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-               <title>Vårt konkurransebidrag til #apps4norge bruker @opnedata</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/V_rt_konkurransebidrag_til__apps4norge_bruker__opnedata.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/V_rt_konkurransebidrag_til__apps4norge_bruker__opnedata.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 1 May 2013 23:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;For noen uker siden, innen fristen 2013-04-15, leverte jeg og
-Morten Kjelkenes vårt bidrag til
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apps4norge.no/&quot;&gt;DIFIs apps4norge-konkurranse&lt;/a&gt;
-under lagnavnet &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt;s tannlegeteam.
-Vi leverte følgende i idé-kategorien:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tittel: Stikk innom tannlegen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-05-01-tannlegeportal.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;img width=&quot;70%&quot; src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2013-05-01-tannlegeportal.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Beskrivelse:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Idéen&lt;/em&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Gjøre det enklere å finne en tannlege som er praktisk for deg, der
-pris og reisetid med kollektivt, til fots eller med bil er tatt med i
-beregningen, ved å oppgi hvor en bor og jobber, og få forslag til
-tannleger både i nærheten og på veien mellom disse stedene.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Brukeren oppgir hjemmeadresse og jobbadresse, og kanskje også
-barnehage. Så kan en også oppgi egen timelønn (for å beregne taps
-arbeidsfortjeneste) og om en reiser med kollektivt, til fots eller
-kjører bil. Så trykker en søk, og får opp en todelt side med kart og
-tekstliste. I kartdelen vises aktuelle tannleger (for eksempel maks
-7), og i tekstdelen er de samme tannlegene listet opp, med pris og
-reisetid for kollektivtransport, og pris pluss reisekostnad hvis en
-reiser med bil. En kan endre sorteringsrekkefølge for listen ved å
-trykke på aktuell kolonne, og velge om en skal sortere på pris,
-reisetid eller totalkostnad. Kun tannleger som tar imot nye kunder tas
-i utganspunktet med i listen. Når brukeren trykker med musa en
-tannlegemarkør på kartet kommer det en popup med detaljer om
-tannlegen, den samme informasjonen som finnes i listen under kartet,
-og lenke til mer informasjon om tannlegen.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For hvert enkelt tannlegekontor er det tilgjengelig en
-informasjonsside med adresse, hjemmesideurl, telefonnummer, lenke til
-side for å finne reisebeskrivelse, åpningstider, etc.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nytteverdi for brukeren&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Fourth alpha release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fourth_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fourth_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 3 Jul 2013 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The fourth wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today.  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;sparer tid på tannlegebesøk&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;kan utnytte normal reisevei mellom hjem/jobb/barnehage&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;kan finne aktuell tannlege basert på flere kriterier&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;sile bort tannleger som ikke tar imot flere kunder&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;får kart som viser tannleger i nærheten, på tvers av kommunegrenser&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Grad av innovasjon, nytenkning og kreativitet&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~alpha3 released
+2013-07-03&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;Enkel tjeneste som fokuserer på det vi selv mener er relevant ved valg
-av tannlege.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;These are the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+7.1+edu0~alpha3, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;Tjenestekonseptet kan også brukes til andre næringer, f.eks. lege,
-butikk, leiebiler, hvis en har aktuell datakilde å koble med.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Skulle gjerne hatt med vurdering av tannlegene tilgjengelig, slik
-at en kunne finne &quot;flinke&quot; tannleger basert på et eller annet
-kriterium.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Markedspotensiale - potensiale for å slå gjennom hos mange
-brukere&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu, also known as
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
+out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
+network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
+services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
+and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
+environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
+the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
+installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
+database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
+directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
+desktop contains
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&quot;&gt;more
+than 60 educational software packages&lt;/a&gt; and more are available from
+the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
+and Xfce desktop environment.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is the fourth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
+this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
+Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
 
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Alle som ønsker eller vurderer å skaffe seg ny tannlege, f.eks. nyinnflyttede og studenter&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Familier med en travel hverdag&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Dropped ispell dictionaries from our default installation.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Dropped menu-xdg from the KDE desktop option, to drop the Debian
+    submenu.  It was not included with Gnome, LXDE or Xfce, so this
+    brings KDE in line with the others.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Dropped xdrawchem, xjig and xsok from our default installation as
+    they don&#39;t have a desktop menu entry and thus won&#39;t show up in the
+    menu now that menu-xdg was removed.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Removed the killer system to kill left behind processes on
+    multi-user machines, as it was no longer able to understand when a
+    X display was in use and killed the processes of the active users
+    too.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Dropped the golearn (from goplay) package as the debtags in wheezy
+    are too few to make the package useful.&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Felles er at den gjør tannlegen lettere tilgjengelig for de som vil spare tid eller penger.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Samfunnsøkonomisk nytte - bidrar til å løse
-samfunnsutfordringer&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Kutter tid brukt på tannlegebesøk, og penger frigjøres som kan brukes på andre områder. Oppfordrer til bedre bruk av kollektivtransport ved å gi tips om tannleger i nærheten av allerede brukt reisevei mellom hjemme og jobb når en reiser kollektivt.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;X-faktor - “Det lille ekstra...”&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Denne tjenesten gir det lille ekstra ved at den ikke slår opp
-avstand til tannlege fra et enkelt punkt men avstand fra en reisevei,
-slik at en får flere tannleger å velge imellom og kanskje kan spare
-enda mer tid og penger enn en ville gjort ved å sjekke kun de nærmest
-hjemme eller jobb.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Tjenesten gir informasjonen både som kart og som tekstlig oversikt, for å sikre at blinde og svaksynte kan få tilgang til informasjonen selv om de ikke får brukt kartvisningen.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Datasett brukt&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 &lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Updated artwork matching http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Joy
+  &lt;li&gt;Multi-arch i386/amd64 USB stick ISO available.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Got rid of ispell/wordlist related debconf questions that showed
+    up for some language options.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Switched to using http.debian.net as APT source by default.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fixed proxy configuration on Main Server installations.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Changed LTSP setup to ask dpkg to use force-unsafe-io the same way
+    d-i is doing it.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Made sure root and user passwords were not left behind in the
+    debconf database after installation on Main Server installations.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Made Roaming Workstation dynamic setup more robust and added draft
+    script setup-ad-client to hook a Roaming Workstation up to a
+    Active Directory server instead of a Debian Edu Main Server.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Update system to install needed firmware packages during
+    installation, to work properly in Wheezy.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Update system to handle hardware quirks (debian-edu-hwsetup).&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Corrected PXE installation setup to properly pass selected desktop
+    and keymap settings to PXE installation clients.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;LTSP diskless workstations use sshfs by default, allowing them to
+    work without adding them to DNS and NIS netgroups for NFS access.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
+    available yet (698840).&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Artwork not enabled for all desktops.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hvakostertannlegen.no/&quot;&gt;http://www.hvakostertannlegen.no/&lt;/a&gt;
-(Ikke-publisert JSON-API), se f.eks. JSON-output fra
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hvakostertannlegen.no/services/klinikker/oslo/undersokelse-med-2-rontgenbilder&quot;&gt;http://www.hvakostertannlegen.no/services/klinikker/oslo/undersokelse-med-2-rontgenbilder&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Kartdata,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openstreetmap.org/&quot;&gt;http://www.openstreetmap.org/&lt;/a&gt;
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://mapit.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;http://mapit.nuug.no/&lt;/a&gt; (nabokommuner, postnummer)&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://labs.trafikanten.no/how-to-use-the-api.aspx&quot;&gt;http://labs.trafikanten.no/how-to-use-the-api.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
-(reisetid med kollektivtrafikk på Østlandet),
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.norge.no/data/ruter-kollektivtrafikkdata&quot;&gt;http://data.norge.no/data/ruter-kollektivtrafikkdata&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
 
-&lt;li&gt;http://reiseregningen.no (data om statens satser for biltransport)&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 2b161a99d2a848c376d8d04e3854e30c
+&lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 498922e9c508c0a7ee9dbe1dfe5bf830d779c3c8&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;li&gt;Kollektivtrafikkkart,
-&lt;ahref=&quot;http://öpnvkarte.de/?zoom=17&amp;lat=59.91056&amp;lon=10.75641&amp;layers=BT&quot;&gt;http://öpnvkarte.de/?zoom=17&amp;lat=59.91056&amp;lon=10.75641&amp;layers=BT&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
 
-&lt;li&gt;Routing med OpenStreetmap-data,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing/OnlineRouters&quot;&gt;http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Routing/OnlineRouters&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 25e808e403a4c15dbef1d13c37d572ac
+&lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 15ecfc93eb6b4f453b7eb0bc04b6a279262d9721&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;li&gt;Bilveiruting med OpenStreetmap-data, &lt;a href=&quot;http://map.project-osrm.org/&quot;&gt;http://map.project-osrm.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Kollektivtrafikkruting for Norge med uviss datakilde, &lt;a href=&quot;http://dit.no/&quot;&gt;http://dit.no/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Åpne offentlige datasett brukt i applikasjonen:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Automatically locate and install required firmware packages on Debian (Isenkram 0.4)</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatically_locate_and_install_required_firmware_packages_on_Debian__Isenkram_0_4_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatically_locate_and_install_required_firmware_packages_on_Debian__Isenkram_0_4_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It annoys me when the computer fail to do automatically what it is
+perfectly capable of, and I have to do it manually to get things
+working.  One such task is to find out what firmware packages are
+needed to get the hardware on my computer working.  Most often this
+affect the wifi card, but some times it even affect the RAID
+controller or the ethernet card.  Today I pushed version 0.4 of the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram&quot;&gt;Isenkram package&lt;/a&gt;
+including a new script isenkram-autoinstall-firmware handling the
+process of asking all the loaded kernel modules what firmware files
+they want, find debian packages providing these files and install the
+debian packages.  Here is a test run on my laptop:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+# isenkram-autoinstall-firmware 
+info: kernel drivers requested extra firmware: ipw2200-bss.fw ipw2200-ibss.fw ipw2200-sniffer.fw
+info: fetching http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/squeeze/Contents-i386.gz
+info: locating packages with the requested firmware files
+info: Updating APT sources after adding non-free APT source
+info: trying to install firmware-ipw2x00
+firmware-ipw2x00
+firmware-ipw2x00
+Preconfiguring packages ...
