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  14      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html">Større PC-tetthet i skolen med Skolelinux?</a></div>
  24       <div class="date">19th March 2012</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Den siste uka har det vært en del skriverier om hvor store
  26 forskjeller det er mellom skolene når det gjelder digital kompetanse.
  27 Et eksempel er
  28 <a href="http://www.digi.no/891660/bekymret-for-it-i-skolen">oppslaget
  29 i Digi</a>.  Diskusjonen fikk meg til å bli litt nysgjerrig på om
  30 Linux-skoler har større PC-tettet enn snittet i landet.  Grunnlaget
  31 for diskusjonen har vært undersøkelsen
  32 <a href="https://iktsenteret.no/ressurser/monitor-2011-skolens-digitale-tilstand">Monitor
  33 2011</a>, som bruker informasjon fra
  34 <a href="https://www.wis.no/gsi">Grunnskolens Informasjonssystem</a>
  35 (GSI).  GSI-data kan lastes ned fra web og jeg lastet ned en Excel-fil
  36 (intet åpen standard-valg tilgjengelig) med navn på alle skoler,
  37 hvilke kommune de befinner seg i og hvor mange elever pr. elev-PC de
  38 har rapportert inn.  For å få en ide om svaret trenger jeg deretter å
  39 vite hvilke skoler i landet som bruker Linux, slik at jeg kan slå dem
  40 opp i GSI og finne ut hvor stor PC-tetthet de har.</p>
  41
  42 <p>Jeg vet om skoler i Balsfjord, Flora, Harstad, Kongsvinger, Narvik,
  43 Nittedal, Nord-Odal, Randaberg og Sunndal som bruker Skolelinux eller
  44 andre Linux-varianter.  Jeg tror det er flere enn de 56 skolene jeg
  45 har klart å identifisere de siste dagene, men har ikke klart å få det
  46 bekreftet med offentlige kilder.</p>
  47
  48 <p>Monitor 2011-rapporteres side 95 forteller at det "ifølge GSI
  49 (20120-2011) er det 3,11 elever per datamaskin når vi tar med alle
  50 grunnskoler (1.-10.trinn)".  For de 56 Linux-skolene jeg har klart å
  51 koble mot informasjon i GSI er det 2,28 elever per elevdatamaskin,
  52 hvilket betyr at det er 36% høyere PC-tetthet på Linux-skoler enn
  53 landsgjennomsnittet.  Linux-skolen med høyest tettet blant de jeg har
  54 notert -skole er Flora ungdomsskule i Flora kommune med 0.82 elev
  55 pr. PC (482 elever, 588 elevdatamaskiner).</p>
  56
  57 <p>Skolelinux gir datamaskiner lengre levetid, og en kan dermed få
  58 flere operative datamaskiner for samme budsjett, i tillegg til en
  59 rekke andre fordeler.  Kan det være forklaringen på forskjellen?</p>
  60
  61 <p>Tallene må tas med en liten klype, da GSI ser ut til å ha endel
  62 feilføringer.  Jeg synes i hvert fall en skole med 423 elever og 9
  63 elevmaskiner ser mistenkelig ut.  Eller en skole med 346 elever, 0
  64 elevmaskiner, som er et annet ekstremt eksempel jeg fant.</p>
  65
  66 <p>Takk til Sturle Sunde, Klaus Ade Johnstad, Ole-Anders Andreassen og
  67 Trond Mæhlum for innspill om skoler med Linux.</p>
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  72         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
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  80       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__John_Ingleby.html">Debian Edu interview: John Ingleby</a></div>
  81       <div class="date">19th March 2012</div>
  82       <div class="body"><p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
  83 users are spread all across the globe.  The second inteview after
  84 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">the
  85 Squeeze release</a> was publised is with John Ingleby, a teacher and
  86 long time Linux user in United Kingdom.</p>
  87
  88 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
  89
  90 <p>I teach ICT part time at the Rudolf Steiner School in Kings
  91 Langley, near London, UK. Previously I worked as a technical
  92 author/trainer while my children attended the school, and I also
  93 contributed to the Schoolforge UK community with the aim of
  94 encouraging UK schools to adopt free/open source software. Five or six
  95 years ago we had about 50 schools interested in some way, but we
  96 weren't able to convert many of them into sustainable
  97 installations.</p>
  98
  99 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 100 project?</strong></p>
 101
 102 <p>Skolelinux had two representatives at an early Edubuntu meeting in
 103 London which I attended. However at that time our school network had
 104 just been installed using CentOS, LTSP 4 and GNOME. When LTSP 5 came
 105 along we switched to Edubuntu thin client servers so now we have a
 106 mixed environment which includes Windows PCs and student laptops, as
 107 well as their MacBooks and iPads. However, the proprietary systems
 108 have always been rather problematic, and we never built a GUI for the
 109 LDAP server, so when I discovered Skolelinux is configured for all
 110 these things we decided to try it.</p>
 111
 112 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 113 Edu?</strong></p>
 114
