X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/4a43b4c233fc0983aa6ef165e3f9613d0b902400..3f193cddf5f081ccac88efdd462cc877742fc5d5:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index a6927a7d23..19d4679468 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,83 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + 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> + + + NRK nekter å finne og utlevere eventuell avtale med MPEG-LA http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NRK_nekter___finne_og_utlevere_eventuell_avtale_med_MPEG_LA.html @@ -666,38 +743,5 @@ Orwell</a>.</p> - - Web service to look up HP and Dell computer hardware support status - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html - Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:15:00 +0200 - <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> - - -