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  14      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Faktasjekk__Trond_Giske_hevder_Henry_Ford_sa_at_hvis_du_sp_r_folk_hva_de_vil_ha_s__svarer_de__en_st_rre_hest_.html">Faktasjekk: Trond Giske hevder Henry Ford sa at hvis du spør folk hva de vil ha så svarer de ”en større hest”</a></div>
  24       <div class="date">27th March 2012</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Næringsminister Trond Giske er av
  26 <a href="http://www.dn.no/forsiden/naringsliv/article2361916.ece">Dagens
  27 Næringsliv</a> i dag sitert på å ha sagt følgende:</p>
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  29 <p><blockquote>
  30 Henry Ford sa at hvis du spør folk hva de vil ha så svarer de ”en
  31 større hest”
  32 </blockquote></p>
  33
  34 <p>Det syntes jeg var en så merkelig ting for Henry Ford å si at jeg
  35 sjekket litt rundt sitatet.  Det Giske ser ut til å feilsitere, er et
  36 sitat kreditert Henry Ford som lyder "If I had asked people what they
  37 wanted, they would have said faster horses".  Altså ikke større hest,
  38 men raskere hester.</p>
  39
  40 <p>I følge
  41 <a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/henry_ford_never_said_the_fast.html">Patrick
  42 Vlaskovits i en blogg</a> i Stanford Business Review, har Henry Ford
  43 aldri sagt dette, og den tidligste referansen han klarte å finne til
  44 sitatet er en bok fra 2009.  Jeg finner også
  45 <a href="http://280group.com/blog/?p=1443">andre kilder</a> som også
  46 hevder at det ikke er påvist at Henry Ford faktisk har uttalt at
  47 kundene ville bedt om raskere hester .</p>
  48
  49 <p>Konklusjonen min blir at Trond Giske ikke har fakta på sin side når
  50 det gjelder dette sitatet.  Med forbehold om at journalisten i Dagens
  51 Næringsliv skrev det som ble sagt, og ikke det journalisten hørte.</p>
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  64       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Checking_email_with_kmail_using_Kerberos_authentication.html">Debian Edu screencast: Checking email with kmail using Kerberos authentication</a></div>
  65       <div class="date">25th March 2012</div>
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  68 <p>The same Debian Edu developer that did the last screen cast I
  69 published, Wolfgang Schweer, has created a new screen cast showing how
  70 to set up Kmail in Debian Edu Squeze to authenticate using Kerberos,
  71 allowing users to check their local email account without providing
  72 any password. The video is embedded here in quarter size,
  73 and also available from <a href="https://vimeo.com/38601767">vimeo</a>
  74 and download as a
  75 <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv">Ogg
  76 Theora</a> file.  Check it out below.</p>
  77
  78 <p><video id="kmail-kerberos-movie" width="256" height="184" preload controls>
  79   <source src="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
  80     <p>Download video as
  81       <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv">Ogg</a>.</p>
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  87         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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  95       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html">Større PC-tetthet i skolen med Skolelinux?</a></div>
  96       <div class="date">19th March 2012</div>
  97       <div class="body"><p>Den siste uka har det vært en del skriverier om hvor store
  98 forskjeller det er mellom skolene når det gjelder digital kompetanse.