 115 <p>By far the biggest advantage is the Debian Edu community. Apart
 116 from that I have always believed in the same "sustainable computing"
 117 goals that Skolelinux is built on: installing Linux on computers which
 118 would otherwise be thrown away, to provide a reliable, secure and
 119 low-cost IT environment for schools. From my own experience I know
 120 that a part-time person can teach and manage a network of about 25
 121 Linux computers, but it would take much more of my time if we had
 122 proprietary software everywhere.</p>
 123
 124 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 125 Edu?</strong></p>
 126
 127 <p>As a newcomer I'm just finding out who's who in the community and
 128 how you're organised, and what your procedures are for dealing with
 129 various things such as editing manual pages and so-on. The only
 130 English language mailing list seems to be for developers as well as
 131 users, so my inbox needs heavy pruning each day!</p>
 132
 133 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 134
 135 <p>Besides the software already mentioned at school we use Samba,
 136 OpenLDAP, CUPS, Nagios and Dansguardian for the network, and on the
 137 desktops we have LibreOffice, Firefox, GIMP and Inkscape. At home I
 138 use Ubuntu and an Android 4 eePad Transformer (but I'm not sure if
 139 that counts...)</p>
 140
 141 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 142 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 143
 144 <p>That's a tough question! For very many years UK schools installed
 145 and taught only proprietary software, so that at the highest levels
 146 the notion of "computer" means simply "proprietary office
 147 applications".  However, schools today are experiencing budget
 148 constraints, and many are having to think hard about upgrading Windows
 149 XP.  At the same time, we have students showing teachers how to use
 150 iPads, MacBooks and Android, so the choice of operating system is no
 151 longer quite so automatic. What is more, our government at last
 152 realised that we need people with programming skills, so they're
 153 putting coding back in the curriculum! And it's encouraging that the
 154 first 10,000 Raspberry Pi units sold out in 2 hours.</p>
 155
 156 <p>I don't really know what strategy is going to get UK schools to use
 157 free software, but building an active community of Skolelinux/Debian
 158 Edu users in this country has to be part of it.</p>
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 163         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>.
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 171       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Writing_and_translating_documentation_in_Debian_Edu.html">Writing and translating documentation in Debian Edu</a></div>
 172       <div class="date">16th March 2012</div>
 173       <div class="body"><p>Documentation in Debian Edu is provided in several languages, and
 174 it is important to make it both easy to contribute and to keep the
 175 translated versions in sync.  To do this we have come up with what we
 176 believe is a very efficient work flow.</p>
 177
 178 <ol>
 179
 180 <li>The documentation is written in a
 181 <a href="http://moinmo.in">moinmoin wiki</a> (see for example
 182 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">the
 183 Squeeze release manual</a>) with support for exporting the content as
 184 docbook XML.</li>
 185
 186 <li>This docbook document is given to po4a to extract a gettext style
 187 .pot file with the content, which in turn is used to create .po files
 188 with the translated text.</li>
 189
 190 <li>The .po files are given to translators, and they can always tell
 191 which part of the original wiki document is new or changed.  They can
 192 use their normal translation tools like lokalize or poedit to write
 193 the translation.  There is even a system in place to handle translated
 194 images.</li>
 195
 196 <li>The translated .po files are combined with the original docbook
 197 XML document using po4a to create a translated docbook document.</li>
 198
 199 <li>The final step is to use all the generated docbook files and
 200 create PDF and HTML version of the original and translated documents.</li>
 201
 202 </ol>
 203
 204 <p>This setup work very well, but have a few issues.  The biggest
 205 issue is that <a href="http://moinmo.in/DocBook">the docbook support
 206 we use in moinmoin</a> is not actively maintained.  The docbook
 207 support is also buggy, and our build system contain workarounds to
 208 make sure the generated docbook is usable despite these bugs.</p>
 209
 210 <p>If you want to have a look at our setup, it is all there in the
 211 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/debian-edu-doc">debian-edu-doc
 212 package</a>.</p>
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 217         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>.
