+ <title>Faktasjekk: Trond Giske hevder Henry Ford sa at hvis du spør folk hva de vil ha så svarer de ”en større hest”</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Faktasjekk__Trond_Giske_hevder_Henry_Ford_sa_at_hvis_du_sp_r_folk_hva_de_vil_ha_s__svarer_de__en_st_rre_hest_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Faktasjekk__Trond_Giske_hevder_Henry_Ford_sa_at_hvis_du_sp_r_folk_hva_de_vil_ha_s__svarer_de__en_st_rre_hest_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 27 Mar 2012 22:12:54 GMT</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Næringsminister Trond Giske er av
+<a href="http://www.dn.no/forsiden/naringsliv/article2361916.ece">Dagens
+Næringsliv</a> i dag sitert på å ha sagt følgende:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+Henry Ford sa at hvis du spør folk hva de vil ha så svarer de ”en
+større hest”
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Det syntes jeg var en så merkelig ting for Henry Ford å si at jeg
+sjekket litt rundt sitatet. Det Giske ser ut til å feilsitere, er et
+sitat kreditert Henry Ford som lyder "If I had asked people what they
+wanted, they would have said faster horses". Altså ikke større hest,
+men raskere hester.</p>
+
+<p>I følge
+<a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/henry_ford_never_said_the_fast.html">Patrick
+Vlaskovits i en blogg</a> i Stanford Business Review, har Henry Ford
+aldri sagt dette, og den tidligste referansen han klarte å finne til
+sitatet er en bok fra 2002. Jeg finner
+<a href="http://280group.com/blog/?p=1443">andre kilder</a> som også
+hevder at det ikke er påvist at Henry Ford faktisk har uttalt at
+kundene ville bedt om raskere hester .</p>
+
+<p>Konklusjonen min blir at Trond Giske ikke har fakta på sin side når
+det gjelder dette sitatet. Med forbehold om at journalisten i Dagens
+Næringsliv skrev det som ble sagt, og ikke det journalisten hørte.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Debian Edu screencast: Checking email with kmail using Kerberos authentication</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Checking_email_with_kmail_using_Kerberos_authentication.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Checking_email_with_kmail_using_Kerberos_authentication.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><!-- Video HTML based on http://www.diveintohtml5.net/video.html -->
+
+<p>The same Debian Edu developer that did the last screen cast I
+published, Wolfgang Schweer, has created a new screen cast showing how
+to set up Kmail in Debian Edu Squeze to authenticate using Kerberos,
+allowing users to check their local email account without providing
+any password. The video is embedded here in quarter size,
+and also available from <a href="https://vimeo.com/38601767">vimeo</a>
+and download as a
+<a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv">Ogg
+Theora</a> file. Check it out below.</p>
+
+<p><video id="kmail-kerberos-movie" width="256" height="184" preload controls>
+ <source src="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
+ <p>Download video as
+ <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv">Ogg</a>.</p>
+</video></p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Større PC-tetthet i skolen med Skolelinux?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:25:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Den siste uka har det vært en del skriverier om hvor store
+forskjeller det er mellom skolene når det gjelder digital kompetanse.