+Selecting previously deselected package firmware-ipw2x00.
+(Reading database ... 259727 files and directories currently installed.)
+Unpacking firmware-ipw2x00 (from .../firmware-ipw2x00_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb) ...
+Setting up firmware-ipw2x00 (0.28+squeeze1) ...
+# 
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;When all the requested firmware is present, a simple message is
+printed instead:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+# isenkram-autoinstall-firmware 
+info: did not find any firmware files requested by loaded kernel modules.  exiting
+# 
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;It could use some polish, but it is already working well and saving
+me some time when setting up new machines. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;So, how does it work?  It look at the set of currently loaded
+kernel modules, and look up each one of them using modinfo, to find
+the firmware files listed in the module meta-information.  Next, it
+download the Contents file from a nearby APT mirror, and search for
+the firmware files in this file to locate the package with the
+requested firmware file.  If the package is in the non-free section, a
+non-free APT source is added and the package is installed using
+&lt;tt&gt;apt-get install&lt;/tt&gt;.  The end result is a slightly better working
+machine.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I hope someone find time to implement a more polished version of
+this script as part of the hw-detect debian-installer module, to
+finally fix &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/655507&quot;&gt;BTS report
+#655507&lt;/a&gt;.  There really is no need to insert USB sticks with
+firmware during a PXE install when the packages already are available
+from the nearby Debian mirror.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>The value of a good distro wide test suite...</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_value_of_a_good_distro_wide_test_suite___.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_value_of_a_good_distro_wide_test_suite___.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; project, we include a post-installation test suite,
+which check that services are running, working, and return the
+expected results.  It runs automatically just after the first boot on
+test installations (using test ISOs), but not on production
+installations (using non-test ISOs).  It test that the LDAP service is
+operating, Kerberos is responding, DNS is replying, file systems are
+online resizable, etc, etc.  And it check that the PXE service is
+configured, which is the topic of this post.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The last week I&#39;ve fixed the DVD and USB stick ISOs for our Debian
+Edu Wheezy release.  These ISOs are supposed to be able to install a
+complete system without any Internet connection, but for that to
+happen all the needed packages need to be on them.  Thanks to our test
+suite, I discovered that we had forgotten to adjust our PXE setup to
+cope with the new names and paths used by the netboot d-i packages.
+When Internet connectivity was available, the installer fall back to
+using wget to fetch d-i boot images, but when offline it require
+working packages to get it working.  And ad the packages changed name
+from debian-installer-6.0-netboot-$arch to
+debian-installer-7.0-netboot-$arch, we no longer pulled in the
+packages during installation.  Without our test suite, I suspect we
+would never have discovered this before release.  Now it is fixed
+right after we got the ISOs operational.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Another by-product of the test suite is that we can ask system
+administrators with problems getting Debian Edu to work, to run the
+test suite using &lt;tt&gt;/usr/sbin/debian-edu-test-install&lt;/tt&gt; and see if
+any errors are detected.  This usually pinpoint the subsystem causing
+the problem.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to help us help kids learn how to share and create,
+please join us on
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu on
+irc.debian.org&lt;/a&gt; and the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/&quot;&gt;debian-edu@&lt;/a&gt; mailing
+list.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Victor Nițu</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Victor_Ni_u.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Victor_Ni_u.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; distribution have users and contributors all around the
+globe.  And a while back, an enterprising young man showed up on
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;our IRC channel
+#debian-edu&lt;/a&gt; and started asking questions about how Debian Edu
+worked.  We answered as good as we could, and even convinced him to
+help us with translations.  And today I managed to get an interview
+with him, to learn more about him.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a 25 year old free software enthusiast, living in Romania,
+which is also my country of origin. Back in 2009, at a New Year&#39;s Eve
+party, I had a very nice &lt;strike&gt;beer&lt;/strike&gt; discussion with a
+friend, when we realized we have no organised Debian community in our
+country. A few days later, we put together the infrastructure for such
+community and even gathered a nice Debian-ish crowd. Since then, I
+began my quest as a free software hacker and activist and I am
+constantly trying to cover as much ground as possible on that
+field.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A few years ago I founded a small web development company, which
+provided me the flexible schedule I needed so much for my
+activities. For the last 13 months, I have been the Technical Director
+of &lt;a href=&quot;http://ceata.org/&quot;&gt;Fundația Ceata&lt;/a&gt;, which is a free
+software activist organisation endorsed by the FSF and the FSFE, and
+the only one we have in our country.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The idea of participating in the Debian Edu project was a surprise
+even to me, since I never used it before I began getting involved in
+it. This year I had a great opportunity to deliver a talk on
+educational software, and I knew immediately where to look. It was a
+love at first sight, since I was previously involved with some of the
+technologies the project incorporates, and I rapidly found a lot of
+ways to contribute.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My first contributions consisted in translating the installer and
+configuration dialogs, then I found some bugs to squash (I still
+haven&#39;t fixed them yet though), and I even got my eyes on some other
+areas where I can prove myself helpful. Since the appetite for free
+software in my country is pretty low, I&#39;ll be happy to be the first
+one around here advocating for the project&#39;s adoption in educational
+environments, and maybe even get my hands dirty in creating a flavour
+for our own needs. I am not used to make very advanced plannings, so
+from now on, time will tell what I&#39;ll be doing next, but I think I
+have a pretty consistent starting point.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Not a long time ago, I was in the position of configuring and
+maintaining a LDAP server on some Debian derivative, and I must say it
+took me a while. A long time ago, I was maintaining a bigger
+Samba-powered infrastructure, and I must say I spent quite a lot of
+time on it. I have similar stories about many of the services included
+with Skolelinux, and the main advantage I see about it is the
+out-of-the box availability of them, making it quite competitive when
+it comes to managing a school&#39;s network, for example.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Of course, there is more to say about Skolelinux than the
+availability of the software included, its flexibility in various
+scenarios is something I can&#39;t wait to experiment &quot;into the wild&quot; (I
+only played with virtual machines so far). And I am sure there is a
+lot more I haven&#39;t discovered yet about it, being so new within the
+project.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, when it comes to Debian Blends, I see as the biggest
+disadvantage the lack of a numerous team dedicated to the
+project. Every day I see the same names in the changelogs, and I have
+a constantly fear of the bus factor in this story.  I&#39;d like to see
+Debian Edu advertised more as an entry point into the Debian
+ecosystem, especially amongst newcomers and students. IMHO there are a
+lot low-hanging fruits in terms of bug squashing, and enough
+opportunities to get the feeling of the Debian Project&#39;s dynamics. Not
+to mention it&#39;s a very fun blend to work on!&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Derived from the previous statement, is the delay in catching up
+with the main Debian release and documentation. This is common though
+to all blends and derivatives, but it&#39;s an issue we can all work
+on.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I can hardly imagine myself spending a day without Vim, since my
+daily routine covers writing code and hacking configuration files. I
+am a fan of the Awesome window manager (but I also like the
+Enlightenment project a lot!),
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.claws-mail.org/‎&quot;&gt;Claws Mail&lt;/a&gt; due to its ease of
+use and very configurable behaviour. Recently I fell in love with
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/redshift&quot;&gt;Redshift&lt;/a&gt;, which helps me
+get through the night without headaches. Of course, there is much more
+stuff in this bag, but I&#39;ll need a blog on my own for doing this!&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Well, on this field, I cannot do much more than experiment right
+now. So, being far from having a recipe for success, I can only assume
