</div>
<div class="padding"></div>
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__J_rgen_Leibner.html">Debian Edu interview: Jürgen Leibner</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 13th May 2012
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p>It has been a few busy weeks for me, but I am finally back to
+publish another interview with the people behind
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>.
+This time it is one of our German developers, who have helped out over the
+years to make sure both a lot of major but also a lot of the minor
+details get right before release.
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>My name is Jürgen Leibner, I'm 49 years old and living in
+Bielefeld, a town in northern Germany. I worked nearly 20 years as
+certified engineer in the department for plant design and layout of an
+international company for machinery and equipment. Since 2011 I'm a
+certified technical writer (tekom e.V.) and doing technical
+documentations for a steam turbine manufacturer. From April this year
+I will manage the department of technical documentation at a
+manufacturer of automation and assembly line engineering.</p>
+
+<p>My first contact with linux was around 1993. Since that time I used
+it at work and at home repeatedly but not exclusively as I do now at
+home since 2006.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Once a day in the early year of 2001 when I wanted to fetch my
+daughter from primary school, there was a teacher sitting in the
+middle of 20 old computers trying to boot them and he failed. I helped
+him to get them booting. That was seen by the school director and she
+asked me if I would like to manage that the school gets all that old
+computers in use. I answered: "Yes".</p>
+
+<p>Some weeks later every of the 10 classrooms had one computer
+running Windows98. I began to collect old computers and equipment as
+gifts and installed the first computer room with a peer-to-peer
+network. I did my work at school without being payed in my spare time
+and with a lot of fun. About one year later the school was connected
+to Internet and a local area network was installed in the school
+building. That was the time to have a server and I knew it must be a
+Linux server to be able to fulfil all the wishes of the teachers and
+being able to do this in a transparent and economic way, without extra
+costs for things like licence and software. So I searched for a
+school server system running under Linux and I found a couple of
+people nearby who founded 'skolelinux.de'. It was the Skolelinux
+prerelease 32 I first tried out for being used at the school. I
+managed the IT of that school until the municipal authority took over
+the IT management and centralised the services for all schools in
+Bielefeld in December of 2006.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>When I'm looking back to the beginning, there were other advantages
+for me as today.</p>
+
+<p>In the past there were advantages like:</p>
+
+<p><ul>
+
+<li>I don't need to buy it so it generates no costs to the school as
+they had little money to spent for computers and software.</li>
+
+<li>It has a licence which grands all rights to use it without
+cost.</li>
+
+<li>It was more able to fit all requirements of a server system for
+schools than a Microsoft server system, even if there are only Windows
+clients because of it's preconfigured overall concept of being a
+infrastructure solution and community for schools, not only a
+server</li>
+
+<li>I was able to configure the server to the needs of the
+school.</li>
+
+</ul></p>
+
+<p>Today some of the advantages has been lost, changed or new ones
+came up in this way:</p>
+
+<p><ul>
+
+<li>Most schools here do have money to buy hardware and software
+now.</li>
+
+<li>They are today mostly managed from central IT departments which
+have own concepts which often do not fit to Debian Edu concepts
+because they are to close to Microsoft ideology.</li>
+
+<li>With the Squeeze version of Debian Edu which now uses GOsa² for
+management I feel more able to manage the daily tasks than with the
+interfaces used in the past.</li>
+
+<li>It is more modular than in the past and fits even better to the
+different needs.</li>
+
+<li>The documentation is usable and gets better every day.</li>
+
+<li>More people than ever before are using Debian Edu all over the
+world and so the community, which is an very important part I think,
+is sharing knowledge and minds.</li>
+
+<li>Most, maybe all, of the technical requirements for schools are
+solved today by Debian Edu. </li>
+
+</ul></p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p><ul>
+
+<li>There are too few IT companies able to integrate Debian Edu into
+their product portfolio for serving schools with concepts or even
+whole municipality areas.</li>
+