+Et eksempel er
+<a href="http://www.digi.no/891660/bekymret-for-it-i-skolen">oppslaget
+i Digi</a>. Diskusjonen fikk meg til å bli litt nysgjerrig på om
+Linux-skoler har større PC-tettet enn snittet i landet. Grunnlaget
+for diskusjonen har vært undersøkelsen
+<a href="https://iktsenteret.no/ressurser/monitor-2011-skolens-digitale-tilstand">Monitor
+2011</a>, som bruker informasjon fra
+<a href="https://www.wis.no/gsi">Grunnskolens Informasjonssystem</a>
+(GSI). GSI-data kan lastes ned fra web og jeg lastet ned en Excel-fil
+(intet åpen standard-valg tilgjengelig) med navn på alle skoler,
+hvilke kommune de befinner seg i og hvor mange elever pr. elev-PC de
+har rapportert inn. For å få en ide om svaret trenger jeg deretter å
+vite hvilke skoler i landet som bruker Linux, slik at jeg kan slå dem
+opp i GSI og finne ut hvor stor PC-tetthet de har.</p>
+
+<p>Jeg vet om skoler i Balsfjord, Flora, Harstad, Kongsvinger, Narvik,
+Nittedal, Nord-Odal, Randaberg og Sunndal som bruker Skolelinux eller
+andre Linux-varianter. Jeg tror det er flere enn de 56 skolene jeg
+har klart å identifisere de siste dagene, men har ikke klart å få det
+bekreftet med offentlige kilder.</p>
+
+<p>Monitor 2011-rapporteres side 95 forteller at det "ifølge GSI
+(20120-2011) er det 3,11 elever per datamaskin når vi tar med alle
+grunnskoler (1.-10.trinn)". For de 56 Linux-skolene jeg har klart å
+koble mot informasjon i GSI er det 2,28 elever per elevdatamaskin,
+hvilket betyr at det er 36% høyere PC-tetthet på Linux-skoler enn
+landsgjennomsnittet. Linux-skolen med høyest tettet blant de jeg har
+notert -skole er Flora ungdomsskule i Flora kommune med 0.82 elev
+pr. PC (482 elever, 588 elevdatamaskiner).</p>
+
+<p>Skolelinux gir datamaskiner lengre levetid, og en kan dermed få
+flere operative datamaskiner for samme budsjett, i tillegg til en
+rekke andre fordeler. Kan det være forklaringen på forskjellen?</p>
+
+<p>Tallene må tas med en liten klype, da GSI ser ut til å ha endel
+feilføringer. Jeg synes i hvert fall en skole med 423 elever og 9
+elevmaskiner ser mistenkelig ut. Eller en skole med 346 elever, 0
+elevmaskiner, som er et annet ekstremt eksempel jeg fant.</p>
+
+<p>Takk til Sturle Sunde, Klaus Ade Johnstad, Ole-Anders Andreassen og
+Trond Mæhlum for innspill om skoler med Linux.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Debian Edu interview: John Ingleby</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__John_Ingleby.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__John_Ingleby.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
+users are spread all across the globe. The second inteview after
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">the
+Squeeze release</a> was publised is with John Ingleby, a teacher and
+long time Linux user in United Kingdom.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I teach ICT part time at the Rudolf Steiner School in Kings
+Langley, near London, UK. Previously I worked as a technical
+author/trainer while my children attended the school, and I also
+contributed to the Schoolforge UK community with the aim of
+encouraging UK schools to adopt free/open source software. Five or six
+years ago we had about 50 schools interested in some way, but we
+weren't able to convert many of them into sustainable
+installations.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Skolelinux had two representatives at an early Edubuntu meeting in
+London which I attended. However at that time our school network had
+just been installed using CentOS, LTSP 4 and GNOME. When LTSP 5 came
+along we switched to Edubuntu thin client servers so now we have a
+mixed environment which includes Windows PCs and student laptops, as
+well as their MacBooks and iPads. However, the proprietary systems
+have always been rather problematic, and we never built a GUI for the
+LDAP server, so when I discovered Skolelinux is configured for all
+these things we decided to try it.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>By far the biggest advantage is the Debian Edu community. Apart
+from that I have always believed in the same "sustainable computing"
+goals that Skolelinux is built on: installing Linux on computers which
+would otherwise be thrown away, to provide a reliable, secure and
+low-cost IT environment for schools. From my own experience I know
+that a part-time person can teach and manage a network of about 25
+Linux computers, but it would take much more of my time if we had
+proprietary software everywhere.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>As a newcomer I'm just finding out who's who in the community and
+how you're organised, and what your procedures are for dealing with
+various things such as editing manual pages and so-on. The only
+English language mailing list seems to be for developers as well as
+users, so my inbox needs heavy pruning each day!</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Besides the software already mentioned at school we use Samba,
+OpenLDAP, CUPS, Nagios and Dansguardian for the network, and on the
+desktops we have LibreOffice, Firefox, GIMP and Inkscape. At home I
+use Ubuntu and an Android 4 eePad Transformer (but I'm not sure if
+that counts...)</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>That's a tough question! For very many years UK schools installed
+and taught only proprietary software, so that at the highest levels
+the notion of "computer" means simply "proprietary office
+applications". However, schools today are experiencing budget
+constraints, and many are having to think hard about upgrading Windows
+XP. At the same time, we have students showing teachers how to use
+iPads, MacBooks and Android, so the choice of operating system is no
