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+ <title>Debian Edu interview: Andreas Mundt</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html</link>
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+ <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. We 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 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>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>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>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>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>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>
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<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>
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- <title>Debian Edu screencast: Checking email with kmail using Kerberos authentication</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Checking_email_with_kmail_using_Kerberos_authentication.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Sun, 25 Mar 2012 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><!-- Video HTML based on http://www.diveintohtml5.net/video.html -->
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-<p>The same Debian Edu developer that did the last screen cast I
-published, Wolfgang Schweer, has created a new screen cast showing how
-to set up Kmail in Debian Edu Squeze to authenticate using Kerberos,
-allowing users to check their local email account without providing
-any password. The video is embedded here in quarter size,
-and also available from <a href="https://vimeo.com/38601767">vimeo</a>
-and download as a
-<a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv">Ogg
-Theora</a> file. Check it out below.</p>
-
-<p><video id="kmail-kerberos-movie" width="256" height="184" preload controls>
- <source src="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
- <p>Download video as
- <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv">Ogg</a>.</p>
-</video></p>
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