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+ Debian Edu interview: Jürgen Leibner +
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+ 13th May 2012 +
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It has been a few busy weeks for me, but I am finally back to +publish another interview with the people behind +Debian Edu and Skolelinux. +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. + +

Who are you, and how do you spend your days?

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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.

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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.

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How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu +project?

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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".

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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.

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What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian +Edu?

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When I'm looking back to the beginning, there were other advantages +for me as today.

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In the past there were advantages like:

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Today some of the advantages has been lost, changed or new ones +came up in this way:

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What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian +Edu?

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Which free software do you use daily?

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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.

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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.

+ +

Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to +get schools to use free software?

+ +

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.

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+ + + Tags: debian edu, english, intervju. + + +
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+ Skolelinux-intervju: Alf Tonny Bätz +
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+ 20th May 2012 +
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Skolelinux-prosjektets +musiker og mannen bak +opplæringsdokumentene +i Rosegarden +(norsk +utgave) 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.

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Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?

+ +

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 Parken +ungdomsskole med å drifte skolens PC-er. Har også litt +musikkundervisning.

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Mitt mål er å bevisstgjøre musikklærene mulighetene med de frie +programmene som finnes i Skolelinux, blant annet Rosegarden.

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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.

+ +

Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?

+ +

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.

+ +

Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?

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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.

+ +

Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?

+ +

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.

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Video- og bilde-redigering har dessverre en del mangler, mange av +programmene har en tendens til og krasje. Det gjelder blant annet +kdenlive og +openshot, 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.

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Man må ofte bruke flere en et video redigerings program før og få +fullført en ønsket oppgave.

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Eksempel:

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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.

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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.

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Det programmet jeg har best erfaring til er +cinelerra, men dessverre har det +også tendenser og krasje av og til uten grunn.

+ +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. + +

Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?

+ +Programmene jeg bruker mest av er: Rosegarden, jack, qsynth, audacity, +k3b, openttd og libreoffice. + +

Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få +skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?

+ +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. + +
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+ Debian Edu interview: Ralf Gesellensetter +
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+ 27th May 2012 +
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In 2003, a German teacher showed up on the +Debian Edu and Skolelinux +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 +Debian Edu +Squeeze release became as good as it is..

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Who are you, and how do you spend your days?

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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.

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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).

+ +

How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu +project?

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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.

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What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian +Edu?

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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.

+ +

What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian +Edu?

+ +

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.

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Which free software do you use daily?

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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)

+ +

Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to +get schools to use free software?

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  1. 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.
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  2. 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.
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  3. 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.
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  4. 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.).
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  5. 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.
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  6. Talk about the difference between freeware and free software.
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  7. 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.
    8. + +

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+ Debian Edu interview: Mike Gabriel +
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+ 2nd June 2012 +
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Back in 2010, Mike Gabriel showed up on the +Debian Edu and Skolelinux +mailing list. He quickly proved to be a valuable developer, and +thanks to his tireless effort we now have Kerberos integrated into the +Debian Edu +Squeeze version.

+ +

Who are you, and how do you spend your days?

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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).

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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.

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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.

+ +

How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu +project?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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We came to two conclusions:

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

+ +

What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian +Edu?

+ +

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.

+ +

What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian +Edu?

+ +

Every coin has two sides:

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Technically: BTS issue +#311188, 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).

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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.

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Which free software do you use daily?

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For my daily business, I do not use commercial software at all.

+ +

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.

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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.

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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.

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My favourite terminal emulator is KDE's Yakuake.

+ +

Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to +get schools to use free software?

+ +

Communicate, communicate, communicate. Enrol people, enrol people, +enrol people.

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+ Debian Edu interview: José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez +
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+ 26th June 2012 +
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I've been too busy at home, but finally I found time to wrap up +another interview with the people behind +Debian Edu and Skolelinux. +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 +Debian Edu +Squeeze version.

+ +

Who are you, and how do you spend your days?

+ +

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

+ +

How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu +project?

+ +

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.

+ +

What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian +Edu?

+ +

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.

+ +

What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian +Edu?

+ +

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.

+ +

Which free software do you use daily?

+ +

Debian, of course, and due to my kind of job I am most of my time +between Iceweasel, Geany and +Terminator.

+ +

Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to +get schools to use free software?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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+ Skolelinux-intervju: Markus Gamenius +
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+ 30th June 2012 +
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Tidligere leder av +foreningen som +organiserer Skolelinux-dugnaden, Markus Gamenius , har i vår vært +i media og +debattert +skattepolitikk, 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 Skolelinux-verden +for å overta familiebedriften. Her har vi hans betraktninger i dag, +noen måneder etter at +Skolelinux +Squeeze-utgaven ble gitt ut.

+ +

Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?

+ +

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.

+ +

Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?

+ +

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.

+ +

Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?

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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.

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Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?

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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.

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Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?

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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 +Found IT. 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.

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Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få +skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?

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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.

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