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- <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. This make it hard
-to upgrade moinmoin. The docbook support is also buggy, and our build
-system contain lots of 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>
+ <title>HTC One X - Your video? What do you mean?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/HTC_One_X___Your_video___What_do_you_mean_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/HTC_One_X___Your_video___What_do_you_mean_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>In <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article243690.ece">an
+article today</a> published by Computerworld Norway, the photographer
+<a href="http://www.urke.com/eirik/">Eirik Helland Urke</a> reports
+that the video editor application included with
+<a href="http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-x/#specs">HTC One
+X</a> have some quite surprising terms of use. The article is mostly
+based on the twitter message from mister Urke, stating:
+
+<p><blockquote>
+"<a href="http://twitter.com/urke/status/194062269724897280">Drøy
+brukeravtale: HTC kan bruke MINE redigerte videoer kommersielt. Selv
+kan jeg KUN bruke dem privat</a>"
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>I quickly translated it to this English message:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+"Arrogant user agreement: HTC can use MY edited videos
+commercially. Although I can ONLY use them privately."
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>I've been unable to find the text of the license term myself, but
+suspect it is a variation of the MPEG-LA terms I
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html">discovered
+with my Canon IXUS 130</a>. The HTC One X specification specifies that
+the recording format of the phone is .amr for audio and .mp3 for
+video. AMR is
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_codec#Licensing_and_patent_issues">Adaptive
+Multi-Rate audio codec</a> with patents which according to the
+Wikipedia article require an license agreement with
+<a href="http://www.voiceage.com/">VoiceAge</a>. MP4 is
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Patent_licensing">MPEG4 with
+H.264</a>, which according to Wikipedia require a licence agreement
+with <a href="http://www.mpegla.com/">MPEG-LA</a>.</p>
+
+<p>I know why I prefer
+<a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">free and open
+standards</a> also for video.</p>
</description>
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- <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>
+ <title>Holder de ord og NUUG lanserer testtjeneste med stortingsinformasjon</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Holder_de_ord_og_NUUG_lanserer_testtjeneste_med_stortingsinformasjon.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Holder_de_ord_og_NUUG_lanserer_testtjeneste_med_stortingsinformasjon.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_har_mine_representanter_stemt_i_Storinget_.html">januar
+i fjor</a> startet vi i NUUG arbeid med å gjøre informasjon om hvem
+som har stemt hva på <a href="http://www.stortinget.no/">Stortinget</a>
+enklere tilgjengelig. I løpet av få måneder fant vi sammen med
+organisasjonen <a href="http://www.holderdeord.no/">Holder de ord</a>
+som arbeidet mot et lignende mål.</p>
+
+<p>Siden den gang har vi fått tak i maskinelt lesbart informasjon om
+hvem som stemte hva mellom 1990 og våren 2010, og tilgang til
+stortingets nye datatjeneste som har informasjon fra høsten 2011 til i
+dag. Det gjenstår litt arbeid med det første datasettet, men
+datasettet fra høsten 2011 er klart til bruk. Begge datasettene er
+tilgjengelig <a href="https://gitorious.org/nuug/folketingparser">via
+git</a>.</p>
+
+<p>På
+<a href="http://www.goopen.no/holder-de-ord-datadrevet-oppfolging-av-politiske-lofter/">Go Open</a> i morgen lanserer
+NUUG sammen med Holder de ord <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/">en
+test-tjeneste</a> som viser hva som er og blir behandlet på Stortinget og
+hvem som har stemt hva siden oktober i fjor. Du får herved mulighet
+til å ta en sniktitt.</p>
</description>
</item>
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- <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>
+ <title>RAND terms - non-reasonable and discriminatory</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAND_terms___non_reasonable_and_discriminatory.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAND_terms___non_reasonable_and_discriminatory.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Here in Norway, the
+<a href="http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/fad.html?id=339"> Ministry of
+Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs</a> is behind
+a <a href="http://standard.difi.no/forvaltningsstandarder">directory of
+standards</a> that are recommended or mandatory for use by the
+government. When the directory was created, the people behind it made
+an effort to ensure that everyone would be able to implement the
+standards and compete on equal terms to supply software and solutions
+to the government. Free software and non-free software could compete
+on the same level.</p>
+
+<p>But recently, some standards with RAND
+(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminatory_licensing">Reasonable
+And Non-Discriminatory</a>) terms have made their way into the
+directory. And while this might not sound too bad, the fact is that
+standard specifications with RAND terms often block free software from
+implementing them. The reasonable part of RAND mean that the cost per
+user/unit is low,and the non-discriminatory part mean that everyone
+willing to pay will get a license. Both sound great in theory. In
+practice, to get such license one need to be able to count users, and
+be able to pay a small amount of money per unit or user. By
+definition, users of free software do not need to register their use.
