<div class="body"><p>It was a surprise to me to learn that the computer system for
schools I've involved in, <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian
Edu / Skolelinux</a>, was being used in India. But apparently it is,
-and I managed to get an interview with one of the project members
-there, Shirish Agarwal.
+and I managed to get an interview with one of the friends of the
+project there, Shirish Agarwal.</p>
<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
gcompris, the number of activities therein are amazing. Another one of
the softwares that I have liked for a long time is stellarium. Even
pysycache is cool except for couple of issues I encountered
-<ahref="https://bugs.debian.org/781841">#781841</a> and
-<ahref="https://bugs.debian.org/781842">#781842</a>.</p>
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/781841">#781841</a> and
+<a href="https://bugs.debian.org/781842">#781842</a>.</p>
<p>I prefer software installed on the system over web based solutions,
as a web site can disappear any time but the software on disk has the
pretty big and there are lot of interesting ideas that could be done
but for reasons not known not done or if done I don't know about them.
Let me share some of the ideas (these are more upstream based but
-still) I have had for a long time :-</p>
+still) I have had for a long time :</p>
<p>1. Classical maths question of two trains in opposing directions
each running @x kmph/mph at y distance, when they will meet and how
<p>The computer is a fantastic system where questions like these can
be drawn, animated and the methodology and answers teased out in
interactive manner. While sites such as the
-<ahref="http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.two.trains.html">Ask
+<a href="http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.two.trains.html">Ask
Dr. Math FAQ on The Two Trains problem</a> (as an example or point of
inspiration) can be used there is lot more that can be done. I dunno
if there is a free software which does something like this. The idea
meeting somewhere in-between. Characters from blender movies could
also be used.</p>
-<p>2. Loads of crossword-puzzles with reference to subjects :- We have
+<p>2. Loads of crossword-puzzles with reference to subjects: We have
enormous data sets in Wikipedia and Wikitionary. I don't think it
should be a big job to design crossword puzzles. Using categories and
sub-categories it should be doable to have Q&A single word answers
<p>Me and my friends did teach on week-ends in a government school for
around 2 years, and
-<ahref="https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/sharings/">gathered
+<a href="https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/sharings/">gathered
some experience</a> there. Some of the things we learnt/discovered
there was :</p>
you have objects falling down and you have to name them and let's
say the falling object is a hat or a fedora hat, this would not be
as recognizable as say a
- <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puneri_Pagadi">Puneri
- pagdi</a> so there is need to inject local objects, words wherever
+ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puneri_Pagadi">Puneri
+ Pagdi</a> so there is need to inject local objects, words wherever
possible. Especially for word-games there are so many hindi words
which have become part of english vocabulary (for instance in
parley), those could be made into a hinglish collection or