+<li>Debian Edu has beside other free and open software projects not
+enough lobbyists which promote free and open software to
+politicians.</li>
+
+<li>Technically there are no disadvantages I'm aware of.</li>
+
+</ul></p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I use Debian stable on my home server and on my little desktop
+computer. On my laptop I use Debian testing/sid. The applications I
+use on my laptop and my desktop are Open/Libre-office, Iceweasel,
+KMail, DigiKam, Amarok, Dolphin, okular and all the other programs I
+need from the KDE environment. On console I use newsbeuter, mutt,
+screen, irssi and all the other famous and useful tools.</p>
+
+<p>My home server provides mail services with exim, dovecot, roundcube
+and mutt over ssh on the console, file services with samba, NFS,
+rsync, web services with apache, moinmoin-wiki, multimedia services
+with gallery2 and mediatomb and database services with MySQL for me
+and the whole family. I probably forgot something.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I believe, we should provide concepts for IT companies to integrate
+Debian Edu into their product portfolio with use cases for different
+countries and areas all over the world.</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ 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>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Alf_Tonny_B_tz.html">Skolelinux-intervju: Alf Tonny Bätz</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 20th May 2012
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux-prosjektets</a>
+musiker og mannen bak
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals/Rosegarden/">opplæringsdokumentene
+i Rosegarden</a>
+(<a href="http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/nb/rosegarden-manual.html">norsk
+utgave</a>) for musikklærere, Alf Tonny Bätz, er neste mann ut i min
+intervjurunde av folkene bak Skolelinux-løsningen. Jeg har kjent Alf
+Tonny siden vi møttes som barn på påskefjellet i Ofoten, og ble
+gledelig overrasket da han dukket opp i Skolelinux-prosjektet etter å
+ikke ha sett noe til ham på mange år.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Jeg er utdannet kokk av yrke, og har utøvet yrket i 12 år. Men
+etter at ryggen sa takk før seg, studerte jeg nettverksadministrasjon
+ved Næringsakademiet i Bergen årene 2008-2009 slik at jeg kunne
+forfølge en av mine største interesser - data. Til daglig jobber jeg
+ved <a href="http://www.narvikskolen.no/parken/">Parken
+ungdomsskole</a> med å drifte skolens PC-er. Har også litt
+musikkundervisning.</p>
+
+<p>Mitt mål er å bevisstgjøre musikklærene mulighetene med de frie
+programmene som finnes i Skolelinux, blant annet Rosegarden.</p>
+
+<p>Har i mange år drevet med musikk og en av grunnen til at Rosegarden
+falt i smak for min del, var fordi denne fungere og ligner mest på
+Windows-programmet (cubase) jeg jobbet mye med da jeg i mine yngre
+dager var «Windows fanatiker». Ble introdusert til Linux av en kompis
+av meg for omtrent 14 år siden, og har bare blitt mer og mer glad i
+dette operativsystemet.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Da jeg ble sykemeldt fra min gamle jobb, og måtte omskoleres,
+havnet jeg i 2007 sammen med Viggo Fedreheim på IKT-avdelingen i
+Narvik kommune, der ble jeg for første gang introdusert til
+Skolelinuxprosjektet.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Skolelinux er enkelt å holde i drift og masse flotte programmer som
+geogebra, ktouch og kgeografi følger med pakken. Man kan ta i bruk
+gamle PC-er igjen, slik at skoler med dårlig råd får opp en brukbar
+PC-park. PC-er som er ca 6-9 år gamle fungere tilfredstillende, bare
+de har 512 MB RAM eller mer.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Ulempene er at noen av de pedagogiske programmene som lærene ønsker
+å bruke fungere dårlig med Linux. Mye pga. av at disse programmene
+blir ikke laget til Linuxbaserte operativsystemer.</p>
+
+<p>Video- og bilde-redigering har dessverre en del mangler, mange av
+programmene har en tendens til og krasje. Det gjelder blant annet
+<a href="http://www.kdenlive.org/">kdenlive</a> og
+<a href="http://www.openshotvideo.com/">openshot</a>, for å nevne
+noen. De er ikke stabile nok. Når elevene kommer med filmsnutter de
+ønsker og jobbe med, så godtar ikke programmene filene, og når elevene
+jobber med redigering bare krasjer programmene uten forvarsel. Det er
+for vanskelig å få noe som bare fungerer ut av boksen her. Når en elev
+plugger inn et videokamera eller fotoapparat så er det alltid noe som
+ikke vil fungere. Programmene godtar ikke format, godtar ikke
+kameraet, osv., osv. Det er dessverre med på og dra ned en positiv
+opplevelse av bruk av fri programvare.</p>
+
+<p>Man må ofte bruke flere en et video redigerings program før og få
+fullført en ønsket oppgave.</p>
+