+So counting users or units is not possible for free software projects.
+And given that people will use the software without handing any money
+to the author, it is not really economically possible for a free
+software author to pay a small amount of money to license the rights
+to implement a standard when the income available is zero. The result
+in these situations is that free software are locked out from
+implementing standards with RAND terms.</p>
+
+<p>Because of this, when I see someone claiming the terms of a
+standard is reasonable and non-discriminatory, all I can think of is
+how this really is non-reasonable and discriminatory. Because free
+software developers are working in a global market, it does not really
+help to know that software patents are not supposed to be enforceable
+in Norway. The patent regimes in other countries affect us even here.
+I really hope the people behind the standard directory will pay more
+attention to these issues in the future.</p>
+
+<p>You can find more on the issues with RAND, FRAND and RAND-Z terms
+from Simon Phipps
+(<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/11/rand-not-so-reasonable/">RAND:
+Not So Reasonable?</a>).</p>
+
+<p>Update 2012-04-21: Just came across a
+<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/of-microsoft-netscape-patents-and-open-standards/index.htm">blog
+post from Glyn Moody</a> over at Computer World UK warning about the
+same issue, and urging people to speak out to the UK government. I
+can only urge Norwegian users to do the same for
+<a href="http://www.standard.difi.no/hoyring/hoyring-om-nye-anbefalte-it-standarder">the
+hearing taking place at the moment</a> (respond before 2012-04-27).
+It proposes to require video conferencing standards including
+specifications with RAND terms.</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>
+ <title>Forskning: "GPL gir lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling av makt fra produsent til bruker"</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forskning___GPL_gir_lokal_frihet_og_kontroll_gjennom_omfordeling_av_makt_fra_produsent_til_bruker_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forskning___GPL_gir_lokal_frihet_og_kontroll_gjennom_omfordeling_av_makt_fra_produsent_til_bruker_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Da jeg googlet etter noe annet kom jeg tilfeldigvis over
+<a href="http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=58309">en
+hovedfagsoppgave</a> ved Universitetet i Oslo som diskuterer verdien
+av GPLs fire friheter for brukerne av IT-systemer. Jeg ble fascinert
+over det som presenteres der. Her er sammendraget:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+
+<p>Motivasjonen til å skrive denne oppgaven er en personlig undring
+over hvorfor det primært, og ofte eksklusivt, fokuseres på det
+økonomiske aspektet ved utredninger om fri programvare er et godt valg
+for det offentlige. Fri og produsenteid programvare bygger på
+fundamentalt forskjellige ideologier som kan ha implikasjoner utover
+økonomiske kostnader. Kunnskapskulturen som er med på å definere fri
+programvare er basert på åpenhet, og er en verdi i seg selv.</p>
+
+<p>Oppgavens tema er programvarelisensen GPL og frihet. GPL-lisensiert
+programvare gir visse friheter i forhold til produsenteid
+programvare. Mitt spørsmål er om, og eventuelt i hvilken utstrekning,
+disse frihetene blir benyttet av ulike brukere og hvordan de
+manifesterer seg for disse brukerne. Sentrale spørsmål i oppgaven
+er:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Hvordan fordeles handlekraft gjennom lisensieringen av programvaren?</li>
+<li>Hvilke konsekvenser har programvarelisensen for de ulike brukere? </li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Fri programvare gir blant annet brukeren mulighet til å studere og
+modifisere kildekoden. Denne formen for frihet erverves gjennom
+kunnskap og krever at brukeren også er en ekspert. Hva skjer med
+frihetene til GPL når sluttbrukeren er en annen? Dette diskuteres i
+dialog med informantene.</p>
+
+<p>Jeg har i denne oppgaven samlet inn intervjudata fra IKT-ansvarlige
+ved grunnskolene i Nittedal kommune, driftsansvarlig og IKT-veilederen
+for skolene i kommunen, samt IKT-koordinator for utdanning i Akershus
+fylkeskommune og bokmåloversettere av OpenOffice.org. Den empiriske
+delen av oppgaven er delt inn i to seksjoner; den første omhandler
+operativsystemet Skolelinux, den andre kontorprogrampakken
+OpenOffice.org.</p>
+
+<p>Som vi vil se gir GPL lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling
+av makt fra produsent til bruker. Brukerens makt analyseres gjennom
