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+ <title>Debian Edu interview: José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jos__Luis_Redrejo_Rodr_guez.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jos__Luis_Redrejo_Rodr_guez.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I've been too busy at home, but finally I found time to wrap up
+another interview with the people behind
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>.
+This time we get to know José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez, one of our great
+helpers from Spain. His effort was the reason we added support for
+several desktop types (KDE, Gnome and most recently LXDE) in Debian
+Edu, and have all of these available in the recently published
+<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html">Debian Edu
+Squeeze</a> version.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I'm a father, teacher and engineer who is working for the Education
+ministry of the Region of Extremadura (Spain) in the implementation of
+ICT in schools</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>At 2006, I verified that both, we in Extremadura and Skolelinux
+project, had been working in parallel for some years, doing very
+similar things, using very similar tools and with similar targets, so
+I decided it was time to join forces as much as possible.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>A community of highly skilled experts working together, with a
+really open schema of collaboration and work. I really love the
+concepts of Do-ocracy and Merit-ocracy and the way these concepts are
+been used everyday inside Debian Edu.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Sometimes the differences in the implementations, laws or
+economical and technical resources in the different countries don't
+allow us to agree in the same solution for all of us, and several
+approaches are needed, what is a waste of effort. Also, there is a
+lack of more man power to be able to follow the fast evolution of the
+technologies in school.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Debian, of course, and due to my kind of job I am most of my time
+between Iceweasel, <a href="http://www.geany.org/">Geany</a> and
+<a href="http://www.ohloh.net/p/gnome-terminator">Terminator</a>.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I think there is not a single strategy because there are very
+different scenarios: schools with mixed proprietary and free
+environments, schools using only workstations, other schools using
+laptops, netbooks, tablets, interactive white-boards, etc.</p>
+
+<p>Also the range of ages of the students is very broad and you can
+not use the same solutions for primary schools and secondary or even
+universities. So different strategies are needed.</p>
+
+<p>But, looking at these differences, and looking back to the things
+we've done and implemented, and the places were we have spent most of
+our forces, I think we should focus as much as possible in free
+multi-platform environments, using only standards tools, and moving
+more and more to Internet or network solutions that could be deployed
+using wireless. I think we'll see more and more personal devices in
+the schools, devices the students and teachers will take home with
+them, so the solutions must be able to be taken at home and continue
+working there.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>NRK nekter å finne og utlevere eventuell avtale med MPEG-LA</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NRK_nekter___finne_og_utlevere_eventuell_avtale_med_MPEG_LA.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NRK_nekter___finne_og_utlevere_eventuell_avtale_med_MPEG_LA.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Jeg fikk nettopp svar fra NRK på
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Trenger_en_avtale_med_MPEG_LA_for___publisere_og_kringkaste_H_264_video_.html">min
+forespørsel om kopi av avtale</a> med MPEG-LA eller andre om bruk av
+MPEG og/eller H.264. Svaret har fått saksreferanse 2011/371 (mon tro
+hva slags sak fra 2011 dette er?) hos NRK og lyder som følger:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+
+<p><strong>Svar på innsynsbegjæring i MPEG / H.264-relaterte
+avtaler</strong></p>
+
+<p>Viser til innsynsbegjæring av 19. juni 2012. Kravet om innsyn
+gjelder avtale som gjør at NRK «ikke er begrenset av de generelle
+bruksvilkårene som gjelder for utstyr som bruker MPEG og/eller
+H.264».</p>
+
+<p>I henhold til offentleglova § 28 annet ledd må innsynskravet gjelde
+en bestemt sak eller i rimelig utstrekning saker av en bestemt
+sak. Det er på det rene at det aktuelle innsynskravet ikke gjelder en
+bestemt sak. Spørsmålet som reiser seg er om identifiseringsgraden er
