blog/data/2012-04-08-skolelinux-justin-b-rye.txt

   1 Title: Debian Edu interview: Justin B. Rye
   2 Tags: english, debian edu, intervju
   3 Date: 2012-04-08 10:50
   4
   5 <p>It take all kind of contributions to create a Linux distribution
   6 like <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>,
   7 and this time I lend the ear to Justin B. Rye, who is listed as a big
   8 contributor to the
   9 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">Debian
  10 Edu Squeeze release manual</a>.
  11
  12 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
  13
  14 <p>I'm a 44-year-old linguistics graduate living in Edinburgh who has
  15 occasionally been employed as a sysadmin.</p>
  16
  17 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
  18 project?</strong></p>
  19
  20 <p>I'm neither a developer nor a Skolelinux/Debian Edu user!  The only
  21 reason my name's in the credits for the documentation is that I hang
  22 around on debian-l10n-english waiting for people to mention things
  23 they'd like a native English speaker to proofread...  So I did a sweep
  24 through the wiki for typos and Norglish and inconsistent spellings of
  25 "localisation".</p>
  26
  27 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
  28 Edu?</strong></p>
  29
  30 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
  31 Edu?</strong></p>
  32
  33 <p>These questions are too hard for me - I don't use it!  In fact I
  34 had hardly any contact with I.T. until long after I'd got out of the
  35 education system.</p>
  36
  37 <p>I can tell you the advantages of Debian for me though: it soaks up
  38 as much of my free time as I want and no more, and lets me do
  39 everything I want a computer for without ever forcing me to spend
  40 money on the latest hardware.</p>
  41
  42 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
  43
  44 <p>I've been using Debian since Rex; popularity-contest says the
  45 software that I use most is xinit, xterm, and xulrunner (in other
  46 words, I use a distinctly retro sort of desktop).</p>
  47
  48 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
  49 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
  50
  51 <p>Well, I don't know.  I suppose I'd be inclined to try reasoning
  52 with the people who make the decisions, but obviously if that worked
  53 you would hardly need a strategy.</p>