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23 <div class=
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"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Ralf_Gesellensetter.html">Debian Edu interview: Ralf Gesellensetter
</a></div>
24 <div class=
"date">27th May
2012</div>
25 <div class=
"body"><p>In
2003, a German teacher showed up on the
26 <a href=
"http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux
</a>
27 mailing list with interesting problems and reports proving he setting
28 up Linux for a (for us at the time) lot of pupiles. His name was Ralf
29 Gesellensetter, and he have been an important tester and contributor
30 since then, helping to make sure the
31 <a href=
"http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html">Debian Edu
32 Squeeze
</a> release became as good as it is..
</p>
34 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?
</strong></p>
36 <p>I am a teacher from Germany, and my subjects are Geography,
37 Mathematics, and Computer Science ("Informatik"). During the past
12
38 years (since
2000), I have been working for a comprehensive (and soon,
39 also inclusive) school leading to all kind of general levels, such as
40 O- or A-level ("Abitur"). For quite as long, I've been taking care of
41 our computer network.
</p>
43 <p>Now, in my early
40s, I enjoy the privilege of spending a lot of my
44 spare time together with my wife, our son (
3 years) and our daughter
47 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
50 <p>We had tried different Linux based school servers, when members of
51 my local Linux User Group (LUG OWL) detected Skolelinux. I remember
52 very well, being part of a party celebrating the Linux New Media Award
53 ("Best Newcomer Distribution", also nominated: Ubuntu) that was given
54 to Skolelinux at Linux World Exposition in Frankfurt,
2005 (IIRC). Few
55 months later, I had the chance to join a developer meeting in Ulsrud
56 (Oslo) and to hand out the award to Knut Yrvin and others. For more
57 than
7 years, Skolelinux is part of our schools infrastructure, namely
58 our main server (tjener), one LTSP (today without thin clients), and
59 approximately
50 work stations. Most of these have the option to boot a
60 locally installed Skolelinux image. As a consequence, I joined quite
61 a few events dealing with free software or Linux, and met many Debian
62 (Edu) developers. All of them seemed quite nice and competent to me,
63 one more reason to stick to Skolelinux.
</p>
65 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
68 <p>Debian driven, you are given all the advantages of a community
69 project including well maintained updates. Once, you are familiar with
70 the network layout, you can easily roll out an entire educational
71 computer infrastructure, from just one installation media. As only
72 free software (FOSS) is used, that supports even elderly hardware,
73 up-sizing your IT equipment is only limited by space (i.e. available
74 labs). Especially if you run a LTSP thin client server, your
75 administration costs tend towards zero.
</p>
77 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
80 <p>While Debian's stability has loads of advantages for servers, this
81 might be different in some cases for clients: Schools with unlimited
82 budget might buy new hardware with components that are not yet
83 supported by Debian stable, or wish to use more recent versions of
84 office packages or desktop environments. These schools have the
85 option to run Debian testing or other distributions - if they have the
86 capacity to do so. Another issue is that Debian release cycles
87 include a wide range of changes; therefor a high percentage of human
88 power seems to be absorbed by just keeping the features of Skolelinux
89 within the new setting of the version to come. During this process,
90 the cogs of Debian Edu are getting more and more professional,
91 i.e. harder to understand for novices.
</p>
93 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?
</strong></p>
95 <p>LibreOffice, Wikipedia, Openstreetmap, Iceweasel (Mozilla Firefox),
96 KMail, Gimp, Inkscape - and of course the Linux Kernel (not only on
97 PC, Laptop, Mobile, but also our SAT receiver)
</p>
99 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
100 get schools to use free software?
</strong></p>
104 <li>Support computer science as regular subject in schools to make
105 people really "own" their hardware, to make them understand the
106 difference between proprietary software products, and free software
109 <li>Make budget baskets corresponding: In Germany's public schools
110 there are more or less fixed budgets for IT equipment (including
111 licenses), so schools won't benefit from any savings here. This
112 privilege is left to private schools which have consequently a large
113 share among German Skolelinux schools.