  99 Et eksempel er
 100 <a href="http://www.digi.no/891660/bekymret-for-it-i-skolen">oppslaget
 101 i Digi</a>.  Diskusjonen fikk meg til å bli litt nysgjerrig på om
 102 Linux-skoler har større PC-tettet enn snittet i landet.  Grunnlaget
 103 for diskusjonen har vært undersøkelsen
 104 <a href="https://iktsenteret.no/ressurser/monitor-2011-skolens-digitale-tilstand">Monitor
 105 2011</a>, som bruker informasjon fra
 106 <a href="https://www.wis.no/gsi">Grunnskolens Informasjonssystem</a>
 107 (GSI).  GSI-data kan lastes ned fra web og jeg lastet ned en Excel-fil
 108 (intet åpen standard-valg tilgjengelig) med navn på alle skoler,
 109 hvilke kommune de befinner seg i og hvor mange elever pr. elev-PC de
 110 har rapportert inn.  For å få en ide om svaret trenger jeg deretter å
 111 vite hvilke skoler i landet som bruker Linux, slik at jeg kan slå dem
 112 opp i GSI og finne ut hvor stor PC-tetthet de har.</p>
 113
 114 <p>Jeg vet om skoler i Balsfjord, Flora, Harstad, Kongsvinger, Narvik,
 115 Nittedal, Nord-Odal, Randaberg og Sunndal som bruker Skolelinux eller
 116 andre Linux-varianter.  Jeg tror det er flere enn de 56 skolene jeg
 117 har klart å identifisere de siste dagene, men har ikke klart å få det
 118 bekreftet med offentlige kilder.</p>
 119
 120 <p>Monitor 2011-rapporteres side 95 forteller at det "ifølge GSI
 121 (20120-2011) er det 3,11 elever per datamaskin når vi tar med alle
 122 grunnskoler (1.-10.trinn)".  For de 56 Linux-skolene jeg har klart å
 123 koble mot informasjon i GSI er det 2,28 elever per elevdatamaskin,
 124 hvilket betyr at det er 36% høyere PC-tetthet på Linux-skoler enn
 125 landsgjennomsnittet.  Linux-skolen med høyest tettet blant de jeg har
 126 notert -skole er Flora ungdomsskule i Flora kommune med 0.82 elev
 127 pr. PC (482 elever, 588 elevdatamaskiner).</p>
 128
 129 <p>Skolelinux gir datamaskiner lengre levetid, og en kan dermed få
 130 flere operative datamaskiner for samme budsjett, i tillegg til en
 131 rekke andre fordeler.  Kan det være forklaringen på forskjellen?</p>
 132
 133 <p>Tallene må tas med en liten klype, da GSI ser ut til å ha endel
 134 feilføringer.  Jeg synes i hvert fall en skole med 423 elever og 9
 135 elevmaskiner ser mistenkelig ut.  Eller en skole med 346 elever, 0
 136 elevmaskiner, som er et annet ekstremt eksempel jeg fant.</p>
 137
 138 <p>Takk til Sturle Sunde, Klaus Ade Johnstad, Ole-Anders Andreassen og
 139 Trond Mæhlum for innspill om skoler med Linux.</p>
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 144         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
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 152       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__John_Ingleby.html">Debian Edu interview: John Ingleby</a></div>
 153       <div class="date">19th March 2012</div>
 154       <div class="body"><p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
 155 users are spread all across the globe.  The second inteview after
 156 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">the
 157 Squeeze release</a> was publised is with John Ingleby, a teacher and
 158 long time Linux user in United Kingdom.</p>
 159
 160 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 161
 162 <p>I teach ICT part time at the Rudolf Steiner School in Kings
 163 Langley, near London, UK. Previously I worked as a technical
 164 author/trainer while my children attended the school, and I also
 165 contributed to the Schoolforge UK community with the aim of
 166 encouraging UK schools to adopt free/open source software. Five or six
 167 years ago we had about 50 schools interested in some way, but we
 168 weren't able to convert many of them into sustainable
 169 installations.</p>
 170
 171 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 172 project?</strong></p>
 173
 174 <p>Skolelinux had two representatives at an early Edubuntu meeting in
 175 London which I attended. However at that time our school network had
 176 just been installed using CentOS, LTSP 4 and GNOME. When LTSP 5 came
 177 along we switched to Edubuntu thin client servers so now we have a
 178 mixed environment which includes Windows PCs and student laptops, as
 179 well as their MacBooks and iPads. However, the proprietary systems
 180 have always been rather problematic, and we never built a GUI for the
 181 LDAP server, so when I discovered Skolelinux is configured for all
 182 these things we decided to try it.</p>
 183
 184 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 185 Edu?</strong></p>
 186
 187 <p>By far the biggest advantage is the Debian Edu community. Apart
 188 from that I have always believed in the same "sustainable computing"
 189 goals that Skolelinux is built on: installing Linux on computers which
 190 would otherwise be thrown away, to provide a reliable, secure and
 191 low-cost IT environment for schools. From my own experience I know
