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                <description>Entries from April 2012</description>

-                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/</link>
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-               <title>Debian Edu interview: Wolfgang Schweer</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html</link>        
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 1 Apr 2012 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Germany is a core area for the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
-user community, and this time I managed to get hold of Wolfgang
-Schweer, a valuable contributor to the project from Germany.
+               <title>Cutting it short - and picking the right tool for the job</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Cutting_it_short___and_picking_the_right_tool_for_the_job.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Cutting_it_short___and_picking_the_right_tool_for_the_job.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- IMG_5869.JPG --&gt;
+&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/panasonic-er-1611.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I normally cut my hair short, and my tool of choice has been a
+common hair/beard cutter, bought in a electrical shop here in Norway.
+But the last ones have not really been up to the task.  My last
+cutter, some model from Braun, could only cut a few of my hairs at the
+time, and cutting my head took forever.  And the one before that did
+not work very well either.  We have looked for something better for a
+while, but it was not until I ended up visiting a hairdresser that we
+discovered that there are indeed better tools available.  But these
+are not marketed and sold to &quot;regular consumers&quot;.  The hair saloons
+can get them through their suppliers, but their suppliers only sell
+companies.  The models they sell, are very different from the ones
+available from Elkjøp and Lefdal.  The main difference is their
+efficiency.  It would cut my hair in 5 minutes, instead of the 30-40
+minutes required by my impotent Braun.  The hairdresser I visited had
+a Panasonic ER160, which unfortunately is no longer available from the
+producer.  But I found it had a successor, the Panasonic ER1611.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The next step was to find somewhere to buy it.  This was not
+straight forward.  The list of suppliers I got from the hairdresser
+did not want to sell anything to me.  But searching for the model on
+the web we found a supplier in Norway willing to sell it to us for
+around NOK 4000,-.  This was a bit much.  We kept searching and
+finally found a Danish supplier
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://nicehair.dk/panasonic-er-1611-professionel-hartrimmer.html&quot;&gt;selling
+it for around NOK 1800,-&lt;/a&gt;.  We ordered one, and it arrived a few
+days ago.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The instructions said it had to charge for 8 hours when we started
+to use it, so we left it charging over night.  Normally it will only
+need one hour to charge.  The following evening we successfully tested
+it, and I can warmly recommend it to anyone looking for a real hair
+cutter.  The ones we have used until now have been hair cutter
+toys.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>NUUGs leverer høringsuttalelse om v3.1 av statens referansekatalog</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUGs_leverer_h_ringsuttalelse_om_v3_1_av_statens_referansekatalog.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUGs_leverer_h_ringsuttalelse_om_v3_1_av_statens_referansekatalog.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;NUUG-styremedlem Hans-Petter Fjeld
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://plus.google.com/u/0/110394259537201279374/posts/AGzRmAuFdW1&quot;&gt;meldte
+nettopp&lt;/a&gt; at han har sendt inn &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt;s
+høringsuttalelse angående Difi sin standardkatalog v3.1.  Jeg er veldig
+glad for at så mange bidro og sikret at vår stemme blir hørt i denne
+høringen.  Anbefaler alle å lese våre
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/201204-standardkatalog-v3.1&quot;&gt;to
+sider med innspill&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>HTC One X - Your video?  What do you mean?</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/HTC_One_X___Your_video___What_do_you_mean_.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/HTC_One_X___Your_video___What_do_you_mean_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 13:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article243690.ece&quot;&gt;an
+article today&lt;/a&gt; published by Computerworld Norway, the photographer
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.urke.com/eirik/&quot;&gt;Eirik Helland Urke&lt;/a&gt; reports
+that the video editor application included with
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-x/#specs&quot;&gt;HTC One
+X&lt;/a&gt; have some quite surprising terms of use.  The article is mostly
+based on the twitter message from mister Urke, stating:

 
 

-&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;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://twitter.com/urke/status/194062269724897280&quot;&gt;Drøy
+brukeravtale: HTC kan bruke MINE redigerte videoer kommersielt. Selv
+kan jeg KUN bruke dem privat.&lt;/a&gt;&quot;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve studied Mathematics at the university &#39;Ruhr-Universität&#39; in
-Bochum, Germany. Since 1981 I&#39;m working as a teacher at the school
-&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.westfalenkolleg-dortmund.de/&quot;&gt;Westfalen-Kolleg
-Dortmund&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, a second chance school.  Here, young adults is given