</li>
115 <li>Get free software in the seminars where would-be teachers are
116 trained. In many cases, teachers' software customs are respected by
117 decision makers rather than the expertise of any IT experts.
</li>
119 <li>Don't stick to free software as to be run natively. Everybody uses
120 free software or free licenses (for instance Wikipedia), and this
121 general concept should get expanded to free educational content to be
122 shared world wide (school books e.g.).
</li>
124 <li>Make clear where ever you can that the market share of free (libre)
125 office suites is much above
20 p.c. today, and that you pupils don't
126 need to know the "ribbon menu" in order to get employed.
</li>
128 <li>Talk about the difference between freeware and free software.
</li>
130 <li>Spread free software, or even collections of portable free apps
131 for USB pen drives. Endorse students to get a legal copy of
132 Libreoffice rather than accepting them to use illegal serials. And
133 keep sending documents in ODF formats.
</li>
140 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>.
145 <div class=
"padding"></div>
148 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_cost_of_ODF_and_OOXML.html">The cost of ODF and OOXML
</a></div>
149 <div class=
"date">26th May
2012</div>
150 <div class=
"body"><p>I just come across a blog post from Glyn Moody reporting the
151 claimed cost from Microsoft on requiring ODF to be used by the UK
152 government. I just sent him an email to let him know that his
153 assumption are most likely wrong. Sharing it here in case some of my
154 blog readers have seem the same numbers float around in the UK.
</p>
156 <p><blockquote> <p>Hi. I just noted your
157 <a href=
"http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/does-microsoft-office-lock-in-cost-the-uk-government-500-million/index.htm">http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/
2012/
04/does-microsoft-office-lock-in-cost-the-uk-government-
500-million/index.htm
</a>
160 <p><blockquote>"They're all in Danish, not unreasonably, but even
161 with the help of Google Translate I can't find any figures about the
162 savings of "moving to a flexible two standard
" as claimed by the
163 Microsoft email. But I assume it is backed up somewhere, so let's take
164 it, and the £500 million figure for the UK, on trust."
167 <p>I can tell you that the Danish reports are inflated. I believe it is
168 the same reports that were used in the Norwegian debate around
2007,
169 and Gisle Hannemyr (a well known IT commentator in Norway) had a look
170 at the content. In short, the reason it is claimed that using ODF
171 will be so costly, is based on the assumption that this mean every
172 existing document need to be converted from one of the MS Office
173 formats to ODF, transferred to the receiver, and converted back from
174 ODF to one of the MS Office formats, and that the conversion will cost
175 10 minutes of work time for both the sender and the receiver. In
176 reality the sender would have a tool capable of saving to ODF, and the
177 receiver would have a tool capable of reading it, and the time spent
178 would at most be a few seconds for saving and loading, not
20 minutes
179 of wasted effort.
</p>
181 <p>Microsoft claimed all these costs were saved by allowing people to
182 transfer the original files from MS Office instead of spending
10
183 minutes converting to ODF. :)
</p>
186 <a href=
"http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12_vl02.php">http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12_vl02.php
</a>
188 <a href=
"http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12.php">http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12.php
</a>
189 for background information. Norwegian only, sorry. :)
</p>
195 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard
</a>.
200 <div class=
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203 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/OpenOffice_org_fungerer_da_fint_for_blinde_.html">OpenOffice.org fungerer da fint for blinde?
</a></div>
204 <div class=
"date">21st May
2012</div>
205 <div class=
"body"><p>De siste dagene har høringsuttalelsene om DIFIs forslag til
206 standardkatalog v3.1 blitt
207 <a href=
"http://www.standard.difi.no/hoyring/hoyring-om-nye-anbefalte-it-standarder?tab=comments">publisert
208 på DIFIs nettside
</a>, og jeg kunne der glede meg over at
209 <a href=
"http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/201204-standardkatalog-v3.1">NUUGs
</a>
210 uttalelse er kommet med. En uttalelse som overrasker og forvirrer meg
212 <a href=
"http://www.standard.difi.no/filearchive/norges-blindeforbund.pdf">den
213 fra Norges Blindeforbund
</a>, som
5 år etter at Klaus Knopper sammen
214 med sin blinde kone blant annet
215 <a href=
"http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20071211-accessibility/">demonstrerte
216 høyttalende OpenOffice.org på nynorsk for blinde
</a> på et NUUG-møte.