+tilstrekkelig. I Justisdepartementets «Rettleiar til offentleglova»
+står følgende:</p>
+
+<p>«Kravet om at innsynskravet må gjelde ei bestemt sak er til hinder
+for at eit innsynskrav kan gjelde alle saker av ein bestemt art, utan
+at den enkelte saka blir identifisert. Ein kan med andre ord i
+utgangspunktet ikkje krevje innsyn i til dømes alle saker om
+utsleppsløyve hos Statens forureiningstilsyn frå dei siste tre åra,
+med mindre ein identifiserer kvar enkelt sak, til dømes med tilvising
+til dato, partar eller liknande.»</p>
+
+<p>Vedrørende denne begrensningen har Justisdepartementet uttalt
+følgende (Lovavdelingens uttalelser JDLOV-2010-3295):</p>
+
+<p><em>«Bakgrunnen for avgrensinga av kva innsynskravet kan gjelde,
+er fyrst og fremst at meir generelle innsynskrav, utan noka form for
+identifikasjon av kva ein eigentleg ynskjer, ville vere svært
+vanskelege å handsame for forvaltninga.»</em></p>
+
+<p>I samme sak uttaler Lovavdelingen følgende:</p>
+
+<p><em>«Det følgjer vidare av offentleglova § 28 andre ledd at det `i
+rimeleg utstrekning' kan krevjast innsyn i `saker av ein bestemt
+art'. Vilkåret om at eit innsynskrav berre `i rimeleg utstrekning' kan
+gjelde saker av ein bestemt art, er i hovudsak knytt til kor
+arbeidskrevjande det vil vere å finne fram til dei aktuelle
+dokumenta. I tillegg reknar vi med at vilkåret kan gje grunnlag for å
+nekte innsyn i tilfelle der innsynskravet er så omfattande (gjeld så
+mange dokument) at arbeidsmengda som ville gått med til å handsame
+det, er større enn det ein `i rimeleg utstrekning' kan krevje (sjølv
+om det nok skal mykje til).»</em></p>
+
+<p>NRK har ikke noen egen sammenstilling over avtaler innenfor
+bestemte områder som omtales i innsynsbegjæringen. De måtte søkes på
+vanlig måte. I tillegg finnes ikke noen automatisert måte å finne
+avtaler som «ikke er begrenset av de generelle bruksvilkårene som
+gjelder for utstyr som bruker MPEG og/eller H.264». En slik
+gjennomgang av avtaler måtte gjøres manuelt av en person med
+spesialistkunnskap. Dette vil kreve at NRK avsetter omfattende
+ressurser for å finne frem relevante avtaler og for deretter å vurdere
+om de dekkes av det innsynsbegjæringen omfattes.</p>
+
+<p>På bakgrunn av dette nekter NRK innsyn, med den begrunnelsen at
+innsynskravet er så omfattende at arbeidsmengden for å håndtere kravet
+vil være langt større enn det som i rimelig utstrekning kan kreves i
+henhold til offentleglova § 28 annet ledd.</p>
+
+<p>Avslag på deres innsynsbegjæring kan påklages til Kultur- og
+kirkedepartementet innen tre uker fra det tidspunkt avslaget kommer
+frem til mottakeren, i henhold til reglene i offentleglova § 32,
+jf. forvaltningsloven kapittel VI. Klagen skal stiles til Kultur- og
+kirkedepartementet, og sendes til NRK.</p>
+
+<p>NRK er imidlertid etter Offentleglova forpliktet å gi ut journaler,
+slik at en eventuell søknad om innsyn kan tydeligere identifisere
+hvilke dokumenter som det ønskes innsyn i. NRKs offentlige journaler
+for inneværende og forrige måned ligger ute på
+NRK.no/innsyn. Journaler som går lengre tilbake i tid, kan sendes ut
+på forespørsel til innsyn@nrk.no.</p>
+
+<p>Med hilsen
+<br>Dokumentarkivet i NRK
+<br>v/ Elin Brandsrud
+<br>Tel. direkte: 23 04 29 29
+<br>Post: RBM3, Postboks 8500 Majorstuen, 0340 Oslo
+<br>innsyn@nrk.no</p>
+
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Svaret kom
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2012-06-25-video-mpegla-nrk.pdf">i
+PDF-form som vedlegg på epost</a>. Jeg er litt usikker på hvordan jeg
+best går videre for å bli klok, men jeg har jo i hvert fall tre uker
+på å vurdere om jeg skal klage. Enten må nok forespørselen
+reformuleres eller så må jeg vel klage. Synes jo det er merkelig at
+NRK ikke har bedre kontroll med hvilke avtaler de har inngått. Det
+burde jo være noen i ledelsen som vet om de har signert en avtale med
+MPEG-LA eller ikke...</p>
+
+<p>Oppdatering 2012-06-25 20:20: Et google-søk på "2011/371 nrk"
+sendte meg til postjournalen for
+<a href="http://nrk.no/contentfile/file/1.8212365!offentligjournal19062012.pdf">2012-06-19</a>
+og
+<a href="http://nrk.no/contentfile/file/1.8214156!offentligjournal20062012.pdf">2012-06-20</a>
+hos NRK som viser mine forespørsler og viser at sakens tittel hos NRK
+er "Graphic Systems Regions MA 2378/10E". Videre søk etter "Graphic
+Systems Regions" viser at dette er saken til et anbud om
+"<a href="http://no.mercell.com/m/mts/Tender/27179412.aspx">a graphics
+system for 12 or 13 sites broadcasting regional news</a>" hos Mercell
+Sourcing Service, også omtalt på
+<a href="http://www.publictenders.net/tender/595705">Public
+Tenders</a> og
+<a href="http://www.doffin.no/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=JAN155521">Doffin</a>.