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 225       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_presentasjon__Skolelinux___ferdig_oppsatt_skolenettl_sning.html">NUUG-presentasjon: Skolelinux - ferdig oppsatt skolenettløsning</a></div>
 226       <div class="date">13th March 2012</div>
 227       <div class="body"><p>I dag presenterte jeg ny versjon av Skolelinux for NUUGs medlemmer.
 228 <a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/20120313-skolelinux-squeeze.html">Lysark</a>
 229 er tilgjengelige allerede og
 230 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/">video-opptak</a>
 231 kommer så snart videogruppa til NUUG får publisert den.  Jeg kom på
 232 endel punkter om nye ting i Squeeze-utgaven under veis som jeg burde
 233 hatt med, og har sikkert skrevet noe tull på lysarkene som jeg ennå
 234 ikke har oppdaget.  Denne presentasjonen ble smurt ihop på veldig kort
 235 tid, og jeg rakk ikke finpusse den.  Håper den kan være lærerik
 236 likevel.</p>
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 241         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>.
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 249       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__K_re_Nordby.html">Skolelinux-intervju: Kåre Nordby</a></div>
 250       <div class="date">12th March 2012</div>
 251       <div class="body"><p>Første ut i serien med intervjuer av folk i
 252 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>-miljøet etter at
 253 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">ny
 254 versjon av Skolelinux</a> ble lansert i helga, er nylig valgte
 255 styremedlem i foreningen
 256 <a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/">Fri programvare i
 257 Skolen</a> (FRiSK) som organiserer
 258 Skolelinux-utviklingen og daglig leder i
 259 <a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux Drift AS</a>, selskapet
 260 prosjektet opprettet som et tilbud til skoler som ønsket en
 261 kommersiell samarbeidsparter.  Det bør nevnes at jeg er styremedlem i
 262 Skolelinux Drift AS og styreleder i selskapets hovedeier stiftelsen
 263 <a href="http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/">SLX Debian Labs</a>
 264 som beskytter verdiene til Skolelinux-prosjektet, og kjenner Kåre den
 265 veien.</p>
 266
 267 <p><strong>Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?</strong></p>
 268
 269 <p>Jeg har siden januar 2010 vært daglig leder i Skolelinux Drift AS,
 270 som leverer support, installasjon, tilpasning, drift, og opplæring på
 271 Debian Edu / Skolelinux. Fra 2012 er jeg valgt inn som styremedlem i
 272 FRiSK.  Min forrige jobb var som KAM i Redpill Linpro (som er en av
 273 eierne i Skolelinux Drift).  Før det var jeg daglig leder i et eget 7
 274 manns konsulent selskap som også startet med fri programvare mot
 275 slutten.</p>
 276
 277 <p><strong>Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?</strong></p>
 278
 279 <p>Jeg hørte om det først når jeg jobbet i Redpill Linpro.  Men jeg
 280 har også en datter som går på en friskole, som også bruker Skolelinux.
 281 Som kjent har ikke friskoler de samme økonomiske rammebetingelsene som
 282 offentlige skoler, så for dem var det det absolutt beste alternativet.
 283 De anser også Skolelinux som et stabilt system, som bare går og går (i
 284 motsetning til det lille Windows-baserte nettverket de har på
 285 admin-siden).</p>
 286
 287 <p><strong>Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
 288
 289 <p>Sentralisert drift av tynne og diskløse arbeidsstasjoner. Således
 290 lydløse og raskere arbeidsstasjoner som er bedre i klasserommet.