+<p>Eksempel:</p>
+
+<p>Hvis det ene programmet ikke vil ta i mot videofilen klarer et
+annet det, men det programmet som klarer det kan ikke gjøre de samme
+oppgavene som det programmet som ikke ville ta i mot filen,
+Tilsvarende er det med foto, man må bruke flere programmer for å få
+et ferdig resultat. Til dags dato har jeg enda ikke funnet et video-
+og fotoprogram som kan tilfredstillende fullføre en oppgave.</p>
+
+<p>Så man kan klare og fullføre en oppgave, men i verste fall må man
+innom 3-4 programmer for å få det til. Så jeg har enda ikke til dags
+dato sett at et program fungere 100% til alt.</p>
+
+<p>Det programmet jeg har best erfaring til er
+<a href="http://cinelerra.org/">cinelerra</a>, men dessverre har det
+også tendenser og krasje av og til uten grunn.</p>
+
+Lydsystemet kan også være et mareritt. Konkret snakker jeg om når du
+bruker for eksempel et smartboard, så følger det med USB-lydkort på
+disse. Problemet ligger her i at systemet ikke vil velge rett
+lydkort, så man må inn med padevchooser for å sette opp PulseAudio
+til og velge at USB-lydkortet skal brukes. Det blir for tungvindt for
+lærene, de ønsker at ting skal fungere med en gang. (min løsning på
+det problemet ble at jeg måtte deaktivere lydkortet som fantes på
+maskinen) men da må man bestandig slå på smartboard-tavla.
+
+<p><strong>Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?</strong></p>
+
+Programmene jeg bruker mest av er: Rosegarden, jack, qsynth, audacity,
+k3b, openttd og libreoffice.
+
+<p><strong>Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
+skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?</strong></p>
+
+Jeg tror det må bevisstgjøring av Skolene til, dvs. reklamere høylytt
+og fortelle og vise de andre skolene at frie programvarer faktisk
+fungere. Jeg trur faktisk mange ikke vet at det finnes frie
+alternativer.
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Ralf_Gesellensetter.html">Debian Edu interview: Ralf Gesellensetter</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 27th May 2012
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p>In 2003, a German teacher showed up on the
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
+mailing list with interesting problems and reports proving he setting
+up Linux for a (for us at the time) lot of pupils. His name was Ralf
+Gesellensetter, and he has been an important tester and contributor
+since then, helping to make sure the
+<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html">Debian Edu
+Squeeze</a> release became as good as it is..</p>
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I am a teacher from Germany, and my subjects are Geography,
+Mathematics, and Computer Science ("Informatik"). During the past 12
+years (since 2000), I have been working for a comprehensive (and soon,
+also inclusive) school leading to all kind of general levels, such as
+O- or A-level ("Abitur"). For quite as long, I've been taking care of
+our computer network.</p>
+
+<p>Now, in my early 40s, I enjoy the privilege of spending a lot of my
+spare time together with my wife, our son (3 years) and our daughter
+(4 months).</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>We had tried different Linux based school servers, when members of
+my local Linux User Group (LUG OWL) detected Skolelinux. I remember
+very well, being part of a party celebrating the Linux New Media Award
+("Best Newcomer Distribution", also nominated: Ubuntu) that was given
+to Skolelinux at Linux World Exposition in Frankfurt, 2005 (IIRC). Few
+months later, I had the chance to join a developer meeting in Ulsrud
+(Oslo) and to hand out the award to Knut Yrvin and others. For more
+than 7 years, Skolelinux is part of our schools infrastructure, namely
+our main server (tjener), one LTSP (today without thin clients), and
+approximately 50 work stations. Most of these have the option to boot a
+locally installed Skolelinux image. As a consequence, I joined quite
+a few events dealing with free software or Linux, and met many Debian
+(Edu) developers. All of them seemed quite nice and competent to me,
+one more reason to stick to Skolelinux.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Debian driven, you are given all the advantages of a community
+project including well maintained updates. Once, you are familiar with
+the network layout, you can easily roll out an entire educational
+computer infrastructure, from just one installation media. As only
+free software (FOSS) is used, that supports even elderly hardware,
+up-sizing your IT equipment is only limited by space (i.e. available
+labs). Especially if you run a LTSP thin client server, your
+administration costs tend towards zero.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>While Debian's stability has loads of advantages for servers, this