 192 that a part-time person can teach and manage a network of about 25
 193 Linux computers, but it would take much more of my time if we had
 194 proprietary software everywhere.</p>
 195
 196 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 197 Edu?</strong></p>
 198
 199 <p>As a newcomer I'm just finding out who's who in the community and
 200 how you're organised, and what your procedures are for dealing with
 201 various things such as editing manual pages and so-on. The only
 202 English language mailing list seems to be for developers as well as
 203 users, so my inbox needs heavy pruning each day!</p>
 204
 205 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 206
 207 <p>Besides the software already mentioned at school we use Samba,
 208 OpenLDAP, CUPS, Nagios and Dansguardian for the network, and on the
 209 desktops we have LibreOffice, Firefox, GIMP and Inkscape. At home I
 210 use Ubuntu and an Android 4 eePad Transformer (but I'm not sure if
 211 that counts...)</p>
 212
 213 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 214 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 215
 216 <p>That's a tough question! For very many years UK schools installed
 217 and taught only proprietary software, so that at the highest levels
 218 the notion of "computer" means simply "proprietary office
 219 applications".  However, schools today are experiencing budget
 220 constraints, and many are having to think hard about upgrading Windows
 221 XP.  At the same time, we have students showing teachers how to use
 222 iPads, MacBooks and Android, so the choice of operating system is no
 223 longer quite so automatic. What is more, our government at last
 224 realised that we need people with programming skills, so they're
 225 putting coding back in the curriculum! And it's encouraging that the
 226 first 10,000 Raspberry Pi units sold out in 2 hours.</p>
 227
 228 <p>I don't really know what strategy is going to get UK schools to use
 229 free software, but building an active community of Skolelinux/Debian
 230 Edu users in this country has to be part of it.</p>
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 235         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>.
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 243       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Writing_and_translating_documentation_in_Debian_Edu.html">Writing and translating documentation in Debian Edu</a></div>
 244       <div class="date">16th March 2012</div>
 245       <div class="body"><p>Documentation in Debian Edu is provided in several languages, and
 246 it is important to make it both easy to contribute and to keep the
 247 translated versions in sync.  To do this we have come up with what we
 248 believe is a very efficient work flow.</p>
 249
 250 <ol>
 251
 252 <li>The documentation is written in a
 253 <a href="http://moinmo.in">moinmoin wiki</a> (see for example
 254 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">the
 255 Squeeze release manual</a>) with support for exporting the content as
 256 docbook XML.</li>
 257
 258 <li>This docbook document is given to po4a to extract a gettext style
 259 .pot file with the content, which in turn is used to create .po files
 260 with the translated text.</li>
 261
 262 <li>The .po files are given to translators, and they can always tell
 263 which part of the original wiki document is new or changed.  They can
 264 use their normal translation tools like lokalize or poedit to write
 265 the translation.  There is even a system in place to handle translated
 266 images.</li>
 267
 268 <li>The translated .po files are combined with the original docbook
 269 XML document using po4a to create a translated docbook document.</li>
 270
 271 <li>The final step is to use all the generated docbook files and
 272 create PDF and HTML version of the original and translated documents.</li>
 273
 274 </ol>
 275
 276 <p>This setup work very well, but have a few issues.  The biggest
 277 issue is that <a href="http://moinmo.in/DocBook">the docbook support
 278 we use in moinmoin</a> is not actively maintained.  The docbook
 279 support is also buggy, and our build system contain workarounds to
 280 make sure the generated docbook is usable despite these bugs.</p>
 281
 282 <p>If you want to have a look at our setup, it is all there in the
 283 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/debian-edu-doc">debian-edu-doc
 284 package</a>.</p>
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 289         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 297       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_presentasjon__Skolelinux___ferdig_oppsatt_skolenettl_sning.html">NUUG-presentasjon: Skolelinux - ferdig oppsatt skolenettløsning</a></div>
 298       <div class="date">13th March 2012</div>
 299       <div class="body"><p>I dag presenterte jeg ny versjon av Skolelinux for NUUGs medlemmer.