-the opportunity to get further education in order to do the school
-examination &#39;Abitur&#39;, which will allow to study at a university. This
-second chance is of value for those who want a better job perspective
-or failed to get a higher school examination being teens.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I quickly translated it to this English message:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Besides teaching I was involved in developing online courses for a
-blended learning project called &#39;abitur-online.nrw&#39; and in some other
-information technology related projects. For about ten years I&#39;ve been
-teacher and coordinator for the &#39;abitur-online&#39; project at my
-school. Being now in my early sixties, I&#39;ve decided to leave school at
-the end of April this year.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&quot;Arrogant user agreement: HTC can use MY edited videos
+commercially.  Although I can ONLY use them privately.&quot;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve been unable to find the text of the license term myself, but
+suspect it is a variation of the MPEG-LA terms I
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html&quot;&gt;discovered
+with my Canon IXUS 130&lt;/a&gt;.  The HTC One X specification specifies that
+the recording format of the phone is .amr for audio and .mp3 for
+video.  AMR is
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_codec#Licensing_and_patent_issues&quot;&gt;Adaptive
+Multi-Rate audio codec&lt;/a&gt; with patents which according to the
+Wikipedia article require an license agreement with
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.voiceage.com/&quot;&gt;VoiceAge&lt;/a&gt;.  MP4 is
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Patent_licensing&quot;&gt;MPEG4 with
+H.264&lt;/a&gt;, which according to Wikipedia require a licence agreement
+with &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpegla.com/&quot;&gt;MPEG-LA&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I know why I prefer
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition&quot;&gt;free and open
+standards&lt;/a&gt; also for video.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Holder de ord og NUUG lanserer testtjeneste med stortingsinformasjon</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Holder_de_ord_og_NUUG_lanserer_testtjeneste_med_stortingsinformasjon.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Holder_de_ord_og_NUUG_lanserer_testtjeneste_med_stortingsinformasjon.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 15:45:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_har_mine_representanter_stemt_i_Storinget_.html&quot;&gt;januar
+i fjor&lt;/a&gt; startet vi i NUUG arbeid med å gjøre informasjon om hvem
+som har stemt hva på &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stortinget.no/&quot;&gt;Stortinget&lt;/a&gt;
+enklere tilgjengelig.  I løpet av få måneder fant vi sammen med
+organisasjonen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.holderdeord.no/&quot;&gt;Holder de ord&lt;/a&gt;
+som arbeidet mot et lignende mål.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Siden den gang har vi fått tak i maskinelt lesbart informasjon om
+hvem som stemte hva mellom 1990 og våren 2010, og tilgang til
+stortingets nye datatjeneste som har informasjon fra høsten 2011 til i
+dag.  Det gjenstår litt arbeid med det første datasettet, men
+datasettet fra høsten 2011 er klart til bruk.  Begge datasettene er
+tilgjengelig &lt;a href=&quot;https://gitorious.org/nuug/folketingparser&quot;&gt;via
+git&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;På
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goopen.no/holder-de-ord-datadrevet-oppfolging-av-politiske-lofter/&quot;&gt;Go Open&lt;/a&gt; i morgen lanserer
+NUUG sammen med Holder de ord &lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.holderdeord.no/&quot;&gt;en
+test-tjeneste&lt;/a&gt; som viser hva som er og blir behandlet på Stortinget og
+hvem som har stemt hva siden oktober i fjor.  Du får herved mulighet
+til å ta en sniktitt.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>RAND terms - non-reasonable and discriminatory</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAND_terms___non_reasonable_and_discriminatory.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAND_terms___non_reasonable_and_discriminatory.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Here in Norway, the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/fad.html?id=339&quot;&gt; Ministry of
+Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs&lt;/a&gt; is behind
+a &lt;a href=&quot;http://standard.difi.no/forvaltningsstandarder&quot;&gt;directory of
+standards&lt;/a&gt; that are recommended or mandatory for use by the
+government.  When the directory was created, the people behind it made
+an effort to ensure that everyone would be able to implement the
+standards and compete on equal terms to supply software and solutions
+to the government.  Free software and non-free software could compete
+on the same level.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;But recently, some standards with RAND
+(&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminatory_licensing&quot;&gt;Reasonable
+And Non-Discriminatory&lt;/a&gt;) terms have made their way into the
+directory.  And while this might not sound too bad, the fact is that
+standard specifications with RAND terms often block free software from
+implementing them.  The reasonable part of RAND mean that the cost per
+user/unit is low,and the non-discriminatory part mean that everyone
+willing to pay will get a license.  Both sound great in theory.  In
+practice, to get such license one need to be able to count users, and
+be able to pay a small amount of money per unit or user.  By
+definition, users of free software do not need to register their use.
+So counting users or units is not possible for free software projects.
