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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>
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  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 "IT-Zukunft Schule" in North
  45 Germany. I am responsible for the quality assurance, the customer
  46 relationship management and the communication processes in the
  47 project.</p>
  48
  49 <p>Since 2001 I constantly have been training myself in communication
  50 and leadership. Besides that I am a forester, a landscaping gardener
  51 and a yoga teacher.</p>
  52
  53 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
  54 project?</strong></p>
  55
  56 <p>I fell in love with Mike ;-).</p>
  57
  58 <p>Very soon after getting to know him I was completely enrolled into
  59 Free Software.  At this time Mike did IT-services for one newly
  60 founded school in Kiel. Other schools in Kiel needed concepts for
  61 their IT environment.  Often when Mike came home from working at the
  62 newly founded school I found myself listening to his complaints about
  63 several points where the communication with the schools head or the
  64 teachers did not work.  So we were clear that he would not work for
  65 one more school if we did not set up a structure for communication
  66 between him, the schools head, the teachers, the students and the
  67 parents.</p>
  68
  69 <p>Together with our friend and hardware supplier Andreas Buchholz we
  70 started to get an overview of free software solutions suitable for
  71 schools. One day before Christmas 2010 Mike and I had a date with Kurt
  72 Gramlich in Gütersloh. As Kurt and I are really interested in building
  73 networks of people and in being in communication we dived into
  74 Skolelinux and brought it to the first grammar schools in Northern
  75 Germany.</p>
  76
  77 <p>For information about our school project you can read
  78 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html">the
  79 interview with Mike Gabriel</a>.</p>
  80
  81 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
  82 Edu?</strong></p>
  83
  84 <p>First I have to say: I cannot answer this question technically. My
  85 answer comes rather from a social point of view.</p>
  86
  87 <p>The biggest advantage of Skolelinux / Debian Edu I see is the large
  88 and strong international community of Debian Developers in the
  89 background which is very alive and connected over mailinglists, blogs
  90 and meetings. My constant feeling for the Debian Community is: If
  91 something does not work they will somehow fix it. All is well
  92 ;-). This is of course a user experience.  What I also get as a big
  93 advantage of Skolelinux / Debian Edu is that everybody who uses it and
  94 works with it can also contribute to it - that includes students,
  95 teachers, parents...</p>
  96
  97 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
  98 Edu?</strong></p>
  99
 100 <p>I will answer this question relating to the internal structure of
 101 Skolelinux / Debian Edu.</p>
 102
 103 <p>What I see as a major disadvantage is that there is a gap between
 104 the group of developers for Debian Edu and the people who make the
 105 marketing, that means the people that bring Skolelinux to the
 106 schools. There is a lack of communication between these two groups and
 107 I think that does not really work for Skolelinux / Debian Edu.</p>
 108
 109 <p>Further I appreciate that Skolelinux / Debian Edu is known as a
 110 do-ocracy. Nevertheless I keep asking myself if at some points a
 111 democracy or some kind of hierarchical project structure would be good
 112 and helpful.  I am also missing some kind of contact between the
 113 Skolelinux / Debian Edu communities in Europe or on an international
 114 level. I think it would be good if there was more sharing between the
 115 different countries using Skolelinux / Debian Edu.</p>
 116
 117 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 118
 119 <p>On my laptop I am still using an Ubuntu 10.04 with a Gnome Desktop
 120 on.  As applications I use Openoffice.org, Gedit, Firefox, Pidgin,
 121 LaTeX and GnuCash. For mails I am using Horde. And I am really fond of
 122 my N900 running with Maemo.</p>
 123
 124 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 125 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 126
 127 <p>I am really convinced that in our school project "IT-Zukunft
 128 Schule" we have developed (and keep developing) a great way to get
 129 schools to use Free Software. We have written a detailed concept for
 130 that so I cannot explain the whole thing here. But in a nutshell the
 131 strategy has three crucial pillars:</p>
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 133 <ul>
 134
 135 <li>We really take time to get what sort of stories, questions and
 136 concerns the schools head and the teachers have about using different
 137 kinds of IT and we take time to enrol them into Free Software.</li>
 138
 139 <li>Our solution for schools is never just technical. In the centre
 140 are always the people who are going to use the software. From the very
 141 beginning of the planning for a school, we tell the schools head that
 142 they are paying us not only for a technical solution for their school,
 143 they also pay us for leading all the communication processes
 144 needed. If they do not want that, we are not working with them because
 145 we cannot give a guarantee for the quality of our work then.</li>
 146
 147 <li>Another focus lies in the training of teachers and students in
 148 co-administrating the IT-System at their school. They start getting in
 149 contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu community and they get the
 150 offer to become more and more independent from us.</li>
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 156 * Who should be interviewed with this questions in the future?
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 158 I think Stefan Makiewicz should be interviewed for your blog. He is
 159 one of the teachers at the first school we are working for in our
 160 school project. He gave us the hint to check Skolelinux / Debian Edu
 161 and is very creative in enrolling people into Free Software.  His mail
 162 address is it@maskiewizc.de
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 164 If you have not interviewed Kurt Gramlich already I would suggest to
 165 interview him as well. He is one of the main persons in the Skolelinux
 166 community in Germany and I think he would have to say a lot toyour
 167 questions. His mail address is kurt@skolelinux.de
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