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+       <item>
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Justin B. Rye</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 8 Apr 2012 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It take all kind of contributions to create a Linux distribution
+like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;,
+and this time I lend the ear to Justin B. Rye, who is listed as a big
+contributor to the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze&quot;&gt;Debian
+Edu Squeeze release manual&lt;/a&gt;.
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a 44-year-old linguistics graduate living in Edinburgh who has
+occasionally been employed as a sysadmin.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m neither a developer nor a Skolelinux/Debian Edu user!  The only
+reason my name&#39;s in the credits for the documentation is that I hang
+around on debian-l10n-english waiting for people to mention things
+they&#39;d like a native English speaker to proofread...  So I did a sweep
+through the wiki for typos and Norglish and inconsistent spellings of
+&quot;localisation&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;These questions are too hard for me - I don&#39;t use it!  In fact I
+had hardly any contact with I.T. until long after I&#39;d got out of the
+education system.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I can tell you the advantages of Debian for me though: it soaks up
+as much of my free time as I want and no more, and lets me do
+everything I want a computer for without ever forcing me to spend
+money on the latest hardware.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve been using Debian since Rex; popularity-contest says the
+software that I use most is xinit, xterm, and xulrunner (in other
+words, I use a distinctly retro sort of desktop).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Well, I don&#39;t know.  I suppose I&#39;d be inclined to try reasoning
+with the people who make the decisions, but obviously if that worked
+you would hardly need a strategy.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
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                <title>Why the KDE menu is slow when /usr/ is NFS mounted - and a workaround</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html</link>
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                <title>Why the KDE menu is slow when /usr/ is NFS mounted - and a workaround</title>
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-       <item>
-               <title>Debian Edu interview: John Ingleby</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__John_Ingleby.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__John_Ingleby.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
-users are spread all across the globe.  The second inteview after
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;the
-Squeeze release&lt;/a&gt; was publised is with John Ingleby, a teacher and
-long time Linux user in United Kingdom.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I teach ICT part time at the Rudolf Steiner School in Kings
-Langley, near London, UK. Previously I worked as a technical
-author/trainer while my children attended the school, and I also
-contributed to the Schoolforge UK community with the aim of
-encouraging UK schools to adopt free/open source software. Five or six
-years ago we had about 50 schools interested in some way, but we
-weren&#39;t able to convert many of them into sustainable
-installations.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
-project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Skolelinux had two representatives at an early Edubuntu meeting in
-London which I attended. However at that time our school network had
-just been installed using CentOS, LTSP 4 and GNOME. When LTSP 5 came
-along we switched to Edubuntu thin client servers so now we have a
-mixed environment which includes Windows PCs and student laptops, as
-well as their MacBooks and iPads. However, the proprietary systems
-have always been rather problematic, and we never built a GUI for the
-LDAP server, so when I discovered Skolelinux is configured for all
-these things we decided to try it.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;By far the biggest advantage is the Debian Edu community. Apart
-from that I have always believed in the same &quot;sustainable computing&quot;
-goals that Skolelinux is built on: installing Linux on computers which
-would otherwise be thrown away, to provide a reliable, secure and
-low-cost IT environment for schools. From my own experience I know
-that a part-time person can teach and manage a network of about 25
-Linux computers, but it would take much more of my time if we had
-proprietary software everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;As a newcomer I&#39;m just finding out who&#39;s who in the community and
-how you&#39;re organised, and what your procedures are for dealing with
-various things such as editing manual pages and so-on. The only
-English language mailing list seems to be for developers as well as
-users, so my inbox needs heavy pruning each day!&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Besides the software already mentioned at school we use Samba,
-OpenLDAP, CUPS, Nagios and Dansguardian for the network, and on the
-desktops we have LibreOffice, Firefox, GIMP and Inkscape. At home I
-use Ubuntu and an Android 4 eePad Transformer (but I&#39;m not sure if
-that counts...)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;That&#39;s a tough question! For very many years UK schools installed
-and taught only proprietary software, so that at the highest levels
-the notion of &quot;computer&quot; means simply &quot;proprietary office
-applications&quot;.  However, schools today are experiencing budget
-constraints, and many are having to think hard about upgrading Windows
-XP.  At the same time, we have students showing teachers how to use
-iPads, MacBooks and Android, so the choice of operating system is no
-longer quite so automatic. What is more, our government at last
-realised that we need people with programming skills, so they&#39;re
-putting coding back in the curriculum! And it&#39;s encouraging that the
-first 10,000 Raspberry Pi units sold out in 2 hours.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I don&#39;t really know what strategy is going to get UK schools to use
-free software, but building an active community of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu users in this country has to be part of it.&lt;/p&gt;
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