blog/draft/2012-05-skolelinux-jose-luis-redrejo-rodriguez.txt

   1 Title: Debian Edu interview: José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez
   2 Tags: english, debian edu, intervju
   3 Date: 2012-04-15 11:30
   4
   5 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
   6
   7  José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez
   8
   9  * Who are you, and how do you spend your days?
  10
  11     I'm a father, teacher and engineer who is working for the
  12 Education ministry of the Region of Extremadura (Spain) in the
  13 pimplementation of ICT in schools
  14
  15  * How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu project?
  16
  17     At 2006, I verified that both, we in Extremadura and Skolelinux
  18 project, had been working in parallel for some years, doing very
  19 similar things, using very similar tools and with similar targets, so
  20 I decided it was time to join forces as much as possible.
  21
  22  * What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu?
  23
  24     A community of highly skilled experts working together, with a
  25 really open schema of collaboration and work. I really love the
  26 concepts of Do-ocracy and Merit-ocracy and the way these concepts are
  27 been used everyday inside Debian Edu.
  28
  29  * What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu?
  30
  31     Sometimes the differences in the implementations, laws or
  32 economical and technical resources in the different countries don't
  33 allow us to agree in the same solution for all of us, and several
  34 approaches are needed , what is a waste of effort. Also , there is a
  35 lack of more man power to be able to follow the fast evolution of the
  36 technologies in school.
  37
  38
  39  * Which free software do you use daily?
  40
  41     Debian, of course, and due to my kind of job I am most of my time
  42 between Iceweasel, Geany and Terminator.
  43
  44
  45  * Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to get schools
  46   to use free software?
  47
  48     I think there is not a single strategy because there are very
  49 different scenarios:  schools with mixed propietary and free
  50 environments,  schools using only workstations, other schools using
  51 laptops, netbooks, tablets, interactive whiteboards, etc.
  52
  53     Also the range of ages of the students is very broad and you can
  54 not use the same solutions for primary schools and secondary or even
  55 universities. So different strategies are needed.
  56
  57     But, looking at these differences, and looking back to the things
  58 we've done and implemented, and the places were we have spent most of
  59 our forces, I think we should focus as much as possible in free
  60 multiplatform environments, using only standards tools,  and moving
  61 more and more to Internet or network solutions that could be deployed
  62 using wireless. I think we'll see more and more personal devices in
  63 the schools, devices the students and teachers will take home with
  64 them, so the solutions must be able to be taken at home and continue
  65 working there.
  66
  67  * Who should be interviewed with this questions in the future?
  68
  69     Petter Reinholdtsen, of course. I also think Nigel Barker can give
  70 very interesting points of view, since he's working daily inside the
  71 classroom.
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