+begrepene brukermedvirkning og handlingsfrihet. Det blir også lagt
+vekt på strukturelle forhold rundt bruken av teknologi, og spesielt de
+økonomiske begrepene nettverkseksternaliteter, innlåsing og
+stiavhengighet. Dette er begreper av spesiell nytte når objektet som
+omsettes eller distribueres er et kommunikasjonsprodukt, fordi verdien
+til et slikt gode for en potensiell bruker avhenger av antall
+eksisterende brukere av godet. I tilknytning til denne problematikken
+inneholder oppgaven også en diskusjon rundt åpne standarder og
+formater.</p>
+
+<p>Oppgaven konkluderer med at de «fire frihetene» som GPL-lisensen er
+laget for å beskytte er av avgjørende betydning for bruken av
+OpenOffice.org og Skolelinux, i Akershus fylkeskommune såvel som i
+skolene i Nittedal. Distribusjonen av handlekraft er ikke helt
+symmetrisk. Det er først og fremst de profesjonelle utviklerne i
+Skolelinux som direkte kan nyttiggjøre seg friheten til å endre kode,
+mens en sluttbruker som Nittedal kommune nyttiggjør seg den økonomiske
+friheten til å kunne distribuere programmene. Det er imidlertid også
+slik at ingen aktør klarer seg uten alle disse «frihetene».</p>
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Jeg fant også en masteroppgave fra 2006, men der ligger ikke
+komplett oppgave tilgjengelig. På tide å holde et øye med
+<a href="http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/search.html?q=skolelinux">Skolelinux-søket</a>
+til DUO...</p>
+
</description>
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<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. :)
-
+ <title>Debian Edu interview: Andreas Mundt</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Behind <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and
+Skolelinux</a> there are a lot of people doing the hard work of
+setting together all the pieces. This time I present to you Andreas
+Mundt, who have been part of the technical development team several
+years. He was also a key contributor in getting GOsa and Kerberos set
+up in the recently released
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">Debian
+Edu Squeeze</a> version.</p>
<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>My name is Andreas Mundt, I grew up in south Germany. After
+studying Physics I spent several years at university doing research in
+Quantum Optics. After that I worked some years in an optics company.
+Finally I decided to turn over a new leaf in my life and started
+teaching 10 to 19 years old kids at school. I teach math, physics,
+information technology and science/technology.</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>Already before I switched to teaching, I followed the Debian Edu
+project because of my interest in education and Debian. Within the
+qualification/training period for the teaching, I started
+contributing.</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>The advantages of Debian Edu are the well known name, the
+out-of-the-box philosophy and of course the great free software of the
+Debian Project!</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>As every coin has two sides, the out-of-the-box philosophy has its
+downside, too. In my opinion, it is hard to modify and tweak the
+setup, if you need or want that. Further more, it is not easily
+possible to upgrade the system to a new release. It takes much too
+long after a Debian release to prepare the -Edu release, perhaps
+because the number of developers working on the core of the code is
+rather small and often busy elsewhere.</p>
+
+<p>The <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN">Debian LAN</a>
+project might fill the use case of a more flexible system.</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>I am only using non-free software if I am forced to and run Debian
+on all my machines. For documents I prefer LaTeX and PGF/TikZ, then
+mutt and iceweasel for email respectively web browsing. At school I
+have Arduino and Fritzing in use for a micro controller project.</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>
+<p>One of the major problems is the vendor lock-in from top to bottom:
+Especially in combination with ignorant government employees and
+politicians, this works out great for the "market-leader". The school
+administration here in Baden-Wuerttemberg is occupied by that vendor.
+Documents have to be prepared in non-free, proprietary formats. Even
+free browsers do not work for the school administration. Publishers
+of school books provide software only for proprietary platforms.</p>
+
+<p>To change this, political work is very important. Parts of the
+political spectrum have become aware of the problem in the last years.