+that:&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Reisetid med kollektivtrafikk på Østlandet&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Øvrige datasett brukt i appen/tjenesten:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Fakta om tannleger, priser etc (upublisert JSON-API)&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Data om statens satser for biltransport&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Kartbilder, kartdata&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Kommunegrenser, nabokommuner, postnummer&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Bilveiruting med OpenStreetmap-data&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Kollektivtrafikkkart&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Routing med OpenStreetmap-data&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Kollektivtrafikkruting for Norge med uviss dataopphav&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;schools would like to get rid of proprietary software&lt;/li&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kategori: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Arbeid og velferd&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Forbruker&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Økonomi&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;students will love the openness of the system, and will want to
+    experiment with it - maybe we need to harvest the native curiosity
+    of teenagers more?&lt;/li&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Geografi (dekningsområde for app): &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;there is no &quot;right one&quot; when it comes to strategies, but it would
+    be useful to have some success stories published somewhere, so
+    other can get some inspiration from them (I know I&#39;d promote
+    them!)&lt;/li&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;Hele landet&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;more active promotion - talks, conferences, even small school
+    lectures can do magical things if they encounter at least one
+    person interested. Who knows who that person might be? ;-)&lt;/li&gt;
 
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;Vinneren annonseres 2013-05-08 ved
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apps4norge.no/arrangement/2013-05-08-invitasjon-til-prisutdeling-apps4norge-8mai-2013&quot;&gt;prisutdelingen
-hos DIFI 09:00 til 12:00&lt;/a&gt;.  Konkurransen blir hard.  Det meldes at
-38 apper og 50 ideer er registrert som kandidater.  Jeg frykter at jeg
-ikke rekker innom selv, på grunn av jobb og forpliktelser på
-hjemmebanen.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I also see some problems in getting Skolelinux into schools; for
+example, in our country we have a great deal of corruption issues, so
+it might be hard(er) to fight against proprietary solutions. Also,
+people who relied on commercial software for all their lives, would be
+very hard to convert against their will.&lt;/p&gt;
 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>
-               <title>First alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 08:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;The Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is still going strong and made
-its first Wheezy based release today.  This is the release
-announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Jonathan Carter</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jonathan_Carter.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jonathan_Carter.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;There is a certain cross-over between the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+project&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edubuntu.org/&quot;&gt;the Edubuntu
+project&lt;/a&gt;, and for example the LTSP packages in Debian are a joint
+effort between the projects.  One person with a foot in both camps is
+Jonathan Carter, which I am now happy to present to you.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m a South-African free software geek who lives in Cape Town. My
+days vary quite a bit since I&#39;m involved in too many things. As I&#39;m
+getting older I&#39;m learning how to focus a bit more :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m also an Edubuntu contributor and I love when there are
+opportunities for the Edubuntu and Debian Edu projects to benefit from
+each other.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve been somewhat familiar with the project before, but I think my
+first direct exposure to the project was when I met Petter
+[Reinholdtsen] and Knut [Yrvin] at the Edubuntu summit in 2005 in
+London. They provided great feedback that helped the bootstrapping of
+Edubuntu. Back then Edubuntu (and even Ubuntu) was still very new and
+it was great getting input from people who have been around longer. I
+was also still very excitable and said yes to everything and to this
+day I have a big todo list backlog that I&#39;m catching up with. I think
+over the years the relationship between Edubuntu and Debian-Edu has
+been gradually improving, although I think there&#39;s a lot that we could
+still improve on in terms of working together on packages. I&#39;m sure
+we&#39;ll get there one day.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Debian itself already has so many advantages. I could go on about
+it for pages, but in essence I love that it&#39;s a very honest project
+that puts its users first with no hidden agendas and also produces
+very high quality work.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I think the advantage of Debian Edu is that it makes many common
+set-up tasks simpler so that administrators can get up and running
+with a lot less effort and frustration. At the same time I think it
+helps to standardise installations in schools so that it&#39;s easier for
+community members and commercial suppliers to support.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I had to re-type this one a few times because I&#39;m trying to
+separate &quot;disadvantages&quot; from &quot;areas that need improvement&quot; (which is
+what I originally rambled on about)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The biggest disadvantage I can think of is lack of manpower. The
+project could do so much more if there were more good contributors. I
+think some of the problems are external too. Free software and free
+content in education is a no-brainer but it takes some time to catch
+on. When you&#39;ve been working with the same proprietary eco-system for
+years and have gotten used to it, it can be hard to adjust to some
+concepts in the free software world. It would be nice if there were
+more Debian Edu consultants across the world. I&#39;d love to be one
+myself but I&#39;m already so over-committed that it&#39;s just not possible
+currently.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I think the best short-term solution to that large-scale problem is
+for schools to be pro-active and share their experiences and grow
+their skills in-house. I&#39;m often saddened to see how much money
+educational institutions spend on 3rd party solutions that they don&#39;t
+have access to after the service has ended and they could&#39;ve gotten so
+much more value otherwise by being more self-sustainable and
+autonomous.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My main laptop dual-boots between Debian and Windows 7. I was
+Windows free for years but started dual-booting again last year for
+some games which help me focus and relax (Starcraft II in
+particular). Gaming support on Linux is improving in leaps and bounds
+so I suppose I&#39;ll soon be able to regain that disk space :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Besides that I rely on Icedove, Chromium, Terminator, Byobu, irssi,
+git, Tomboy, KVM, VLC and LibreOffice. Recently I&#39;ve been torn on
+which desktop environment I like and I&#39;m taking some refuge in Xfce
+while I figure that out. I like tools that keep things simple. I enjoy
+Python and shell scripting. I went to an Arduino workshop recently and
+it was awesome seeing how easy and simple the IDE software was to get
+up and running in Debian compared to the users running Windows and OS
+X.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I also use mc which some people frown upon slightly. I got used to
+using Norton Commander in the early 90&#39;s and it stuck (I think the
+people who sneer at it is just jealous that they don&#39;t know how to use
+it :p)
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I think trying to force it is unproductive. I also think that in
+many cases it&#39;s appropriate for schools to use non-free systems and I
+don&#39;t think that there&#39;s any particular moral or ethical problem with
+that.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I do think though that free software can already solve so so many
+problems in educational institutions and it&#39;s just a shame not taking
+advantage of that.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I also think that some curricula need serious review. For example,
+some areas of the world rely heavily on very specific versions of MS
+Office, teaching students to parrot menu items instead of learning the
+general concepts. I think that&#39;s very unproductive because firstly, MS
+Office&#39;s interface changes drastically every few years and on top of
+that it also locks in a generation to a product that might not be the
+best solution for them.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, I believe that the right strategy is to
+educate and inform, giving someone the information they require to
+make a decision that would work for them.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Fixing the Linux black screen of death on machines with Intel HD video</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_the_Linux_black_screen_of_death_on_machines_with_Intel_HD_video.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_the_Linux_black_screen_of_death_on_machines_with_Intel_HD_video.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;When installing RedHat, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu on some machines,
+the screen just turn black when Linux boot, either during installation
+or on first boot from the hard disk.  I&#39;ve seen it once in a while the
+last few years, but only recently understood the cause.  I&#39;ve seen it
+on HP laptops, and on my latest acquaintance the Packard Bell laptop.