+Jeg er dog usikker på hvordan dette er relatert til min
+forespørsel.</p>
+
+<p>Oppdatering 2012-06-25 22:40: Ble tipset av Kieran Kunhya, fra
+miljøet rundt
+<a href="http://code.google.com/p/open-broadcast-encoder/">Open
+Broadcast Encoder</a>, at listen over de som har lisensavtale med
+MPEG-LA er
+<a href="http://www.mpeg-la.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensees.aspx">tilgjengelig
+på web</a>. Veldig fint å oppdage hvor den finnes, da jeg må ha lett
+etter feil ting da jeg forsøke å finne den. Der står ikke NRK, men
+flere andre "Broadcasting Company"-oppføringer. Lurer på om det betyr
+at NRK ikke trenger avtale, eller noe helt annet?</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Song book for Computer Scientists</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Song_book_for_Computer_Scientists.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Song_book_for_Computer_Scientists.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Many years ago, while studying Computer Science at the
+<a href="http://www.uit.no/">University of Tromsø</a>, I started
+collecting computer related songs for use at parties. The original
+version was written in LaTeX, but a few years ago I got help from
+Håkon W. Lie, one of the inventors of W3C CSS, to convert it to HTML
+while keeping the ability to create a nice book in PDF format. I have
+not had time to maintain the book for a while now, and guess I should
+put it up on some public version control repository where others can
+help me extend and update the book. If anyone is volunteering to help
+me with this, send me an email. Also let me know if there are songs
+missing in my book.</p>
+
+<p>I have not mentioned the book on my blog so far, and it occured to
+me today that I really should let all my readers share the joys of
+singing out load about programming, computers and computer networks.
+Especially now that <a href="http://debconf12.debconf.org/">Debconf
+12</a> is about to start (and I am not going). Want to sing? Check
+out <a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/cs-songbook/">Petter's
+Computer Science Songbook</a>.
+</description>
+ </item>
+
<item>
<title>Lovlig piratkopiering av den Østeriske landsbyen Hallstatt</title>
<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lovlig_piratkopiering_av_den__steriske_landsbyen_Hallstatt.html</link>
</description>
</item>
- <item>
- <title>Web service to look up HP and Dell computer hardware support status</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>A few days ago
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html">I
-reported how to get</a> the support status out of Dell using an
-unofficial and undocumented SOAP API, which I since have found out was
-<a href="http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2012-February/045959.html">discovered
-by Daniel De Marco in february</a>. Combined with my web scraping
-code for HP, Dell and IBM
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html">from
-2009</a>, I got inspired and wrote
-<a href="https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/">a
-web service</a> based on Scraperwiki to make it easy to look up the
-support status and get a machine readable result back.</p>
-
-<p>This is what it look like at the moment when asking for the JSON
-output:
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-% GET <a href="https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&vendor=Dell&servicetag=2v1xwn1">https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&vendor=Dell&servicetag=2v1xwn1</a>
-supportstatus({"servicetag": "2v1xwn1", "warrantyend": "2013-11-24", "shipped": "2010-11-24", "scrapestamputc": "2012-06-06T20:26:56.965847", "scrapedurl": "http://143.166.84.118/services/assetservice.asmx?WSDL", "vendor": "Dell", "productid": ""})
-%
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>It currently support Dell and HP, and I am hoping for help to add
-support for other vendors. The python source is available on
-Scraperwiki and I welcome help with adding more features.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Kommentar til artikkel i Adresseavisa som omtaler FiksGataMi</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentar_til_artikkel_i_Adresseavisa_som_omtaler_FiksGataMi.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentar_til_artikkel_i_Adresseavisa_som_omtaler_FiksGataMi.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2012 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Jeg oppdaget nylig en
-<a href="http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/article1831198.ece">artikkel
-i Adresseavisa</a> i Trondheim som nevner FiksGataMi, og der Trondheim
-kommune ser ut til å fortelle at de ikke følger forvaltningslovens
-krav ved mottak av meldinger sendt inn via FiksGataMi. La derfor
-nettopp inn denne kommentaren til artikkelen:<p>
