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+ <title>Debian Edu interview: José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jos__Luis_Redrejo_Rodr_guez.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jos__Luis_Redrejo_Rodr_guez.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><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>
+</description>
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<title>NRK nekter å finne og utlevere eventuell avtale med MPEG-LA</title>
<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NRK_nekter___finne_og_utlevere_eventuell_avtale_med_MPEG_LA.html</link>
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- <title>Web service to look up HP and Dell computer hardware support status</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>A few days ago
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html">I
-reported how to get</a> the support status out of Dell using an
-unofficial and undocumented SOAP API, which I since have found out was
-<a href="http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2012-February/045959.html">discovered
-by Daniel De Marco in february</a>. Combined with my web scraping
-code for HP, Dell and IBM
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html">from
-2009</a>, I got inspired and wrote
-<a href="https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/">a
-web service</a> based on Scraperwiki to make it easy to look up the
-support status and get a machine readable result back.</p>
-
-<p>This is what it look like at the moment when asking for the JSON
-output:
-
-<blockquote><pre>
-% GET <a href="https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&vendor=Dell&servicetag=2v1xwn1">https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&vendor=Dell&servicetag=2v1xwn1</a>
-supportstatus({"servicetag": "2v1xwn1", "warrantyend": "2013-11-24", "shipped": "2010-11-24", "scrapestamputc": "2012-06-06T20:26:56.965847", "scrapedurl": "http://143.166.84.118/services/assetservice.asmx?WSDL", "vendor": "Dell", "productid": ""})
-%
-</pre></blockquote>
-
-<p>It currently support Dell and HP, and I am hoping for help to add
-support for other vendors. The python source is available on
-Scraperwiki and I welcome help with adding more features.</p>
-</description>
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