From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 06:26:20 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Prepare for a new interview. X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/331b3ec72464361a6851b7c302af5122baf08534 Prepare for a new interview. --- diff --git a/blog/draft/2012-07-skolelinux-giorgio-pioda.txt b/blog/draft/2012-07-skolelinux-giorgio-pioda.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..e7e26d86ed --- /dev/null +++ b/blog/draft/2012-07-skolelinux-giorgio-pioda.txt @@ -0,0 +1,149 @@ +Title: Debian Edu interview: Giorgio Pioda +Tags: english, debian edu, intervju +Date: 2012-06-25 11:30 + +

Debian Edu and Skolelinux + + + +

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

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How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu +project?

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

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

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Which free software do you use daily?

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Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to +get schools to use free software?

+ + Giorgio Pioda (May 27) (for_me inbox intervju skolelinux year-2012) + Subject: Re: Are you willing to be interviewed for my blog? + To: Petter Reinholdtsen + Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 08:53:38 +0200 + + Hi Petter, + + of course, see below... + + On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 09:55:47PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: + > Hi, Giorgio. + > + > I am running a serie of interviews about Debian Edu / Skolelinux. + > Would you be willing to answer these questions and have the answers + > published on my blog? + > + > * Who are you, and how do you spend your days? + + I have a PhD in chemistry but since several years I work as teacher + in secondary (15-18 year old students) and tertiary (a kind of + "light" university) schools. Five years ago I started to manage + an LMS server and slowly I got more and more involved with IT. 3 years + ago the graduating schools moved completely to Linux and I got the + head of the IT for this. The experience collected in chemistry labs + computers (for exemple NMR analisys of protein folding) + and in the IT-courses during university where sufficient to start. Self training + is anyway very important + + > * How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu project? + + Looking for Linux/PDC I foud it already several years ago. But since + the system was still not Kerberized and since our schools relies strongly + on laptops I didn't use it. I plan to introduce it in the next future, + probably for the next school year, since the squeeze release solved this + security hole. + + > * What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu? + + Many. First of all there is a strong and living community that is + very generous for help and hints. Chat help is crucial, together with + the mailing list. Second. With Skolelinux you get an already well + engineered platform and you don't have to start to build up your PDC + and your clients from GNU/scratch; I've already done this once and I can + tell it, it is hard. Third, since Skolelinux is a standard platform, + it is way easier to educate other IT people and even if the head + IT is sick another one could pick up the task without too much hassle. + + > * What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu? + + The only real problem I see is that it is a little too less flexible + at client level. Debian stable is rocky and desirable, but there are many + reasons that force for another choice. For exemple the need of new drivers + for new PC, or the need for a specific OS for some devices that have + specific software packages for another specific distro (I have such a a case + for Whiteboards that have only Ubuntu packages). Thus, I prepared + compatibility packages educlient and eduroaming, hoping not to + use them ;-) + + > * Which free software do you use daily? + + I have a Debian Stable PDC at school (Kerberos,NIS,NFS) with mixed Debian and + Ubuntu clients. If you think that this triad combination is exotic... well + I discovered right yesterday that Perceus (http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/Perceus-Report.html) + has the same... + + For myself I run Debian wheezy/sid, but this combination is good only + I you have enough competence to fix stuff for yourself, if something breaks. + + > * Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to get schools + > to use free software? + + I think that the only real argument that school managers "hear" is + cost reduction. They don't give too much weight on quality, stability, just because + they are tendencially not open to change. + + Students adapts very quickly + to GNU/Linux (and for them being able to switch between + different OS is a plus value); teachers and managers don't. + + We decided + to move to Linux because students at our school have own laptop + and we have the responsability + to keep the laptop ready to use; we were really unsatisfied with M$ since + every monday we had 20 machine to fix for viral infections... With Linux + this has been reduced to zero, since people installs almost only + from official repositories. I think that our special needs brought us to + Linux. Those who don't have such needs will hardly move to Linux. + + > * Who should be interviewed with this questions in the future? + + Some other school IT managers, collecting a database of success cases, + so that also schools managers at higher level would get an enhanced + sensibility towards GNU/Linux in the schools. + + > + + Fell free to correct my mistakes... + + Cheers + + Giorgio + + [ 4-line signature. Click/Enter to show. ] + -- + Giorgio Pioda - Sysadmin SPSE-Tenero + Cell +41 79 629 20 63 + Uff. +41 91 735 62 48 + +Giorgio Pioda (May 27) (flagged for_me inbox intervju skolelinux year-2012) +Subject: [gfwp@ticino.com: Re: Are you willing to be interviewed for my blog?] +To: pere@hungry.com +Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 13:25:51 +0200 + +Hi, + +you can also add that I use daily texmacs, gnumeric, a little bit +of R statistics, kmplot, and less frequently OOffice. + +I live in the italian speaking part of Switzerland, and the SPSE +school (secondary) is a very special sport school for +jung people who try to became sport pro (for all sports, +we have dozens of disciplines represented) and we are +recognized by the Olympic Swiss Organization. (www.spse.ch) +