Update with more text.

diff --git a/blog/draft/2012-03-skolelinux-wolfgang-schweer.txt b/blog/draft/2012-03-skolelinux-wolfgang-schweer.txt
index 4a4701cb505fc88017092584034bf4b589ef37b8..4654f858df04a82e67196f0255392142f3caacc9 100644 (file)
--- a/blog/draft/2012-03-skolelinux-wolfgang-schweer.txt
+++ b/blog/draft/2012-03-skolelinux-wolfgang-schweer.txt
@@ -2,21 +2,28 @@ Title: Debian Edu interview: Wolfgang Schweer
 Tags: english, debian edu, intervju
 Date: 2012-03-15 11:30
 
 Tags: english, debian edu, intervju
 Date: 2012-03-15 11:30
 

-<p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
-
- Wolfgang Schweer
+<p>Germany is a core area for the
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
+Skolelinux user community, and this time managed to get hold of
+Wolfgang Schweer, a valuable contributor to the project from Germany.

 
 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 
 <p>I've studied Mathematics at the university 'Ruhr-Universität' in
 Bochum, Germany. Since 1981 I'm working as a teacher at the school
 
 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 
 <p>I've studied Mathematics at the university 'Ruhr-Universität' in
 Bochum, Germany. Since 1981 I'm working as a teacher at the school

-'Westfalen-Kolleg Dortmund', a school of second chance. Besides
-teaching I was involved in developing online courses for a project
-called 'abitur-online.nrw' and in some other information technology
-related projects. For about ten years I've been teacher and
-coordinator for the 'abitur-online' project at my school. Being now in
-my early sixties, I've decided to leave school at the end of April
-this year.</p>
+"<ahref="http://www.westfalenkolleg-dortmund.de/">Westfalen-Kolleg
+Dortmund</a>", a second chance school.  Here, young adults is given
+the opportunity to get further education in order to do the school
+examination 'Abitur', which will allow to study at a university. This
+second chance is of value for those who want a better job perspective
+or failed to get a higher school examination being teens.</p>
+
+<p>Besides teaching I was involved in developing online courses for a
+blended learning project called 'abitur-online.nrw' and in some other
+information technology related projects. For about ten years I've been
+teacher and coordinator for the 'abitur-online' project at my
+school. Being now in my early sixties, I've decided to leave school at
+the end of April this year.</p>

 
 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 project?</strong></p>
 
 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 project?</strong></p>


@@ -33,6 +40,13 @@ two years ago I proposed to replace the (somehow undocumented and only
 known to me) system at school by a well known Debian based system:
 Skolelinux.</p>
 
 known to me) system at school by a well known Debian based system:
 Skolelinux.</p>
 

+<p>Students and teachers appreciated the new system because of a
+better look and feel and an enhanced access to local media on thin
+clients.  The possibility to alter and/or reset passwords using a GUI
+was welcomed, too. Being able to do administrative tasks using a GUI
+and to easily set up workstations using PXE was of very high value for
+the admin teachers.</p>
+

 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 Edu?</strong></p>
 
 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 Edu?</strong></p>
 


@@ -40,6 +54,12 @@ Edu?</strong></p>
 Debian base. It integrates LTSP out-of-the-box. And it is documented!
 So it was a perfect choice.</p>
 
 Debian base. It integrates LTSP out-of-the-box. And it is documented!
 So it was a perfect choice.</p>
 

+<p>Being open source, there are no license problems and so it's
+possible to point teachers and students to programs like
+OpenOffice.org, ViewYourMind (mind mapping) and The Gimp.  It's of
+high value to be able to adapt parts of the system to special needs of
+a school and to choose where to get support for this.</p>
+

 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 Edu?</strong></p>
 
 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 Edu?</strong></p>