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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Debian Edu interview: John Ingleby</div>
  24       <div class="date">19th March 2012</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
  26 users are spread all across the globe.  The second inteview after
  27 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">the
  28 Squeeze release</a> was publised is with John Ingleby, a teacher and
  29 long time Linux user in United Kingdom.</p>
  30
  31 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
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  33 <p>I teach ICT part time at the Rudolf Steiner School in Kings
  34 Langley, near London, UK. Previously I worked as a technical
  35 author/trainer while my children attended the school, and I also
  36 contributed to the Schoolforge UK community with the aim of
  37 encouraging UK schools to adopt free/open source software. Five or six
  38 years ago we had about 50 schools interested in some way, but we
  39 weren't able to convert many of them into sustainable
  40 installations.</p>
  41
  42 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
  43 project?</strong></p>
  44
  45 <p>Skolelinux had two representatives at an early Edubuntu meeting in
  46 London which I attended. However at that time our school network had
  47 just been installed using CentOS, LTSP 4 and GNOME. When LTSP 5 came
  48 along we switched to Edubuntu thin client servers so now we have a
  49 mixed environment which includes Windows PCs and student laptops, as
  50 well as their MacBooks and iPads. However, the proprietary systems
  51 have always been rather problematic, and we never built a GUI for the
  52 LDAP server, so when I discovered Skolelinux is configured for all
  53 these things we decided to try it.</p>
  54
  55 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
  56 Edu?</strong></p>
  57
  58 <p>By far the biggest advantage is the Debian Edu community. Apart
  59 from that I have always believed in the same "sustainable computing"
  60 goals that Skolelinux is built on: installing Linux on computers which
  61 would otherwise be thrown away, to provide a reliable, secure and
  62 low-cost IT environment for schools. From my own experience I know
  63 that a part-time person can teach and manage a network of about 25
  64 Linux computers, but it would take much more of my time if we had
  65 proprietary software everywhere.</p>
  66
  67 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
  68 Edu?</strong></p>
  69
  70 <p>As a newcomer I'm just finding out who's who in the community and
  71 how you're organised, and what your procedures are for dealing with
  72 various things such as editing manual pages and so-on. The only
  73 English language mailing list seems to be for developers as well as
  74 users, so my inbox needs heavy pruning each day!</p>
  75
  76 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
  77
  78 <p>Besides the software already mentioned at school we use Samba,
  79 OpenLDAP, CUPS, Nagios and Dansguardian for the network, and on the
  80 desktops we have LibreOffice, Firefox, GIMP and Inkscape. At home I
  81 use Ubuntu and an Android 4 eePad Transformer (but I'm not sure if
  82 that counts...)</p>
  83
  84 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
  85 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
  86
  87 <p>That's a tough question! For very many years UK schools installed
  88 and taught only proprietary software, so that at the highest levels
  89 the notion of "computer" means simply "proprietary office
  90 applications".  However, schools today are experiencing budget
  91 constraints, and many are having to think hard about upgrading Windows
  92 XP.  At the same time, we have students showing teachers how to use
  93 iPads, MacBooks and Android, so the choice of operating system is no
  94 longer quite so automatic. What is more, our government at last
  95 realised that we need people with programming skills, so they're
  96 putting coding back in the curriculum! And it's encouraging that the
  97 first 10,000 Raspberry Pi units sold out in 2 hours.</p>
  98
  99 <p>I don't really know what strategy is going to get UK schools to use
 100 free software, but building an active community of Skolelinux/Debian
 101 Edu users in this country has to be part of it.</p>
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