</p>
218 <p><a href=
"https://www.blindeforbundet.no/">Norges Blindeforbund
</a>
219 skriver følgende, som for meg virker å være formulert på sviktende
223 <p>Bruk av fri programvare
225 <p>I FRIPROGSENTERET, RAPPORT
2009-
02: Universell utforming
226 <a href=
"http://www.kunnskapsbazaren.no/filer/Friprogsenteret-Rapport-Universell_utforming.pdf">http://www.kunnskapsbazaren.no/filer/Friprogsenteret-Rapport-Universell_utforming.pdf
</a>
227 sies det "Det finnes i dag ikke mange fri programvare-rammeverk eller
228 generelle løsninger som støtter tilgjengelighet eller som er
229 universelt utformet."
</p>
231 <p>Til tross for at det gjennom prinsippene i fri programvare åpnes
232 for større frihet til selv å påvirke programvareløsninger i retning av
233 universell utforming viser praksis at virkeligheten er en annen.
234 Mange av de mest alminnelige frie programvarepakkene mangler delvis
235 eller fullstendig tilgjengelighet for mennesker med nedsatt
236 syn. Eksempler på dette er OpenOffice og LibreOffice m.fl.
</p>
238 <p>En annen utfordring ved bruk av fri programvare kan være manglende
239 kundestøtte og muligheter til opplæring i bruk av løsningen. Svaksynte
240 og blinde har et høyere behov for denne typen støtte enn andre brukere
241 ettersom mange av dem har behov for tilleggsprogramvare som skal
242 fungere sammen med den opprinnelige programvaren, og ettersom man ikke
243 har de samme muligheter for overblikk over grensesnittet som en seende
244 bruker. I tillegg til dette kommer de mer tilgjengelighetstekniske
245 utfordringene som ofte må løses i samarbeid med
246 programvareleverandør/produsent.
</p>
248 <p>Fri programvare er ikke på samme måte underlagt lovgivning gjennom
249 for eksempel diskriminerings og tilgjengelighetsloven ettersom det
250 ikke alltid finnes en produsent/tilbyder av tjenesten eller produktet.
</p>
252 <p>Norges Blindeforbund krever at universell utforming og
253 brukskvalitet tas med som viktige hensyn i utredninger som ligger til
254 grunn for valg av standarder som primært leder brukeren mot fri
255 programvare. Et eksempel på dette er bruk av dokumentformatet ODF som
256 leder brukeren i retning av OpenOffice, som er helt eller delvis
257 utilgjengelig for svaksynte og blinde – noe avhengig av plattform og
258 hjelpemiddelprogramvare.
</p>
262 <p>Jeg håper noen involvert i OpenOffice.org og/eller LibreOffice tar
263 kontakt med Norges Blindeforbund og oppklarer det som for meg virker å
264 være en misforståelse, i og med at OpenOffice.org så vidt jeg vet
265 fungerer fint også for blinde.
</p>
267 <p>Jeg ble minnet på problemstillingen da jeg leste Slashdot-saken om
268 "
<a href=
"http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/05/21/1417221/the-state-of-linux-accessibility">The
269 State of Linux Accessibility
</a>", som også hevder at Linux fungerer
270 utmerket for blinde.</p>
275 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk
">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug
">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard
">standard</a>.