+And given that people will use the software without handing any money
+to the author, it is not really economically possible for a free
+software author to pay a small amount of money to license the rights
+to implement a standard when the income available is zero.  The result
+in these situations is that free software are locked out from
+implementing standards with RAND terms.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Because of this, when I see someone claiming the terms of a
+standard is reasonable and non-discriminatory, all I can think of is
+how this really is non-reasonable and discriminatory.  Because free
+software developers are working in a global market, it does not really
+help to know that software patents are not supposed to be enforceable
+in Norway.  The patent regimes in other countries affect us even here.
+I really hope the people behind the standard directory will pay more
+attention to these issues in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;You can find more on the issues with RAND, FRAND and RAND-Z terms
+from Simon Phipps
+(&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/11/rand-not-so-reasonable/&quot;&gt;RAND:
+Not So Reasonable?&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Update 2012-04-21: Just came across a
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/of-microsoft-netscape-patents-and-open-standards/index.htm&quot;&gt;blog
+post from Glyn Moody&lt;/a&gt; over at Computer World UK warning about the
+same issue, and urging people to speak out to the UK government.  I
+can only urge Norwegian users to do the same for
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.standard.difi.no/hoyring/hoyring-om-nye-anbefalte-it-standarder&quot;&gt;the
+hearing taking place at the moment&lt;/a&gt; (respond before 2012-04-27).
+It proposes to require video conferencing standards including
+specifications with RAND terms.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Forskning: &quot;GPL gir lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling av makt fra produsent til bruker&quot;</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forskning___GPL_gir_lokal_frihet_og_kontroll_gjennom_omfordeling_av_makt_fra_produsent_til_bruker_.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forskning___GPL_gir_lokal_frihet_og_kontroll_gjennom_omfordeling_av_makt_fra_produsent_til_bruker_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Da jeg googlet etter noe annet kom jeg tilfeldigvis over
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=58309&quot;&gt;en
+hovedfagsoppgave&lt;/a&gt; ved Universitetet i Oslo som diskuterer verdien
+av GPLs fire friheter for brukerne av IT-systemer.  Jeg ble fascinert
+over det som presenteres der.  Her er sammendraget:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Motivasjonen til å skrive denne oppgaven er en personlig undring
+over hvorfor det primært, og ofte eksklusivt, fokuseres på det
+økonomiske aspektet ved utredninger om fri programvare er et godt valg
+for det offentlige. Fri og produsenteid programvare bygger på
+fundamentalt forskjellige ideologier som kan ha implikasjoner utover
+økonomiske kostnader. Kunnskapskulturen som er med på å definere fri
+programvare er basert på åpenhet, og er en verdi i seg selv.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Oppgavens tema er programvarelisensen GPL og frihet. GPL-lisensiert
+programvare gir visse friheter i forhold til produsenteid
+programvare. Mitt spørsmål er om, og eventuelt i hvilken utstrekning,
+disse frihetene blir benyttet av ulike brukere og hvordan de
+manifesterer seg for disse brukerne. Sentrale spørsmål i oppgaven
+er:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Hvordan fordeles handlekraft gjennom lisensieringen av programvaren?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Hvilke konsekvenser har programvarelisensen for de ulike brukere? &lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Fri programvare gir blant annet brukeren mulighet til å studere og
+modifisere kildekoden. Denne formen for frihet erverves gjennom
+kunnskap og krever at brukeren også er en ekspert. Hva skjer med
+frihetene til GPL når sluttbrukeren er en annen? Dette diskuteres i
+dialog med informantene.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg har i denne oppgaven samlet inn intervjudata fra IKT-ansvarlige
+ved grunnskolene i Nittedal kommune, driftsansvarlig og IKT-veilederen
+for skolene i kommunen, samt IKT-koordinator for utdanning i Akershus
+fylkeskommune og bokmåloversettere av OpenOffice.org. Den empiriske
+delen av oppgaven er delt inn i to seksjoner; den første omhandler
+operativsystemet Skolelinux, den andre kontorprogrampakken
+OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Som vi vil se gir GPL lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling
+av makt fra produsent til bruker. Brukerens makt analyseres gjennom
+begrepene brukermedvirkning og handlingsfrihet. Det blir også lagt
+vekt på strukturelle forhold rundt bruken av teknologi, og spesielt de
+økonomiske begrepene nettverkseksternaliteter, innlåsing og
+stiavhengighet. Dette er begreper av spesiell nytte når objektet som
+omsettes eller distribueres er et kommunikasjonsprodukt, fordi verdien
+til et slikt gode for en potensiell bruker avhenger av antall
+eksisterende brukere av godet. I tilknytning til denne problematikken
+inneholder oppgaven også en diskusjon rundt åpne standarder og
+formater.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Oppgaven konkluderer med at de «fire frihetene» som GPL-lisensen er
+laget for å beskytte er av avgjørende betydning for bruken av
+OpenOffice.org og Skolelinux, i Akershus fylkeskommune såvel som i
+skolene i Nittedal. Distribusjonen av handlekraft er ikke helt
+symmetrisk. Det er først og fremst de profesjonelle utviklerne i
+Skolelinux som direkte kan nyttiggjøre seg friheten til å endre kode,
+mens en sluttbruker som Nittedal kommune nyttiggjør seg den økonomiske
+friheten til å kunne distribuere programmene. Det er imidlertid også
+slik at ingen aktør klarer seg uten alle disse «frihetene».&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg fant også en masteroppgave fra 2006, men der ligger ikke
+komplett oppgave tilgjengelig.  På tide å holde et øye med
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/search.html?q=skolelinux&quot;&gt;Skolelinux-søket&lt;/a&gt;
+til DUO...&lt;/p&gt;
+
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Andreas Mundt</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Behind &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; there are a lot of people doing the hard work of
+setting together all the pieces.  This time I present to you Andreas
+Mundt, who have been part of the technical development team several
+years.  He was also a key contributor in getting GOsa and Kerberos set
+up in the recently released
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze&quot;&gt;Debian
+Edu Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version.&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;My name is Andreas Mundt, I grew up in south Germany.  After
+studying Physics I spent several years at university doing research in
+Quantum Optics.  After that I worked some years in an optics company.