+might be different in some cases for clients: Schools with unlimited
+budget might buy new hardware with components that are not yet
+supported by Debian stable, or wish to use more recent versions of
+office packages or desktop environments. These schools have the
+option to run Debian testing or other distributions - if they have the
+capacity to do so. Another issue is that Debian release cycles
+include a wide range of changes; therefor a high percentage of human
+power seems to be absorbed by just keeping the features of Skolelinux
+within the new setting of the version to come. During this process,
+the cogs of Debian Edu are getting more and more professional,
+i.e. harder to understand for novices.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>LibreOffice, Wikipedia, Openstreetmap, Iceweasel (Mozilla Firefox),
+KMail, Gimp, Inkscape - and of course the Linux Kernel (not only on
+PC, Laptop, Mobile, but also our SAT receiver)</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p><ol>
+
+<li>Support computer science as regular subject in schools to make
+people really "own" their hardware, to make them understand the
+difference between proprietary software products, and free software
+developing.</li>
+
+<li>Make budget baskets corresponding: In Germany's public schools
+there are more or less fixed budgets for IT equipment (including
+licenses), so schools won't benefit from any savings here. This
+privilege is left to private schools which have consequently a large
+share among German Skolelinux schools.</li>
+
+<li>Get free software in the seminars where would-be teachers are
+trained. In many cases, teachers' software customs are respected by
+decision makers rather than the expertise of any IT experts.</li>
+
+<li>Don't limit ourself to free software run natively. Everybody uses
+free software or free licenses (for instance Wikipedia), and this
+general concept should get expanded to free educational content to be
+shared world wide (school books e.g.).</li>
+
+<li>Make clear where ever you can that the market share of free (libre)
+office suites is much above 20 p.c. today, and that you pupils don't
+need to know the "ribbon menu" in order to get employed.</li>
+
+<li>Talk about the difference between freeware and free software.</li>
+
+<li>Spread free software, or even collections of portable free apps
+for USB pen drives. Endorse students to get a legal copy of
+Libreoffice rather than accepting them to use illegal serials. And
+keep sending documents in ODF formats.</li>
+
+</ol></p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ 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>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html">Debian Edu interview: Mike Gabriel</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 2nd June 2012
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p>Back in 2010, Mike Gabriel showed up on the
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
+mailing list. He quickly proved to be a valuable developer, and
+thanks to his tireless effort we now have Kerberos integrated into the
+<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html">Debian Edu
+Squeeze</a> version.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>My name is Mike Gabriel, I am 38 years old and live near Kiel,
+Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. I live together with a wonderful partner
+(Angela Fuß) and two own children and two bonus children (contributed
+by Angela).</p>
+
+<p>During the day I am part-time employed as a system administrator
+and part-time working as an IT consultant. The consultancy work
+touches free software topics wherever and whenever possible. During
+the nights I am a free software developer. In the gaps I also train in
+becoming an osteopath.</p>
+
+<p>Starting in 2010 we (Andreas Buchholz, Angela Fuß, Mike Gabriel)
+have set up a free software project in the area of Kiel that aims at
+introducing free software into schools. The project's name is
+"IT-Zukunft Schule" (IT future for schools). The project links IT
+skills with communication skills.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>While preparing our own customised Linux distribution for
+"IT-Zukunft Schule" we were repeatedly asked if we really wanted to
+reinvent the wheel. What schools really need is already available,
+people said. From this impulse we started evaluating other Linux
+distributions that target being used for school networks.</p>
+
+<p>At the end we short-listed two approaches and compared them: a
+commercial Linux distribution developed by a company in Bremen,
+Germany, and Skolelinux / Debian Edu. Between 12/2010 and 03/2011 we
+went to several events and met people being responsible for marketing
+and development of either of the distributions. Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu was by far much more convincing compared to the other product that
