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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  22     <h3>Entries from December 2013.</h3>
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  26         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnadsnett_for_alle_stiller_p__Oslo_Maker_Faire_i_januar_2014.html">Dugnadsnett for alle stiller på Oslo Maker Faire i januar 2014</a>
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  29         10th December 2013
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  32         <p>Helga 18. og 19. januar 2014 arrangeres
  33 <a href="http://makerfaireoslo.no/no/program/dugnadsnett">Oslo Maker
  34 Faire</a>, og <a href="http://www.dugnadsnett.no/">Dugnadsnett for
  35 alle</a> har fått plass!  Planen er å ha et bord med en plakat der vi
  36 forteller om hva Dugnadsnett for alle er for noe, og et lite verksted
  37 der vi hjelper folk som er interessert i å få opp sin egen mesh-node.
  38 Jeg gleder meg til å se hvordan prosjektet blir mottatt der.</p>
  39
  40 <p>Målet med dugnadsnett for alle i Oslo er å få på plass et datanett
  41 for kommunikasjon ved hjelp av radio-repeaterstasjoner (kalt
  42 mesh-noder) som gjør at en kan direkte kommunisere med slekt, venner
  43 og bekjente i Oslo via andre som deltar i dugnadsnettet, samt gjøre
  44 det mulig komme ut på internett via dugnadsnettet.  Første delmål er å
  45 kunne sende SMS-meldinger vha. IP-telefoni løsningen
  46 <a href="http://www.servalproject.org/">Serval project</a> mellom
  47 deltagerne i Dugnadsnett for alle i Oslo.  Formålet er å ta tilbake
  48 kontrollen over egen nett-infrastruktur og gjøre det dyrere å bedrive
  49 massiv innsamling av informasjon om borgernes bruk av datanett.</p>
  50
  51 <p>Høres dette interessant ut?  Bli med på prosjektet, fortell oss
  52 hvor du kunne tenke deg å sette opp en radio-repeater (slik at folk i
  53 nærheten kan finne hverandre ved hjelp av
  54 <a href="http://flynor.net/mesh/mesh.php">kartet over planlagte og
  55 eksisterende radio-repeatere</A>), bli med på epostlisten
  56 <a href="http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/dugnadsnett">dugnadsnett
  57 (at) nuug.no</a> og stikk innom
  58 <a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#dugnadsnett.no">IRC-kanalen
  59 #dugnadsnett.no</a>.  Så langt er det planlagt over 40
  60 radio-repeatere, med VPN-forbindelser via Internet for å la de delene
  61 av nettet som ikke når hverandre via radio kunne snakke med hverandre
  62 likevel.</p>
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  68         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/mesh network">mesh network</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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  77         <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Klaus_Knopper.html">Debian Edu interview: Klaus Knopper</a>
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  80          6th December 2013
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  83         <p>It has been a while since I managed to publish the last interview,
  84 but the <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
  85 Skolelinux</a> community is still going strong, and yesterday we even
  86 had a new school administrator show up on
  87 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-edu">#debian-edu</a> to share
  88 his success story with installing Debian Edu at their school.  This
  89 time I have been able to get some helpful comments from the creator of
  90 Knoppix, Klaus Knopper, who was involved in a Skolelinux project in
  91 Germany a few years ago.</p>
  92
  93 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
  94
  95 <p>I am Klaus Knopper.  I have a master degree in electrical
  96 engineering, and is currently professor in information management at
  97 the university of applied sciences Kaiserslautern / Germany and
  98 freelance Open Source software developer and consultant.</p>
  99
 100 <p>All of this is pretty much of the work I spend my days with. Apart
 101 from teaching, I'm also conducting some more or less experimental
 102 projects like the <a href="http://www.knoppix.org">Knoppix GNU/Linux live
 103 system</a> (Debian-based like Skolelinux),
 104 <a href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html">ADRIANE</a>
 105 (a blind-friendly talking desktop system) and
 106 <a href="http://www.knopper.net/linbo/index-en.html">LINBO</a>
 107 (Linux-based network boot console, a fast remote install and repair
 108 system supporting various operating systems).</p>
 109
 110 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
 111 project?</strong></p>
 112
 113 <p>The credit for this have to go to Kurt Gramlich, who is the German
 114 coordinator for Skolelinux.  We were looking for an all-in-one open
 115 source community-supported distribution for schools, and Kurt
 116 introduced us to Skolelinux for this purpose.</p>
 117
 118 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 119 Edu?</strong></p>
 120
 121 <ul>
 122   <li>Quick installation,</li>
 123   <li>works (almost) out of the box,</li>
 124   <li>contains many useful software packages for teaching and learning,</li>
 125   <li>is a purely community-based distro and not controlled by a
 126     single company,</li>
 127   <li>has a large number of supporters and teachers who share their
 128     experience and problem solutions.</li>
 129 </ul>
 130
 131 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 132 Edu?</strong></p>
 133
 134 <ul>
 135   <li>Skolelinux is - as we had to learn - not easily upgradable to
 136   the next version.  Opposed to its genuine Debian base, upgrading to
 137   a new version means a full new installation from scratch to get it
 138   working again reliably.