+Finally I decided to turn over a new leaf in my life and started
+teaching 10 to 19 years old kids at school.  I teach math, physics,
+information technology and science/technology.&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;&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 first information about Skolelinux must have come to my
-attention years ago and somehow related to LTSP (Linux Terminal Server
-Project).  At school, we had set up a network at the beginning of 1997
-using Suse Linux on the desktop, replacing a Novell network. Since
-2002, we used old machines from the city council of Dortmund as thin
-clients (LTSP, later Ubuntu/Lessdisks) cause new hardware was out of
-reach. At home I&#39;m using Debian since years and - subscribed to the
-Debian news letter - heard from time to time about Skolelinux. About
-two years ago I proposed to replace the (somehow undocumented and only
-known to me) system at school by a well known Debian based system:
-Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Students and teachers appreciated the new system because of a
-better look and feel and an enhanced access to local media on thin
-clients.  The possibility to alter and/or reset passwords using a GUI
-was welcomed, too. Being able to do administrative tasks using a GUI
-and to easily set up workstations using PXE was of very high value for
-the admin teachers.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Already before I switched to teaching, I followed the Debian Edu
+project because of my interest in education and Debian.  Within the
+qualification/training period for the teaching, I started
+contributing.&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;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;It&#39;s open source, easy to set up, stable and flexible due to it&#39;s
-Debian base. It integrates LTSP out-of-the-box. And it is documented!
-So it was a perfect choice.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Being open source, there are no license problems and so it&#39;s
-possible to point teachers and students to programs like
-OpenOffice.org, ViewYourMind (mind mapping) and The Gimp.  It&#39;s of
-high value to be able to adapt parts of the system to special needs of
-a school and to choose where to get support for this.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The advantages of Debian Edu are the well known name, the
+out-of-the-box philosophy and of course the great free software of the
+Debian Project!&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;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;Nothing yet.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As every coin has two sides, the out-of-the-box philosophy has its
+downside, too.  In my opinion, it is hard to modify and tweak the
+setup, if you need or want that.  Further more, it is not easily
+possible to upgrade the system to a new release.  It takes much too
+long after a Debian release to prepare the -Edu release, perhaps
+because the number of developers working on the core of the code is
+rather small and often busy elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN&quot;&gt;Debian LAN&lt;/a&gt;
+project might fill the use case of a more flexible system.&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;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;At home (Debian Sid with Gnome Desktop): Iceweasel, LibreOffice,
-Mutt, Gedit, Document Viewer, Midnight Commander, flpsed (PDF
-Annotator).  At school (Skolelinux Lenny): Iceweasel, Gedit,
-LibreOffice.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I am only using non-free software if I am forced to and run Debian
+on all my machines.  For documents I prefer LaTeX and PGF/TikZ, then
+mutt and iceweasel for email respectively web browsing.  At school I
+have Arduino and Fritzing in use for a micro controller project.&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;&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;Some time ago I thought it was enough to tell people about it. But
-that doesn&#39;t seem to work quite well. Now I concentrate on those more
-interested and hope to get multiplicators that way.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;One of the major problems is the vendor lock-in from top to bottom:
+Especially in combination with ignorant government employees and
+politicians, this works out great for the &quot;market-leader&quot;.  The school
+administration here in Baden-Wuerttemberg is occupied by that vendor.
