X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/4a43b4c233fc0983aa6ef165e3f9613d0b902400..3f193cddf5f081ccac88efdd462cc877742fc5d5:/blog/archive/2012/06/06.rss diff --git a/blog/archive/2012/06/06.rss b/blog/archive/2012/06/06.rss index c3b5a4f103..df59c6b107 100644 --- a/blog/archive/2012/06/06.rss +++ b/blog/archive/2012/06/06.rss @@ -1046,5 +1046,82 @@ at NRK ikke trenger avtale, eller noe helt annet?</p> + + Debian Edu interview: José Luis Redrejo Rodríguez + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jos__Luis_Redrejo_Rodr_guez.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jos__Luis_Redrejo_Rodr_guez.html + Tue, 26 Jun 2012 08:30:00 +0200 + <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> + + +