+However it takes quite some time and courageous politicians to 'free'
+the system. There is currently some discussion about "Open Data" and
+"Free/Open Standards". I am not sure if all the involved parties have
+a clue about the potential of these ideas, and probably only a
+fraction takes them seriously. However it might slowly make free
+software and the philosophy behind it more known and popular.</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>
+ <title>Jeg skal på konferansen Go Open 2012</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jeg_skal_p__konferansen_Go_Open_2012.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jeg_skal_p__konferansen_Go_Open_2012.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Jeg har tenkt meg på konferansen <a href="http://www.goopen.no/">Go
+Open 2012</a> i Oslo 23. april.
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Medlemsforeningen NUUG</a> deler ut
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/prisen/">prisen for fremme av fri
+programvare i Norge</a> der i år. Kommer du?</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Hamar kommune imponerer i FiksGataMi-rapportert problem i dag</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hamar_kommune_imponerer_i_FiksGataMi_rapportert_problem_i_dag.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hamar_kommune_imponerer_i_FiksGataMi_rapportert_problem_i_dag.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Mon, 5 Mar 2012 21:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Tok nettopp en titt på listen over løste problemer i
-<a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a> (hentet via
-<a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/open311">Open311-søkegrensesnittet</a>),
-og lot meg imponere over Hamar kommunes raske respons. Sjekk
-<a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/report/10791">rapport #10791</a>, der
-Hamar kommune kl. 10:19 i dag får beskjed om at det er dårlig
-brøyting, allerede 10:50 melder kommunen tilbake at de er på saken.
-18:26 samme dag melder så innsender at problemet er løst. Hatten av
-for folkene i Hamar kommune!</p>
-
-<p>Apropos bra respons. En bruker sendte for noen dager inn følgende
-tilbakemelding til oss som står bak tjenesten.</p>
-
-<p><blockquote>Rapporterte inn slukte gatelys på Torsnesveien, og to
-uker etterpå er lysene tilbake. Flott service!</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Det er veldig hyggelig å høre at FiksGataMi fungerer bra for
-innbyggerne. Måtte alle landets innbyggere få samme gode erfaring med
-FiksGataMi og det offentlige. I dag er det 52 kommuner som har lenke
-til FiksGataMi fra sine nettsider, og dermed indikerer at de liker vår
-tjeneste. Måtte de få følge av resten av landets kommuner snart. :)</p>
+ <title>Debian Edu interview: Justin B. Rye</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 8 Apr 2012 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>It take all kind of contributions to create a Linux distribution
+like <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>,
+and this time I lend the ear to Justin B. Rye, who is listed as a big
+contributor to the
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">Debian
+Edu Squeeze release manual</a>.
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I'm a 44-year-old linguistics graduate living in Edinburgh who has
+occasionally been employed as a sysadmin.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I'm neither a developer nor a Skolelinux/Debian Edu user! The only
+reason my name's in the credits for the documentation is that I hang
+around on debian-l10n-english waiting for people to mention things
+they'd like a native English speaker to proofread... So I did a sweep
+through the wiki for typos and Norglish and inconsistent spellings of
+"localisation".</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>These questions are too hard for me - I don't use it! In fact I
+had hardly any contact with I.T. until long after I'd got out of the
+education system.</p>
+
+<p>I can tell you the advantages of Debian for me though: it soaks up
+as much of my free time as I want and no more, and lets me do
+everything I want a computer for without ever forcing me to spend
+money on the latest hardware.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I've been using Debian since Rex; popularity-contest says the
+software that I use most is xinit, xterm, and xulrunner (in other
+words, I use a distinctly retro sort of desktop).</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Well, I don't know. I suppose I'd be inclined to try reasoning
+with the people who make the decisions, but obviously if that worked
+you would hardly need a strategy.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Third release candidate of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>This weekend we wrapped up and published the third release
-candidate for <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
-Skolelinux</a> based on Squeeze. The full announcement is