+Documents have to be prepared in non-free, proprietary formats.  Even
+free browsers do not work for the school administration.  Publishers
+of school books provide software only for proprietary platforms.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To change this, political work is very important.  Parts of the
+political spectrum have become aware of the problem in the last years.
+However it takes quite some time and courageous politicians to &#39;free&#39;
+the system.  There is currently some discussion about &quot;Open Data&quot; and
+&quot;Free/Open Standards&quot;.  I am not sure if all the involved parties have
+a clue about the potential of these ideas, and probably only a
+fraction takes them seriously.  However it might slowly make free
+software and the philosophy behind it more known and popular.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Debian Edu in the Linux Weekly News</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html</link>        
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Thu, 5 Apr 2012 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;About two weeks ago, I was interviewed via email about
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; by
-Bruce Byfield in Linux Weekly News.  The result was made public for
-non-subscribers today.  I am pleased to see liked our Linux solution
-for schools.  Check out his article
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://lwn.net/Articles/488805/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu/Skolelinux: A
-distribution for education&lt;/a&gt; if you want to learn more.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Jeg skal på konferansen Go Open 2012</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jeg_skal_p__konferansen_Go_Open_2012.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jeg_skal_p__konferansen_Go_Open_2012.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg har tenkt meg på konferansen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goopen.no/&quot;&gt;Go
+Open 2012&lt;/a&gt; i Oslo 23. april.
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;Medlemsforeningen NUUG&lt;/a&gt; deler ut
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/prisen/&quot;&gt;prisen for fremme av fri
+programvare i Norge&lt;/a&gt; der i år.  Kommer du?&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Justin B. Rye</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 8 Apr 2012 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It take all kind of contributions to create a Linux distribution
+like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;,
+and this time I lend the ear to Justin B. Rye, who is listed as a big
+contributor to the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze&quot;&gt;Debian
+Edu Squeeze release manual&lt;/a&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 44-year-old linguistics graduate living in Edinburgh who has
+occasionally been employed as a sysadmin.&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;m neither a developer nor a Skolelinux/Debian Edu user!  The only
+reason my name&#39;s in the credits for the documentation is that I hang
+around on debian-l10n-english waiting for people to mention things
+they&#39;d like a native English speaker to proofread...  So I did a sweep
+through the wiki for typos and Norglish and inconsistent spellings of
+&quot;localisation&quot;.&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;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;These questions are too hard for me - I don&#39;t use it!  In fact I
+had hardly any contact with I.T. until long after I&#39;d got out of the
+education system.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I can tell you the advantages of Debian for me though: it soaks up
+as much of my free time as I want and no more, and lets me do
+everything I want a computer for without ever forcing me to spend
+money on the latest hardware.&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&#39;ve been using Debian since Rex; popularity-contest says the
+software that I use most is xinit, xterm, and xulrunner (in other
+words, I use a distinctly retro sort of desktop).&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, I don&#39;t know.  I suppose I&#39;d be inclined to try reasoning
+with the people who make the decisions, but obviously if that worked
+you would hardly need a strategy.&lt;/p&gt;

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                <title>Why the KDE menu is slow when /usr/ is NFS mounted - and a workaround</title>

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-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html</guid>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html</guid>

                 <pubDate>Fri, 6 Apr 2012 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Recently I have spent time with
 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux Drift AS&lt;/a&gt; on speeding
                 <pubDate>Fri, 6 Apr 2012 22:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Recently I have spent time with
 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux Drift AS&lt;/a&gt; on speeding


@@ -154,288 +481,112 @@ and icon handling, but also the login process.  Not quite sure how to
 speed up that part without replacing NFS with for example NBD, and
 that is not really an option at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;
 
 speed up that part without replacing NFS with for example NBD, and
 that is not really an option at the moment.&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;If you got feedback on this issue, please let us know on debian-edu
-(at) lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Debian Edu interview: Justin B. Rye</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html</link>        
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 8 Apr 2012 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;It take all kind of contributions to create a Linux distribution
-like &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;,
-and this time I lend the ear to Justin B. Rye, who is listed as a big
-contributor to the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze&quot;&gt;Debian
-Edu Squeeze release manual&lt;/a&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 44-year-old linguistics graduate living in Edinburgh who has
-occasionally been employed as a sysadmin.&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;m neither a developer nor a Skolelinux/Debian Edu user!  The only
-reason my name&#39;s in the credits for the documentation is that I hang
-around on debian-l10n-english waiting for people to mention things
-they&#39;d like a native English speaker to proofread...  So I did a sweep
-through the wiki for typos and Norglish and inconsistent spellings of
-&quot;localisation&quot;.&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;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;These questions are too hard for me - I don&#39;t use it!  In fact I
-had hardly any contact with I.T. until long after I&#39;d got out of the
-education system.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I can tell you the advantages of Debian for me though: it soaks up
-as much of my free time as I want and no more, and lets me do
-everything I want a computer for without ever forcing me to spend
-money on the latest hardware.&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&#39;ve been using Debian since Rex; popularity-contest says the
-software that I use most is xinit, xterm, and xulrunner (in other
-words, I use a distinctly retro sort of desktop).&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;If you got feedback on this issue, please let us know on debian-edu
+(at) lists.debian.org.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Well, I don&#39;t know.  I suppose I&#39;d be inclined to try reasoning
-with the people who make the decisions, but obviously if that worked
-you would hardly need a strategy.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Update 2015-08-04: The
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-edu/upstream/kde-icon-cache.git/&quot;&gt;source
+of the scripts and associated Debian package&lt;/a&gt; is available from the
+Debian Edu github repository.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Jeg skal på konferansen Go Open 2012</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jeg_skal_p__konferansen_Go_Open_2012.html</link>        
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jeg_skal_p__konferansen_Go_Open_2012.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2012 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg har tenkt meg på konferansen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goopen.no/&quot;&gt;Go
-Open 2012&lt;/a&gt; i Oslo 23. april.