 291 Lengre levetid på PC'er.  Store besparelser på maskinvare og drift. Og
 292 så klart fjerning av alle lisenskostnader. Personlig synes jeg også at
 293 mange av programmene er bedre enn alternativene. Men dette er ofte en
 294 smakssak og avhengig om man må ha det man er vant til fra før.</p>
 295
 296 <p><strong>Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
 297
 298 <p>For lite kjentskap til løsningen.  Noen ganger for dårlig
 299 kompatibilitet med arbeidsstasjoners/bærbare maskiner sine
 300 nettverksdrivere eller skjermkort. Men dette løser vi i skolene ved
 301 standardisering. Ellers er det få, om nesten ingen, av de kjente
 302 maskinvare / infrastruktur leverandørene til fylkes- / kommuner som
 303 tilbyr denne plattformen.  Skal dette endre seg så må kommunene selv
 304 sette slike krav til leverandørene.</p>
 305
 306 <p><strong>Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?</strong></p>
 307
 308 <p>Har brukt OpenOffice.org siden starten (2001 ?), Kun Linux på
 309 desktop siden 2005. Bruker i dag Kubuntu, Libreoffice og ymse annet
 310 programvare til ulik kontorbruk som er lett å installere / teste via
 311 alle programarkivene som finnes.</p>
 312
 313 <p><strong>Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
 314 skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?</strong></p>
 315
 316 <p>Fortsette å presentere flere av de gode eksemplene hvor Debian Edu
 317 / Skolelinux brukes i kommuner og enkeltskoler.  Vi må få bedre frem
 318 at det er mulig tilknytte både Windows og Mac klienter på denne
 319 plattformen (selv om det vil øke driftskostnadene).  Dette gjøres
 320 mange steder.  Spesielt er det mange lærere som ønsker å bruke
 321 Windows/Mac-bærbare, gjerne som sin private PC også. Det er også mulig
 322 for kommunen å integrere med Active Directory i stedet for OpenLDAP
 323 som kommer med ut av boksen (selv om også dette øker kostnadene).
 324 Dette vil muligens bidra til å fjerne noe motstand hos noen
 325 potensielle brukere / driftpersonell for å ta i bruk noe
 326 nytt. Fremveksten av mobile brukere og nettbrett går i vår favør.
 327 Brukerne blir kjent og vant til flere nye operativsystemer /
 328 brukergrensesnitt. Så utviklerfellesskapet bør jobbe videre med å
 329 integrere flere nye klienttyper, som ultra lav-kostklienter og
 330 nettbrett (blant annet fri programvare-alternativet
 331 <a href="http://makeplaylive.com/">Spark</a> med
 332 <a href="http://www.merproject.org/">Mer OS</a> og
 333 <a href="http://plasma-active.org/">KDE Active Plasma</a>).</p>
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 338         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>.
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 346       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_is_out_.html">Skolelinux / Debian Edu Squeeze is out!</a></div>
 347       <div class="date">11th March 2012</div>
 348       <div class="body"><p>This weekend we finally published the first stable release of
 349 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux / Debian Edu</a> based
 350 on Debian/Squeeze.  The full announcement is
 351 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">available</a>
 352 from the project announcement list.  Now is a good time to test if it
 353 you have not done so already.</p>
 354
 355 <p>I plan to present the new version at
 356 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/">a NUUG
 357 meeting</a> on tuesday.  I look forward to seeing you there if you are
 358 in Oslo, Norway.</p>
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 363         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>.
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 371       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html">Debian Edu interview: Nigel Barker</a></div>
 372       <div class="date"> 9th March 2012</div>
 373       <div class="body"><p>Inspired by <a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/interview/">the
 374 interview series</a> conducted by Raphael, I started a Norwegian
 375 interview series with people involved in the Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 376 community.  This was so popular that I believe it is time to move to a
 377 more international audience.</p>
 378
 379 <p>While <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and
 380 Skolelinux</a> originated in France and Norway, and have most users in
 381 Europe, there are users all around the globe.  One of those far away
 382 from me is Nigel Barker, a long time Debian Edu system administrator
 383 and contributor.  It is thanks to him that Debian Edu is adjusted to
 384 work out of the box in Japan.  I got him to answer a few questions,
 385 and am happy to share the response with you. :)
 386
 387
 388 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 389
 390 <p>My name is Nigel Barker, and I am British. I am married to Yumiko,
 391 and we have three lovely children, aged 15, 14 and 4(!) I am the IT
 392 Coordinator at Hiroshima International School, Japan. I am also a
 393 teacher, and in fact I spend most of my day teaching Mathematics,
 394 Science, IT, and Chemistry. I was originally a Chemistry teacher, but
 395 I have always had an interest in computers. Another teacher teaches
 396 primary school IT, but apart from that I am the only computer person,
 397 so that means I am the network manager, technician and webmaster,
 398 also, and I help people with their computer problems. I teach python
 399 to beginners in an after-school club. I am way too busy, so I really
 400 appreciate the simplicity of Skolelinux.</p>
 401
 402 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 403 project?</strong></p>
 404
 405 <p>In around 2004 or 5 I discovered the ltsp project, and set up a