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00000.html">available</a>
-from the project announcement list. Check it out if you
-need a software solution for your school.</p>
+ <title>Why the KDE menu is slow when /usr/ is NFS mounted - and a workaround</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Fri, 6 Apr 2012 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Recently I have spent time with
+<a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux Drift AS</a> on speeding
+up a <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
+Lenny installation using LTSP diskless workstations, and in the
+process I discovered something very surprising. The reason the KDE
+menu was responding slow when using it for the first time, was mostly
+due to the way KDE find application icons. I discovered that showing
+the Multimedia menu would cause more than 20 000 IP packages to be
+passed between the LTSP client and the NFS server. Most of these were
+
+NFS LOOKUP calls, resulting in a NFS3ERR_NOENT response. Because the
+ping times between the client and the server were in the range 2-20
+ms, the menus would be very slow. Looking at the strace of kicker in
+Lenny (or plasma-desktop i Squeeze - same problem there), I see that
+the source of these NFS calls are access(2) system calls for
+non-existing files. KDE can do hundreds of access(2) calls to find
+one icon file. In my example, just finding the mplayer icon required
+around 230 access(2) calls.</p>
+
+<p>The KDE code seem to search for icons using a list of icon
+directories, and the list of possible directories is large. In
+(almost) each directory, it look for files ending in .png, .svgz, .svg
+and .xpm. The result is a very slow KDE menu when /usr/ is NFS
+mounted. Showing a single sub menu may result in thousands of NFS
+requests. I am not the first one to discover this. I found a
+<a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211416">KDE bug report
+from 2009</a> about this problem, and it is still unsolved.</p>
+
+<p>My solution to speed up the KDE menu was to create a package
+kde-icon-cache that upon installation will look at all .desktop files
+used to generate the KDE menu, find their icons, search the icon paths
+for the file that KDE will end up finding at run time, and copying the
+icon file to /var/lib/kde-icon-cache/. Finally, I add symlinks to
+these icon files in one of the first directories where KDE will look
+for them. This cut down the number of file accesses required to find
+one icon from several hundred to less than 5, and make the KDE menu
+almost instantaneous. I'm not quite sure where to make the package
+publicly available, so for now it is only available on request.</p>
+
+<p>The bug report mention that this do not only affect the KDE menu
+and icon handling, but also the login process. Not quite sure how to
+speed up that part without replacing NFS with for example NBD, and
+that is not really an option at the moment.</p>
+
+<p>If you got feedback on this issue, please let us know on debian-edu
+(at) lists.debian.org.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Stopmotion for making stop motion animations on Linux - reloaded</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stopmotion_for_making_stop_motion_animations_on_Linux___reloaded.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Stopmotion_for_making_stop_motion_animations_on_Linux___reloaded.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 3 Mar 2012 12:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Many years ago, the <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux
-/ Debian Edu project</a> initiated a student project to create a tool
-for making stop motion movies. The proposal came from a teacher
-needing such tool on Skolelinux. The project, called "stopmotion",
-was manned by two extraordinary students and won a school award and a
-national aware with this great project. The project was initiated and
-mentored by Herman Robak, and manned by the students Bjørn Erik Nilsen
-and Fredrik Berg Kjølstad. They got in touch with people at Aardman
-Animation studio and received feedback on how professionals would like
-such stopmotion tool to work, and the end result was and is used by
-animators around the globe. But as is usual after studying, both got
-jobs and went elsewhere, and did not have time to properly tend to the
-project, and it has been lingering for a few years now. Until last
-year...</p>
-
-<p>Last year some of the users got together with Herman, and moved the
-project to Sourceforge and in effect restarted the project under a new
-name,
-<a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxstopmotion/">linuxstopmotion</a>.
-The name change was done to make it possible to find the project using
-Internet search engines (try to search for 'stopmotion' to see what I
-mean). I've been following
-<a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linuxstopmotion-community">the
-mailing list</a> and the improvement already in place and planned for
-the future is encouraging. If you want to make stop motion movies.
