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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  26         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html">Debian Edu interview: Wolfgang Schweer</a>
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  29          1st April 2012
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  32         <p>Germany is a core area for the
  33 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
  34 user community, and this time I managed to get hold of Wolfgang
  35 Schweer, a valuable contributor to the project from Germany.
  36
  37 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
  38
  39 <p>I've studied Mathematics at the university 'Ruhr-Universität' in
  40 Bochum, Germany. Since 1981 I'm working as a teacher at the school
  41 "<a href="http://www.westfalenkolleg-dortmund.de/">Westfalen-Kolleg
  42 Dortmund</a>", a second chance school.  Here, young adults is given
  43 the opportunity to get further education in order to do the school
  44 examination 'Abitur', which will allow to study at a university. This
  45 second chance is of value for those who want a better job perspective
  46 or failed to get a higher school examination being teens.</p>
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  48 <p>Besides teaching I was involved in developing online courses for a
  49 blended learning project called 'abitur-online.nrw' and in some other
  50 information technology related projects. For about ten years I've been
  51 teacher and coordinator for the 'abitur-online' project at my
  52 school. Being now in my early sixties, I've decided to leave school at
  53 the end of April this year.</p>
  54
  55 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
  56 project?</strong></p>
  57
  58 <p>The first information about Skolelinux must have come to my
  59 attention years ago and somehow related to LTSP (Linux Terminal Server
  60 Project).  At school, we had set up a network at the beginning of 1997
  61 using Suse Linux on the desktop, replacing a Novell network. Since
  62 2002, we used old machines from the city council of Dortmund as thin
  63 clients (LTSP, later Ubuntu/Lessdisks) cause new hardware was out of
  64 reach. At home I'm using Debian since years and - subscribed to the
  65 Debian news letter - heard from time to time about Skolelinux. About
  66 two years ago I proposed to replace the (somehow undocumented and only
  67 known to me) system at school by a well known Debian based system:
  68 Skolelinux.</p>
  69
  70 <p>Students and teachers appreciated the new system because of a
  71 better look and feel and an enhanced access to local media on thin
  72 clients.  The possibility to alter and/or reset passwords using a GUI
  73 was welcomed, too. Being able to do administrative tasks using a GUI
  74 and to easily set up workstations using PXE was of very high value for
  75 the admin teachers.</p>
  76
  77 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
  78 Edu?</strong></p>
  79
  80 <p>It's open source, easy to set up, stable and flexible due to it's
  81 Debian base. It integrates LTSP out-of-the-box. And it is documented!
  82 So it was a perfect choice.</p>
  83
  84 <p>Being open source, there are no license problems and so it's
  85 possible to point teachers and students to programs like
  86 OpenOffice.org, ViewYourMind (mind mapping) and The Gimp.  It's of
  87 high value to be able to adapt parts of the system to special needs of
  88 a school and to choose where to get support for this.</p>
  89
  90 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
  91 Edu?</strong></p>
  92
  93 <p>Nothing yet.</p>
  94
  95 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
  96
  97 <p>At home (Debian Sid with Gnome Desktop): Iceweasel, LibreOffice,
  98 Mutt, Gedit, Document Viewer, Midnight Commander, flpsed (PDF
  99 Annotator).  At school (Skolelinux Lenny): Iceweasel, Gedit,
 100 LibreOffice.</p>
 101
 102 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 103 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 104
 105 <p>Some time ago I thought it was enough to tell people about it. But
 106 that doesn't seem to work quite well. Now I concentrate on those more
 107 interested and hope to get multiplicators that way.</p>
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 122         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html">Debian Edu in the Linux Weekly News</a>
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 125          5th April 2012
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 128         <p>About two weeks ago, I was interviewed via email about
 129 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a> by
 130 Bruce Byfield in Linux Weekly News.  The result was made public for
 131 non-subscribers today.  I am very glad like our Linux solution for
 132 schools.  Check out his article
 133 <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/488805/">Debian Edu/Skolelinux: A
 134 distribution for education</a> if you want to learn more.</p>
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 152 <h2>Archive</h2>
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 155 <li>2012
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 158 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
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 160 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
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 162 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
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 164 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/04/">April (2)</a></li>
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 168 <li>2011
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 171 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
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 173 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
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 175 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
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 177 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/04/">April (7)</a></li>
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 179 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/05/">May (3)</a></li>
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 181 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/06/">June (2)</a></li>
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 183 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/07/">July (7)</a></li>
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 185 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/08/">August (6)</a></li>
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 187 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
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 189 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
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 191 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
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 193 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
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 197 <li>2010
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 200 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
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 202 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
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 206 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/04/">April (3)</a></li>
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 208 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/05/">May (9)</a></li>
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 210 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/06/">June (14)</a></li>
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 212 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
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 214 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
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 216 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
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 218 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
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 220 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
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 222 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
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 225
 226 <li>2009
 227 <ul>
 228
 229 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
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 231 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
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 233 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/03/">March (12)</a></li>
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 235 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/04/">April (10)</a></li>
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 237 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/05/">May (9)</a></li>
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 239 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/06/">June (3)</a></li>
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 241 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
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 243 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
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 245 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
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 247 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
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 249 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
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 251 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
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 255 <li>2008
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 258 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
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 260 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
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