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;Medlemsforeningen NUUG&lt;/a&gt; deler ut
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/prisen/&quot;&gt;prisen for fremme av fri
-programvare i Norge&lt;/a&gt; der i år.  Kommer du?&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian Edu in the Linux Weekly News</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 5 Apr 2012 08:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;About two weeks ago, I was interviewed via email about
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; by
+Bruce Byfield in Linux Weekly News.  The result was made public for
+non-subscribers today.  I am pleased to see liked our Linux solution
+for schools.  Check out his article
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://lwn.net/Articles/488805/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu/Skolelinux: A
+distribution for education&lt;/a&gt; if you want to learn more.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Debian Edu interview: Andreas Mundt</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html</link>        
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Behind &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and
-Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; there are a lot of people doing the hard work of
-setting together all the pieces.  This time I present to you Andreas
-Mundt, who have been part of the technical development team several
-years.  He was also a key contributor in getting GOsa and Kerberos set
-up in the recently released
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze&quot;&gt;Debian
-Edu Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Wolfgang Schweer</title>
+               <link>https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 1 Apr 2012 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Germany is a core area for the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
+user community, and this time I managed to get hold of Wolfgang
+Schweer, a valuable contributor to the project from Germany.

 
 &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;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;My name is Andreas Mundt, I grew up in south Germany.  After
-studying Physics I spent several years at university doing research in
-Quantum Optics.  After that I worked some years in an optics company.
-Finally I decided to turn over a new leaf in my life and started
-teaching 10 to 19 years old kids at school.  I teach math, physics,
-information technology and science/technology.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;ve studied Mathematics at the university &#39;Ruhr-Universität&#39; in
+Bochum, Germany. Since 1981 I&#39;m working as a teacher at the school
+&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.westfalenkolleg-dortmund.de/&quot;&gt;Westfalen-Kolleg
+Dortmund&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, a second chance school.  Here, young adults is given
+the opportunity to get further education in order to do the school
+examination &#39;Abitur&#39;, which will allow to study at a university. This
+second chance is of value for those who want a better job perspective
+or failed to get a higher school examination being teens.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Besides teaching I was involved in developing online courses for a
+blended learning project called &#39;abitur-online.nrw&#39; and in some other
+information technology related projects. For about ten years I&#39;ve been
+teacher and coordinator for the &#39;abitur-online&#39; project at my
+school. Being now in my early sixties, I&#39;ve decided to leave school at
+the end of April this year.&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;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;Already before I switched to teaching, I followed the Debian Edu
-project because of my interest in education and Debian.  Within the
-qualification/training period for the teaching, I started
-contributing.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The first information about Skolelinux must have come to my
+attention years ago and somehow related to LTSP (Linux Terminal Server
+Project).  At school, we had set up a network at the beginning of 1997
+using Suse Linux on the desktop, replacing a Novell network. Since
+2002, we used old machines from the city council of Dortmund as thin
+clients (LTSP, later Ubuntu/Lessdisks) cause new hardware was out of
+reach. At home I&#39;m using Debian since years and - subscribed to the
+Debian news letter - heard from time to time about Skolelinux. About
+two years ago I proposed to replace the (somehow undocumented and only
+known to me) system at school by a well known Debian based system:
+Skolelinux.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Students and teachers appreciated the new system because of a
+better look and feel and an enhanced access to local media on thin
+clients.  The possibility to alter and/or reset passwords using a GUI
+was welcomed, too. Being able to do administrative tasks using a GUI
+and to easily set up workstations using PXE was of very high value for
+the admin teachers.&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;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;The advantages of Debian Edu are the well known name, the
-out-of-the-box philosophy and of course the great free software of the
-Debian Project!&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It&#39;s open source, easy to set up, stable and flexible due to it&#39;s
+Debian base. It integrates LTSP out-of-the-box. And it is documented!
