Free EDEM2004 Interview_Khaznadar WIMS

FREEEDEM: First and traditional question, to let our readers know you better. Please present yourself ...

Please follow this link : GeorgesKhaznadar

FREEEDEM: What is your main (free) project about ?

I'm trying to promote the use of Wims to teach sciences. This server is very actively deloped by Gang Xiao, and it is very rich in free educational contents for teaching maths.

FREEDEM: Who are your main users ?

My students, and hopefully an increasing number of users of free programs which are embedded inside Freeduc-CD.

FREEDEM: Who are your main supporters ?

Please say me what I'm supposed to hope from a supporter, then I'll be able to say which this supporter can be.

FREEDEM: How many users are there who interact with you ?

Do you mean direct interaction ? as for many persons, about one hundred and a half at any time in my adult's life.

FREEDEM: What comments would you like to get from your users ? From supporters ? From contributors ?

Friendly comments, of course.

FREEDEM: Which kind of support would you most like to receive, from the community or users ?

Mainly active communication about the usability and the possibilities to interoperate educational scientific free programs in the real life.

FREEEDEM: Could you introduce in few words what you're going to talk about during your presentation ...

You mean probably ... if the topic is Wims ?

• what you can do at once with this service
• what you can develop instantly with this service
• how to use it without any need to install it
• how to use it once it has been installed on a LAN

FREEEDEM: What is lacking most in you project ?

There has been released more free educational software by math teachers than by science teachers. I hope to promote some development tools which can be used by both of these neighbouring communities. Participation of science teachers in free software/free content publication is too seldom now.

FREEEDEM: What are you expecting from your talk at FREEEDEM from the interactions with users and other developers present at the event ?

I hope to meet people willing to make interoperable as many as possible free software in the scientific educational field.

FREEEDEM: To finish with some questions inspired by the famous Proust questionnaire

• What is your idea of perfect happiness?

Mmmm... I'd rather answer later... please send me some Madeleines by snail-mail. My favorite are baked in Commercy. Thanks a lot in advance.

• Which living person do you most admire?

• Who in the free software/content community do you admire most ?

(some suggestions: Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, Lawrence Lessig, Michael Hart ... Please add names here)

• When and where were you happiest?

• Which talent would you most like to have?

• What is your current state of mind?

• What do you consider your greatest achievement?

• What is your favorite occupation?

• What is the quality you most like in a man?

• What is the quality you most like in a woman?

• Who are your favorite writers?

• What is your motto?

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Some more ideas: the famous Proust Questionnaire

• What is your idea of perfect happiness?

• Which historical figure do you most identify with?

• Which living person do you most admire?

• What is the trait you most deplore in yourself?

• What is your greatest extravagance?

• What is your favorite journey?

• On what occasion do you lie?

• Which living person do you most despise?

• What or who is the greatest love of your life?

• When and where were you happiest?

• Which talent would you most like to have?

• What is your current state of mind?

• What do you consider your greatest achievement?

• If you were to die and come back as a person or thing, what do you think it would be?

• What is your most treasured possession?

• What do you regard as the lowest depth of misery?

• What is your favorite occupation?

• What is the quality you most like in a man?

• What is the quality you most like in a woman?

• Who are your favorite writers?

• What is your motto?