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+ <item>
+ <title>NUUGs høringsuttalelse til DIFIs forslag om å kaste ut ODF fra statens standardkatalog</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUGs_h_ringsuttalelse_til_DIFIs_forslag_om___kaste_ut_ODF_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUGs_h_ringsuttalelse_til_DIFIs_forslag_om___kaste_ut_ODF_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 1 Oct 2012 08:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Som jeg
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/DIFI_foresl_r___kaste_ut_ODF_og_ta_inn_OOXML_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html">skrev
+i juni</a> har DIFI foreslått å fjerne krav om å bruke ODF til
+utveksling av redigerbare dokumenter med det offentlige, og
+derigjennom tvinge innbyggerne til å forholde seg til formatene til MS
+Office når en kommuniserer med det offentlige.</p>
+
+<p>I går kveld fikk vi i <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a>
+fullført vår høringsuttalelse og sendt den inn til DIFI. Du finner
+<a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/201209-forskrift-standardkatalog">uttalelsen
+på wikien</a>. Ta en titt. Fristen for å sende inn uttalelse var i
+går søndag, men en får kanskje sitt innspill med hvis en sender i
+dag.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Etterprøvbar kunnskap under press, alle mann til pumpene!</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Etterpr_vbar_kunnskap_under_press__alle_mann_til_pumpene_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Etterpr_vbar_kunnskap_under_press__alle_mann_til_pumpene_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Jeg har sterk tro på vitenskap, som er et annet navn på
+etterprøvbar kunnskap, som metode for å sikre et velfungerende
+samfunn. Eller som en fantastisk reklamekampanje i England formulerte
+det, <a href="http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/3567">vitenskap
+flyr deg til månen, religion flyr deg inn i bygninger</a>. Men den
+vitenskapelige metode trenger folk med kunnskap, evne og vilje til å
+gjøre sitt beste, og settes under press av et samfunn som ikke akkurat
+belønner slike egenskaper. Her er noen skremmende og oppmuntrende
+lenker relatert jeg anbefaler alle å lese:</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/21/drugs-industry-scandal-ben-goldacre">The
+drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal</a> - Ben Goldacre i The Guardian
+2012-09-21</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/09/22/kultur/debatt/debattinnlegg/utdanning/realfag/23535203/">Norsk
+skole har ikke realfag</a> - kronikk av Hege Tunstad i Dagbladet
+2012-09-22, basert på
+<a href="http://hegetunstad.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/norsk-skole-har-ikke-realfag/">en bloggpost 2012-09-19</a>.</li>
+
+<li><a href="http://tjomlid.com/2012/09/22/folkeopplysningen-alt-du-trenger-a-vite-om-homeopati/">Folkeopplysningen:
+ Alt du trenger å vite om homeopati!</a> - bloggpost av Gunnar R. Tjomlid
+ 2012-09-22.</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>Ingen tvil om at alle gode krefter må jobbe sammen for å sikre at
+vi vet hvor vi skal fly.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Seventy percent done with Norwegian docbook version of Free Culture</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Seventy_percent_done_with_Norwegian_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Seventy_percent_done_with_Norwegian_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Since this summer, I have worked in my spare time on a Norwegian <a
+href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book <a
+href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig.
+The reason is that this book is a great primer on what problems exist
+in the current copyright laws, and I want it to be available also for
+those that are reluctant do read an English book.