+The reason seem to be in the wiring of some laptops.  The system to
+control the screen background light is inverted, so when Linux try to
+turn the brightness fully on, it end up turning it off instead.  I do
+not know which Linux drivers are affected, but this post is about the
+i915 driver used by the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linlap.com/packard_bell_easynote_lv&quot;&gt;Packard Bell
+EasyNote LV&lt;/a&gt;, Thinkpad X40 and many other laptops.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The problem can be worked around two ways.  Either by adding
+i915.invert_brightness=1 as a kernel option, or by adding a file in
+/etc/modprobe.d/ to tell modprobe to add the invert_brightness=1
+option when it load the i915 kernel module.  On Debian and Ubuntu, it
+can be done by running these commands as root:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;pre&gt;
+echo options i915 invert_brightness=1 | tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf
+update-initramfs -u -k all
+&lt;/pre&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Since March 2012 there is
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4dca20efb1a9c2efefc28ad2867e5d6c3f5e1955&quot;&gt;a
+mechanism in the Linux kernel&lt;/a&gt; to tell the i915 driver which
+hardware have this problem, and get the driver to invert the
+brightness setting automatically.  To use it, one need to add a row in
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c&quot;&gt;the
+intel_quirks array&lt;/a&gt; in the driver source
+&lt;tt&gt;drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c&lt;/tt&gt; (look for &quot;&lt;tt&gt;static
+struct intel_quirk intel_quirks&lt;/tt&gt;&quot;), specifying the PCI device
+number (vendor number 8086 is assumed) and subdevice vendor and device
+number.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My Packard Bell EasyNote LV got this output from &lt;tt&gt;lspci
+-vvnn&lt;/tt&gt; for the video card in question:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation \
+    3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0156] \
+    (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
+ Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0688]
+ Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- \
+    ParErr- Stepping- SE RR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast &gt;TAbort- \
+    &lt;TAbort- &lt;MAbort-&gt;SERR- &lt;PERR- INTx-
+ Latency: 0
+ Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 42
+ Region 0: Memory at c2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
+ Region 2: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
+ Region 4: I/O ports at 4000 [size=64]
+ Expansion ROM at &lt;unassigned&gt; [disabled]
+ Capabilities: &lt;access denied&gt;
+ Kernel driver in use: i915
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The resulting intel_quirks entry would then look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+struct intel_quirk intel_quirks[] = {
+       ...
+        /* Packard Bell EasyNote LV11HC needs invert brightness quirk */
+       { 0x0156, 0x1025, 0x0688, quirk_invert_brightness },
+       ...
+}
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;According to the kernel module instructions (as seen using
+&lt;tt&gt;modinfo i915&lt;/tt&gt;), information about hardware needing the
+invert_brightness flag should be sent to the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel&quot;&gt;dri-devel
+(at) lists.freedesktop.org&lt;/a&gt; mailing list to reach the kernel
+developers.  But my email about the laptop sent 2013-06-03 have not
+yet shown up in
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-June/thread.html&quot;&gt;the
+web archive for the mailing list&lt;/a&gt;, so I suspect they do not accept
+emails from non-subscribers.  Because of this, I sent my patch also to
+the Debian bug tracking system instead as
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/710938&quot;&gt;BTS report #710938&lt;/a&gt;, to make
+sure the patch is not lost.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it is not enough to fix the kernel to get Laptops
+with this problem working properly with Linux.  If you use Gnome, your
+worries should be over at this point.  But if you use KDE, there is
+something in KDE ignoring the invert_brightness setting and turning on
+the screen during login.  I&#39;ve reported it to Debian as
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/711237&quot;&gt;BTS report #711237&lt;/a&gt;, and
+have no idea yet how to figure out exactly what subsystem is doing
+this.  Perhaps you can help?  Perhaps you know what the Gnome
+developers did to handle this, and this can give a clue to the KDE
+developers?  Or you know where in KDE the screen brightness is changed
+during login?  If so, please update the BTS report (or get in touch if
+you do not know how to update BTS).&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Third alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The third wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today.  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu ~7.0.0 alpha0 released
-2013-04-26&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha2 released
+2013-06-10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux ~7.0.0
-edu alpha0, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
+alpha2, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu, also known as
 Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
 out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
-network. Immediatly after installation a school server running all
+network. Immediately after installation a school server running all
 services needed for a school network is set up just waiting for users
 and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable Web-UI. A netbooting
 environment is prepared using PXE, so after initial installation of
 the main server from CD, DVD or USB stick all other machines can be
-installed via the network.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This is the first test release based on Wheezy (which currently is
-not released yet). Basically this is an updated and slightly improved
-version compared to the Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
+installed via the network. The provided school server provides LDAP
+database and Kerberos authentication service, centralized home
+directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other services. The
+desktop contains
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&quot;&gt;more
+than 60 educational software packages&lt;/a&gt; and more are available from
+the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
+and Xfce desktop environment.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is the third test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
+this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
+Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Everything which is new in Debian Wheezy, eg:
-  &lt;ul&gt;
-     &lt;li&gt;Linux kernel 3.2.x&lt;/li&gt;
-     &lt;li&gt;Desktop environments KDE &quot;Plasma&quot; 4.8.4, GNOME 3.4, and LXDE 4
-         (KDE is installed by default; to choose GNOME or LXDE: see
-         manual.)&lt;/li&gt;
-     &lt;li&gt;Web browser Iceweasel 10 ESR&lt;/li&gt;
-     &lt;li&gt;LibreOffice 3.5.4&lt;/li&gt;
-     &lt;li&gt;LTSP 5.4.2&lt;/li&gt;
-     &lt;li&gt;GOsa 2.7.4&lt;/li&gt;
-     &lt;li&gt;CUPS print system 1.5.3&lt;/li&gt;
-     &lt;li&gt;Educational toolbox GCompris 12.01&lt;/li&gt;
-     &lt;li&gt;Music creator Rosegarden 12.04&lt;/li&gt;
-     &lt;li&gt;Image editor Gimp 2.8.2&lt;/li&gt;
-     &lt;li&gt;Virtual universe Celestia 1.6.1&lt;/li&gt;
-     &lt;li&gt;Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.11.3&lt;/li&gt;
-     &lt;li&gt;Scratch visual programming environment 1.4.0.6&lt;/li&gt;
-     &lt;li&gt;New version of debian-installer from Debian Wheezy, see
-         &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual&quot;&gt;installation
-         manual&lt;/a&gt; for more details.&lt;/li&gt;
-     &lt;li&gt;Debian Wheezy includes about 37000 packages available for
-         installation.&lt;/li&gt;
-     &lt;li&gt;More information about Debian Wheezy 7.0 is provided in the
-         &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/releasenotes&quot;&gt;release notes&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/releases/wheezy/installmanual&quot;&gt;installation manual&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Documentation&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;The (&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy&quot;&gt;English&lt;/a&gt;) Debian Edu Wheezy Manual is fully translated to
-    German, French, Italian and Danish. Partly translated versions exist
-    for Norwegian Bokmal and Spanish.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-  
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;Strong&gt;LDAP related changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Slight changes to some objects and acls to have more types to
-    choose from when adding systems in GOsa. Now systems can be of type
-    server, workstation, printer, terminal or netdevice.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Iceweasel was updated from 10 to 17. (DSA 2699-1) 
+&lt;li&gt;Updated libxv (DSA-2674), libxvmc (DSA-2675), libxfixes (DSA-2676), libxrender (DSA-2677), mesa (DSA-2678), xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (DSA-2679), libxt (DSA-2680), libxcursor (DSA-2681), libxext (DSA-2682), libxi (DSA-2683), libxrandr (DSA-2684), libxp (DSA-2685), libxcb (DSA-2686), libfs (DSA-2687), libxres (DSA-2688), libxtst (DSA-2689), libxxf86dga (DSA-2690), libxinerama (DSA-2691), libxxf86vm (DSA-2692), libx11 (DSA-2693), chromium-browser (DSA-2695), gnutls26 (DSA-2697), wireshark (DSA-2700), krb5 (DSA-2701), telepathy-gabble (DSA-2702) and subversion (DSA-2703). 
+&lt;li&gt;Switched xrdp on thin client servers to use tightvncserver instead of xvnc4. 
+&lt;li&gt;Now install software oscilloscope xoscope by default. 
+&lt;li&gt;Now install music tools gtick, lingot and pianobooster by default. 
+
 &lt;/ul&gt;
-    
+
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
 &lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;LTSP clients start as diskless workstation / thin client can be
-    configured via command line argument -- or individually adding an
-    entry in lts.conf or LDAP.&lt;li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;GOsa gui: Now some options that seemed to be available, but are non
-    functional, are greyed out (or are not clickable). Some tabs are
-    completely hidden to the end user, others even to the GOsa admin.&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-    
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Regressions&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv) available
-    yet.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;The subnet-change script is now able to change all files needing a change on the main-server when changing the IP network used. 
+&lt;li&gt;Updated translation of the installation. 
+&lt;li&gt;New Romanian translation. 
+&lt;li&gt;Fix security problem causing root and first user password to no longer show up in /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat. 
+&lt;li&gt;Fix roaming workstation setup (Closed in libpam-mklocaluser/0.8, libpam-mklocaluser/0.8~deb7u1: #706753: libpam-mklocaluser: Fail to create local user during first login).