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"></div>
283 <div class="title
"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Alf_Tonny_B_tz.html
">Skolelinux-intervju: Alf Tonny Bätz</a></div>
284 <div class="date
">20th May 2012</div>
285 <div class="body
"><p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/
">Skolelinux-prosjektets</a>
286 musiker og mannen bak
287 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals/Rosegarden/
">opplæringsdokumentene
289 (<a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/nb/rosegarden-manual.html
">norsk
290 utgave</a>) for musikklærere, Alf Tonny Bätz, er neste mann ut i min
291 intervjurunde av folkene bak Skolelinux-løsningen. Jeg har kjent Alf
292 Tonny siden vi møttes som barn på påskefjellet i Ofoten, og ble
293 gledelig overrasket da han dukket opp i Skolelinux-prosjektet etter å
294 ikke ha sett noe til ham på mange år.</p>
296 <p><strong>Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?</strong></p>
298 <p>Jeg er utdannet kokk av yrke, og har utøvet yrket i 12 år. Men
299 etter at ryggen sa takk før seg, studerte jeg nettverksadministrasjon
300 ved Næringsakademiet i Bergen årene 2008-2009 slik at jeg kunne
301 forfølge en av mine største interesser - data. Til daglig jobber jeg
302 ved <a href="http://www.narvikskolen.no/parken/
">Parken
303 ungdomsskole</a> med å drifte skolens PC-er. Har også litt
304 musikkundervisning.</p>
306 <p>Mitt mål er å bevisstgjøre musikklærene mulighetene med de frie
307 programmene som finnes i Skolelinux, blant annet Rosegarden.</p>
309 <p>Har i mange år drevet med musikk og en av grunnen til at Rosegarden
310 falt i smak for min del, var fordi denne fungere og ligner mest på
311 Windows-programmet (cubase) jeg jobbet mye med da jeg i mine yngre
312 dager var «Windows fanatiker». Ble introdusert til Linux av en kompis
313 av meg for omtrent 14 år siden, og har bare blitt mer og mer glad i
314 dette operativsystemet.</p>
316 <p><strong>Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?</strong></p>
318 <p>Da jeg ble sykemeldt fra min gamle jobb, og måtte omskoleres,
319 havnet jeg i 2007 sammen med Viggo Fedreheim på IKT-avdelingen i
320 Narvik kommune, der ble jeg for første gang introdusert til
321 Skolelinuxprosjektet.</p>
323 <p><strong>Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
325 <p>Skolelinux er enkelt å holde i drift og masse flotte programmer som
326 geogebra, ktouch og kgeografi følger med pakken. Man kan ta i bruk
327 gamle PC-er igjen, slik at skoler med dårlig råd får opp en brukbar
328 PC-park. PC-er som er ca 6-9 år gamle fungere tilfredstillende, bare
329 de har 512 MB RAM eller mer.</p>
331 <p><strong>Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
333 <p>Ulempene er at noen av de pedagogiske programmene som lærene ønsker
334 å bruke fungere dårlig med Linux. Mye pga. av at disse programmene
335 blir ikke laget til Linuxbaserte operativsystemer.</p>
337 <p>Video- og bilde-redigering har dessverre en del mangler, mange av
338 programmene har en tendens til og krasje. Det gjelder blant annet
339 <a href="http://www.kdenlive.org/
">kdenlive</a> og
340 <a href="http://www.openshotvideo.com/
">openshot</a>, for å nevne
341 noen. De er ikke stabile nok. Når elevene kommer med filmsnutter de
342 ønsker og jobbe med, så godtar ikke programmene filene, og når elevene
343 jobber med redigering bare krasjer programmene uten forvarsel. Det er
344 for vanskelig å få noe som bare fungerer ut av boksen her. Når en elev
345 plugger inn et videokamera eller fotoapparat så er det alltid noe som
346 ikke vil fungere. Programmene godtar ikke format, godtar ikke
347 kameraet, osv., osv. Det er dessverre med på og dra ned en positiv
348 opplevelse av bruk av fri programvare.</p>
350 <p>Man må ofte bruke flere en et video redigerings program før og få
351 fullført en ønsket oppgave.</p>
355 <p>Hvis det ene programmet ikke vil ta i mot videofilen klarer et
356 annet det, men det programmet som klarer det kan ikke gjøre de samme
357 oppgavene som det programmet som ikke ville ta i mot filen,
358 Tilsvarende er det med foto, man må bruke flere programmer for å få
