Tags: english, debian edu, intervju
Date: 2012-03-15 11:30
-<p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
-
-Jürgen Leibner
+<p>It has been a few busy weeks for me, but I am finally back to
+publish another interview with the people behind
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>.
+This time it is of our German developers, who have helped out over the
+years to make sure a lot of the minor details get right before release.
<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
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 next month on I
-will manage the department of technical documentation at a
+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.</p>
<p>My first contact with linux was around 1993. Since that time I used
-it at company and at home repeatedly but not exclusive as I do now at
+it at work and at home repeatedly but not exclusively as I do now at
home since 2006.</p>
<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
<p>Some weeks later every of the 10 classrooms had one computer
running Windows98. I began to collect old computers and equipment as
-gift and installed a first computer room with a peer-to-peer
+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 and without
-extra costs like licence and software costs. So I searched for a
-school server system running under linux and I found a couple of
+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
<p><ul>
<li>I don't need to buy it so it generates no costs to the school as
-they had less money to spent for computers and software.</li>
+they had little money to spent for computers and software.</li>
+
+<li>It has a licence which grands all rights to use it without
+cost.</li>
-<li>It has a licence which grands all rights to use it in free.</li>
<li>It was more able to fit all requirements of a server system for
schools than a Microsoft server system, even if there are only Windows
clients because of it's preconfigured overall concept of being a
infrastructure solution and community for schools, not only a
server</li>
-<li>I was able to configure the server to the needs of the school.</li>
+
+<li>I was able to configure the server to the needs of the
+school.</li>
</ul></p>
<p><ul>
-<li>Most schools here do have money to buy hard- and software now.</li>
+<li>Most schools here do have money to buy hardware and software
+now.</li>
<li>They are today mostly managed from central IT departments which
have own concepts which often do not fit to Debian Edu concepts
their product portfolio for serving schools with concepts or even
whole municipality areas.</li>
-<li>Debian Edu has beside other free and open software projekts not
+<li>Debian Edu has beside other free and open software projects not
enough lobbyists which promote free and open software to
politicians.</li>
<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
<p>I use Debian stable on my home server and on my little desktop
-computer. On my laptop I use Debian testing/sid. On applications I use
-on my laptop and my desktop 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.</p>
+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.</p>
<p>My home server provides mail services with exim, dovecot, roundcube
-and mutt over ssh on 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. Maybe I forgot something.</p>
+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.</p>
<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
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