- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Ralf_Gesellensetter.html">Debian Edu interview: Ralf Gesellensetter</a></div>
- <div class="date">27th May 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>In 2003, a German teacher showed up on the
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
-mailing list with interesting problems and reports proving he setting
-up Linux for a (for us at the time) lot of pupiles. His name was Ralf
-Gesellensetter, and he have been an important tester and contributor
-since then, helping to make sure the
-<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html">Debian Edu
-Squeeze</a> release became as good as it is..</p>
-
-<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I am a teacher from Germany, and my subjects are Geography,
-Mathematics, and Computer Science ("Informatik"). During the past 12
-years (since 2000), I have been working for a comprehensive (and soon,
-also inclusive) school leading to all kind of general levels, such as
-O- or A-level ("Abitur"). For quite as long, I've been taking care of
-our computer network.</p>
-
-<p>Now, in my early 40s, I enjoy the privilege of spending a lot of my
-spare time together with my wife, our son (3 years) and our daughter
-(4 months).</p>
-
-<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
-project?</strong></p>
-
-<p>We had tried different Linux based school servers, when members of
-my local Linux User Group (LUG OWL) detected Skolelinux. I remember
-very well, being part of a party celebrating the Linux New Media Award
-("Best Newcomer Distribution", also nominated: Ubuntu) that was given
-to Skolelinux at Linux World Exposition in Frankfurt, 2005 (IIRC). Few
-months later, I had the chance to join a developer meeting in Ulsrud
-(Oslo) and to hand out the award to Knut Yrvin and others. For more
-than 7 years, Skolelinux is part of our schools infrastructure, namely
-our main server (tjener), one LTSP (today without thin clients), and
-approximately 50 work stations. Most of these have the option to boot a
-locally installed Skolelinux image. As a consequence, I joined quite
-a few events dealing with free software or Linux, and met many Debian
-(Edu) developers. All of them seemed quite nice and competent to me,
-one more reason to stick to Skolelinux.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Debian driven, you are given all the advantages of a community
-project including well maintained updates. Once, you are familiar with
-the network layout, you can easily roll out an entire educational
-computer infrastructure, from just one installation media. As only
-free software (FOSS) is used, that supports even elderly hardware,
-up-sizing your IT equipment is only limited by space (i.e. available
-labs). Especially if you run a LTSP thin client server, your
-administration costs tend towards zero.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>While Debian's stability has loads of advantages for servers, this
-might be different in some cases for clients: Schools with unlimited
-budget might buy new hardware with components that are not yet
-supported by Debian stable, or wish to use more recent versions of
-office packages or desktop environments. These schools have the
-option to run Debian testing or other distributions - if they have the
-capacity to do so. Another issue is that Debian release cycles
-include a wide range of changes; therefor a high percentage of human
-power seems to be absorbed by just keeping the features of Skolelinux
-within the new setting of the version to come. During this process,
-the cogs of Debian Edu are getting more and more professional,
-i.e. harder to understand for novices.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
-
-<p>LibreOffice, Wikipedia, Openstreetmap, Iceweasel (Mozilla Firefox),
-KMail, Gimp, Inkscape - and of course the Linux Kernel (not only on
-PC, Laptop, Mobile, but also our SAT receiver)</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
-
-<p><ol>
-
-<li>Support computer science as regular subject in schools to make
-people really "own" their hardware, to make them understand the
-difference between proprietary software products, and free software
-developing.</li>
-
-<li>Make budget baskets corresponding: In Germany's public schools
-there are more or less fixed budgets for IT equipment (including
-licenses), so schools won't benefit from any savings here. This
-privilege is left to private schools which have consequently a large
-share among German Skolelinux schools.</li>
-
-<li>Get free software in the seminars where would-be teachers are
-trained. In many cases, teachers' software customs are respected by
-decision makers rather than the expertise of any IT experts.</li>
-
-<li>Don't stick to free software as to be run natively. Everybody uses
-free software or free licenses (for instance Wikipedia), and this
-general concept should get expanded to free educational content to be
-shared world wide (school books e.g.).</li>
-
-<li>Make clear where ever you can that the market share of free (libre)
-office suites is much above 20 p.c. today, and that you pupils don't
-need to know the "ribbon menu" in order to get employed.</li>
-
-<li>Talk about the difference between freeware and free software.</li>
-
-<li>Spread free software, or even collections of portable free apps
-for USB pen drives. Endorse students to get a legal copy of
-Libreoffice rather than accepting them to use illegal serials. And
-keep sending documents in ODF formats.</li>
-
-</ol></p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gatemagasinet__Oslo_f_r_konkurrent_fra_Folk_er_Folk.html">Gatemagasinet =Oslo får konkurrent fra Folk er Folk</a></div>
+ <div class="date">19th June 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><p>Aftenposten melder i dag at selgerne av
+<a href="http://www.erlikoslo.no/">gatemagasinet =Oslo</a> er
+<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Oslo-selgerne-irritert-pa-nytt-gatemagasin-6850970.html">irritert
+på at det er kommet en konkurrent på banen</a> fra organisasjonen
+<a href="http://oslo.folkerfolk.no/">Folk er Folk</a>,
+som støtter “rumenerne”, de mest uglesette av tiggerne i Norge. Min
+første tanke da jeg leste nyheten er at slik må =Oslo-selgerne tåle
+når de nekter "rumenerne" og andre utenlandske tiggere å selge
+gatemagasinet sitt. Det ble rapportert for noen år siden at
+<a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Ikke-rom-i-herberget-6677803.html">utenlandske
+tiggere ikke var velkomne som selgere</a>, og å opprette en konkurrent
+virker da for meg som et rasjonelt alternativ. Og at "rumerene"
+utelukkes gjelder visst ikke bare i Oslo. I Adresseavisen fant jeg en
+artikkel om at selgerne av
+<a href="http://www.gatemagasinetsorgenfri.no/">gateavisen
+Sorgenfri</a> i Trondheim også
+<a href="http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/article1122005.ece?index=20">utelukker
+utenlandske selgere</a>.</p>
+
+<p>Men situasjonen er visst ikke så rett frem som opprinnelige
+artikler kunne tyde på. Mens jeg søkte opp gamle artikler og
+referanser om temaet, fant jeg et
+<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2008/07/29/542041.html">leserbrev
+fra en av stifterne av =Oslo</a>, som protesterte på
+<a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2008/07/23/541530.html">påstander
+fra likestillingsombudet om diskriminering</a> og forteller at =Oslo
+krever at de som selger magasinet skal kunne kommunisere med kundene
+for å kunne representere magasinet utad, og at "rumererne" ikke
+ekskluderes for å være utlendinger men pga. at de ikke kan snakke
+norsk. Det er jo ikke urimelig å kreve at en selger skal kunne
+kommunisere med kundene, men som kjøper har jeg ikke snakket så mye
+med =Oslo-selgerne at det ville vært et problem for meg om selgeren
+ikke kunne snakke norsk. Jeg er dermed i tvil om hvorvidt
+argumentasjonen holder når effekten er at de mest uglesette tiggerne i
+Norge ekskluderes.</p>
+
+<p>Uansett tror jeg ikke markedet for gatemagasiner i Oslo er mettet.
+Personlig kunne jeg godt tenkte meg å kjøpe flere, men gidder ikke
+kjøpe den samme utgaven av =Oslo flere ganger. En konkurrent som Folk
+er Folk kan dermed ende opp med å gjøre markedet større i stedet for å
+spise av markedsandelene til =Oslo.</p>