+&lt;li&gt;Made roaming workstation setup more robust in non-Debian Edu environments. 
+&lt;li&gt;New script debian-edu-bless to transform a Debian installation to a Debian Edu profile. 
+&lt;li&gt;Adjust Iceweasel setup to improve performance when $HOME is on NFS. 
+&lt;li&gt;More testsuite tests. 
+&lt;li&gt;Make automatic proxy configuration more robust. 
+&lt;li&gt;Adjust GOsa² GUI configuration. 
+
+&lt;li&gt;Update thin client and diskless workstation setup to work with
+LTSP in Wheezy.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Diskless workstations now run out of the box -- no need to set
+them up with GOsa².&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Update IMAP server setup. &lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Fix login into Skolelinux Backup Tool (Closed in
+slbackup-php/0.4.4-1: #700257: slbackup-php: Fails to submit correctly
+entered password). &lt;/li&gt;
+
 &lt;/ul&gt;
-    
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;No updated artwork&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Updated artwork which is visible during installation, in the login
-    screen and as desktop wallpaper is still missing or the same as we
-    had for our Squeeze based release.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;DVD binary and source images are not yet ready.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
+available yet (Open in gosa/2.7.4-4: #698840: gosa-plugin-ldapmanager:
+missing import feature).&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others). &lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (Closed: #502192: menu-xdg: invents
+own icon names instead of using existing). This will remain
+unfixed.&lt;/li&gt;
+
 &lt;/ul&gt;
-    
+
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
-To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use
+&lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
+
 &lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
+
 &lt;/ul&gt;
-  
-&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: c5e773ddafdaa4f48c409c682f598b6c&lt;/p&gt;
-  
-&lt;p&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 25934fabb9b7d20235499a0a51f08ce6c54215f2&lt;/p&gt;
-  
+
+&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 27bbcace407743382f3c42c08dbe8178 
+&lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: e35f7d7908566cd3075375b3721fa10ee420d419&lt;/p&gt;
+
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&lt;/a&gt;
 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>
-               <title>Bitcoin er ikke anonymt - føres Stortinget bak lyset av finansministeren?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bitcoin_er_ikke_anonymt___f_res_Stortinget_bak_lyset_av_finansministeren_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Bitcoin_er_ikke_anonymt___f_res_Stortinget_bak_lyset_av_finansministeren_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://bitcoin.org/&quot;&gt;Bitcoin&lt;/a&gt; er mye i mediene for
-tiden.  Jeg følger med via Mylder for å finne
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://mylder.no/?drill=bitcoin&quot;&gt;artikler som omtaler
-temaet&lt;/a&gt;, og takket være dette oppdaget jeg at stortingsrepresentant
-Ketil Solvik-Olsen fra FrP nylig har spurt finansminister Sigbjørn
-Johnsen om hans syn på Bitcoin, og
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Sporsmal/Skriftlige-sporsmal-og-svar/Skriftlig-sporsmal/?qid=57052&quot;&gt;fått
-svar for noen dager siden&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg bet meg spesielt merke til
-følgende formulering fra finansministeren:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-«Det er også utfordringer ved at handel med Bitcoins er uregulert og
-at transaksjonene er anonyme.»
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;At Bitcoin er anonymt er en myte som spres av både journalister og
-andre, så det er ikke veldig overraskende at også finansministeren har
-gått på limpinnen.  Det er dog litt rart, da jeg håper at
-finansdepartementet ikke baserer seg på rykter og myter når de
-besvarer Stortinget.  Men du trenger ikke bare tro på meg som kilde
-til påstanden om at Bitcoin ikke er anonymt.  Sondre Rønjom har
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogg.nsm.stat.no/archives/3241&quot;&gt;via Sikkerhetsbloggen
-hos Nasjonal Sikkerhetsmyndighet&lt;/a&gt; uttalt følgende:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-«At [bitcoin] i utgangspunktet
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4524&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;ikke&lt;/em&gt; er anonymt&lt;/a&gt;,
-kommer kanskje som en overraskelse på mange.»
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Enhver bevegelse av Bitcoin er offentlig tilgjengelig for alle på
-Internet, og en må legge svært mye innsats inn hvis en skal hindre at
-nettverksanalyse av transaksjonsloggene kan brukes til å identifisere
-brukerne.  F.eks. kan en enkelt se hva jeg har mottatt til min
-offentliggjorte mottaksadresse ved å besøke blockexplorer og slå opp
-adressen
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://blockexplorer.com/address/15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;.
-Det virker dermed på meg ganske klart at å påstå at
-Bitcoin-transaksjoner er anonyme strengt tatt er å føre Stortinget bak
-lyset.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Finansministeren er ikke den eneste som har latt seg forlede av
-medieomtalen.  I spørsmålet fra Hr. Solvik-Olsen skriver han at «For
-noen dager siden kom den første bitcoin-minibanken på Kypros», hvilket
-så vidt jeg har klart å finne ut ikke er riktig.  Det er annonsert
-planer om en slik minibank (fra
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bitcoinatm.com/&quot;&gt;BitcoinATM&lt;/a&gt;), men jeg finner
-intet tegn til at en slik minibank er utplassert noe sted.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Som vanlig, hvis du bruker Bitcoin og ønsker å vise din støtte til
-mine aktiviteter, så setter jeg pris på Bitcoin-donasjoner til min
-adresse
-&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&amp;label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog&quot;&gt;15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Is there a PHP expert in the building?  Debian Edu need help!</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_there_a_PHP_expert_in_the_building___Debian_Edu_need_help_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_there_a_PHP_expert_in_the_building___Debian_Edu_need_help_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 5 Jun 2013 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Here is a call for help from the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project.
+We have two problems blocking the release of the Wheezy version we
+hope to get released soon.  The two problems require some with PHP
+skills, and we seem to lack anyone with both time and PHP skills in
+the project:
+
+&lt;ol&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;It is impossible to log into the slbackup web interface
+  (slbackup-php) using the root user and password.  This is
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/700257&quot;&gt;BTS report #700257&lt;/a&gt;.
+  This used to work, but stopped working some time since Squeeze.
+  Perhaps some obsolete PHP feature was used?&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;It is not possible to &quot;mass import&quot; user lists in Gosa, neither
+  using ldif nor using CSV files.  The feature was disabled after a
+  major rewrite of Gosa, and need to be ported to the new system.
+  This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/698840&quot;&gt;BTS report
+  #698840&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you can help us, please join us on IRC
+(&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu on
+irc.debian.org&lt;/a&gt;) and provide patches via the BTS.&lt;/p&gt;
 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>
-               <title>First Debian Edu / Skolelinux developer gathering in 2013 take place in Trondheim</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_developer_gathering_in_2013_take_place_in_Trondheim.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_developer_gathering_in_2013_take_place_in_Trondheim.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;This years first &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux /
-Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt; developer gathering take place the coming weekend in Trondheim.
-Details about the gathering can be found
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/Gathering/2013-04-19-21-Trondheim&quot;&gt;on
-the FRiSK wiki&lt;/a&gt;.  The dates are 19-21th of April 2013, and online
-participation for those unable to make it in person is very welcome,
-and I plan to participate online myself as I could not leave Oslo this
-weekend.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The focus of the gathering is to work on the web pages and project
-infrastructure, and to continue the work on the Wheezy based Debian
-Edu release.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;See you on &lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;IRC, #debian-edu on irc.debian.org,&lt;/a&gt; then?&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Mer innsyn i bakgrunnen for fjerning av ODF fra statens standardkatalog</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mer_innsyn_i_bakgrunnen_for_fjerning_av_ODF_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mer_innsyn_i_bakgrunnen_for_fjerning_av_ODF_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 9 Apr 2013 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;For cirka en måned siden
-&lt;ahref=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Regjeringen__Fornyingsdepartementet_og_DIFI_g_r_inn_for___fjerne_ODF_som_obligatorisk_standard_i_det_offentlige.html&quot;&gt;ba
-jeg om begrunnelse på nektet innsyn i dokumenter&lt;/a&gt; om
-standardkatalogen fra Fornyingsdepartementet.  I dag fikk jeg svar fra
-Fornyingsdepartementet, og tilgang til dokumentene.  Jeg fikk både
-innsyn i vedlegg sendt fra DIFI, og også innsyn i et notat brukt
-internt i Fornyingsdepartementet:&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Cédric Boutillier</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__C_dric_Boutillier.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__C_dric_Boutillier.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since my last English
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
+interview last November.  But the developers and translators are still
+pulling along to get the Wheezy based release out the door, and this
+time I managed to get an interview from one of the French translators
+in the project, Cédric Boutillier.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am 34 year old. I live near Paris, France. I am an assistant
+professor in probability theory. I spend my daytime teaching
+mathematics at the university and doing fundamental research in
+probability in connexion with combinatorics and statistical physics.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I have been involved in the Debian project for a couple of years
+and became Debian Developer a few months ago. I am working on Ruby
+packaging, publicity and translation.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I came to the Debian Edu project after a call for translation of
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals&quot;&gt;the
+Debian Edu manual&lt;/a&gt; for the release of Debian Edu Squeeze. Since
+then, I have been working on updating the French translation of the
+manual.