359 et ferdig resultat. Til dags dato har jeg enda ikke funnet et video-
360 og fotoprogram som kan tilfredstillende fullføre en oppgave.</p>
362 <p>Så man kan klare og fullføre en oppgave, men i verste fall må man
363 innom 3-4 programmer for å få det til. Så jeg har enda ikke til dags
364 dato sett at et program fungere 100% til alt.</p>
366 <p>Det programmet jeg har best erfaring til er
367 <a href="http://cinelerra.org/
">cinelerra</a>, men dessverre har det
368 også tendenser og krasje av og til uten grunn.</p>
370 Lydsystemet kan også være et mareritt. Konkret snakker jeg om når du
371 bruker for eksempel et smartboard, så følger det med USB-lydkort på
372 disse. Problemet ligger her i at systemet ikke vil velge rett
373 lydkort, så man må inn med padevchooser for å sette opp PulseAudio
374 til og velge at USB-lydkortet skal brukes. Det blir for tungvindt for
375 lærene, de ønsker at ting skal fungere med en gang. (min løsning på
376 det problemet ble at jeg måtte deaktivere lydkortet som fantes på
377 maskinen) men da må man bestandig slå på smartboard-tavla.
379 <p><strong>Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?</strong></p>
381 Programmene jeg bruker mest av er: Rosegarden, jack, qsynth, audacity,
382 k3b, openttd og libreoffice.
384 <p><strong>Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
385 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?</strong></p>
387 Jeg tror det må bevisstgjøring av Skolene til, dvs. reklamere høylytt
388 og fortelle og vise de andre skolene at frie programvarer faktisk
389 fungere. Jeg trur faktisk mange ikke vet at det finnes frie
395 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>.
400 <div class="padding
"></div>
403 <div class="title
"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ColorHug___USB_and_free_software_based_screen_color_calibration.html
">ColorHug - USB and free software based screen color calibration</a></div>
404 <div class="date
">18th May 2012</div>
405 <div class="body
"><p>In january, I
406 <a href="http://blog.cihar.com/archives/
2012/
01/
17/colorhug-has-arrived/
">discovered
407 the ColorHug</a>, a USB dongle from
408 <a href="http://www.hughski.com/index.html
">Hughski</a> to calibrate
409 the color on a computer screen. The software required is
410 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/colorhug-client.html
">included
411 in Debian</a>, and I decided back then to preorder from the next
412 batch. Yesterday I finally heard back from them, and got the
413 opportunity to order. Today I ordered mine, and eagerly await the
414 delivery. I hope it arrive next week, as I got a confirmation that it
415 should go in the mail on monday. :)</p>
417 <p>If you want to ensure the colors on the screen match the intended
418 colors, I suggest you check out this cheap tool with free software
424 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english
">english</a>.
429 <div class="padding
"></div>
432 <div class="title
"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/D_r_Unix__eller_lever_den_videre_som_Linux_.html
">Dør Unix, eller lever den videre som Linux?</a></div>
433 <div class="date
">15th May 2012</div>
434 <div class="body
"><p>Peter Hidas fra Gartner melder i Computerworld at
435 <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article245011.ece
">Unix
436 nedkjempes av Linux og Windows</a>. For meg er påstanden meningsløs,
437 da Linux er en variant av Unix, og hele diskusjonen om Linux er Unix
438 eller ikke er utdatert og uinteressant. Jeg ser at Helge Skrivervik
439 deler mitt syn på saken i sin kommentar fra i går om at
440 "<a href=
"http://www.mymayday.com/blogs/2012/unix-linux">Unix vs. Linux
441 = uinteressant"
</a>.
</p>
443 <p>I
<a href=
"http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG
</a>-sammenheng møter jeg av og
444 til folk som tror NUUG er for avdankede folk som driver med den samme
445 Unix-varianten som Peter Hidas skriver om i sin kommentar, og dermed
446 er en foreningen for avdankede teknologer interessert i døende
447 teknologi. Intet kunne være lengre fra sannheten.
