 schools to use Free Software. We have written a detailed concept for
 131 that so I cannot explain the whole thing here. But in a nutshell the
 132 strategy has three crucial pillars:</p>
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 135
 136 <li>We really take time to get what sort of stories, questions and
 137 concerns the schools head and the teachers have about using different
 138 kinds of IT and we take time to enrol them into Free Software.</li>
 139
 140 <li>Our solution for schools is never just technical. In the centre
 141 are always the people who are going to use the software. From the very
 142 beginning of the planning for a school, we tell the schools head that
 143 they are paying us not only for a technical solution for their school,
 144 they also pay us for leading all the communication processes
 145 needed. If they do not want that, we are not working with them because
 146 we cannot give a guarantee for the quality of our work then.</li>
 147
 148 <li>Another focus lies in the training of teachers and students in
 149 co-administrating the IT-System at their school. They start getting in
 150 contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu community and they get the
 151 offer to become more and more independent from us.</li>
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 157 * Who should be interviewed with this questions in the future?
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 159 I think Stefan Makiewicz should be interviewed for your blog. He is
 160 one of the teachers at the first school we are working for in our
 161 school project. He gave us the hint to check Skolelinux / Debian Edu
 162 and is very creative in enrolling people into Free Software.  His mail
 163 address is it@maskiewizc.de
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 165 If you have not interviewed Kurt Gramlich already I would suggest to
 166 interview him as well. He is one of the main persons in the Skolelinux
 167 community in Germany and I think he would have to say a lot toyour
 168 questions. His mail address is kurt@skolelinux.de
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