+got short-listed beforehand--across the full spectrum. What was most
+attractive for me personally: the perspective of collaboration within
+the developmental branch of the Debian Edu project itself.</p>
+
+<p>In parallel with this, we talked to many local and not-so-local
+people. People teaching at schools, headmasters, politicians, data
+protection experts, other IT professionals.</p>
+
+<p>We came to two conclusions:</p>
+
+<p>First, a technical conclusion: What schools need is available in
+bits and pieces here and there, and none of the solutions really fit
+by 100%. Any school we have seen has a very individual IT setup
+whereas most of each school's requirements could mapped by a standard
+IT solution. The requirement to this IT solution is flexibility and
+customisability, so that individual adaptations here and there are
+possible. In terms of re-distributing and rolling out such a
+standardised IT system for schools (a system that is still to some
+degree customisable) there is still a lot of work to do here
+locally. Debian Edu / Skolelinux has been our choice as the starting
+point.</p>
+
+<p>Second, a holistic conclusion: What schools need does not exist at
+all (or we missed it so far). There are several technical solutions
+for handling IT at schools that tend to make a good impression. What
+has been missing completely here in Germany, though, is the enrolment
+of people into using IT and teaching with IT. "IT-Zukunft Schule"
+tries to provide an approach for this.</p>
+
+<p>Only some schools have some sort of a media concept which explains,
+defines and gives guidance on how to use IT in class. Most schools in
+Northern Germany do not have an IT service provider, the school's IT
+equipment is managed by one or (if the school is lucky) two (admin)
+teachers, most of the workload these admin teachers get done in there
+spare time.</p>
+
+<p>We were surprised that only a very few admin teachers were
+networked with colleagues from other schools. Basically, every school
+here around has its individual approach of providing IT equipment to
+teachers and students and the exchange of ideas has been quasi
+non-existent until 2010/2011.</p>
+
+<p>Quite some (non-admin) teachers try to avoid using IT technology in
+class as a learning medium completely. Several reasons for this
+avoidance do exist.</p>
+
+<p>We discovered that no-one has ever taken a closer look at this
+social part of IT management in schools, so far. On our quest journey
+for a technical IT solution for schools, we discussed this issue with
+several teachers, headmasters, politicians, other IT professionals and
+they all confirmed: a holistic approach of considering IT management
+at schools, an approach that includes the people in place, will be new
+and probably a gain for all.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>There is a list of advantages: international context, openness to
+any kind of contributions, do-ocracy policy, the closeness to Debian,
+the different installation scenarios possible (from stand-alone
+workstation to complex multi-server sites), the transparency within
+project communication, honest communication within the group of
+developers, etc.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Every coin has two sides:</p>
+
+<p>Technically: <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/311188">BTS issue
+#311188</a>, tricky upgradability of a Debian Edu main server, network
+client installations on top of a plain vanilla Debian installation
+should become possible sometime in the near future, one could think
+about splitting the very complex package debian-edu-config into
+several portions (to make it easier for new developers to
+contribute).</p>
+
+<p>Another issue I see is that we (as Debian Edu developers) should
+find out more about the network of people who do the marketing for
+Debian Edu / Skolelinux. There is a very active group in Germany
+promoting Skolelinux on the bigger Linux Days within Germany. Are
+there other groups like that in other countries? How can we bring
+these marketing people together (marketing group A with group B and
+all of them with the group of Debian Edu developers)? During the last
+meeting of the German Skolelinux group, I got the impression of people
+there being rather disconnected from the development department of
+Debian Edu / Skolelinux.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>For my daily business, I do not use commercial software at all.</p>
+
+<p>For normal stuff I use Iceweasel/Firefox, Libreoffice.org. For
+serious text writing I prefer LaTeX. I use gimp, inkscape, scribus for
+more artistic tasks. I run virtual machines in KVM and Virtualbox.</p>
+
+<p>I am one of the upstream developers of X2Go. In 2010 I started the
+development of a Python based X2Go Client, called PyHoca-GUI.
