From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:20:33 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Start on draft interview.
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+Title: Debian Edu interview: Andreas B. Mundt
+Tags: english, debian edu, intervju
+Date: 2012-03-15 11:30
+
+<p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
+
+Andreas  Mundt
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>My name is Andreas Mundt, I grew up in south Germany.  After
+studying Physics I spent several years at university doing research in
+Quantum Optics.  After that I worked some years in an optics company.
+Finally I decided to turn over a new leaf in my life and started
+teaching 10 to 19 years old kids at school.  I teach math, physics,
+information technology and science/technology.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Already before I switched to teaching, I followed the Debian Edu
+project because of my interest in education and Debian.  Within the
+qualification/training period for the teaching, I started
+contributing.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>The advantages of Debian Edu are the well known name, the
+out-of-the-box philosophy and of course the great free software of the
+Debian Project!</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>As every coin has two sides, the out-of-the-box philosophy has its
+downside, too.  In my opinion, it is hard to modify and tweak the
+setup, if you need or want that.  Further more, it is not easily
+possible to upgrade the system to a new release.  It takes much too
+long after a Debian release to prepare the -Edu release, perhaps
+because the number of developers working on the core of the code is
+rather small and often busy elsewhere.</p>
+
+<p>The Debian LAN project might fill the use case of a more flexible
+system.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I am only using non-free software if I am forced to and run Debian
+on all my machines.  For documents I prefer LaTeX and PGF/TikZ, then
+mutt and iceweasel for email respectively web browsing.  At school I
+have Arduino and Fritzing in use for a micro controller project.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>One of the major problems is the vendor lock-in from top to bottom:
+Especially in combination with ignorant government employees and
+politicians, this works out great for the "market-leader".  The school
+administration here in Baden-Wuerttemberg is occupied by that vendor.
+Documents have to be prepared in non-free, proprietary formats.  Even
+free browsers do not work for the school administration.  Publishers
+of school books provide software only for proprietary platforms.</p>
+
+<p>To change this, political work is very important.  Parts of the
+political spectrum have become aware of the problem in the last years.
+However it takes quite some time and courageous politicians to 'free'
+the system.  There is currently some discussion about "Open Data" and
+"Free/Open Standards".  I am not sure if all the involved parties have
+a clue about the potential of these ideas, and probably only a
+fraction takes them seriously.  However it might slowly make free
+software and the philosophy behind it more known and popular.</p>