+So it was a perfect choice.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Being open source, there are no license problems and so it&#39;s
+possible to point teachers and students to programs like
+OpenOffice.org, ViewYourMind (mind mapping) and The Gimp.  It&#39;s of
+high value to be able to adapt parts of the system to special needs of
+a school and to choose where to get support for this.&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;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;As every coin has two sides, the out-of-the-box philosophy has its
-downside, too.  In my opinion, it is hard to modify and tweak the
-setup, if you need or want that.  Further more, it is not easily
-possible to upgrade the system to a new release.  It takes much too
-long after a Debian release to prepare the -Edu release, perhaps
-because the number of developers working on the core of the code is
-rather small and often busy elsewhere.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN&quot;&gt;Debian LAN&lt;/a&gt;
-project might fill the use case of a more flexible system.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Nothing yet.&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;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;I am only using non-free software if I am forced to and run Debian
-on all my machines.  For documents I prefer LaTeX and PGF/TikZ, then
-mutt and iceweasel for email respectively web browsing.  At school I
-have Arduino and Fritzing in use for a micro controller project.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;At home (Debian Sid with Gnome Desktop): Iceweasel, LibreOffice,
+Mutt, Gedit, Document Viewer, Midnight Commander, flpsed (PDF
+Annotator).  At school (Skolelinux Lenny): Iceweasel, Gedit,
+LibreOffice.&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;&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;One of the major problems is the vendor lock-in from top to bottom:
-Especially in combination with ignorant government employees and
-politicians, this works out great for the &quot;market-leader&quot;.  The school
-administration here in Baden-Wuerttemberg is occupied by that vendor.
-Documents have to be prepared in non-free, proprietary formats.  Even
-free browsers do not work for the school administration.  Publishers
-of school books provide software only for proprietary platforms.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To change this, political work is very important.  Parts of the
-political spectrum have become aware of the problem in the last years.
-However it takes quite some time and courageous politicians to &#39;free&#39;
-the system.  There is currently some discussion about &quot;Open Data&quot; and
-&quot;Free/Open Standards&quot;.  I am not sure if all the involved parties have
-a clue about the potential of these ideas, and probably only a
-fraction takes them seriously.  However it might slowly make free
-software and the philosophy behind it more known and popular.&lt;/p&gt;
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-               <title>Forskning: &quot;GPL gir lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling av makt fra produsent til bruker&quot;</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forskning___GPL_gir_lokal_frihet_og_kontroll_gjennom_omfordeling_av_makt_fra_produsent_til_bruker_.html</link>        
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-                <pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 13:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Da jeg googlet etter noe annet kom jeg tilfeldigvis over
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=58309&quot;&gt;en
-hovedfagsoppgave&lt;/a&gt; ved Universitetet i Oslo som diskuterer verdien
-av GPLs fire friheter for brukerne av IT-systemer.  Jeg ble fascinert
-over det som presenteres der.  Her er sammendraget:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Motivasjonen til å skrive denne oppgaven er en personlig undring
-over hvorfor det primært, og ofte eksklusivt, fokuseres på det
-økonomiske aspektet ved utredninger om fri programvare er et godt valg
-for det offentlige. Fri og produsenteid programvare bygger på
-fundamentalt forskjellige ideologier som kan ha implikasjoner utover
-økonomiske kostnader. Kunnskapskulturen som er med på å definere fri
-programvare er basert på åpenhet, og er en verdi i seg selv.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Oppgavens tema er programvarelisensen GPL og frihet. GPL-lisensiert
-programvare gir visse friheter i forhold til produsenteid
-programvare. Mitt spørsmål er om, og eventuelt i hvilken utstrekning,
-disse frihetene blir benyttet av ulike brukere og hvordan de
-manifesterer seg for disse brukerne. Sentrale spørsmål i oppgaven
-er:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Hvordan fordeles handlekraft gjennom lisensieringen av programvaren?&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;li&gt;Hvilke konsekvenser har programvarelisensen for de ulike brukere? &lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Fri programvare gir blant annet brukeren mulighet til å studere og
-modifisere kildekoden. Denne formen for frihet erverves gjennom
-kunnskap og krever at brukeren også er en ekspert. Hva skjer med
-frihetene til GPL når sluttbrukeren er en annen? Dette diskuteres i
-dialog med informantene.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg har i denne oppgaven samlet inn intervjudata fra IKT-ansvarlige
