X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/29757a4bdf933c3ff2ec6a62e7c7c8b8ab11787d..9ac00b1d06c06b6a9761550932b6883dc708260a:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index 6988879ff7..17322e2860 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,33 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + Song book for Computer Scientists + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Song_book_for_Computer_Scientists.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Song_book_for_Computer_Scientists.html + Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:30:00 +0200 + <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>. + + + Lovlig piratkopiering av den Østeriske landsbyen Hallstatt http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lovlig_piratkopiering_av_den__steriske_landsbyen_Hallstatt.html @@ -590,168 +617,5 @@ kommunens potensielle lovbrudd.</p> - - Debian Edu interview: Mike Gabriel - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html - Sat, 2 Jun 2012 15:00:00 +0200 - <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> - - -