 406 server in the IT lab. I wanted some way to connect it to our central
 407 samba server, which I was also quite poor at configuring. I discovered
 408 Edubuntu when it came out, but it didn't really improve my setup. I
 409 did various desperate searches for things like "school Linux server"
 410 and ended up in a document called "Drift" something or other. Reading
 411 there it became clear that Skolelinux was going to solve all my
 412 problems in one go. I was very excited, but apprehensive, because my
 413 previous attempts to install Debian had ended in failure (I used
 414 Mandrake for everything - ltsp, samba, apache, mail, ns...). I
 415 downloaded a beta version, had some problems, so subscribed to the
 416 Debian Edu list for help. I have remained subscribed ever since, and
 417 my school has run a Skolelinux network since Sarge.</p>
 418
 419 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 420 Edu?</strong></p>
 421
 422 <p>For me the integrated setup. This is not just the server, or the
 423 workstation, or the ltsp. Its all of them, and its all configured
 424 ready to go. I read somewhere in the early documentation that it is
 425 designed to be setup and managed by the Maths or Science teacher, who
 426 doesn't necessarily know much about computers, in a small Norwegian
 427 school. That describes me perfectly if you replace Norway with
 428 Japan.</p>
 429
 430 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 431 Edu?</strong></p>
 432
 433 <p>The desktop is fairly plain. If you compare it with Edubuntu, who
 434 have fun themes for children, or with distributions such as Mint, who
 435 make the desktop beautiful. They create a good impression on people
 436 who don't need to understand how to use any of it, but who might be
 437 important to the school. School administrators or directors, for
 438 instance, or parents. Even kids. Debian itself usually has ugly
 439 default theme settings. It was my dream a few years back that some
 440 kind of integration would allow Edubuntu to do the desktop stuff and
 441 Debian Edu the servers, but now I realise how impossible that is.  A
 442 second disadvantage is that if something goes wrong, or you need to
 443 customise something, then suddenly the level of expertise required
 444 multiplies. For example, backup wasn't working properly in Lenny. It
 445 took me ages to learn how to set up my own server to do rsync backups.
 446 I am afraid of anything to do with ldap, but perhaps Gosa will
 447 help.</p>
 448
 449 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 450
 451 <p>Nowadays I only use Debian on my personal computers. I have one for
 452 studio work (I play guitar and write songs), running AV Linux
 453 (customised Debian) a netbook running Squeeze, and a bigger laptop
 454 still running Skolelinux Lenny workstation. I have a Tjener in my
 455 house, that's very useful for the family photos and music.  At school
 456 the students only use Skolelinux. (Some teachers and the office still
 457 have windows). So that means we only use free software all day every
 458 day. Open office, The GIMP, Firefox/Iceweasel, VLC and Audacity are
 459 installed on every computer in school, irrespective of OS.  We also
 460 have Koha on Debian for the library, and Apache, Moodle, b2evolution
 461 and Etomite on Debian for the www. The firewall is Untangle.</p>
 462
 463 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 464 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 465
 466 <p>Current trends are in our favour. Open source is big in industry,
 467 and ordinary people have heard of it. The spread of Android and the
 468 popularity of Apple have helped to weaken the impression that you have
 469 to have Microsoft on everything. People complain to me much less about
 470 file formats and Word than they did 5 years ago.  The Edu aspect is
 471 also a selling point. This is all customised for schools. Where is the
 472 Windows-edu, or the Mac-edu?  But of course the main attraction is
 473 budget.The trick is to convince people that the quality is not
 474 compromised when you stop paying and use free software instead. That
 475 is one reason why I say the desktop experience is a weakness. People
 476 are not impressed when their USB drive doesn't work, or their browser
 477 doesn't play flash, for example.</p>
 478 </div>
 479       <div class="tags">
 480
 481
 482         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>.
 483
 484
 485       </div>
 486     </div>
 487     <div class="padding"></div>
 488
 489     <div class="entry">
 490       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Mass_creation_of_user_accounts_in_Squeeze.html">Debian Edu screencast: Mass creation of user accounts in Squeeze</a></div>
 491       <div class="date"> 7th March 2012</div>
 492       <div class="body"><!-- Video HTML based on http://www.diveintohtml5.net/video.html -->
 493
 494 <p>One of the Debian Edu developers, Wolfgang Schweer, just created a
 495 screen cast documenting how to create a lot of new users in LDAP on
 496 Debian Edu Squeeze.  The video is embedded here in quarter size, and
 497 also available from <a href="http://vimeo.com/37675399">vimeo</a> and
 498 download as a
 499 <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv">Ogg
 500 Theora</a> file.  Check it out below.</p>
 501
 502 <p><video id="gosa-mass-user-create-movie" width="256" height="184" preload controls>
 503   <source src="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
 504     <p>Download video as
 505       <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv">Ogg</a>.</p>
 506 </video></p>
 507 </div>
 508       <div class="tags">
 509
 510
 511         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>.
