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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>