+PyHoca-GUI has brought forth a Python X2Go Client API that currently
+is being integrated in Ubuntu's software center.</p>
+
+<p>For communications I have my own Kolab server running using Horde
+as web-based groupware client. For IRC I love to use irssi, for Jabber
+I have several clients that I use, mostly pidgin, though. I am also
+the Debian maintainer of Coccinella, a Jabber-based interactive
+whiteboard.</p>
+
+<p>My favourite terminal emulator is KDE's Yakuake.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Communicate, communicate, communicate. Enrol people, enrol people,
+enrol people.</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ 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>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jos__Luis_Redrejo_Rodr_guez.html">Debian Edu interview: José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 26th June 2012
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p>I've been too busy at home, but finally I found time to wrap up
+another interview with the people behind
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>.
+This time we get to know José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez, one of our great
+helpers from Spain. His effort was the reason we added support for
+several desktop types (KDE, Gnome and most recently LXDE) in Debian
+Edu, and have all of these available in the recently published
+<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html">Debian Edu
+Squeeze</a> version.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I'm a father, teacher and engineer who is working for the Education
+ministry of the Region of Extremadura (Spain) in the implementation of
+ICT in schools</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>At 2006, I verified that both, we in Extremadura and Skolelinux
+project, had been working in parallel for some years, doing very
+similar things, using very similar tools and with similar targets, so
+I decided it was time to join forces as much as possible.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>A community of highly skilled experts working together, with a
+really open schema of collaboration and work. I really love the
+concepts of Do-ocracy and Merit-ocracy and the way these concepts are
+been used everyday inside Debian Edu.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Sometimes the differences in the implementations, laws or
+economical and technical resources in the different countries don't
+allow us to agree in the same solution for all of us, and several
+approaches are needed, what is a waste of effort. Also, there is a
+lack of more man power to be able to follow the fast evolution of the
+technologies in school.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Debian, of course, and due to my kind of job I am most of my time
+between Iceweasel, <a href="http://www.geany.org/">Geany</a> and
+<a href="http://www.ohloh.net/p/gnome-terminator">Terminator</a>.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I think there is not a single strategy because there are very
+different scenarios: schools with mixed proprietary and free
+environments, schools using only workstations, other schools using
+laptops, netbooks, tablets, interactive white-boards, etc.</p>
+
+<p>Also the range of ages of the students is very broad and you can
+not use the same solutions for primary schools and secondary or even
+universities. So different strategies are needed.</p>
+
+<p>But, looking at these differences, and looking back to the things
+we've done and implemented, and the places were we have spent most of
+our forces, I think we should focus as much as possible in free
+multi-platform environments, using only standards tools, and moving
+more and more to Internet or network solutions that could be deployed
+using wireless. I think we'll see more and more personal devices in
+the schools, devices the students and teachers will take home with
+them, so the solutions must be able to be taken at home and continue
+working there.</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ 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>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
+ <div class="entry">
+ <div class="title">
+ <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Markus_Gamenius.html">Skolelinux-intervju: Markus Gamenius</a>
+ </div>
+ <div class="date">
+ 30th June 2012
+ </div>
+ <div class="body">
+ <p>Tidligere leder av
+<a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no">foreningen som