 300 <a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/20120313-skolelinux-squeeze.html">Lysark</a>
 301 er tilgjengelige allerede og
 302 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/">video-opptak</a>
 303 kommer så snart videogruppa til NUUG får publisert den.  Jeg kom på
 304 endel punkter om nye ting i Squeeze-utgaven under veis som jeg burde
 305 hatt med, og har sikkert skrevet noe tull på lysarkene som jeg ennå
 306 ikke har oppdaget.  Denne presentasjonen ble smurt ihop på veldig kort
 307 tid, og jeg rakk ikke finpusse den.  Håper den kan være lærerik
 308 likevel.</p>
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 313         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
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 321       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__K_re_Nordby.html">Skolelinux-intervju: Kåre Nordby</a></div>
 322       <div class="date">12th March 2012</div>
 323       <div class="body"><p>Første ut i serien med intervjuer av folk i
 324 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>-miljøet etter at
 325 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">ny
 326 versjon av Skolelinux</a> ble lansert i helga, er nylig valgte
 327 styremedlem i foreningen
 328 <a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/">Fri programvare i
 329 Skolen</a> (FRiSK) som organiserer
 330 Skolelinux-utviklingen og daglig leder i
 331 <a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux Drift AS</a>, selskapet
 332 prosjektet opprettet som et tilbud til skoler som ønsket en
 333 kommersiell samarbeidsparter.  Det bør nevnes at jeg er styremedlem i
 334 Skolelinux Drift AS og styreleder i selskapets hovedeier stiftelsen
 335 <a href="http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/">SLX Debian Labs</a>
 336 som beskytter verdiene til Skolelinux-prosjektet, og kjenner Kåre den
 337 veien.</p>
 338
 339 <p><strong>Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?</strong></p>
 340
 341 <p>Jeg har siden januar 2010 vært daglig leder i Skolelinux Drift AS,
 342 som leverer support, installasjon, tilpasning, drift, og opplæring på
 343 Debian Edu / Skolelinux. Fra 2012 er jeg valgt inn som styremedlem i
 344 FRiSK.  Min forrige jobb var som KAM i Redpill Linpro (som er en av
 345 eierne i Skolelinux Drift).  Før det var jeg daglig leder i et eget 7
 346 manns konsulent selskap som også startet med fri programvare mot
 347 slutten.</p>
 348
 349 <p><strong>Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?</strong></p>
 350
 351 <p>Jeg hørte om det først når jeg jobbet i Redpill Linpro.  Men jeg
 352 har også en datter som går på en friskole, som også bruker Skolelinux.
 353 Som kjent har ikke friskoler de samme økonomiske rammebetingelsene som
 354 offentlige skoler, så for dem var det det absolutt beste alternativet.
 355 De anser også Skolelinux som et stabilt system, som bare går og går (i
 356 motsetning til det lille Windows-baserte nettverket de har på
 357 admin-siden).</p>
 358
 359 <p><strong>Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
 360
 361 <p>Sentralisert drift av tynne og diskløse arbeidsstasjoner. Således
 362 lydløse og raskere arbeidsstasjoner som er bedre i klasserommet.
 363 Lengre levetid på PC'er.  Store besparelser på maskinvare og drift. Og
 364 så klart fjerning av alle lisenskostnader. Personlig synes jeg også at
 365 mange av programmene er bedre enn alternativene. Men dette er ofte en
 366 smakssak og avhengig om man må ha det man er vant til fra før.</p>
 367
 368 <p><strong>Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
 369
 370 <p>For lite kjentskap til løsningen.  Noen ganger for dårlig
 371 kompatibilitet med arbeidsstasjoners/bærbare maskiner sine
 372 nettverksdrivere eller skjermkort. Men dette løser vi i skolene ved
 373 standardisering. Ellers er det få, om nesten ingen, av de kjente
 374 maskinvare / infrastruktur leverandørene til fylkes- / kommuner som
 375 tilbyr denne plattformen.  Skal dette endre seg så må kommunene selv
 376 sette slike krav til leverandørene.</p>
 377
 378 <p><strong>Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?</strong></p>
 379
 380 <p>Har brukt OpenOffice.org siden starten (2001 ?), Kun Linux på
 381 desktop siden 2005. Bruker i dag Kubuntu, Libreoffice og ymse annet
 382 programvare til ulik kontorbruk som er lett å installere / teste via
 383 alle programarkivene som finnes.</p>
 384
 385 <p><strong>Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
 386 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?</strong></p>
 387
 388 <p>Fortsette å presentere flere av de gode eksemplene hvor Debian Edu
 389 / Skolelinux brukes i kommuner og enkeltskoler.  Vi må få bedre frem
 390 at det er mulig tilknytte både Windows og Mac klienter på denne
 391 plattformen (selv om det vil øke driftskostnadene).  Dette gjøres
 392 mange steder.  Spesielt er det mange lærere som ønsker å bruke
 393 Windows/Mac-bærbare, gjerne som sin private PC også. Det er også mulig
 394 for kommunen å integrere med Active Directory i stedet for OpenLDAP
 395 som kommer med ut av boksen (selv om også dette øker kostnadene).
