- <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Axel_Bojer.html">Skolelinux-intervju: Axel Bojer</a></div>
- <div class="date"> 7th February 2012</div>
- <div class="body"><p>I serien med intervjuer av folk i
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>-miljøet har jeg
-fått en av oversetterne som har vært med siden starten i tale.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Jeg heter Axel Bojer og er datalærer, tysklærer, oversetter med
-mere.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Tror jeg så en annonsering på nettet i slutten av 2001 og ville
-være med som oversetter. Jeg kom med på en utviklersamling og
-prosjektet var da helt i starten. Det var spennende å være med mens
-prosjektet vokste til og utviklet seg.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg har «alltid» vært språkinteressert og hadde nettopp startet med
-Linux og tror jeg tenkte det passet å bidra. Var også glad for å få
-en Debian-distribusjon, og ville gjerne bruke den selv. Til å begynne
-med brukte jeg først Mandrake og så Debian. Og siden jeg oppdaget at
-det ikke var noen mulighet for å bruke den som enkeltstående i lang
-tid, så gikk jeg etterhvert over til Kubuntu</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Løsningen er forholdsvis lett å sette opp, gratis, fri programvare
-og gjør det mulig å gjenbruke eldre maskiner. Det fine med Debian er
-at det er stabilt og har en veldig stor mengde programmer. Jeg liker
-også apt. :-) Jeg liker også friheten ved Linux og muligheten til å
-delta og forme sin egen datahverdag.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Skolelinux er for lite kjent og for sent ute med å gi ut nye
-versjoner.</p>
-
-<p>Da jeg selv i hovedsak bruker Kubuntu, så kan jeg egentlig ikke
-svare så detaljert rundt ulempene med Skolelinux. Hovedårsaken til at
-jeg bruker Kubuntu er nok at da vi begynte med det mener jeg det ikke
-var noen annen løsning. «Vandrende arbeidsstasjon» mener jeg ikke
-fantes da. Dessuten ville jeg ha siste versjon, da den KDE-versjonen
-som var i Skolelinux den gangen var en god del enklere (tror det var
-KDE 2) var dårligere i mine øyne enn versjon 3.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Jeg bruker blant annet Kubuntu, LibreOffice, Thunderbird, Firefox,
-Kate, <a href="http://comix.sourceforge.net/">Comix</a> og Konsole. Og
-en hel haug andre ved behov :-)</p>
-
-<p>Har oversatt Comix selv, men det er jo ikke skjedd noe med Comix
-siden 2009, så den er det nok bare jeg som har. Om andre vil ha den
-gir jeg den gjerne videre. Ser at noen har startet på
-<a href="http://mcomix.sourceforge.net/">MComix</a> siden jeg så på så
-på dette sist, så nå er jeg igang med å teste og oversette den
-også.</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>Det viktigste er å forankre beslutningen i kollegiet og med de som
-er ansvarlige for å vedlikeholde og bruke datamaskinene. Flest mulig
-bør være med på å holde det (sosialt) vedlike, kjenne og støtte
-prinsippene. Som enkeltmannsprosjekt blir det lett veldig sårbart,
-særlig når (Skole)linux ennå i stor grad er en motkultur og ikke noe
-en stor nok andel av beslutningstakere, brukere osv kjenner til og
-bruker.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg tror det viktigste er å fortsette å holde fri programvare godt,
-oppdatert, minimere antall feil, ha en god kontakt med brukerne og
-attraktivt og spennende programmer. Beholde alt som er bra og ha det
-tilgjengelig samtidig som man tilbyr det nyeste og rareste for de som
-vil ha det.</p>
+ <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html">Debian Edu interview: Nigel Barker</a></div>
+ <div class="date"> 9th March 2012</div>
+ <div class="body"><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>
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