+longer quite so automatic. What is more, our government at last
+realised that we need people with programming skills, so they're
+putting coding back in the curriculum! And it's encouraging that the
+first 10,000 Raspberry Pi units sold out in 2 hours.</p>
+
+<p>I don't really know what strategy is going to get UK schools to use
+free software, but building an active community of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu users in this country has to be part of it.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Writing and translating documentation in Debian Edu</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Writing_and_translating_documentation_in_Debian_Edu.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Writing_and_translating_documentation_in_Debian_Edu.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 16 Mar 2012 09:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Documentation in Debian Edu is provided in several languages, and
+it is important to make it both easy to contribute and to keep the
+translated versions in sync. To do this we have come up with what we
+believe is a very efficient work flow.</p>
+
+<ol>
+
+<li>The documentation is written in a
+<a href="http://moinmo.in">moinmoin wiki</a> (see for example
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">the
+Squeeze release manual</a>) with support for exporting the content as
+docbook XML.</li>
+
+<li>This docbook document is given to po4a to extract a gettext style
+.pot file with the content, which in turn is used to create .po files
+with the translated text.</li>
+
+<li>The .po files are given to translators, and they can always tell
+which part of the original wiki document is new or changed. They can
+use their normal translation tools like lokalize or poedit to write
+the translation. There is even a system in place to handle translated
+images.</li>
+
+<li>The translated .po files are combined with the original docbook
+XML document using po4a to create a translated docbook document.</li>
+
+<li>The final step is to use all the generated docbook files and
+create PDF and HTML version of the original and translated documents.</li>
+
+</ol>
+
+<p>This setup work very well, but have a few issues. The biggest
+issue is that <a href="http://moinmo.in/DocBook">the docbook support
+we use in moinmoin</a> is not actively maintained. The docbook
+support is also buggy, and our build system contain workarounds to
+make sure the generated docbook is usable despite these bugs.</p>
+
+<p>If you want to have a look at our setup, it is all there in the
+<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/debian-edu-doc">debian-edu-doc
+package</a>.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>NUUG-presentasjon: Skolelinux - ferdig oppsatt skolenettløsning</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_presentasjon__Skolelinux___ferdig_oppsatt_skolenettl_sning.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_presentasjon__Skolelinux___ferdig_oppsatt_skolenettl_sning.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:55:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I dag presenterte jeg ny versjon av Skolelinux for NUUGs medlemmer.
+<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/20120313-skolelinux-squeeze.html">Lysark</a>
+er tilgjengelige allerede og
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/">video-opptak</a>
+kommer så snart videogruppa til NUUG får publisert den. Jeg kom på
+endel punkter om nye ting i Squeeze-utgaven under veis som jeg burde
+hatt med, og har sikkert skrevet noe tull på lysarkene som jeg ennå
+ikke har oppdaget. Denne presentasjonen ble smurt ihop på veldig kort
+tid, og jeg rakk ikke finpusse den. Håper den kan være lærerik
+likevel.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Kåre Nordby</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__K_re_Nordby.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__K_re_Nordby.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Første ut i serien med intervjuer av folk i
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>-miljøet etter at
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">ny
+versjon av Skolelinux</a> ble lansert i helga, er nylig valgte
+styremedlem i foreningen
+<a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/">Fri programvare i
+Skolen</a> (FRiSK) som organiserer
+Skolelinux-utviklingen og daglig leder i
+<a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux Drift AS</a>, selskapet
+prosjektet opprettet som et tilbud til skoler som ønsket en
+kommersiell samarbeidsparter. Det bør nevnes at jeg er styremedlem i
+Skolelinux Drift AS og styreleder i selskapets hovedeier stiftelsen
+<a href="http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/">SLX Debian Labs</a>
+som beskytter verdiene til Skolelinux-prosjektet, og kjenner Kåre den
+veien.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Jeg har siden januar 2010 vært daglig leder i Skolelinux Drift AS,
+som leverer support, installasjon, tilpasning, drift, og opplæring på
+Debian Edu / Skolelinux. Fra 2012 er jeg valgt inn som styremedlem i
+FRiSK. Min forrige jobb var som KAM i Redpill Linpro (som er en av
+eierne i Skolelinux Drift). Før det var jeg daglig leder i et eget 7
+manns konsulent selskap som også startet med fri programvare mot
+slutten.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Jeg hørte om det først når jeg jobbet i Redpill Linpro. Men jeg
+har også en datter som går på en friskole, som også bruker Skolelinux.
+Som kjent har ikke friskoler de samme økonomiske rammebetingelsene som
+offentlige skoler, så for dem var det det absolutt beste alternativet.