 396 Dette vil muligens bidra til å fjerne noe motstand hos noen
 397 potensielle brukere / driftpersonell for å ta i bruk noe
 398 nytt. Fremveksten av mobile brukere og nettbrett går i vår favør.
 399 Brukerne blir kjent og vant til flere nye operativsystemer /
 400 brukergrensesnitt. Så utviklerfellesskapet bør jobbe videre med å
 401 integrere flere nye klienttyper, som ultra lav-kostklienter og
 402 nettbrett (blant annet fri programvare-alternativet
 403 <a href="http://makeplaylive.com/">Spark</a> med
 404 <a href="http://www.merproject.org/">Mer OS</a> og
 405 <a href="http://plasma-active.org/">KDE Active Plasma</a>).</p>
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 410         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
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 417     <div class="entry">
 418       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_is_out_.html">Skolelinux / Debian Edu Squeeze is out!</a></div>
 419       <div class="date">11th March 2012</div>
 420       <div class="body"><p>This weekend we finally published the first stable release of
 421 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux / Debian Edu</a> based
 422 on Debian/Squeeze.  The full announcement is
 423 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">available</a>
 424 from the project announcement list.  Now is a good time to test if it
 425 you have not done so already.</p>
 426
 427 <p>I plan to present the new version at
 428 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/">a NUUG
 429 meeting</a> on tuesday.  I look forward to seeing you there if you are
 430 in Oslo, Norway.</p>
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 435         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 442     <div class="entry">
 443       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html">Debian Edu interview: Nigel Barker</a></div>
 444       <div class="date"> 9th March 2012</div>
 445       <div class="body"><p>Inspired by <a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/interview/">the
 446 interview series</a> conducted by Raphael, I started a Norwegian
 447 interview series with people involved in the Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 448 community.  This was so popular that I believe it is time to move to a
 449 more international audience.</p>
 450
 451 <p>While <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and
 452 Skolelinux</a> originated in France and Norway, and have most users in
 453 Europe, there are users all around the globe.  One of those far away
 454 from me is Nigel Barker, a long time Debian Edu system administrator
 455 and contributor.  It is thanks to him that Debian Edu is adjusted to
 456 work out of the box in Japan.  I got him to answer a few questions,
 457 and am happy to share the response with you. :)
 458
 459
 460 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 461
 462 <p>My name is Nigel Barker, and I am British. I am married to Yumiko,
 463 and we have three lovely children, aged 15, 14 and 4(!) I am the IT
 464 Coordinator at Hiroshima International School, Japan. I am also a
 465 teacher, and in fact I spend most of my day teaching Mathematics,
 466 Science, IT, and Chemistry. I was originally a Chemistry teacher, but
 467 I have always had an interest in computers. Another teacher teaches
 468 primary school IT, but apart from that I am the only computer person,
 469 so that means I am the network manager, technician and webmaster,
 470 also, and I help people with their computer problems. I teach python
 471 to beginners in an after-school club. I am way too busy, so I really
 472 appreciate the simplicity of Skolelinux.</p>
 473
 474 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 475 project?</strong></p>
 476
 477 <p>In around 2004 or 5 I discovered the ltsp project, and set up a
 478 server in the IT lab. I wanted some way to connect it to our central
 479 samba server, which I was also quite poor at configuring. I discovered
 480 Edubuntu when it came out, but it didn't really improve my setup. I
 481 did various desperate searches for things like "school Linux server"
 482 and ended up in a document called "Drift" something or other. Reading
 483 there it became clear that Skolelinux was going to solve all my
 484 problems in one go. I was very excited, but apprehensive, because my
 485 previous attempts to install Debian had ended in failure (I used
 486 Mandrake for everything - ltsp, samba, apache, mail, ns...). I
 487 downloaded a beta version, had some problems, so subscribed to the
 488 Debian Edu list for help. I have remained subscribed ever since, and
 489 my school has run a Skolelinux network since Sarge.</p>
 490
 491 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 492 Edu?</strong></p>
 493
 494 <p>For me the integrated setup. This is not just the server, or the
 495 workstation, or the ltsp. Its all of them, and its all configured
 496 ready to go. I read somewhere in the early documentation that it is
 497 designed to be setup and managed by the Maths or Science teacher, who
 498 doesn't necessarily know much about computers, in a small Norwegian
 499 school. That describes me perfectly if you replace Norway with
 500 Japan.</p>
 501
 502 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 503 Edu?</strong></p>
 504
 505 <p>The desktop is fairly plain. If you compare it with Edubuntu, who
 506 have fun themes for children, or with distributions such as Mint, who
 507 make the desktop beautiful. They create a good impression on people
 508 who don't need to understand how to use any of it, but who might be
 509 important to the school. School administrators or directors, for
 510 instance, or parents. Even kids. Debian itself usually has ugly
 511 default theme settings. It was my dream a few years back that some
 512 kind of integration would allow Edubuntu to do the desktop stuff and
 513 Debian Edu the servers, but now I realise how impossible that is.  A
 514 second disadvantage is that if something goes wrong, or you need to
 515 customise something, then suddenly the level of expertise required
 516 multiplies. For example, backup wasn't working properly in Lenny. It
 517 took me ages to learn how to set up my own server to do rsync backups.