</p>
449 <p>NUUG er en forening for oss som har sans for fri programvare, åpne
450 standarder og Unix-lignende operativsystemer, som Ubuntu, FreeBSD,
451 Debian, Mint, Gentoo, Android, Gnome, KDE, LXDE, Firefox, LibreOffice,
452 ODF, HTML, C++, ECMA-Script, etc. Kort sagt der nyskapning skjer på
453 IT-fronten i dag. Det innebærer selvfølgelig også de som er
454 interessert i de "gamle" Unix-ene som Solaris og HP-UX, men de er bare
455 et lite mindretall blant NUUGs medlemmer. De aller fleste medlemmene
456 har i dag fokus på Linux.
</p>
461 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug
</a>.
466 <div class=
"padding"></div>
469 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__J_rgen_Leibner.html">Debian Edu interview: Jürgen Leibner
</a></div>
470 <div class=
"date">13th May
2012</div>
471 <div class=
"body"><p>It has been a few busy weeks for me, but I am finally back to
472 publish another interview with the people behind
473 <a href=
"http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux
</a>.
474 This time it is one of our German developers, who have helped out over the
475 years to make sure both a lot of major but also a lot of the minor
476 details get right before release.
478 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?
</strong></p>
480 <p>My name is Jürgen Leibner, I'm
49 years old and living in
481 Bielefeld, a town in northern Germany. I worked nearly
20 years as
482 certified engineer in the department for plant design and layout of an
483 international company for machinery and equipment. Since
2011 I'm a
484 certified technical writer (tekom e.V.) and doing technical
485 documentations for a steam turbine manufacturer. From April this year
486 I will manage the department of technical documentation at a
487 manufacturer of automation and assembly line engineering.
</p>
489 <p>My first contact with linux was around
1993. Since that time I used
490 it at work and at home repeatedly but not exclusively as I do now at
493 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
494 project?
</strong></p>
496 <p>Once a day in the early year of
2001 when I wanted to fetch my
497 daughter from primary school, there was a teacher sitting in the
498 middle of
20 old computers trying to boot them and he failed. I helped
499 him to get them booting. That was seen by the school director and she
500 asked me if I would like to manage that the school gets all that old
501 computers in use. I answered: "Yes".
</p>
503 <p>Some weeks later every of the
10 classrooms had one computer
504 running Windows98. I began to collect old computers and equipment as
505 gifts and installed the first computer room with a peer-to-peer
506 network. I did my work at school without being payed in my spare time
507 and with a lot of fun. About one year later the school was connected
508 to Internet and a local area network was installed in the school
509 building. That was the time to have a server and I knew it must be a
510 Linux server to be able to fulfil all the wishes of the teachers and
511 being able to do this in a transparent and economic way, without extra
512 costs for things like licence and software. So I searched for a
513 school server system running under Linux and I found a couple of
514 people nearby who founded 'skolelinux.de'. It was the Skolelinux
515 prerelease
32 I first tried out for being used at the school. I
516 managed the IT of that school until the municipal authority took over
517 the IT management and centralised the services for all schools in
518 Bielefeld in December of
2006.
</p>
520 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
523 <p>When I'm looking back to the beginning, there were other advantages
526 <p>In the past there were advantages like:
</p>
530 <li>I don't need to buy it so it generates no costs to the school as
531 they had little money to spent for computers and software.
</li>
533 <li>It has a licence which grands all rights to use it without
536 <li>It was more able to fit all requirements of a server system for
537 schools than a Microsoft server system, even if there are only Windows
538 clients because of it's preconfigured overall concept of being a
539 infrastructure solution and community for schools, not only a
542 <li>I was able to configure the server to the needs of the
547 <p>Today some of the advantages has been lost, changed or new ones
548 came up in this way:
</p>
552 <li>Most schools here do have money to buy hardware and software
555 <li>They are today mostly managed from central IT departments which
556 have own concepts which often do not fit to Debian Edu concepts
557 because they are to close to Microsoft ideology.