-
-<p><blockquote>
-
-<p>Her er en liten faktaoppdatering om FiksGataMi-tjenesten, da noen
-ser ut til å ha misforstått hvordan den fungerer.</p>
-
-<p>FiksGataMi er et privat initiativ opprettet og drevet av
-medlemsforeningen NUUG. FiksGataMi tar imot meldinger om feil i
-offentlig infrastruktur, og sender meldingen skriftlig videre på vegne
-av innmelder til aktuell aktør i det offentlige, det være seg kommune,
-fylke eller vegvesenregion. Offentlig etat blir valgt ut fra
-geografisk plassering og kategori valgt av innsender. Offentlige
-etater er i følge forvaltningsloven pliktig å følge opp og besvare
-skriftlige henvendelser, og hvis noen av mottakerne ikke gjør dette
-kan en klage på lovbrudd i det offentlige. FiksGataMi fungerer dermed
-som en slags epostklient for innbyggerne der kopi av innsendte
-meldinger gjøres tilgjengelig og knyttes til kartplassering for enkel
-gjenfinning. Å sende inn nye problemrapporter via FiksGataMi er
-dermed ikke avhengig av at kommunen aktivt må følge med på meldinger
-hos FiksGataMi, da de får dem tilsendt på sine offisielle
-epostmottakspunkter. Hvorvidt noe blir fikset og om innbyggerne er
-opp til mottaker av meldingene. For Trondheim kommune er
-mottaksadressen bydrift.vegdrift@trondheim.kommune.no, en adresse jeg
-inntil jeg leste denne artikkelen trodde ble håndtert i henhold til
-forvaltningslovens krav.</p>
-
-<p>Kan ellers fortelle at 57 kommuner lenker til FiksGataMi fra sine
-nettsider, og at 37 % (4182 av 11266 ) av problemrapportene sendt inn
-via FiksGataMi er markert som løst i løsningen. Trondheim kommune har
-fått tilbud om å få rapportene levert på datamaskinlesbart format i
-stedet for epost, men har ikke takket ja så langt.</p>
-
-<p>Vennlig hilsen Petter Reinholdtsen, en av NUUG-folkene bak FiksGataMi.no</p>
-
-</blockquote></p>
-
-<p>Det høres for meg ut som om innbyggerne i Trondheim burde klage på
-kommunens potensielle lovbrudd.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Debian Edu interview: Mike Gabriel</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2012 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>Back in 2010, Mike Gabriel showed up on the
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
-mailing list. He quickly proved to be a valuable developer, and
-thanks to his tireless effort we now have Kerberos integrated into the
-<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html">Debian Edu
-Squeeze</a> version.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
-
-<p>My name is Mike Gabriel, I am 38 years old and live near Kiel,
-Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. I live together with a wonderful partner
-(Angela Fuß) and two own children and two bonus children (contributed
-by Angela).</p>
-
-<p>During the day I am part-time employed as a system administrator
-and part-time working as an IT consultant. The consultancy work
-touches free software topics wherever and whenever possible. During
-the nights I am a free software developer. In the gaps I also train in
-becoming an osteopath.</p>
-
-<p>Starting in 2010 we (Andreas Buchholz, Angela Fuß, Mike Gabriel)
-have set up a free software project in the area of Kiel that aims at
-introducing free software into schools. The project's name is
-"IT-Zukunft Schule" (IT future for schools). The project links IT
-skills with communication skills.</p>
-
-<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
-project?</strong></p>
-
-<p>While preparing our own customised Linux distribution for
-"IT-Zukunft Schule" we were repeatedly asked if we really wanted to
-reinvent the wheel. What schools really need is already available,
-people said. From this impulse we started evaluating other Linux
-distributions that target being used for school networks.</p>
-
-<p>At the end we short-listed two approaches and compared them: a
-commercial Linux distribution developed by a company in Bremen,
-Germany, and Skolelinux / Debian Edu. Between 12/2010 and 03/2011 we
-went to several events and met people being responsible for marketing
-and development of either of the distributions. Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu was by far much more convincing compared to the other product that
-got short-listed beforehand--across the full spectrum. What was most
-attractive for me personally: the perspective of collaboration within
-the developmental branch of the Debian Edu project itself.</p>
-
-<p>In parallel with this, we talked to many local and not-so-local
-people. People teaching at schools, headmasters, politicians, data
-protection experts, other IT professionals.</p>
-
-<p>We came to two conclusions:</p>
-
-<p>First, a technical conclusion: What schools need is available in
-bits and pieces here and there, and none of the solutions really fit
-by 100%. Any school we have seen has a very individual IT setup