+organiserer Skolelinux-dugnaden</a>, Markus Gamenius , har i vår vært
+i media og
+<a href="http://www.dn.no/privatokonomi/article2345489.ece">debattert
+skattepolitikk</a>, og det fikk meg til å høre om han kunne lokkes til
+å fortelle om hans inntrykk nå, etter at han ble lokket bort fra
+Linux- og <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>-verden
+for å overta familiebedriften. Her har vi hans betraktninger i dag,
+noen måneder etter at
+<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html">Skolelinux
+Squeeze</a>-utgaven ble gitt ut.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Jeg heter Markus Gamenius og er 40 år. Utdannet biolog med ymse
+fag på siden. Har jobbet som lærer der jeg var driftsansvarlig på
+Ulsrud VGS i Oslo. Senere eide og jobbet jeg flere år i Linuxlabs AS,
+som jeg solgte til Redpill Linpro AS (den gangen Linpro AS). I dag
+jobber jeg med ulike investeringer, hovedsaklig i eiendom, men også i
+en del ulike IT-relaterte bedrifter.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Fruen og jeg dro på en lengre seiltur i 2000, der jeg måtte ha "noe
+å gjøre" under hjemturen over Atlanteren. Jeg kjøpte et par bøker om
+Linux i en bokhandel i New York og ble veldig fascinert. Etter
+hjemkomsten begynte jeg å jobbe på Ulsrud VGS, som naturfagslærer, men
+som IT-interessert ble jeg fort en del av den nye IT-satsningen som
+skulle løfte Ulsrud og gi skolen en bedre rykte. Vi hadde ganske
+mange maskiner, som gikk på Win98 og to servere som ble oppgradert til
+Win2000. Systemene var ustabil og dårlige. På leting etter noe
+bedre, uten å knekke ryggen økonomisk, kom jeg over "Linux i Skolen"
+og Skolelinux. Jeg tok kontakt med miljøet og en gjeng møtte opp på
+skolen, der vi gjorde en liten testinstallasjon. Etter et par år var
+ryggraden på skolen Linux (Skolelinux) og vi hadde flere hundre
+maskiner, både tynne klienter (gamle og nye), bærbare (Debian) og noen
+stasjonære (Win2000). På et tidspunkt var Ulsrud den råeste IT-skolen
+og det irriterte skolesjefen i Oslo, da de satset hardt på
+Windows.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Det som gjorde at vi fikk inn Skolelinux var ene og alene
+økonomiske. Det faktum at vi slapp å kjøpe masse nye lisenser og at
+vi kunne bruke gammel hardware. Alt i alt gjorde dette at vi sparte
+mye, men i stede for å bruke mindre på IT brukte vi det vi sparte på å
+skaffe mer hardware og på den måten gi det beste tilbudet i landet til
+våre elever. For oss som driftet var det himmel å ha et system som
+gikk å administrere sentralt og effektivt. Det var heller ikke så
+dumt at vi kunne "låse" maskinene mer effektivt enn vi kunne med
+Microsoft Windows, slik at vi slapp mye feil og problemer som ble
+forårsaket av "kreative" elever.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Det vi slet med var mangelen av en del programmer lærerne ville ha.
+Husker ikke alle, men det var et knippe med pedagogiske programmer de
+ikke fikk. I dag tror jeg det problemet er langt mindre da det meste
+av disse kjøres gjennom nettleseren.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Jeg bruker mye Apple i dag og er ikke så stolt av det, men jeg har
+både OpenOffice, Firefox og en del andre programmer på den bærbare.
+Firefox brukes mest av disse. På Apple-serveren hjemme bruker jeg
+HandBrake mye, og jeg har installert OpenWRT på flere av
+basestasjonene både hjemme og på jobben. I tillegg til det har jeg i
+flere år finansiert et prosjekt som heter
+<a href="http://www.found.no/">Found IT</a>. Dette er et prosjekt der
+vi lager et rammeverk for søk, der alt vi bruker fri programvare. Det
+er Alex Brasetvik som er daglig leder i Found IT.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
+skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Når det gjelder IT og skole er fortsatt økonomi veldig viktig. Så
+man må oppfylle minimumskravene (ikke være best, men bra nok) og selge
+seg inn på hvor mye man sparer. Det betyr selvsagt at man sparer på
+lisenser, men også på driftsinnsats. Men nå når jeg ikke er en aktiv
+del av miljøet lenger hører jeg nesten ingen ting om fri programvare.
+Jeg stiller meg da spørsmålet om det har blitt stille rundt miljøet,
+eller om jeg kun så det tydeligere før når jeg var aktiv? Uansett er
+det for stille rundt Skolelinux-prosjektet nå.</p>
+
+ </div>
+ <div class="tags">
+
+
+ Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
+
+
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ <div class="padding"></div>
+
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