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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Debian Edu interview: Wolfgang Schweer</div>
  24       <div class="date"> 1st April 2012</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Germany is a core area for the
  26 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
  27 user community, and this time I managed to get hold of Wolfgang
  28 Schweer, a valuable contributor to the project from Germany.
  29
  30 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
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  32 <p>I've studied Mathematics at the university 'Ruhr-Universität' in
  33 Bochum, Germany. Since 1981 I'm working as a teacher at the school
  34 "<a href="http://www.westfalenkolleg-dortmund.de/">Westfalen-Kolleg
  35 Dortmund</a>", a second chance school.  Here, young adults is given
  36 the opportunity to get further education in order to do the school
  37 examination 'Abitur', which will allow to study at a university. This
  38 second chance is of value for those who want a better job perspective
  39 or failed to get a higher school examination being teens.</p>
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  41 <p>Besides teaching I was involved in developing online courses for a
  42 blended learning project called 'abitur-online.nrw' and in some other
  43 information technology related projects. For about ten years I've been
  44 teacher and coordinator for the 'abitur-online' project at my
  45 school. Being now in my early sixties, I've decided to leave school at
  46 the end of April this year.</p>
  47
  48 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
  49 project?</strong></p>
  50
  51 <p>The first information about Skolelinux must have come to my
  52 attention years ago and somehow related to LTSP (Linux Terminal Server
  53 Project).  At school, we had set up a network at the beginning of 1997
  54 using Suse Linux on the desktop, replacing a Novell network. Since
  55 2002, we used old machines from the city council of Dortmund as thin
  56 clients (LTSP, later Ubuntu/Lessdisks) cause new hardware was out of
  57 reach. At home I'm using Debian since years and - subscribed to the
  58 Debian news letter - heard from time to time about Skolelinux. About
  59 two years ago I proposed to replace the (somehow undocumented and only
  60 known to me) system at school by a well known Debian based system:
  61 Skolelinux.</p>
  62
  63 <p>Students and teachers appreciated the new system because of a
  64 better look and feel and an enhanced access to local media on thin
  65 clients.  The possibility to alter and/or reset passwords using a GUI
  66 was welcomed, too. Being able to do administrative tasks using a GUI
  67 and to easily set up workstations using PXE was of very high value for
  68 the admin teachers.</p>
  69
  70 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
  71 Edu?</strong></p>
  72
  73 <p>It's open source, easy to set up, stable and flexible due to it's
  74 Debian base. It integrates LTSP out-of-the-box. And it is documented!
  75 So it was a perfect choice.</p>
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  77 <p>Being open source, there are no license problems and so it's
  78 possible to point teachers and students to programs like
  79 OpenOffice.org, ViewYourMind (mind mapping) and The Gimp.  It's of
  80 high value to be able to adapt parts of the system to special needs of
  81 a school and to choose where to get support for this.</p>
  82
  83 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
  84 Edu?</strong></p>
  85
  86 <p>Nothing yet.</p>
  87
  88 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
  89
  90 <p>At home (Debian Sid with Gnome Desktop): Iceweasel, LibreOffice,
  91 Mutt, Gedit, Document Viewer, Midnight Commander, flpsed (PDF
  92 Annotator).  At school (Skolelinux Lenny): Iceweasel, Gedit,
  93 LibreOffice.</p>
  94
  95 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
  96 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
  97
  98 <p>Some time ago I thought it was enough to tell people about it. But
  99 that doesn't seem to work quite well. Now I concentrate on those more
 100 interested and hope to get multiplicators that way.</p>
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