+De anser også Skolelinux som et stabilt system, som bare går og går (i
+motsetning til det lille Windows-baserte nettverket de har på
+admin-siden).</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Sentralisert drift av tynne og diskløse arbeidsstasjoner. Således
+lydløse og raskere arbeidsstasjoner som er bedre i klasserommet.
+Lengre levetid på PC'er. Store besparelser på maskinvare og drift. Og
+så klart fjerning av alle lisenskostnader. Personlig synes jeg også at
+mange av programmene er bedre enn alternativene. Men dette er ofte en
+smakssak og avhengig om man må ha det man er vant til fra før.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
+
+<p>For lite kjentskap til løsningen. Noen ganger for dårlig
+kompatibilitet med arbeidsstasjoners/bærbare maskiner sine
+nettverksdrivere eller skjermkort. Men dette løser vi i skolene ved
+standardisering. Ellers er det få, om nesten ingen, av de kjente
+maskinvare / infrastruktur leverandørene til fylkes- / kommuner som
+tilbyr denne plattformen. Skal dette endre seg så må kommunene selv
+sette slike krav til leverandørene.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Har brukt OpenOffice.org siden starten (2001 ?), Kun Linux på
+desktop siden 2005. Bruker i dag Kubuntu, Libreoffice og ymse annet
+programvare til ulik kontorbruk som er lett å installere / teste via
+alle programarkivene som finnes.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
+skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Fortsette å presentere flere av de gode eksemplene hvor Debian Edu
+/ Skolelinux brukes i kommuner og enkeltskoler. Vi må få bedre frem
+at det er mulig tilknytte både Windows og Mac klienter på denne
+plattformen (selv om det vil øke driftskostnadene). Dette gjøres
+mange steder. Spesielt er det mange lærere som ønsker å bruke
+Windows/Mac-bærbare, gjerne som sin private PC også. Det er også mulig
+for kommunen å integrere med Active Directory i stedet for OpenLDAP
+som kommer med ut av boksen (selv om også dette øker kostnadene).
+Dette vil muligens bidra til å fjerne noe motstand hos noen
+potensielle brukere / driftpersonell for å ta i bruk noe
+nytt. Fremveksten av mobile brukere og nettbrett går i vår favør.
+Brukerne blir kjent og vant til flere nye operativsystemer /
+brukergrensesnitt. Så utviklerfellesskapet bør jobbe videre med å
+integrere flere nye klienttyper, som ultra lav-kostklienter og
+nettbrett (blant annet fri programvare-alternativet
+<a href="http://makeplaylive.com/">Spark</a> med
+<a href="http://www.merproject.org/">Mer OS</a> og
+<a href="http://plasma-active.org/">KDE Active Plasma</a>).</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Skolelinux / Debian Edu Squeeze is out!</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_is_out_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_is_out_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 11 Mar 2012 23:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>This weekend we finally published the first stable release of
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux / Debian Edu</a> based
+on Debian/Squeeze. The full announcement is
+<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">available</a>
+from the project announcement list. Now is a good time to test if it
+you have not done so already.</p>
+
+<p>I plan to present the new version at
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/">a NUUG
+meeting</a> on tuesday. I look forward to seeing you there if you are
+in Oslo, Norway.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Debian Edu interview: Nigel Barker</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 9 Mar 2012 11:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Inspired by <a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/interview/">the
+interview series</a> conducted by Raphael, I started a Norwegian
+interview series with people involved in the Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+community. This was so popular that I believe it is time to move to a
+more international audience.</p>
+
+<p>While <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and
+Skolelinux</a> originated in France and Norway, and have most users in
+Europe, there are users all around the globe. One of those far away
+from me is Nigel Barker, a long time Debian Edu system administrator
+and contributor. It is thanks to him that Debian Edu is adjusted to
+work out of the box in Japan. I got him to answer a few questions,
+and am happy to share the response with you. :)
+
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>My name is Nigel Barker, and I am British. I am married to Yumiko,
+and we have three lovely children, aged 15, 14 and 4(!) I am the IT
+Coordinator at Hiroshima International School, Japan. I am also a
+teacher, and in fact I spend most of my day teaching Mathematics,
+Science, IT, and Chemistry. I was originally a Chemistry teacher, but
+I have always had an interest in computers. Another teacher teaches
+primary school IT, but apart from that I am the only computer person,
+so that means I am the network manager, technician and webmaster,
+also, and I help people with their computer problems. I teach python
+to beginners in an after-school club. I am way too busy, so I really
