blog/draft/2012-03-skolelinux-justin-b-rye.txt

   1 Title: Debian Edu interview: Justin B Rye
   2 Tags: english, debian edu, intervju
   3 Date: 2012-03-15 11:30
   4
   5 <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
   6
   7 Justin B Rye
   8
   9 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
  10
  11 <p>I'm a 44-year-old linguistics graduate living in Edinburgh who has
  12 occasionally been employed as a sysadmin.</p>
  13
  14 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
  15 project?</strong></p>
  16
  17 <p>I'm neither a developer nor a Skolelinux/Debian Edu user!  The only
  18 reason my name's in the credits for the documentation is that I hang
  19 around on debian-l10n-english waiting for people to mention things
  20 they'd like a native English speaker to proofread...  So I did a sweep
  21 through the wiki for typos and Norglish and inconsistent spellings of
  22 "localisation".</p>
  23
  24 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
  25 Edu?</strong></p>
  26
  27 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
  28 Edu?</strong></p>
  29
  30 <p>These questions are too hard for me - I don't use it!  In fact I
  31 had hardly any contact with I.T. until long after I'd got out of the
  32 education system.</p>
  33
  34 <p>I can tell you the advantages of Debian for me though: it soaks up
  35 as much of my free time as I want and no more, and lets me do
  36 everything I want a computer for without ever forcing me to spend
  37 money on the latest hardware.</p>
  38
  39 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
  40
  41 <p>I've been using Debian since Rex; popularity-contest says the
  42 software that I use most is xinit, xterm, and xulrunner (in other
  43 words, I use a distinctly retro sort of desktop).</p>
  44
  45 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
  46 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
  47
  48 <p>Well, I don't know.  I suppose I'd be inclined to try reasoning
  49 with the people who make the decisions, but obviously if that worked
  50 you would hardly need a strategy.</p>