-whereas most of each school's requirements could mapped by a standard
-IT solution. The requirement to this IT solution is flexibility and
-customisability, so that individual adaptations here and there are
-possible. In terms of re-distributing and rolling out such a
-standardised IT system for schools (a system that is still to some
-degree customisable) there is still a lot of work to do here
-locally. Debian Edu / Skolelinux has been our choice as the starting
-point.</p>
-
-<p>Second, a holistic conclusion: What schools need does not exist at
-all (or we missed it so far). There are several technical solutions
-for handling IT at schools that tend to make a good impression. What
-has been missing completely here in Germany, though, is the enrolment
-of people into using IT and teaching with IT. "IT-Zukunft Schule"
-tries to provide an approach for this.</p>
-
-<p>Only some schools have some sort of a media concept which explains,
-defines and gives guidance on how to use IT in class. Most schools in
-Northern Germany do not have an IT service provider, the school's IT
-equipment is managed by one or (if the school is lucky) two (admin)
-teachers, most of the workload these admin teachers get done in there
-spare time.</p>
-
-<p>We were surprised that only a very few admin teachers were
-networked with colleagues from other schools. Basically, every school
-here around has its individual approach of providing IT equipment to
-teachers and students and the exchange of ideas has been quasi
-non-existent until 2010/2011.</p>
-
-<p>Quite some (non-admin) teachers try to avoid using IT technology in
-class as a learning medium completely. Several reasons for this
-avoidance do exist.</p>
-
-<p>We discovered that no-one has ever taken a closer look at this
-social part of IT management in schools, so far. On our quest journey
-for a technical IT solution for schools, we discussed this issue with
-several teachers, headmasters, politicians, other IT professionals and
-they all confirmed: a holistic approach of considering IT management
-at schools, an approach that includes the people in place, will be new
-and probably a gain for all.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>There is a list of advantages: international context, openness to
-any kind of contributions, do-ocracy policy, the closeness to Debian,
-the different installation scenarios possible (from stand-alone
-workstation to complex multi-server sites), the transparency within
-project communication, honest communication within the group of
-developers, etc.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Every coin has two sides:</p>
-
-<p>Technically: <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/311188">BTS issue
-#311188</a>, tricky upgradability of a Debian Edu main server, network
-client installations on top of a plain vanilla Debian installation
-should become possible sometime in the near future, one could think
-about splitting the very complex package debian-edu-config into
-several portions (to make it easier for new developers to
-contribute).</p>
-
-<p>Another issue I see is that we (as Debian Edu developers) should
-find out more about the network of people who do the marketing for
-Debian Edu / Skolelinux. There is a very active group in Germany
-promoting Skolelinux on the bigger Linux Days within Germany. Are
-there other groups like that in other countries? How can we bring
-these marketing people together (marketing group A with group B and
-all of them with the group of Debian Edu developers)? During the last
-meeting of the German Skolelinux group, I got the impression of people
-there being rather disconnected from the development department of
-Debian Edu / Skolelinux.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
-
-<p>For my daily business, I do not use commercial software at all.</p>
-
-<p>For normal stuff I use Iceweasel/Firefox, Libreoffice.org. For
-serious text writing I prefer LaTeX. I use gimp, inkscape, scribus for
-more artistic tasks. I run virtual machines in KVM and Virtualbox.</p>
-
-<p>I am one of the upstream developers of X2Go. In 2010 I started the
-development of a Python based X2Go Client, called PyHoca-GUI.
-PyHoca-GUI has brought forth a Python X2Go Client API that currently
-is being integrated in Ubuntu's software center.</p>
-
-<p>For communications I have my own Kolab server running using Horde
-as web-based groupware client. For IRC I love to use irssi, for Jabber
-I have several clients that I use, mostly pidgin, though. I am also
-the Debian maintainer of Coccinella, a Jabber-based interactive
-whiteboard.</p>
-
-<p>My favourite terminal emulator is KDE's Yakuake.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Communicate, communicate, communicate. Enrol people, enrol people,
-enrol people.</p>
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