New interview.

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+Title: Debian Edu interview: Bernd Zeitzen
+Tags: english, debian edu, intervju
+Date: 2014-07-31 08:30
+
+<p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux</a> system is used quite a lot in Germany, and one of the
+people involved is Bernd Zeitzen, who show up on the project mailing
+lists from time to time with interesting questions and tips on how to
+adjust the setup.  I managed to interview him this summer.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>My name is Bernd Zeitzen and I'm married with Hedda, a self
+employed physiotherapist.  My former profession is tool maker, but I
+haven't worked for 30 years in this job.  30 years ago I started to
+support my wife and become her officeworker and a few years later the
+administrator for a small computer network, today based on Ubuntu
+Server (Samba, OpenVPN). For her daily work she has to use Windows
+Desktops because the software she needs to organize her business only
+works with Windows . :-(</p>
+
+<p>In 1988 we started with one PC and DOS, then I learned to use
+Windows 98, 2000, XP, …, 8, Ubuntu, MacOSX.  Today we are running a
+Linux server with 6 Windows clients and 10 persons (teacher of
+children with special needs, speech therapist, occupational therapist,
+psychologist and officeworkers) using our Samba shares via OpenVPN to
+work with the documentations of our patients.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Two years ago a friend of mine asked me, if I want to get a job in
+his school (<a href="http://www.gymnasium-harsewinkel.de/">Gymnasium
+Harsewinkel</a>).  They started with Skolelinux / Debian Edu and they
+were looking for people to give support to the teachers using the
+software and the network and teaching the pupils increasing their
+computer skills in optional lessons.  I'm spending 4-6 hours a week
+with this job.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>The independence.</p>
+
+<p>First: Every person is allowed to use, share and develop the
+software. Even if you are poor, you are allowed to use the software
+included in Skolelinux/Debian Edu and all the other Free Software.</p>
+
+<p>Second: The software runs on old machines and this gives us the
+possibility to recycle computers, weeded out from offices.  The
+servers and desktops are running for more than two years and they are
+working reliable. </p>
+
+<p>We have two servers (one tjener and one terminal server), 45
+workstations in three classrooms and seven laptops as a mobile
+solution for all classrooms.  These machines are all booting from the
+terminal server.  In the moment we are installing 30 laptops as mobile
+workstations.  Then the pupils have the possibility to work with these
+machines in their classrooms.  Internet access is realized by a WLAN
+router, connected to the schools network. This is all done without a
+dedicated system administrator or a computer science teacher.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Teachers and pupils are Windows users.  &lt;Irony on&gt; And Linux
+isn't cool. It's software for freaks using the command line. &lt;Irony
+off&gt; They don't realize the stability of the system. </p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice, Ubuntu Server 12.04 (Samba,
+Apache, MySQL, Joomla!, … and Skolelinux / Debian Edu)</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>In Germany we have the situation: every school is free to decide
+which software they want to use. This decision is influenced by
+teachers who learned to use Windows and MS Office. They buy a PC with
+Windows preinstalled and an additional testing version of MS
+Office. They don't know about the possibility to use Free Software
+instead.  Another problem are the publisher of school books.  They
+develop their software, added to the school books, for Windows.</p>