(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
-approx. 50 work stations. Most of these have the option to boot a
+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,
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 distros - if they 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
<p><ol>
-<li>1. Support computer science as regular subject in schools to make
+<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.
+developing.</li>
-2. Make budget baskets corresponding: In Germany's public schools
+<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.
+share among German Skolelinux schools.</li>
-3. Get free software in the seminars where would-be teachers are
+<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.
+decision makers rather than the expertise of any IT experts.</li>
-4. Don't stick to free software as to be run natively. Everybody uses
+<li>Don't stick to free software as to be 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.).
+shared world wide (school books e.g.).</li>
-5. Make clear where ever you can that the market share of free (libre)
+<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.
+need to know the "ribbon menu" in order to get employed.</li>
-6. Talk about the difference between freeware and free software.
+<li>Talk about the difference between freeware and free software.</li>
-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.
+<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>