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Debian Edu interview: Shirish Agarwal
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6th April 2015
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It was a surprise to me to learn that the computer system for -schools I've involved in, Debian -Edu / Skolelinux, was being used in India. But apparently it is, -and I managed to get an interview with one of the project members -there, Shirish Agarwal. +

15th April 2015
+

It was a surprise to me to learn that project to create a complete +computer system for schools I've involved in, +Debian Edu / Skolelinux, was +being used in India. But apparently it is, and I managed to get an +interview with one of the friends of the project there, Shirish +Agarwal.

Who are you, and how do you spend your days?

@@ -46,7 +47,7 @@ anything for schools or education. I had worked / played with free educational softwares such as Gcompris and Stellarium for my many nieces and nephews so researched and found Debian Edu or Skolelinux as it was known then. Since then I have started using the various -education meta-packages provided by the project. +education meta-packages provided by the project.

What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian Edu?

@@ -57,8 +58,8 @@ figuratively). Even if I take the simplest software which is gcompris, the number of activities therein are amazing. Another one of the softwares that I have liked for a long time is stellarium. Even pysycache is cool except for couple of issues I encountered -#781841 and -#781842.

+#781841 and +#781842.

I prefer software installed on the system over web based solutions, as a web site can disappear any time but the software on disk has the @@ -79,7 +80,7 @@ However, saying that I do acknowledge the fact that the canvas is pretty big and there are lot of interesting ideas that could be done but for reasons not known not done or if done I don't know about them. Let me share some of the ideas (these are more upstream based but -still) I have had for a long time :-

+still) I have had for a long time :

1. Classical maths question of two trains in opposing directions each running @x kmph/mph at y distance, when they will meet and how @@ -88,7 +89,7 @@ far would each travel and similar questions like these.

The computer is a fantastic system where questions like these can be drawn, animated and the methodology and answers teased out in interactive manner. While sites such as the -Ask +Ask Dr. Math FAQ on The Two Trains problem (as an example or point of inspiration) can be used there is lot more that can be done. I dunno if there is a free software which does something like this. The idea @@ -105,7 +106,7 @@ one train and the BSD or GNU mascot on the other train and they meeting somewhere in-between. Characters from blender movies could also be used.

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2. Loads of crossword-puzzles with reference to subjects :- We have +

2. Loads of crossword-puzzles with reference to subjects: We have enormous data sets in Wikipedia and Wikitionary. I don't think it should be a big job to design crossword puzzles. Using categories and sub-categories it should be doable to have Q&A single word answers @@ -175,7 +176,7 @@ is aimed at.

Me and my friends did teach on week-ends in a government school for around 2 years, and -gathered +gathered some experience there. Some of the things we learnt/discovered there was :

@@ -193,8 +194,8 @@ there was :

you have objects falling down and you have to name them and let's say the falling object is a hat or a fedora hat, this would not be as recognizable as say a - Puneri - pagdi so there is need to inject local objects, words wherever + Puneri + Pagdi so there is need to inject local objects, words wherever possible. Especially for word-games there are so many hindi words which have become part of english vocabulary (for instance in parley), those could be made into a hinglish collection or @@ -227,7 +228,13 @@ there was :

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