</li>
559 <li>With the Squeeze version of Debian Edu which now uses GOsa² for
560 management I feel more able to manage the daily tasks than with the
561 interfaces used in the past.
</li>
563 <li>It is more modular than in the past and fits even better to the
564 different needs.
</li>
566 <li>The documentation is usable and gets better every day.
</li>
568 <li>More people than ever before are using Debian Edu all over the
569 world and so the community, which is an very important part I think,
570 is sharing knowledge and minds.
</li>
572 <li>Most, maybe all, of the technical requirements for schools are
573 solved today by Debian Edu.
</li>
577 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
582 <li>There are too few IT companies able to integrate Debian Edu into
583 their product portfolio for serving schools with concepts or even
584 whole municipality areas.
</li>
586 <li>Debian Edu has beside other free and open software projects not
587 enough lobbyists which promote free and open software to
590 <li>Technically there are no disadvantages I'm aware of.
</li>
594 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?
</strong></p>
596 <p>I use Debian stable on my home server and on my little desktop
597 computer. On my laptop I use Debian testing/sid. The applications I
598 use on my laptop and my desktop are Open/Libre-office, Iceweasel,
599 KMail, DigiKam, Amarok, Dolphin, okular and all the other programs I
600 need from the KDE environment. On console I use newsbeuter, mutt,
601 screen, irssi and all the other famous and useful tools.
</p>
603 <p>My home server provides mail services with exim, dovecot, roundcube
604 and mutt over ssh on the console, file services with samba, NFS,
605 rsync, web services with apache, moinmoin-wiki, multimedia services
606 with gallery2 and mediatomb and database services with MySQL for me
607 and the whole family. I probably forgot something.
</p>
609 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
610 get schools to use free software?
</strong></p>
612 <p>I believe, we should provide concepts for IT companies to integrate
613 Debian Edu into their product portfolio with use cases for different
614 countries and areas all over the world.
</p>
619 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>.
624 <div class=
"padding"></div>
627 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intervju_med_digi_no_om_Norge_Digitalt_og_Openstreetmap.html">Intervju med digi.no om Norge Digitalt og Openstreetmap
</a></div>
628 <div class=
"date">11th May
2012</div>
629 <div class=
"body"><p>I går ble jeg kontaktet på epost av
630 <a href=
"http://www.digi.no">digi.no
</a>s Eirik Rossen som lurte på om
631 jeg hadde noen kommentarer til
632 <a href=
"http://www.statkart.no/statkart.ny.no/nor/Statens_kartverk/Om_Statens_kartverk/Pressesenter/Nyhetsarkiv/Nyheter_2012/mai/Norge+i+tet+på+digitale+kartdata.d25-SwZLMWg.ips">kartverkets
633 pressemelding
</a> om Norges tetplassering når det gjelder
634 kart-tilgjengelighet. Jeg svarte følgende, som resulterte i noen
636 <a href=
"http://www.digi.no/895420/norge-i-tet-paa-digitale-kartdata#debatt">Digis
637 dekning
</a> av kartverkets pressemelding.
</p>
640 <p>Takk for muligheten til å kommentere.
</p>
642 <p>Pressemeldingen omhandler tilgjengeligheten av kart for aktører som er
643 medlem i kartellet Norge Digitalt. Det er ingen overraskelse for meg
644 at tilgjengeligheten til kart hos disse medlemmene er god. Men for
645 oss på utsiden av kartellet er tilgjengelighet av det som burde være
646 felleskapets og innbyggernes kart dårlig.
</p>
648 <p>Bruksvilkårene til kartene fra medlemmene i Norge Digital hindrer
649 nyskapning og selv om en er villig til å betale den ublu prisen som
650 forlanges får en fortsatt ikke tilgang til kartdata uten
651 bruksbegresninger. Derfor bruker jeg heller tid på å gjøre
652 fribrukskartet OpenStreetmap bedre. Der fremmer bruksvilkårene
653 nyskapning og lar meg skape nye tjenester uten å måtte søke om
654 tillatelse fra det offentlige.