+
+&lt;p&gt;I had the opportunity to make an installation of Debian Edu in a
+virtual machine when I was preparing localised version of some screen
+shots for the manual. I was amazed to see it worked out of the box and
+how comprehensive the list of software installed by default was.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;What amazed me was the complete network infrastructure directly
+ready to use, which can and the nice administration interface provided
+by &lt;a href=&quot;https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/&quot;&gt;GOsa²&lt;/a&gt;.  What pleased
+me also was the fact that among the software installed by default,
+there were many &quot;traditional&quot; educative software to learn languages,
+to count, to program... but also software to develop creativity and
+artistic skills with music (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ardour.org/&quot;&gt;Ardour&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://audacity.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;Audacity&lt;/a&gt;) and
+movies/animation (I was especially thinking of
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxstopmotion.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;Stopmotion&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am following the development of Debian Edu and am hanging out on
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu&lt;/a&gt;.
+Unfortunately, I don&#39;t much time to get more involved in this
+beautiful project.&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;For me, the main advantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu are its
+community of experts and its precise documentation, as well as the
+fact that it provides a solution ready to use.&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;I would add also the fact that it is based on the rock solid Debian
+distribution, which ensures stability and provides a huge collection
+of educational free software.&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Maybe the lack of manpower to do lobbying on the
+project. Sometimes, people who need to take decisions concerning IT do
+not have all the elements to evaluate properly free software
+solutions. The fact that support by a company may be difficult to find
+is probably a problem if the school does not have IT personnel.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;One can find support from a company by looking at
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp&quot;&gt;the
+wiki dokumentation&lt;/a&gt;, where some countries already have a number of
+companies providing support for Debian Edu, like Germany or
+Norway. This list is easy to find readily from the manual. However,
+for other countries, like France, the list is empty. I guess that
+consultants proposing support for Debian would be able to provide some
+support for Debian Edu as well.&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-Fornyingsdepartementet/sak-2012-2168/Oppsummering%20av%20h%f8ringen%20om%20endringer%20i%20forskrift%20om%20IT-standarder.pdf&quot;&gt;Epost fra DIFI til Fornyingsdepartementet, datert 2012-11-23&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I am using the KDE Plasma Desktop. But the pieces of software I use
+most runs in a terminal: Mutt and OfflineIMAP for emails, latex for
+scientific documents, mpd for music. VIM is my editor of choice.  I am
+also using the mathematical software
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scilab.org/en/scilab/about‎&quot;&gt;Scilab&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sagemath.org/index.html‎&quot;&gt;Sage&lt;/a&gt; (built from
+source as not completely packaged for Debian, yet).
 
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-Fornyingsdepartementet/sak-2012-2168/Oppsummering%20og%20anbefaling%20etter%20h%f8ring.pdf&quot;&gt;vedlegg 1, Oppsummering og anbefalinger etter høring av endringer i forskrift om IT-standarer i offentlig forvaltning, datert 2012-11-23&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you have any suggestions for teachers interested in
+using the free software in Debian to teach mathematics and
+statistics?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-Fornyingsdepartementet/sak-2012-2168/Vedlegg%20Om%20h%f8ringe.docx%20(L)(898066).pdf&quot;&gt;Notat fra avdeling for IKT og fornying til statsråd i Fornyingsdepartementet om høringen, datert 2013-01-03&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I do not have any &quot;nice&quot; recommendations for statistics. At our
+university, we use both &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.r-project.org/‎&quot;&gt;R&lt;/a&gt; and
+Scilab to teach statistics and probabilistic simulations. For
+geometry, there are nice programs:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.drgeo.eu/&quot;&gt;drgeo&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/kig‎&quot;&gt;kig&lt;/a&gt; to do
+constructions in planar geometry
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/software/download/kali.html&quot;&gt;kali&lt;/a&gt;
+to discover symmetry groups (the so-called wallpapers and frieze
+groups), although the interface looks a bit old.&lt;/li&gt;
 
 &lt;/ul&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;Det bør nevnes at da jeg ble nektet innsyn hos mottaker
-Fornyingsdepartementet på høringsoppsummeringen som DIFI hadde sendt
-ut, spurte jeg DIFI om innsyn i stedet.  Det fikk jeg i løpet av et
-par dager.  Moralen er at hvis ikke mottaker ikke vil gi innsyn, spør
-avsender i stedet.  Kanskje de har forskjellig forståelse av hva som
-bør holdes skjult for folket.  Her er de tilsvarende dokumentene jeg
-fikk innsyn i fra DIFI:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I like also
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/cantor&quot;&gt;cantor&lt;/a&gt;, which
+provides a uniform interface to SciLab, Sage,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Octave‎&quot;&gt;Octave&lt;/a&gt;, etc...&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My suggestions would be to&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;ul&gt;
 
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-DIFI/Epostforsendelse.pdf&quot;&gt;Epost fra DIFI til Fornyingsdepartementet, datert 2012-11-23&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;advertise the reduction of costs when free software is used.&lt;/li&gt;
 
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-DIFI/Vedlegg%201,%20Oppsummering%20av%20h%f8ring%20om%20endringer%20i%20forskrift%20om%20IT-standarder.pdf&quot;&gt;vedlegg 1, Oppsummering og anbefalinger etter høring av endringer i forskrift om IT-standarer i offentlig forvaltning, datert 2012-11-23&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;communicate about the quality of free software projects, using
+    well known examples like Firefox, ThunderBird and
+    OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice.&lt;/li&gt;
 
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-DIFI/Vedlegg%202,%20Forslag%20til%20endringsforskrift.pdf&quot;&gt;Vedlegg 2, Forslag til endringsforskrift, udatert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;advertise the living and strong community around the project.&lt;/li&gt;
 
-&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-DIFI/Vedlegg%203%20Forskrift%20om%20IT-standarder%20i%20offentlig%20forvaltning.pdf&quot;&gt;Vedlegg 3, Forskrift om IT-standarder i offentlig forvaltning, udatert&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;show that it is not more difficult to use than any other
+    system.&lt;/li&gt;
 
 &lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det jeg synes er mest interessant er endel av aktørene som
-protesterte på fjerningen (Kartverket, Drammen kommune), og hvordan
-høringsoppsummeringen ikke tar stilling til effekten av å fjerne ODF
-fra katalogen.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Sandy Island - øya som er synlig hver tirsdag og fredag?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sandy_Island____ya_som_er_synlig_hver_tirsdag_og_fredag_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Sandy_Island____ya_som_er_synlig_hver_tirsdag_og_fredag_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 7 Apr 2013 08:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;For en stund tilbake gikk nyheten om
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Island,_New_Caledonia&quot;&gt;Sandy
-Island&lt;/a&gt;, en øy som var dukket opp på noen kart, men som ikke var
-synlig når en sjekket den på satellittbilder.  Dagbladet meldte for
-eksempel at
-«&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/11/22/nyheter/google_maps/google/utenriks/internett/24496816/&quot;&gt;denne
-øya finnes på kart, men ikke i virkeligheten&lt;/a&gt;».  Noe senere begynte
-jeg å lese
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gyldendal.no/Barn-og-ungdom/3-6-aar/Den-store-Ruffen-boken&quot;&gt;historier
-om Ruffen&lt;/a&gt; til mine barn. Dette er historier om sjøormen Ruffen
-skapt av Tor Åge Bringsværd, som starter med følgende beskrivelse:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-«Langt ute i havet ligger en mystisk øy. Den er bare synlig hver
-tirsdag og fredag. Derfor står den ikke på noe kart. På denne øya
-ligger et slott, og i slottet bor en gammel, fin sjøormfamilie.»
