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     <div class="entry">
       <div class="title">Debian Edu interview: Yvan Masson</div>
-      <div class="date">11th May 2020</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>It has been way too long since my last interview, but as the <a
-href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
+      <div class="date">12th May 2020</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>It has been way too long since my last interview, but as the
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
 community is still active, and new people keep showing up on the IRC
 channel <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-edu">#debian-edu</a> and
 <a href="https://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/">the debian-edu mailing
-list</a>, I decided to give it another go.  This time the announcement
-of a new free software tool to
+list</a>, I decided to give it another go.  I was hoping someone else
+might pick up the idea and run with it, but this has not happened as
+far as I can tell, so here we are… This time the announcement of a new
+free software tool to
 <a href="https://framagit.org/Yvan-Masson/WhosWho">create a school year
 book</a> triggered my interest, and I decided to learn more about its
 author.</p>
@@ -63,12 +65,13 @@ but probably on planet.debian.org. As I have been working for a
 school, I have interest in this type of project.
 
 <p>The school I am involved in is a school for "children" between 14
-and 18 years old.  French government has recommended free software
-since 2012 (but is far away from applying this to itself), so while
-the school computers are still using Windows, all computer have the
-classic set of free software: Firefox ESR, LibreOffice (with the
-excellent extension Grammalecte that indicates French grammatical
-errors), SumatraPDF, Audacity, 7zip, KeePass2, VLC, GIMP, Inkscape…
+and 18 years old.  The French government has recommended free software
+since 2012, but they do not always use free software themselves.  The
+school computers are still using the Windows operating system, but all
+of them have the classic set of free software: Firefox ESR,
+LibreOffice (with the excellent extension Grammalecte that indicates
+French grammatical errors), SumatraPDF, Audacity, 7zip, KeePass2, VLC,
+GIMP, Inkscape…
 
 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 Edu?</strong></p>
@@ -81,7 +84,7 @@ than another free software solution, but what I like is the "all in
 one" solution: everything has been thought of and prepared to ease
 installation and usage.</p>
 
-I live Free Software because I hate using something that I can not
+I like Free Software because I hate using something that I can not
 understand. I do not say that I can understand everything nor that I
 want to understand everything, but knowing that someone / some company
 intentionally prevents me from understanding how things work is really
@@ -103,10 +106,12 @@ centralized authentication. Maybe the project could use Samba as an
 Active Directory domain controller instead, allowing Windows desktop
 usage when necessary.</p>
 
-<p>(Editors note: Infact Windows workstations can get the centralized
-authentication in a Debian Edu setup, but the fact that this is not
-well known can be seen as an indication of the need for better
-documentation and marketing. :)
+<p>(Editors note: In fact Windows workstations can
+<a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Buster/HowTo/Samba">use
+the centralized authentication in a Debian Edu setup</a>, at least for
+some versions of Windows, but the fact that this is not well known can
+be seen as an indication of the need for better documentation and
+marketing. :)</p>
      
 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>