 518 I am afraid of anything to do with ldap, but perhaps Gosa will
 519 help.</p>
 520
 521 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 522
 523 <p>Nowadays I only use Debian on my personal computers. I have one for
 524 studio work (I play guitar and write songs), running AV Linux
 525 (customised Debian) a netbook running Squeeze, and a bigger laptop
 526 still running Skolelinux Lenny workstation. I have a Tjener in my
 527 house, that's very useful for the family photos and music.  At school
 528 the students only use Skolelinux. (Some teachers and the office still
 529 have windows). So that means we only use free software all day every
 530 day. Open office, The GIMP, Firefox/Iceweasel, VLC and Audacity are
 531 installed on every computer in school, irrespective of OS.  We also
 532 have Koha on Debian for the library, and Apache, Moodle, b2evolution
 533 and Etomite on Debian for the www. The firewall is Untangle.</p>
 534
 535 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 536 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 537
 538 <p>Current trends are in our favour. Open source is big in industry,
 539 and ordinary people have heard of it. The spread of Android and the
 540 popularity of Apple have helped to weaken the impression that you have
 541 to have Microsoft on everything. People complain to me much less about
 542 file formats and Word than they did 5 years ago.  The Edu aspect is
 543 also a selling point. This is all customised for schools. Where is the
 544 Windows-edu, or the Mac-edu?  But of course the main attraction is
 545 budget.The trick is to convince people that the quality is not
 546 compromised when you stop paying and use free software instead. That
 547 is one reason why I say the desktop experience is a weakness. People
 548 are not impressed when their USB drive doesn't work, or their browser
 549 doesn't play flash, for example.</p>
 550 </div>
 551       <div class="tags">
 552
 553
 554         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>.
 555
 556
 557       </div>
 558     </div>
 559     <div class="padding"></div>
 560
 561     <div class="entry">
 562       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Mass_creation_of_user_accounts_in_Squeeze.html">Debian Edu screencast: Mass creation of user accounts in Squeeze</a></div>
 563       <div class="date"> 7th March 2012</div>
 564       <div class="body"><!-- Video HTML based on http://www.diveintohtml5.net/video.html -->
 565
 566 <p>One of the Debian Edu developers, Wolfgang Schweer, just created a
 567 screen cast documenting how to create a lot of new users in LDAP on
 568 Debian Edu Squeeze.  The video is embedded here in quarter size, and
 569 also available from <a href="http://vimeo.com/37675399">vimeo</a> and
 570 download as a
 571 <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv">Ogg
 572 Theora</a> file.  Check it out below.</p>
 573
 574 <p><video id="gosa-mass-user-create-movie" width="256" height="184" preload controls>
 575   <source src="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
 576     <p>Download video as
 577       <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv">Ogg</a>.</p>
 578 </video></p>
 579 </div>
 580       <div class="tags">
 581
 582
 583         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 601 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
 602
 603 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
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 605 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (14)</a></li>
 606
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 610 <ul>
 611
 612 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
 613
 614 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
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 633
 634 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
 635
 636 </ul></li>
 637
 638 <li>2010
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 641 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
 642
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 658
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 660
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 662
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 664
 665 </ul></li>
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 667 <li>2009
 668 <ul>
 669
 670 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
 671
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 673
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 685
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 687
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 689
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 691
 692 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
 693
 694 </ul></li>
 695
 696 <li>2008
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 699 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
 700
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