 139
 140   <li>Skolelinux is based on Debian/stable, and therefore always a
 141   little outdated in terms of program versions compared to Edubuntu or
 142   similar educational Linux distros, which rather use Debian/testing
 143   as their base.
 144
 145   <li>Skolelinux has some very self-opinionated and stubborn default
 146   configuration which in my opinion adds unnecessary complexity and is
 147   not always suitable for a schools needs, the preset network
 148   configuration is actually a core definition feature of Skolelinux
 149   and not easy to change, so schools sometimes have to change their
 150   network configuration to make it "Skolelinux-compatible".
 151
 152   <li>Some proposed extensions, which were made available as
 153   contribution, like secure examination mode and lecture material
 154   distribution and collection, were not accepted into the mainline
 155   Skolelinux development and are now not easy to maintain in the
 156   future because of Skolelinux somewhat undeterministic update
 157   schemes.</li>
 158
 159   <li>Skolelinux has only a very tiny number of base developers
 160   compared to Debian.</li>
 161
 162 </ul>
 163
 164 <p>For these reasons and experience from our project, I would now
 165 rather consider using plain Debian for schools next time, until
 166 Skolelinux is more closely integrated into Debian and becomes
 167 upgradeable without reinstallation.</p>
 168
 169 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 170
 171 <p>GNU/Linux with LXDE desktop, bash for interactive dialog and
 172 programming, texlive for documentation and correspondence,
 173 occasionally LibreOffice for document format conversion. Various
 174 programming languages for teaching.</p>
 175
 176 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 177 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 178
 179 <p>Strong arguments are</p>
 180
 181 <ul>
 182
 183   <li>Knowledge is free, and so should be methods and tools for
 184     teaching and learning.</li>
 185
 186   <li>Students can learn with and use the same software at school, at
 187     home, and at their working place without running into license or
 188     conversion problems.</li>
 189
 190   <li>Closed source or proprietary software hides knowledge rather
 191     than exposing it, and proprietary software vendors try to bind
 192     customers to certain products.  But teachers need to teach
 193     science, not products.</li>
 194
 195   <li>If you have everything you for daily work as open source, what
 196     would you need proprietary software for?</li>
 197
 198 </ul>
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 204         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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 216 <h2>Archive</h2>
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 218
 219 <li>2013
 220 <ul>
 221
 222 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/01/">January (11)</a></li>
 223
 224 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/02/">February (9)</a></li>
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 226 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/03/">March (9)</a></li>
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 228 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/04/">April (6)</a></li>
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 230 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/05/">May (9)</a></li>
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 232 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/06/">June (10)</a></li>
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 234 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/07/">July (7)</a></li>
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 236 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/08/">August (3)</a></li>
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 238 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/09/">September (5)</a></li>
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 240 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/10/">October (7)</a></li>
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 242 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/11/">November (9)</a></li>
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 244 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2013/12/">December (2)</a></li>
 245
 246 </ul></li>
 247
 248 <li>2012
 249 <ul>
 250
 251 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
 252
 253 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
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 255 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
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 257 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/04/">April (12)</a></li>
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 259 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/05/">May (12)</a></li>
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 261 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/06/">June (20)</a></li>
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 263 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/07/">July (17)</a></li>
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 265 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/08/">August (6)</a></li>
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 267 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/09/">September (9)</a></li>
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 269 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (17)</a></li>
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 271 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/11/">November (10)</a></li>
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 273 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/12/">December (7)</a></li>
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 277 <li>2011
 278 <ul>
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 280 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
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 282 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
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 327 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
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 329 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
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 331 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
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 333 </ul></li>
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 335 <li>2009
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 338 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
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 358 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
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 360 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
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 364 <li>2008
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 367 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
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 369 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
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 380  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (13)</a></li>
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