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det virker åpenbart at Hr. Bringsværd tok feil når han trodde den
-ikke var på noe kart, og at noen tydeligvis har vært i nærheten en
-tirsdag eller en fredag og fått den med på et kart, mens
-satellittbildene er tatt på noen av de fem andre dagene i uka og
-dermed ikke ser øya. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I følge
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/12/03/nyheter/sandy_island/forskning/utenriks/24662158/&quot;&gt;en
-senere artikkel i Dagbladet&lt;/a&gt; hevder Shaun Higgins, en forsker fra
-New Zealand, at et hvalfangstskip fra 1876 er opprinnelsen til at
-spøkelsesøya i det hele tatt havnet på kartet.  Det fremgår ikke fra
-historien hvilken ukedag de var innom.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg har stor sans for Tor Åge Bringsværd.  Og han viste nylig en
-svært fin side av seg selv da han sa ja til EFNs forespørsel om å gi
-ut novellen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.efn.no/kodemus/&quot;&gt;Kodémus&lt;/a&gt; med
-Creative Commons-lisens.&lt;/p&gt;
 </description>
        </item>
        
        <item>
-               <title>Isenkram 0.2 finally in the Debian archive</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram_0_2_finally_in_the_Debian_archive.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Isenkram_0_2_finally_in_the_Debian_archive.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 3 Apr 2013 23:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Today the &lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram&quot;&gt;Isenkram
-package&lt;/a&gt; finally made it into the archive, after lingering in NEW
-for many months.  I uploaded it to the Debian experimental suite
-2013-01-27, and today it was accepted into the archive.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Isenkram is a system for suggesting to users what packages to
-install to work with a pluggable hardware device.  The suggestion pop
-up when the device is plugged in.  For example if a Lego Mindstorm NXT
-is inserted, it will suggest to install the program needed to program
-the NXT controller.  Give it a go, and report bugs and suggestions to
-BTS. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>EFN nyutgir novellen Kodémus av Tor Åge Bringsværd</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EFN_nyutgir_novellen_Kod_mus_av_Tor__ge_Bringsv_rd.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EFN_nyutgir_novellen_Kod_mus_av_Tor__ge_Bringsv_rd.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;For noen dager siden nevnte jeg at vi jobbet med å typesette en
-novelle med &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;DocBook&lt;/a&gt;.  I dag ble
-utgivelsen annonsert med følgende pressemelding fra Elektronisk
-Forpost Norge), som jeg gjengir i sin helhet:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;EFN nyutgir Kodémus:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Tor Åge Bringsværd-novelle om IT og overvåkning fra
-informasjonsteknologiens spedbarndom får nytt liv&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Elektronisk Forpost Norge (EFN) er veldig glad for anledningen til
-å nyutgi Tor Åge Bringsværds novelle Kodémus i digitalt format for nye
-(og gamle) generasjoner. Novellen ble skrevet så tidlig som vinteren
-1968, og første gang trykt i novellesamlingen Probok på Gyldendal
-samme år.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Informasjonsteknologi spiller en sentral rolle i Kodémus, og det er
-spennende å sammenligne beskrivelsen av IT fra 1968 med dagens IT i
-2013. Forskjellene er mange -- men det er jammen likhetene også. Ikke
-minst det at idag går jo nesten alle rundt med lillebrødre på seg!&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&quot;Riktignok er det ikke påbudt å ha mobil,&quot; sier Thomas Gramstad,
-leder i EFN. &quot;Men vi holder på å lage et samfunn der det blir så
-upraktisk eller tungvint å ikke ha det, at man i praksis ikke slipper
-unna. Og disse lillebrødrene sladrer hele tiden til staten (og til
-mange andre) om hvor vi er, hva vi gjør, hva vi bryr oss om, hva vi
-liker...&quot;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det at Kodémus åpenbart er skrevet i en annen tid med en annen type
-IT og likevel virker så relevant idag, er i seg selv et hardtslående
-tankekors.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Tross sitt IT-tema fantes ikke Kodémus i elektronisk form, og
-frivillige i EFN har skannet inn, OCR-tolket og korrekturlest
-novellen, og deretter kodet den i en rekke digitale formater.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Forfatteren har gitt tillatelse til publisering av Kodémus under ny
-lisens, og novellen utgis av EFN med en Creative Commons (CC)
-fribrukslisens (nærmere bestemt lisensen CC-BY-NC-ND). For leserne
-eller brukerne innebærer dette at de får en klar og standardisert
-beskjed om hvilke rettigheter de har til å dele novellen videre med
-andre. For forfatteren innebærer dette økt synlighet og
-tilgjengelighet for verket, slik at det ikke blir glemt, da
-søkemotorer og nettlesere inneholder egne søkevalg for CC-lisenser, og
-mange brukere søker etter verk som de vet de kan dele og bruke på
-lovlig vis.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;EFN oppfordrer andre forfattere om å gi ut sine gamle tekster med
-en fribrukslisens, slik at tekstene ikke blir glemt og for å stimulere
-lovlig deling på nettet. EFN kan være behjelpelig med digitalisering
-og utlegging på nett, i den grad det finnes kapasitet blant EFNs
-medlemmer til dette. Vi mener at nyutgivelser av tekster under frie
-lisenser kan øke interessen rundt forfatterskapet, og vil gjerne bidra
-til dette.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;EFN utgir og deler med dette en novelle fra den digitale
-informasjonsteknologiens tidligste barndom. En novelle som fortsatt er
-full av vitalitet og aktualitet, og som derfor kan bidra til, og gi
-ettertanke i dagens debatter om IT, personvern, overvåkning og
-individets frihet og integritet.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Du finner novellen her:
-&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://efn.no/kodemus/&quot;&gt;http://efn.no/kodemus/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;i flere forskjellige formater, for ulike plattformer. Per idag
-finnes novellen i disse formatene: EPUB, MOBI, XML, HTML, PDF og
-txt. Det kan bli flere formater senere, og evt. frivillige
-bidragsytere til dette er velkommen.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Kontaktperson for denne pressemeldingen,&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Thomas Gramstad
-&lt;br&gt;thomas@efn.no
-&lt;br&gt;4817 6875&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;hr&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;EFN arbeider for dine borgerrettigheter i IT-samfunnet, for
-nettverks- og delingskultur, personvern og frihet fra overvåkning,
-åpne standarder, brukerstyrt programvare, retten til å kopiere, og
-styrking av det digitale sivilsamfunnet m.m.
-&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://efn.no/&quot;&gt;www.efn.no&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg håper flere forfattere ser verdien av å gjøre kulturen
-tilgjengelig for flere, og slår følge med Hr. Bringsværd i å gi ut
-sine verker med bruksvilkår med færre bruksbegrensinger enn
-opphavsretten legger opp til.  Selv om jeg gjerne skulle sett at han
-hadde brukt en Creative Commons-lisens som tillot avledede verker og
-kommersiell bruk.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Change the font, save the world (and save some money in the process)</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Change_the_font__save_the_world__and_save_some_money_in_the_process_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Change_the_font__save_the_world__and_save_some_money_in_the_process_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Would you like to help the environment and save money at the same
-time, without much sacrifice?  A small step could be to change the
-font you use when printing.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Three years ago,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://arstechnica.com/business/2010/04/last-year-printer-comparison-website/&quot;&gt;Ars
-Technica&lt;/a&gt; reported how the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay
-changed their default front from
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial&quot;&gt;Arial&lt;/a&gt; to
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_Gothic&quot;&gt;Century
-Gothic&lt;/a&gt; to save money.  The Century Gothic font uses 30% less toner
-than Arial to print the same text.  In other word, you could cut your
-toner costs by 30% (or actually, increase your toner supply life time
-by more than 30%), by simply changing the default font used in your
-prints.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;But it is not quite obvious how much one will save by switching.