+
+When I started, I
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html">called
+for volunteers</a> to help me, but too few have volunteered so far,
+and progress is a bit slow. Anyway, today I broken the 70 percent
+mark for the first rough translation. At the moment, less than 700
+strings (paragraphs, index terms, titles) are left to translate. With
+my current progress of 10-20 strings per day, it will take a while to
+complete the translation. This graph show the updated progress:</p>
+
+<img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png">
+
+<p>Progress have slowed down lately due to family and work
+commitments. If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out
+the project files currently available from
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p>
+
+<p>If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
+the updated
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>
+and
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
+are published on github. The HTML version is published as well, but
+github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
+saw no point in linking to that version.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Vitenskaplig metode i politikken?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskaplig_metode_i_politikken_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskaplig_metode_i_politikken_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Jeg ble for noen dager siden tipset om en rapport utarbeidet av
+Cabinet Office i England ved navn
+<a href="http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/test-learn-adapt-developing-public-policy-randomised-controlled-trials">Test,
+Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled
+Trials</a>, skrevet av blant annet Ben Goldacre (som jeg først ble
+klar over da han holdt et veldig interessant TED-foredrag med tittel
+<a href="http://archive.org/details/BenGoldacre_2011G">Battling bad
+science</a>). Rapporten handler om hvordan det offentlige burde bruke
+vitenskaplige metoder i større grad for å finne ut hvilke virkemidler
+som er mest effektive når en skal regulere samfunnet. Her er et sitat
+fra starten av rapporten:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are the best way to determine
+ wheather a policy is working. They are now used extensively in
+ international development, medicine, and business to identify which
+ policy, drug or sales method is most effective. They are also at
+ the heart of the Behavioural Insights Team's methodology.</p>
+
+<p>However, RCTs are not rutinely used to test the effectiveness of
+ public policy interventions in the UK. We think they should be.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>Her tror jeg også Norge har noe å lære. Det offentlige bruker mye
+penger på aktiviteter der det ikke er åpenbart (og heller ikke blir
+målt) at den reelle effekten er det en ønsker å oppnå. Ruters
+elektroniske billettsystem, NAV-reformen, økt bruk av penger på
+politiet og sykehussammenslåinger kommer meg i hug.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Debian Edu interview: Giorgio Pioda</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>After a long break in my row of interviews with people in the
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
+community, I finally found time to wrap up another. This time it is
+Giorgio Pioda, which showed up on the mailing list at the start of
+this year, asking questions and inspiring us to improve the first time
+administrators experience with Skolelinux. :) The interview was
+conduced in May, but I only found time to publish it now.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I have a PhD in chemistry but since several years I work as teacher
+in secondary (15-18 year old students) and tertiary (a kind of "light"
+university) schools. Five years ago I started to manage a Learning
+Management Service server and slowly I got more and more involved with
+IT. 3 years ago the graduating schools moved completely to Linux and I
+got the head of the IT for this. The experience collected in chemistry
+labs computers (for example NMR analysis of protein folding) and in
+the IT-courses during university where sufficient to start. Self
+training is anyway very important</p>
+
+<p>I live in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, and the
+<a href="http://www.spse.ch/">SPSE school</a> (secondary) is a very
+special sport school for young people who try to became sport pro (for
+all sports, we have dozens of disciplines represented) and we are
+recognised by the Olympic Swiss Organisation.
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Looking for Linux / Primary Domain Controller (PDC) I found it
+already several years ago. But since the system was still not
+Kerberized and since our schools relies strongly on laptops I didn't
+use it. I plan to introduce it in the next future, probably for the
+next school year, since the squeeze release solved this security
+hole.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Many. First of all there is a strong and living community that is
+very generous for help and hints. Chat help is crucial, together with
+the mailing list. Second. With Skolelinux you get an already well
+engineered platform and you don't have to start to build up your PDC
+and your clients from GNU/scratch; I've already done this once and I
+can tell it, it is hard. Third, since Skolelinux is a standard
+platform, it is way easier to educate other IT people and even if the
+head IT is sick another one could pick up the task without too much
+hassle.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>The only real problem I see is that it is a little too less
+flexible at client level. Debian stable is rocky and desirable, but
+there are many reasons that force for another choice. For example the
+need of new drivers for new PC, or the need for a specific OS for some
+devices that have specific software packages for another specific
+distribution (I have such a case for whiteboards that have only
+Ubuntu packages). Thus, I prepared compatibility packages educlient
+and eduroaming, hoping not to use them ;-)</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I have a Debian Stable PDC at school (Kerberos, NIS, NFS) with
+mixed Debian and Ubuntu clients. If you think that this triad
+combination is exotic... well I discovered right yesterday that
+<a href="http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/Perceus-Report.html">Perceus</a>
+has the same...</p>
+
+<p>For myself I run Debian wheezy/sid, but this combination is good
+only I you have enough competence to fix stuff for yourself, if
+something breaks. Daily I use texmacs, gnumeric, a little bit of R
+statistics, kmplot, and less frequently OpenOffice.org.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<P>I think that the only real argument that school managers "hear" is
+cost reduction. They don't give too much weight on quality, stability,
+just because they are normally not open to change.</p>
+
+<p>Students adapts very quickly to GNU/Linux (and for them being able
+to switch between different OS is a plus value); teachers and managers
+don't.</p>
+
+<p>We decided to move to Linux because students at our school have own
+laptop and we have the responsibility to keep the laptop ready to use;
+we were really unsatisfied with Microsoft since every Monday we had 20
+machine to fix for viral infections... With Linux this has been
+reduced to zero, since people installs almost only from official
+repositories. I think that our special needs brought us to Linux.