+appreciate the simplicity of Skolelinux.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>In around 2004 or 5 I discovered the ltsp project, and set up a
+server in the IT lab. I wanted some way to connect it to our central
+samba server, which I was also quite poor at configuring. I discovered
+Edubuntu when it came out, but it didn't really improve my setup. I
+did various desperate searches for things like "school Linux server"
+and ended up in a document called "Drift" something or other. Reading
+there it became clear that Skolelinux was going to solve all my
+problems in one go. I was very excited, but apprehensive, because my
+previous attempts to install Debian had ended in failure (I used
+Mandrake for everything - ltsp, samba, apache, mail, ns...). I
+downloaded a beta version, had some problems, so subscribed to the
+Debian Edu list for help. I have remained subscribed ever since, and
+my school has run a Skolelinux network since Sarge.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>For me the integrated setup. This is not just the server, or the
+workstation, or the ltsp. Its all of them, and its all configured
+ready to go. I read somewhere in the early documentation that it is
+designed to be setup and managed by the Maths or Science teacher, who
+doesn't necessarily know much about computers, in a small Norwegian
+school. That describes me perfectly if you replace Norway with
+Japan.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>The desktop is fairly plain. If you compare it with Edubuntu, who
+have fun themes for children, or with distributions such as Mint, who
+make the desktop beautiful. They create a good impression on people
+who don't need to understand how to use any of it, but who might be
+important to the school. School administrators or directors, for
+instance, or parents. Even kids. Debian itself usually has ugly
+default theme settings. It was my dream a few years back that some
+kind of integration would allow Edubuntu to do the desktop stuff and
+Debian Edu the servers, but now I realise how impossible that is. A
+second disadvantage is that if something goes wrong, or you need to
+customise something, then suddenly the level of expertise required
+multiplies. For example, backup wasn't working properly in Lenny. It
+took me ages to learn how to set up my own server to do rsync backups.
+I am afraid of anything to do with ldap, but perhaps Gosa will
+help.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Nowadays I only use Debian on my personal computers. I have one for
+studio work (I play guitar and write songs), running AV Linux
+(customised Debian) a netbook running Squeeze, and a bigger laptop
+still running Skolelinux Lenny workstation. I have a Tjener in my
+house, that's very useful for the family photos and music. At school
+the students only use Skolelinux. (Some teachers and the office still
+have windows). So that means we only use free software all day every
+day. Open office, The GIMP, Firefox/Iceweasel, VLC and Audacity are
+installed on every computer in school, irrespective of OS. We also
+have Koha on Debian for the library, and Apache, Moodle, b2evolution
+and Etomite on Debian for the www. The firewall is Untangle.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Current trends are in our favour. Open source is big in industry,
+and ordinary people have heard of it. The spread of Android and the
+popularity of Apple have helped to weaken the impression that you have
+to have Microsoft on everything. People complain to me much less about
+file formats and Word than they did 5 years ago. The Edu aspect is
+also a selling point. This is all customised for schools. Where is the
+Windows-edu, or the Mac-edu? But of course the main attraction is
+budget.The trick is to convince people that the quality is not
+compromised when you stop paying and use free software instead. That
+is one reason why I say the desktop experience is a weakness. People
+are not impressed when their USB drive doesn't work, or their browser
+doesn't play flash, for example.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Debian Edu screencast: Mass creation of user accounts in Squeeze</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Mass_creation_of_user_accounts_in_Squeeze.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Mass_creation_of_user_accounts_in_Squeeze.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 7 Mar 2012 13:40:00 +0100</pubDate>
+ <description><!-- Video HTML based on http://www.diveintohtml5.net/video.html -->
+
+<p>One of the Debian Edu developers, Wolfgang Schweer, just created a
+screen cast documenting how to create a lot of new users in LDAP on
+Debian Edu Squeeze. The video is embedded here in quarter size, and
+also available from <a href="http://vimeo.com/37675399">vimeo</a> and
+download as a
+<a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv">Ogg
+Theora</a> file. Check it out below.</p>
+
+<p><video id="gosa-mass-user-create-movie" width="256" height="184" preload controls>
+ <source src="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
+ <p>Download video as
+ <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv">Ogg</a>.</p>
+</video></p>