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  13      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21       <div class="title">Debian Edu interview: Jürgen Leibner</div>
  22       <div class="date">13th May 2012</div>
  23       <div class="body"><p>It has been a few busy weeks for me, but I am finally back to
  24 publish another interview with the people behind
  25 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>.
  26 This time it is one of our German developers, who have helped out over the
  27 years to make sure both a lot of major but also a lot of the minor
  28 details get right before release.
  29
  30 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
  31
  32 <p>My name is Jürgen Leibner, I'm 49 years old and living in
  33 Bielefeld, a town in northern Germany.  I worked nearly 20 years as
  34 certified engineer in the department for plant design and layout of an
  35 international company for machinery and equipment.  Since 2011 I'm a
  36 certified technical writer (tekom e.V.) and doing technical
  37 documentations for a steam turbine manufacturer.  From April this year
  38 I will manage the department of technical documentation at a
  39 manufacturer of automation and assembly line engineering.</p>
  40
  41 <p>My first contact with linux was around 1993. Since that time I used
  42 it at work and at home repeatedly but not exclusively as I do now at
  43 home since 2006.</p>
  44
  45 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
  46 project?</strong></p>
  47
  48 <p>Once a day in the early year of 2001 when I wanted to fetch my
  49 daughter from primary school, there was a teacher sitting in the
  50 middle of 20 old computers trying to boot them and he failed. I helped
  51 him to get them booting. That was seen by the school director and she
  52 asked me if I would like to manage that the school gets all that old
  53 computers in use. I answered: "Yes".</p>
  54
  55 <p>Some weeks later every of the 10 classrooms had one computer
  56 running Windows98. I began to collect old computers and equipment as
  57 gifts and installed the first computer room with a peer-to-peer
  58 network. I did my work at school without being payed in my spare time
  59 and with a lot of fun.  About one year later the school was connected
  60 to Internet and a local area network was installed in the school
  61 building.  That was the time to have a server and I knew it must be a
  62 Linux server to be able to fulfil all the wishes of the teachers and
  63 being able to do this in a transparent and economic way, without extra
  64 costs for things like licence and software.  So I searched for a
  65 school server system running under Linux and I found a couple of
  66 people nearby who founded 'skolelinux.de'. It was the Skolelinux
  67 prerelease 32 I first tried out for being used at the school.  I
  68 managed the IT of that school until the municipal authority took over
  69 the IT management and centralised the services for all schools in
  70 Bielefeld in December of 2006.</p>
  71
  72 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
  73 Edu?</strong></p>
  74
  75 <p>When I'm looking back to the beginning, there were other advantages
  76 for me as today.</p>
  77
  78 <p>In the past there were advantages like:</p>
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  80 <p><ul>
  81
  82 <li>I don't need to buy it so it generates no costs to the school as
  83 they had little money to spent for computers and software.</li>
  84
  85 <li>It has a licence which grands all rights to use it without
  86 cost.</li>
  87
  88 <li>It was more able to fit all requirements of a server system for
  89 schools than a Microsoft server system, even if there are only Windows
  90 clients because of it's preconfigured overall concept of being a
  91 infrastructure solution and community for schools, not only a
  92 server</li>
  93
  94 <li>I was able to configure the server to the needs of the
  95 school.</li>
  96
  97 </ul></p>
  98
  99 <p>Today some of the advantages has been lost, changed or new ones
 100 came up in this way:</p>
 101
 102 <p><ul>
 103
 104 <li>Most schools here do have money to buy hardware and software
 105 now.</li>
 106
 107 <li>They are today mostly managed from central IT departments which
 108 have own concepts which often do not fit to Debian Edu concepts
 109 because they are to close to Microsoft ideology.</li>
 110
 111 <li>With the Squeeze version of Debian Edu which now uses GOsa² for
 112 management I feel more able to manage the daily tasks than with the
 113 interfaces used in the past.</li>
 114
 115 <li>It is more modular than in the past and fits even better to the
 116 different needs.</li>
 117
 118 <li>The documentation is usable and gets better every day.</li>
 119
 120 <li>More people than ever before are using Debian Edu all over the
 121 world and so the community, which is an very important part I think,
 122 is sharing knowledge and minds.</li>
 123
 124 <li>Most, maybe all, of the technical requirements for schools are
 125 solved today by Debian Edu. </li>
 126
 127 </ul></p>
 128
 129 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 130 Edu?</strong></p>
 131
 132 <p><ul>
 133
 134 <li>There are too few IT companies able to integrate Debian Edu into
 135 their product portfolio for serving schools with concepts or even
 136 whole municipality areas.</li>
 137
 138 <li>Debian Edu has beside other free and open software projects not
 139 enough lobbyists which promote free and open software to
 140 politicians.</li>
 141
 142 <li>Technically there are no disadvantages I'm aware of.</li>
 143
 144 </ul></p>
 145
 146 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 147
 148 <p>I use Debian stable on my home server and on my little desktop
 149 computer. On my laptop I use Debian testing/sid. The applications I
 150 use on my laptop and my desktop are Open/Libre-office, Iceweasel,
 151 KMail, DigiKam, Amarok, Dolphin, okular and all the other programs I
 152 need from the KDE environment.  On console I use newsbeuter, mutt,
 153 screen, irssi and all the other famous and useful tools.</p>
 154
 155 <p>My home server provides mail services with exim, dovecot, roundcube
 156 and mutt over ssh on the console, file services with samba, NFS,
 157 rsync, web services with apache, moinmoin-wiki, multimedia services
 158 with gallery2 and mediatomb and database services with MySQL for me
 159 and the whole family.  I probably forgot something.</p>
 160
 161 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 162 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 163
 164 <p>I believe, we should provide concepts for IT companies to integrate
 165 Debian Edu into their product portfolio with use cases for different
 166 countries and areas all over the world.</p>
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