From: Petter Reinholdtsen Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2012 23:17:52 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Format the text. X-Git-Url: https://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/commitdiff_plain/afa8a5fb5b6944fd18301b7960f536df7fbbdfa4?ds=sidebyside Format the text. --- diff --git a/blog/draft/2012-skolelinux-angela-fuss.txt b/blog/draft/2012-skolelinux-angela-fuss.txt index ccc38ffe77..7ec32cdd99 100644 --- a/blog/draft/2012-skolelinux-angela-fuss.txt +++ b/blog/draft/2012-skolelinux-angela-fuss.txt @@ -2,7 +2,10 @@ Title: Debian Edu interview: Angela Fuß Tags: english, debian edu, intervju Date: 2012-07-09 00:30 -

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After begging for a long time, I finally managed to lure another +one of the people behind the German "IT-Zukunft Schule" project out +from maternity leave to conduct an interview. I am happy to present +Angela Fuß to you. :)

Who are you, and how do you spend your days?

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-In 2013 I will work again in my job in a German foundation for nature conservation. I am doing public relation work there. -Besides that - and that is the connection to Skolelinux/Debian Edu - I am working in our own school project "IT-Zukunft Schule" in North Germany. I am responsible for the quality assurance, the customer relationship management and the communication processes in the project. -Since 2001 I constantly have been training myself in communication and leadership. Besides that I am a forester, a landscaping gardener and a yoga teacher. +

In 2013 I will work again in my job in a German foundation for +nature conservation. I am doing public relation work there. Besides +that - and that is the connection to Skolelinux / Debian Edu - I am +working in our own school project "IT-Zukunft Schule" in North +Germany. I am responsible for the quality assurance, the customer +relationship management and the communication processes in the +project.

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How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu +

Since 2001 I constantly have been training myself in communication +and leadership. Besides that I am a forester, a landscaping gardener +and a yoga teacher.

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How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu project?

-I fell in love with Mike ;-). -Very soon after getting to know him I was completely enrolled into Free Software. -At this time Mike did IT-services for one newly founded school in Kiel. Other schools in Kiel needed concepts for their IT environment. -Often when Mike came home from working at the newly founded school I found myself listening to his complaints about several points where the communication with the schools head or the teachers did not work. -So we were clear that that he would not work for one more school if we did not set up a structure for communication between him, the schools head, the teachers, the students and the parents. +

I fell in love with Mike ;-).

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Very soon after getting to know him I was completely enrolled into +Free Software. At this time Mike did IT-services for one newly +founded school in Kiel. Other schools in Kiel needed concepts for +their IT environment. Often when Mike came home from working at the +newly founded school I found myself listening to his complaints about +several points where the communication with the schools head or the +teachers did not work. So we were clear that he would not work for +one more school if we did not set up a structure for communication +between him, the schools head, the teachers, the students and the +parents.

Together with our friend and hardware supplier Andreas Buchholz we started to get an overview of free software solutions suitable for schools. One day before Christmas 2010 Mike and I had a date with Kurt -Gramlich in Gütersloh. As Kurt and I are really really interested in -building networks of people and in being in communication we dived -into Skolelinux and brought it to the first grammar schools in -Northern Germany.

+Gramlich in Gütersloh. As Kurt and I are really interested in building +networks of people and in being in communication we dived into +Skolelinux and brought it to the first grammar schools in Northern +Germany.

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For information about our school project you can read Petters -interview with Mike Gabriel.

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For information about our school project you can read +the +interview with Mike Gabriel.

-

What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian +

What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian Edu?

-First I have to say: I cannot answer this question technically. My answer comes rather from a social point of view. -The biggest advantage of Skolelinux/Debian Edu I see is the large and strong international community of Debian Developers in the background which is very alive and connected over mailinglists, blogs and meetings. My constant feeling for the Debian Community is: If something does not work they will somehow fix it. All is well ;-). This is of course a user experience. -What I also get as a big advantage of Skolelinux/Debian Edu is that everybody who uses it and works with it can also contribute to it - that includes students, teachers, parents.... +

First I have to say: I cannot answer this question technically. My +answer comes rather from a social point of view.

+ +

The biggest advantage of Skolelinux / Debian Edu I see is the large +and strong international community of Debian Developers in the +background which is very alive and connected over mailinglists, blogs +and meetings. My constant feeling for the Debian Community is: If +something does not work they will somehow fix it. All is well +;-). This is of course a user experience. What I also get as a big +advantage of Skolelinux / Debian Edu is that everybody who uses it and +works with it can also contribute to it - that includes students, +teachers, parents...

-

What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian +

What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian Edu?

I will answer this question relating to the internal structure of -Skolelinux/Debian Edu.

+Skolelinux / Debian Edu.

What I see as a major disadvantage is that there is a gap between the group of developers for Debian Edu and the people who make the marketing, that means the people that bring Skolelinux to the schools. There is a lack of communication between these two groups and -I think that does not really work for Skolelinux/Debian Edu.

+I think that does not really work for Skolelinux / Debian Edu.

-Further I appreciate that Skolelinux/Debian Edu is known as a doocracy. Nevertheless I keep asking myself if at some points a democracy or some kind of hierarchical project structure would be good and helpful. -I am also missing some kind of contact between the Skolelinux/Debian Edu communities in Europe or on an international level. I think it would be good if there was more sharing between the different countries using Skolelinux/Debian Edu. +

Further I appreciate that Skolelinux / Debian Edu is known as a +do-ocracy. Nevertheless I keep asking myself if at some points a +democracy or some kind of hierarchical project structure would be good +and helpful. I am also missing some kind of contact between the +Skolelinux / Debian Edu communities in Europe or on an international +level. I think it would be good if there was more sharing between the +different countries using Skolelinux / Debian Edu.

Which free software do you use daily?

-On my laptop I am still using an Ubuntu 10.04 with a Gnome Desktop -on. As applications I use Openoffice.org, Gedit, Firefox, Pidgin, +

On my laptop I am still using an Ubuntu 10.04 with a Gnome Desktop +on. As applications I use Openoffice.org, Gedit, Firefox, Pidgin, LaTeX and GnuCash. For mails I am using Horde. And I am really fond of -my N900 running with Maemo. +my N900 running with Maemo.

Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to get schools to use free software?

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  • Another focus lies in the training of teachers and students in co-administrating the IT-System at their school. They start getting in -contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu community and they get the +contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu community and they get the offer to become more and more independent from us.