+Those who don't have such needs will hardly move to Linux.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Naturvernforbundet i Oslo bruker OpenStreetmap i sin kalender</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Naturvernforbundet_i_Oslo_bruker_OpenStreetmap_i_sin_kalender.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Naturvernforbundet_i_Oslo_bruker_OpenStreetmap_i_sin_kalender.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Veldig morsomt å se at
+<a href="http://naturvernforbundet.no/noa/">Naturvernforbundet Oslo og
+Akershus</a> bruker kart fra
+<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.no/">OpenStreetmap.org<a/> i
+<a href="http://naturvernforbundet.no/noa/bestill-markakalenderen-2013-article24039-1939.html">sine
+kalendere</a>. Vidar Gundersen i kartgruppa
+<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/kart/2012-September/003696.html">forteller
+på den norske epostlisten</a> til prosjektet at hvert blad i
+kalenderen har et turforslag på baksiden, med kart fra OpenStreetmap.
+Tidligere kjøpte de visst kart fra kartverket, men nå slipper de
+det.</p>
+
+<p>Denne nyheten synes jeg er fantastisk bra, og jeg håper de får
+følge av flere, slik at det potensielle og fryktede inntektstapet for
+kartverket ved frigjøring av kartdata blir mindre, og forhåpentligvis
+til slutt så lite at frykten for å frigjøre data overvinnes.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>IETF activity to standardise video codec</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_activity_to_standardise_video_codec.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_activity_to_standardise_video_codec.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>After the
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_standardize_its_first_multimedia_codec__Opus.html">Opus
+codec made</a> it into <a href="http://www.ietf.org/">IETF</a> as
+<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716">RFC 6716</a>, I had a look
+to see if there is any activity in IETF to standardise a video codec
+too, and I was happy to discover that there is some activity in this
+area. A non-"working group" mailing list
+<a href="https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/video-codec">video-codec</a>
+was
+<a href="http://ietf.10.n7.nabble.com/New-Non-WG-Mailing-List-video-codec-Video-codec-BoF-discussion-list-td119548.html">created 2012-08-20</a>. It is intended to discuss the topic and if a
+formal working group should be formed.</p>
+
+<p>I look forward to see how this plays out. There is already
+<a href="http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/video-codec/current/msg00003.html">an
+email from someone</a> in the MPEG group at ISO asking people to
+participate in the ISO group. Given how ISO failed with OOXML and given
+that it so far (as far as I can remember) only have produced
+multimedia formats requiring royalty payments, I suspect
+joining the ISO group would be a complete waste of time, but I am not
+involved in any codec work and my opinion will not matter much.</p>
+
+<p>If one of my readers is involved with codec work, I hope she will
+join this work to standardise a royalty free video codec within
+IETF.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
<item>
<title>IETF standardize its first multimedia codec: Opus</title>
<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_standardize_its_first_multimedia_codec__Opus.html</link>
</description>
</item>
- <item>
- <title>Da er det norske piratpartiet i gang med å samle underskrifter</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Da_er_det_norske_piratpartiet_i_gang_med___samle_underskrifter.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Da_er_det_norske_piratpartiet_i_gang_med___samle_underskrifter.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I dag har Digi en artikkel om at initiativet for å få et norsk
-Piratparti er
-<a href="http://www.digi.no/900904/derfor-er-haakon-wium-lie-pirat">i
-gang med å samle inn sine 5000 underskrifter</a> for å få registrert
-seg som parti til neste års stortingsvalg. Initiativet ble
-<a href="http://www.digi.no/897296/piratene-vil-innta-stortinget">annonsert
-i sommer</a>, og har nå kommet så langt at det er på tide å signere
