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+Title: Debian Edu interview: Mike Gabriel
+Tags: english, debian edu, intervju
+Date: 2012-04-15 11:30
+
+<p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
+
+ José Luis Redrejo RodrÃguez
+
+ * Who are you, and how do you spend your days?
+
+ I'm a father, teacher and engineer who is working for the
+Education ministry of the Region of Extremadura (Spain) in the
+implementation of ICT in schools
+
+ * How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu project?
+
+ At 2006, I verified that both, we in Extremadura and Skolelinux
+project, had been working in parallel for some years, doing very
+similar things, using very similar tools and with similar targets, so
+I decided it was time to join forces as much as possible.
+
+ * What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu?
+
+ A community of highly skilled experts working together, with a
+really open schema of collaboration and work. I really love the
+concepts of Do-ocracy and Merit-ocracy and the way these concepts are
+been used everyday inside Debian Edu.
+
+ * What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu?
+
+ Sometimes the differences in the implementations, laws or
+economical and technical resources in the different countries don't
+allow us to agree in the same solution for all of us, and several
+approaches are needed , what is a waste of effort. Also , there is a
+lack of more man power to be able to follow the fast evolution of the
+technologies in school.
+
+
+ * Which free software do you use daily?
+
+ Debian, of course, and due to my kind of job I am most of my time
+between Iceweasel, Geany and Terminator.
+
+
+ * Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to get schools
+ to use free software?
+
+ I think there is not a single strategy because there are very
+different scenarios: schools with mixed propietary and free
+environments, schools using only workstations, other schools using
+laptops, netbooks, tablets, interactive whiteboards, etc.
+
+ Also the range of ages of the students is very broad and you can
+not use the same solutions for primary schools and secondary or even
+universities. So different strategies are needed.
+
+ But, looking at these differences, and looking back to the things
+we've done and implemented, and the places were we have spent most of
+our forces, I think we should focus as much as possible in free
+multiplatform environments, using only standards tools, and moving
+more and more to Internet or network solutions that could be deployed
+using wireless. I think we'll see more and more personal devices in
+the schools, devices the students and teachers will take home with
+them, so the solutions must be able to be taken at home and continue
+working there.
+
+ * Who should be interviewed with this questions in the future?
+
+ Petter Reinholdtsen, of course. I also think Nigel Barker can give
+very interesting points of view, since he's working daily inside the
+classroom.
+
+
+