 512
 513
 514       </div>
 515     </div>
 516     <div class="padding"></div>
 517
 518     <div class="entry">
 519       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hamar_kommune_imponerer_i_FiksGataMi_rapportert_problem_i_dag.html">Hamar kommune imponerer i FiksGataMi-rapportert problem i dag</a></div>
 520       <div class="date"> 5th March 2012</div>
 521       <div class="body"><p>Tok nettopp en titt på listen over løste problemer i
 522 <a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a> (hentet via
 523 <a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/open311">Open311-søkegrensesnittet</a>),
 524 og lot meg imponere over Hamar kommunes raske respons.  Sjekk
 525 <a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/report/10791">rapport #10791</a>, der
 526 Hamar kommune kl. 10:19 i dag får beskjed om at det er dårlig
 527 brøyting, allerede 10:50 melder kommunen tilbake at de er på saken.
 528 18:26 samme dag melder så innsender at problemet er løst.  Hatten av
 529 for folkene i Hamar kommune!</p>
 530
 531 <p>Apropos bra respons.  En bruker sendte for noen dager inn følgende
 532 tilbakemelding til oss som står bak tjenesten.</p>
 533
 534 <p><blockquote>Rapporterte inn slukte gatelys på Torsnesveien, og to
 535 uker etterpå er lysene tilbake. Flott service!</blockquote></p>
 536
 537 <p>Det er veldig hyggelig å høre at FiksGataMi fungerer bra for
 538 innbyggerne.  Måtte alle landets innbyggere få samme gode erfaring med
 539 FiksGataMi og det offentlige.  I dag er det 52 kommuner som har lenke
 540 til FiksGataMi fra sine nettsider, og dermed indikerer at de liker vår
 541 tjeneste.  Måtte de få følge av resten av landets kommuner snart. :)</p>
 542 </div>
 543       <div class="tags">
 544
 545
 546         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
 547
 548
 549       </div>
 550     </div>
 551     <div class="padding"></div>
 552
 553     <div class="entry">
 554       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_release_candidate_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Squeeze.html">Third release candidate of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Squeeze</a></div>
 555       <div class="date"> 4th March 2012</div>
 556       <div class="body"><p>This weekend we wrapped up and published the third release
 557 candidate for <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
 558 Skolelinux</a> based on Squeeze.  The full announcement is
 559 <a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00000.html">available</a>
 560 from the project announcement list.  Check it out if you
 561 need a software solution for your school.</p>
 562 </div>
 563       <div class="tags">
 564
 565
 566         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>.
 567
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 578 <h2>Archive</h2>
 579 <ul>
 580
 581 <li>2012
 582 <ul>
 583
 584 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
 585
 586 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
 587
 588 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (12)</a></li>
 589
 590 </ul></li>
 591
 592 <li>2011
 593 <ul>
 594
 595 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
 596
 597 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
 598
 599 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
 600
 601 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/04/">April (7)</a></li>
 602
 603 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/05/">May (3)</a></li>
 604
 605 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/06/">June (2)</a></li>
 606
 607 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/07/">July (7)</a></li>
 608
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 610
 611 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
 612
 613 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 614
 615 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 616
 617 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
 618
 619 </ul></li>
 620
 621 <li>2010
 622 <ul>
 623
 624 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
 625
 626 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
 627
 628 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
 629
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 631
 632 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/05/">May (9)</a></li>
 633
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 635
 636 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
 637
 638 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
 639
 640 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
 641
 642 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
 643
 644 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
 645
 646 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
 647
 648 </ul></li>
 649
 650 <li>2009
 651 <ul>
 652
 653 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
 654
 655 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
 656
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 658
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 660
 661 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/05/">May (9)</a></li>
 662
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 664
 665 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
 666
 667 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
 668
 669 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
 670
 671 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 672
 673 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 674
 675 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
 676
 677 </ul></li>
 678
 679 <li>2008
 680 <ul>
 681
 682 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
 683
 684 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
 685
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 687
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 689
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 754
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 756
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 760
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 762
 763  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (9)</a></li>
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