-The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay said it used $100,000 per year
-on ink and toner cartridges, according to
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.twincities.com/ci_14833097&quot;&gt;a report from
-TwinCities.com&lt;/a&gt;, and expected to save between $5,000 and $10,000
-per year by asking staff and students to use a different font.  Not
-all PDFs and documents are created internally, and those from external
-sources will most likely still use a different font.  Also, the
-Century Gothic font is slightly wider than Arial, and thus might use
-more sheets of paper to print the same text, so the total saving
-depend on the documents printed.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;But it is definitely something to consider, if you want to reduce
-the amount of trash, decrease the amount of toner used in the world,
-and save some money in the process.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Update 2013-04-10: If you want to know how much ink/toner could be
-saved when switching between fonts, Inkfarm got a
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inkfarm.com/What-the-Font&quot;&gt;service to calculate the
-difference between font pairs&lt;/a&gt;.  They also
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.inkfarm.com/Recommended-Ink-Saving-Fonts---&quot;&gt;recommend
-which fonts to use&lt;/a&gt; to save ink.  Check it out. :) While updating
-this blog post, I also came across a blog post from InkCloners,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://inkcloners.com/blog/ink-cartridges/change-fonts-to-save-ink-costs/&quot;&gt;listing
-the fonts they recommend&lt;/a&gt;, with Centory Gothic at the top.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Typesetting a short story using docbook for PDF, HTML and EPUB</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_a_short_story_using_docbook_for_PDF__HTML_and_EPUB.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_a_short_story_using_docbook_for_PDF__HTML_and_EPUB.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, during a discussion in
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.efn.no/&quot;&gt;EFN&lt;/a&gt; about interesting books to read
-about copyright and the data retention directive, a suggestion to read
-the 1968 short story Kodémus by
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://web2.gyldendal.no/toraage/&quot;&gt;Tore Åge Bringsværd&lt;/a&gt;
-came up.  The text was only available in old paper books, and thus not
-easily available for current and future generations.  Some of the
-people participating in the discussion contacted the author, and
-reported back 2013-03-19 that the author was OK with releasing the
-short story using a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative
-Commons&lt;/a&gt; license.  The text was quickly scanned and OCR-ed, and we
-were ready to start on the editing and typesetting.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;As I already had some experience formatting text in my project to
-provide a Norwegian version of the Free Culture book by Lawrence
-Lessig, I chipped in and set up a
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;DocBook&lt;/a&gt; processing framework to
-generate PDF, HTML and EPUB version of the short story.  The tools to
-transform DocBook to different formats are already in my Linux
-distribution of choice, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt;, so
-all I had to do was to use the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;dblatex&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/epub/README&quot;&gt;dbtoepub&lt;/a&gt;
-and &lt;a href=&quot;https://fedorahosted.org/xmlto/&quot;&gt;xmlto&lt;/a&gt; tools to do the
-conversion.  After a few days, we decided to replace dblatex with
-xsltproc/fop (aka
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookXslStylesheets&quot;&gt;docbook-xsl&lt;/a&gt;),
-to get the copyright information to show up in the PDF and to get a
-nicer &amp;lt;variablelist&amp;gt; typesetting, but that is just a minor
-technical detail.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;There were a few challenges, of course.  We want to typeset the
-short story to look like the original, and that require fairly good
-control over the layout.  The original short story have three
-parts/scenes separated by a single horizontally centred star (*), and
-the paragraphs do not contain only flowing text, but dialogs and text
-that started on a new line in the middle of the paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I initially solved the first challenge by using a paragraph with a
-single star in it, ie &amp;lt;para&amp;gt;*&amp;lt;/para&amp;gt;, but it made sure a
-placeholder indicated where the scene shifted.  This did not look too
-good without the centring.  The next approach was to create a new
-preprocessor directive &amp;lt;?newscene?&amp;gt;, mapping to &quot;&amp;lt;hr/&amp;gt;&quot;
-for HTML and &quot;&amp;lt;fo:block text-align=&quot;center&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;fo:leader
-leader-pattern=&quot;rule&quot; rule-thickness=&quot;0.5pt&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/fo:block&amp;gt;&quot;
-for FO/PDF output (did not try to implement this in dblatex, as we had
-switched at this time).  The HTML XSL file looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-&amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt; 
-&amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;newscene&#39;)&quot;&amp;gt;
-    &amp;lt;hr/&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
-&amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt; 
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;And the FO/PDF XSL file looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-&amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt; 
-&amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;newscene&#39;)&quot;&amp;gt;
-    &amp;lt;fo:block text-align=&quot;center&quot;&amp;gt;
-      &amp;lt;fo:leader leader-pattern=&quot;rule&quot; rule-thickness=&quot;0.5pt&quot;/&amp;gt;
-    &amp;lt;/fo:block&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
-&amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt; 
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Finally, I came across the &amp;lt;bridgehead&amp;gt; tag, which seem to be
-a good fit for the task at hand, and I replaced &amp;lt;?newscene?&amp;gt;
-with &amp;lt;bridgehead&amp;gt;*&amp;lt;/bridgehead&amp;gt;.  It isn&#39;t centred, but we
-can fix it with some XSL rule if the current visual layout isn&#39;t
-enough.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I did not find a good DocBook compliant way to solve the
-linebreak/paragraph challenge, so I ended up creating a new processor
-directive &amp;lt;?linebreak?&amp;gt;, mapping to &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt; in HTML, and
-&amp;lt;fo:block/&amp;gt; in FO/PDF.  I suspect there are better ways to do
-this, and welcome ideas and patches on github.  The HTML XSL file now
-look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-&amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt; 
-&amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;linebreak)&quot;&amp;gt;
-    &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
-&amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt; 
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;And the FO/PDF XSL file looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
-&amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt; 
-&amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;
-  xmlns:fo=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format&quot;&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;linebreak)&quot;&amp;gt;
-    &amp;lt;fo:block/&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
-&amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt; 
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;One unsolved challenge is our wish to expose different ISBN numbers
-per publication format, while keeping all of them in some conditional
-structure in the DocBook source.  No idea how to do this, so we ended
-up listing all the ISBN numbers next to their format in the colophon
-page.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you want to check out the finished result, check out the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/sickel/kodemus&quot;&gt;source repository at
-github&lt;/a&gt;
-(&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/EFN/kodemus&quot;&gt;future/new/official
-repository&lt;/a&gt;).  We expect it to be ready and announced in a few
-days.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Åpent møte på onsdag om bruken av Microsoft Exchange ved Universitetet i Oslo</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg jobber til daglig ved &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uio.no/&quot;&gt;Universitetet
+i Oslo&lt;/a&gt;, en institusjon som lenge har vektlagt verdien av åpne
+standarder og fri programvare.  Men noe har endret seg, og for en
+liten stund tilbake annonserte USIT at dagens fungerende e-postsystemet
+basert på fri programvare skulle byttes ut med Microsoft Exchange og
+at Microsoft Outlook skulle bli den best fungerende men antagelig ikke
+eneste støttede e-postklienten.  Annonseringen har ført til flere
+protester og &lt;a href=&quot;http://folk.uio.no/dssantos/nooutlookatuio/&quot;&gt;en
+underskriftskampanje&lt;/a&gt;, initiert av Diana Santos, der så langt 253
+personer har signert.  Prosjektet
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usit.uio.no/prosjekter/nike/&quot;&gt;NIKE (Ny integrert
+kalender/e-post)&lt;/a&gt; ble initiert for å se på mulige løsninger med
+utgangspunkt i at en kombinert epost/kalenderløsning var påkrevd, og
+prosjektet
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usit.uio.no/prosjekter/nike-implementasjon/&quot;&gt;NIKE-implementasjon&lt;/a&gt;
+er igang med å rulle ut MS Exchange ved Universitetet i Oslo.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For kun kort tid siden ble det annonsert at det blir et åpent møte
+med ledelsen hos universitetet i Oslo med disse planene som tema:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Tid: &lt;strong&gt;Onsdag 2013-06-05 kl. 10:00&lt;/strong&gt;
+&lt;br&gt;Sted: &lt;strong&gt;9. etasje i Lucy Smiths hus (admin-bygget)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt; Det kan være en god plass å stille opp hvis en som meg ikke tror
+valget av Microsoft Exchange som sentral epostinfrastruktur er et
+heldig valg for Norges ledende forskningsuniversitet, men at en er mer
+tjent med å selv
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://nuug.no/dokumenter/kronikk-friprog-itsikkerhet.shtml&quot;&gt;beholde
+kontrollen over egen infrastruktur&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Saken har ført til endel presseoppslag så langt.  Her er de jeg har
+fått med meg:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;2013-05-29
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://universitas.no/nyhet/58462/forsvarer-nytt-it-system&quot;&gt;Forsvarer
+  nytt IT-system&lt;/a&gt; - Universitas&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;2013-05-23
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/05/uio-innforer-nytt-epost-og-kalendersystem.html&quot;&gt;UiO
+  innfører nytt epost- og kalenderverktøy&lt;/a&gt; - Uniforum&lt;/li&gt;
+
+
+&lt;li&gt;2013-05-22
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://universitas.no/nyhet/58424/protestgruppe-vil-stanse-it-system&quot;&gt;Protestgruppe
+  vil stanse IT-system&lt;/a&gt; - Universitas&lt;/li&gt;
+
+
+&lt;li&gt;2013-05-15
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uniforum.uio.no/leserbrev/2013/uio-ma-ha-kontroll-over-sitt-eget-epostsystem.html&quot;&gt;UiO
+  må ha kontroll over sitt eget epostsystem&lt;/a&gt; - Uniforum&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+
 </description>
        </item>