-Check it out. :)</p>
+ <title>Debian Edu in the Linux Weekly News</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 5 Apr 2012 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>About two weeks ago, I was interviewed via email about
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a> by
+Bruce Byfield in Linux Weekly News. The result was made public for
+non-subscribers today. I am pleased to see liked our Linux solution
+for schools. Check out his article
+<a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/488805/">Debian Edu/Skolelinux: A
+distribution for education</a> if you want to learn more.</p>
</description>
</item>
<item>
- <title>Er billettautomatene til kollektivtrafikken i Oslo uten sikkerhetsoppdateringer?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_uten_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Er_billettautomatene_til_kollektivtrafikken_i_Oslo_uten_sikkerhetsoppdateringer_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 2 Mar 2012 10:00:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>På tur mot jobb i dag fikk jeg se en av Ruters billettautomater i
-Nydalen som var brutt sammen. Tok bilde av det hele, og lot meg
-overraske over at den så ut til å kjøre
-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_2000">Windows 2000
-Professional</a>.</p>
-
-<p><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-03-02-ruter-win2000pro.jpeg"><img width="40%" src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-03-02-ruter-win2000pro.jpeg" alt="[foto av billettautomat]"></a></p>
-
-<p>Jeg ble overrasket da den versjonen av operativsystemene til
-Microsoft så vidt jeg vet ikke lenger mottar sikkerhetsoppdateringer.
-I følge Wikipedia og
-<a href="http://support.microsoft.com/lifecycle/search/?sort=PN&alpha=Windows+2000&Filter=FilterNO">Microsoft</a>
-har den ikke hatt støtte fra Microsoft siden 2010-07-13. Det er en
-ganske stor sikkerhetsrisiko å bruke operativsystemer i et og et halvt
-år etter at de ikke lenger blir tatt vare på sikkerhetsmessig.</p>
-
-<p>Bildet er tilgjengelig for bruk med bruksvilkårene til
-<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/no/">Creative
-Commons Navngivelse 3.0 Norge (CC BY 3.0)</a>.</p>
+ <title>Debian Edu interview: Wolfgang Schweer</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 1 Apr 2012 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Germany is a core area for the
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
+user community, and this time I managed to get hold of Wolfgang
+Schweer, a valuable contributor to the project from Germany.
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I've studied Mathematics at the university 'Ruhr-Universität' in
+Bochum, Germany. Since 1981 I'm working as a teacher at the school
+"<a href="http://www.westfalenkolleg-dortmund.de/">Westfalen-Kolleg
+Dortmund</a>", a second chance school. Here, young adults is given
+the opportunity to get further education in order to do the school
+examination 'Abitur', which will allow to study at a university. This
+second chance is of value for those who want a better job perspective
+or failed to get a higher school examination being teens.</p>
+
+<p>Besides teaching I was involved in developing online courses for a
+blended learning project called 'abitur-online.nrw' and in some other
+information technology related projects. For about ten years I've been
+teacher and coordinator for the 'abitur-online' project at my
+school. Being now in my early sixties, I've decided to leave school at
+the end of April this year.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>The first information about Skolelinux must have come to my
+attention years ago and somehow related to LTSP (Linux Terminal Server
+Project). At school, we had set up a network at the beginning of 1997
+using Suse Linux on the desktop, replacing a Novell network. Since
+2002, we used old machines from the city council of Dortmund as thin
+clients (LTSP, later Ubuntu/Lessdisks) cause new hardware was out of
+reach. At home I'm using Debian since years and - subscribed to the
+Debian news letter - heard from time to time about Skolelinux. About
+two years ago I proposed to replace the (somehow undocumented and only
+known to me) system at school by a well known Debian based system:
+Skolelinux.</p>
+
+<p>Students and teachers appreciated the new system because of a
+better look and feel and an enhanced access to local media on thin
+clients. The possibility to alter and/or reset passwords using a GUI
+was welcomed, too. Being able to do administrative tasks using a GUI
+and to easily set up workstations using PXE was of very high value for
+the admin teachers.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>It's open source, easy to set up, stable and flexible due to it's
+Debian base. It integrates LTSP out-of-the-box. And it is documented!
+So it was a perfect choice.</p>
+
+<p>Being open source, there are no license problems and so it's
+possible to point teachers and students to programs like
+OpenOffice.org, ViewYourMind (mind mapping) and The Gimp. It's of
+high value to be able to adapt parts of the system to special needs of
+a school and to choose where to get support for this.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Nothing yet.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>At home (Debian Sid with Gnome Desktop): Iceweasel, LibreOffice,
+Mutt, Gedit, Document Viewer, Midnight Commander, flpsed (PDF
+Annotator). At school (Skolelinux Lenny): Iceweasel, Gedit,
+LibreOffice.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Some time ago I thought it was enough to tell people about it. But
+that doesn't seem to work quite well. Now I concentrate on those more
+interested and hope to get multiplicators that way.</p>
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