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  13      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  21       <div class="title">Debian Edu interview: Angela Fuß</div>
  22       <div class="date">14th November 2012</div>
  23       <div class="body"><p>Here is another interview with one of the people in the <a
  24 href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
  25 community.  I am running short on people willing to be interviewed, so
  26 if you know about someone I should interview, Please send me an email.
  27 After asking for many months, I finally managed to lure another one of
  28 the people behind the German
  29 "<a href="http://wiki.it-zukunft-schule.de/">IT-Zukunft Schule</a>"
  30 project out from maternity leave to conduct an interview.  Give a warm
  31 welcome to Angela Fuß. :)</p>
  32
  33 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
  34
  35 <p>I am a 39-year-old woman living in the very north of Germany near
  36 Denmark. I live in a patchwork family with "my man" Mike Gabriel, my
  37 two daughters, Mikes daughter and Mikes and my rather newborn son.
  38
  39 <p>At the moment - because of our little baby - I am spending most of
  40 the day by being a caring and organising mom for all the kids.
  41 Besides that I am really involved into and occupied with several inner
  42 growth processes: New born souls always bring the whole familiar
  43 system into movement and that needs time and focus ;-).  We are also
  44 in the middle of buying a house and moving to it.</p>
  45
  46 <p>In 2013 I will work again in my job in a German foundation for
  47 nature conservation. I am doing public relation work there.  Besides
  48 that - and that is the connection to Skolelinux / Debian Edu - I am
  49 working in our own school project "IT-Zukunft Schule" in North
  50 Germany. I am responsible for the quality assurance, the customer
  51 relationship management and the communication processes in the
  52 project.</p>
  53
  54 <p>Since 2001 I constantly have been training myself in communication
  55 and leadership. Besides that I am a forester, a landscaping gardener
  56 and a yoga teacher.</p>
  57
  58 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
  59 project?</strong></p>
  60
  61 <p>I fell in love with Mike ;-).</p>
  62
  63 <p>Very soon after getting to know him I was completely enrolled into
  64 Free Software.  At this time Mike did IT-services for one newly
  65 founded school in Kiel. Other schools in Kiel needed concepts for
  66 their IT environment.  Often when Mike came home from working at the
  67 newly founded school I found myself listening to his complaints about
  68 several points where the communication with the schools head or the
  69 teachers did not work.  So we were clear that he would not work for
  70 one more school if we did not set up a structure for communication
  71 between him, the schools head, the teachers, the students and the
  72 parents.</p>
  73
  74 <p>Together with our friend and hardware supplier Andreas Buchholz we
  75 started to get an overview of free software solutions suitable for
  76 schools. One day before Christmas 2010 Mike and I had a date with Kurt
  77 Gramlich in Gütersloh. As Kurt and I are really interested in building
  78 networks of people and in being in communication we dived into
  79 Skolelinux and brought it to the first grammar schools in Northern
  80 Germany.</p>
  81
  82 <p>For information about our school project you can read
  83 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html">the
  84 interview with Mike Gabriel</a>.</p>
  85
  86 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
  87 Edu?</strong></p>
  88
  89 <p>First I have to say: I cannot answer this question technically. My
  90 answer comes rather from a social point of view.</p>
  91
  92 <p>The biggest advantage of Skolelinux / Debian Edu I see is the large
  93 and strong international community of Debian Developers in the
  94 background which is very alive and connected over mailinglists, blogs
  95 and meetings. My constant feeling for the Debian Community is: If
  96 something does not work they will somehow fix it. All is well
  97 ;-). This is of course a user experience.  What I also get as a big
  98 advantage of Skolelinux / Debian Edu is that everybody who uses it and
  99 works with it can also contribute to it - that includes students,
 100 teachers, parents...</p>
 101
 102 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 103 Edu?</strong></p>
 104
 105 <p>I will answer this question relating to the internal structure of
 106 Skolelinux / Debian Edu.</p>
 107
 108 <p>What I see as a major disadvantage is that there is a gap between
 109 the group of developers for Debian Edu and the people who make the
 110 marketing, that means the people that bring Skolelinux to the
 111 schools. There is a lack of communication between these two groups and
 112 I think that does not really work for Skolelinux / Debian Edu.</p>
 113
 114 <p>Further I appreciate that Skolelinux / Debian Edu is known as a
 115 do-ocracy. Nevertheless I keep asking myself if at some points a
 116 democracy or some kind of hierarchical project structure would be good
 117 and helpful.  I am also missing some kind of contact between the
 118 Skolelinux / Debian Edu communities in Europe or on an international
 119 level. I think it would be good if there was more sharing between the
 120 different countries using Skolelinux / Debian Edu.</p>
 121
 122 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 123
 124 <p>On my laptop I am still using an Ubuntu 10.04 with a Gnome Desktop
 125 on.  As applications I use Openoffice.org, Gedit, Firefox, Pidgin,
 126 LaTeX and GnuCash. For mails I am using Horde. And I am really fond of
 127 my N900 running with Maemo.</p>
 128
 129 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 130 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 131
 132 <p>I am really convinced that in our school project "IT-Zukunft
 133 Schule" we have developed (and keep developing) a great way to get
 134 schools to use Free Software. We have written a detailed concept for
 135 that so I cannot explain the whole thing here. But in a nutshell the
 136 strategy has three crucial pillars:</p>
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 138 <ul>
 139
 140 <li>We really take time to get what sort of stories, questions and
 141 concerns the schools head and the teachers have about using different
 142 kinds of IT and we take time to enrol them into Free Software.</li>
 143
 144 <li>Our solution for schools is never just technical. In the centre
 145 are always the people who are going to use the software. From the very
 146 beginning of the planning for a school, we tell the schools head that
 147 they are paying us not only for a technical solution for their school,
 148 they also pay us for leading all the communication processes
 149 needed. If they do not want that, we are not working with them because
 150 we cannot give a guarantee for the quality of our work then.</li>
 151
 152 <li>Another focus lies in the training of teachers and students in
 153 co-administrating the IT-System at their school. They start getting in
 154 contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu community and they get the
 155 offer to become more and more independent from us.</li>
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