Free EDEM2004 Interview_RGevaert GLMS

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

I'm a 21 year old Computer Science student at the University of Ghent. Next to that I'm a voluntary sysadmin at ZeusWPI (Workgroup Informatics UGent) and at Schamper (the student news paper of the same university). Since this month I'm also doing a student job: I am responsible of the computerpark dedicated to all studentorganisations at our university. It might also be interesting to know that I am a Savannah-hacker.

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

To be correct, it's not mine solely. Together with several others I wrote a course to teach GNU/Linux to teachers, which we now maintain.

FREEDEM: Who are your main users ?

Teachers of course :)

FREEDEM: Who are your main supporters ?

People who like to write documentation about Free Software, and for teachers.

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

Last year we gave our course to a group of about 20 teachers.

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

How we can make our course better. What subjects are missing, what needs to be rewritten, ...

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

We would appreciate people who would check our course for spelling errors. Also new or updated texts would be more than welcome.

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

Sorry I'm not sure yet ;)

FREEEDEM: What is lacking most in you project ?

New input...

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

I hope we can get some new people to join us.

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

• What is your idea of perfect happiness?

I guess being free to do what you want, without harming others in any way.

• 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)

RMS