</p>
656 <p>En annen problemstilling er jo sikkerhet til fjells og til sjøs.
657 Mon tro hvor mange ulykker på sjøen som kunne vært unngått hvis
658 sjøkartdata var tilgjengelig uten bruksbegrensninger, slik at enhver
659 med GPS eller kartplotter tilnærmet kostnadsfritt kunne sikre seg mest
660 mulig oppdaterte sjøkart? Det hjelper jo ikke at offentlige etater
661 har enkel tilgang til sjøkartene når det samme ikke gjelder hver
662 båtkaptein og småbåtfører. Jeg tror samfunnet som helhet hadde tjent
663 på å unngå kostnadene ved disse ulykkene ved å tvinge sjøkartverket
664 til å publisere sine kartdata på Internet uten bruksbegresninger.
</p>
670 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk
</a>.
675 <div class=
"padding"></div>
678 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Cutting_it_short___and_picking_the_right_tool_for_the_job.html">Cutting it short - and picking the right tool for the job
</a></div>
679 <div class=
"date">30th April
2012</div>
680 <div class=
"body"><p><!-- IMG_5869.JPG -->
681 <img src=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/panasonic-er-1611.jpeg"></p>
683 <p>I normally cut my hair short, and my tool of choice has been a
684 common hair/beard cutter, bought in a electrical shop here in Norway.
685 But the last ones have not really been up to the task. My last
686 cutter, some model from Braun, could only cut a few of my hairs at the
687 time, and cutting my head took forever. And the one before that did
688 not work very well either. We have looked for something better for a
689 while, but it was not until I ended up visiting a hairdresser that we
690 discovered that there are indeed better tools available. But these
691 are not marketed and sold to "regular consumers". The hair saloons
692 can get them through their suppliers, but their suppliers only sell
693 companies. The models they sell, are very different from the ones
694 available from Elkjøp and Lefdal. The main difference is their
695 efficiency. It would cut my hair in
5 minutes, instead of the
30-
40
696 minutes required by my impotent Braun. The hairdresser I visited had
697 a Panasonic ER160, which unfortunately is no longer available from the
698 producer. But I found it had a successor, the Panasonic ER1611.
</p>
700 <p>The next step was to find somewhere to buy it. This was not
701 straight forward. The list of suppliers I got from the hairdresser
702 did not want to sell anything to me. But searching for the model on
703 the web we found a supplier in Norway willing to sell it to us for
704 around NOK
4000,-. This was a bit much. We kept searching and
705 finally found a Danish supplier
706 <a href=
"http://nicehair.dk/panasonic-er-1611-professionel-hartrimmer.html">selling
707 it for around NOK
1800,-
</a>. We ordered one, and it arrived a few
710 <p>The instructions said it had to charge for
8 hours when we started
711 to use it, so we left it charging over night. Normally it will only
712 need one hour to charge. The following evening we successfully tested
713 it, and I can warmly recommend it to anyone looking for a real hair
714 cutter. The ones we have used until now have been hair cutter
720 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>.
725 <div class=
"padding"></div>
728 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUGs_leverer_h_ringsuttalelse_om_v3_1_av_statens_referansekatalog.html">NUUGs leverer høringsuttalelse om v3.1 av statens referansekatalog
</a></div>
729 <div class=
"date">27th April
2012</div>
730 <div class=
"body"><p>NUUG-styremedlem Hans-Petter Fjeld
731 <a href=
"https://plus.google.com/u/0/110394259537201279374/posts/AGzRmAuFdW1">meldte
732 nettopp
</a> at han har sendt inn
<a href=
"http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG
</a>s
733 høringsuttalelse angående Difi sin standardkatalog v3.1. Jeg er veldig
734 glad for at så mange bidro og sikret at vår stemme blir hørt i denne
735 høringen. Anbefaler alle å lese våre
736 <a href=
"http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/201204-standardkatalog-v3.1">to
737 sider med innspill
</a>.
</p>
742 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard
</a>.
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