-ved grunnskolene i Nittedal kommune, driftsansvarlig og IKT-veilederen
-for skolene i kommunen, samt IKT-koordinator for utdanning i Akershus
-fylkeskommune og bokmåloversettere av OpenOffice.org. Den empiriske
-delen av oppgaven er delt inn i to seksjoner; den første omhandler
-operativsystemet Skolelinux, den andre kontorprogrampakken
-OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Som vi vil se gir GPL lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling
-av makt fra produsent til bruker. Brukerens makt analyseres gjennom
-begrepene brukermedvirkning og handlingsfrihet. Det blir også lagt
-vekt på strukturelle forhold rundt bruken av teknologi, og spesielt de
-økonomiske begrepene nettverkseksternaliteter, innlåsing og
-stiavhengighet. Dette er begreper av spesiell nytte når objektet som
-omsettes eller distribueres er et kommunikasjonsprodukt, fordi verdien
-til et slikt gode for en potensiell bruker avhenger av antall
-eksisterende brukere av godet. I tilknytning til denne problematikken
-inneholder oppgaven også en diskusjon rundt åpne standarder og
-formater.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Oppgaven konkluderer med at de «fire frihetene» som GPL-lisensen er
-laget for å beskytte er av avgjørende betydning for bruken av
-OpenOffice.org og Skolelinux, i Akershus fylkeskommune såvel som i
-skolene i Nittedal. Distribusjonen av handlekraft er ikke helt
-symmetrisk. Det er først og fremst de profesjonelle utviklerne i
-Skolelinux som direkte kan nyttiggjøre seg friheten til å endre kode,
-mens en sluttbruker som Nittedal kommune nyttiggjør seg den økonomiske
-friheten til å kunne distribuere programmene. Det er imidlertid også
-slik at ingen aktør klarer seg uten alle disse «frihetene».&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg fant også en masteroppgave fra 2006, men der ligger ikke
-komplett oppgave tilgjengelig.  På tide å holde et øye med
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/search.html?q=skolelinux&quot;&gt;Skolelinux-søket&lt;/a&gt;
-til DUO...&lt;/p&gt;
-
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-       <item>
-               <title>RAND terms - non-reasonable and discriminatory</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAND_terms___non_reasonable_and_discriminatory.html</link>        
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-                <pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Here in Norway, the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/fad.html?id=339&quot;&gt; Ministry of
-Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs&lt;/a&gt; is behind
-a &lt;a href=&quot;http://standard.difi.no/forvaltningsstandarder&quot;&gt;directory of
-standards&lt;/a&gt; that are recommended or mandatory for use by the
-government.  When the directory was created, the people behind it made
-an effort to ensure that everyone would be able to implement the
-standards and compete on equal terms to supply software and solutions
-to the government.  Free software and non-free software could compete
-on the same level.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;But recently, some standards with RAND
-(&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminatory_licensing&quot;&gt;Reasonable
-And Non-Discriminatory&lt;/a&gt;) terms have made their way into the
-directory.  And while this might not sound too bad, the fact is that
-standard specifications with RAND terms often block free software from
-implementing them.  The reasonable part of RAND mean that the cost per
-user/unit is low,and the non-discriminatory part mean that everyone
-willing to pay will get a license.  Both sound great in theory.  In
-practice, to get such license one need to be able to count users, and
-be able to pay a small amount of money per unit or user.  By
-definition, users of free software do not need to register their use.
-So counting users or units is not possible for free software projects.
-And given that people will use the software without handing any money
-to the author, it is not really economically possible for a free
-software author to pay a small amount of money to license the rights
-to implement a standard when the income available is zero.  The result
-in these situations is that free software are locked out from
-implementing standards with RAND terms.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Because of this, when I see someone claiming the terms of a
-standard is reasonable and non-discriminatory, all I can think of is
-how this really is non-reasonable and discriminatory.  Because free
-software developers are working in a global marked, it does not really
-help to know that software patents are not supposed to be enforceable
-in Norway.  The patent regimes in other countries affect us even here.
-I really hope the people behind the standard directory will pay more
-attention to these issues in the future.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;You can find more on the issues with RAND, FRAND and RAND-Z terms
-from Simon Phipps
-(&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/11/rand-not-so-reasonable/&quot;&gt;RAND:
-Not So Reasonable?&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Some time ago I thought it was enough to tell people about it. But
+that doesn&#39;t seem to work quite well. Now I concentrate on those more
+interested and hope to get multiplicators that way.&lt;/p&gt;

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