-(på papir, med penn og frimerke for innsending. :).</p>
-
-<p>Dagens partier har i stor grad spilt fallitt på det digitale
-området, så jeg er positiv til at det kommer en ny aktør på området
-som kan ruske opp litt i gamle strukturer og holdninger, og
-forhåpentligvis få gjennomslag for noen av sine saker. Piratpartiet
-har laget og publisert
-<a href="http://people.opera.com/howcome/2012/piratpartiet/kjerneprogram.html">et
-kjerneprogram</a> som inneholder mange punkter en kan si seg enig
-i.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg er ikke sikker på om jeg kommer til å stemme på dem, men jeg
-stiller meg helt klart bak at de bør få lov til å stille til valg, og
-har selv begynt å samle inn underskrifter. Jeg oppfordrer herved alle
-mine lesere til å gjøre det samme. Det trengs 5000 underskrifter før
-nyttår, hvilket betyr at det må samles inn minst 40 underskrifter hver
-eneste dag frem til 31. desember. Her er det mye arbeide som det
-haster med å få gjort.</p>
-
-<p>Min venn Håkon Wium Lie fronter initiativet, og
-<a href="http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2012/pp/">skjema for
-individuell signering</a> finnes på hans websider. Hvis en vil få
-andre til å signere er det
-<a href="http://people.opera.com/howcome/2012/piratpartiet/skjema.pdf">et
-egen skjema i PDF-format</a> en kan skrive ut og sende inn. Her er det
-bare å sette igang!</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Free software forced Microsoft to open Office (and don't forget Officeshots)</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_software_forced_Microsoft_to_open_Office__and_don_t_forget_Officeshots_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_software_forced_Microsoft_to_open_Office__and_don_t_forget_Officeshots_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I came across a great comment from Simon Phipps today, about how
-<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/how-microsoft-was-forced-open-office-200233">Microsoft
-have been forced to open Office</a>, and it made me remember and
-revisit the great site
-<a href="http://www.officeshots.org/">officeshots</a> which allow you
-to check out how different programs present the ODF file format. I
-recommend both to those of my readers interested in ODF. :)</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Half way there with translated docbook version of Free Culture</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Half_way_there_with_translated_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Half_way_there_with_translated_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>In my spare time, I currently work on a Norwegian
-<a href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book
-<a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig,
-to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright law
-I can give to my parents and others that are reluctant to read an
-English book. It is a marvellous set of examples on how the ever
-expanding copyright regulations hurt culture and society. When the
-translation is done, I hope to find funding to print and ship a copy
-to all the members of the Norwegian parliament, before they sit down
-to debate the latest revisions to the Norwegian copyright law. This
-summer I
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html">called
-for volunteers</a> to help me, and I have been able to secure the
-valuable contribution from at least one other Norwegian.</p>
-
-<p>Two days ago, we finally broke the 50% mark. Then more than 50% of
-the number of strings to translate (normally paragraphs, but also
-titles and index entries are also counted). All parts from the
-beginning up to and including chapter four is translated. So is
-chapters six, seven and the conclusion. I created a graph to show the
-progress:</p>
-
-<img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png">
-
-<p>The number of strings to translate increase as I insert the index
-entries into the docbook. They were missing with the docbook version
-I initially started with. There are still quite a few index entries
-missing, but everyone starting with A, B, O, Z and Y are done. I
-currently focus on completing the index entries, to get a complete
-english version of the docbook source.</p>
-
-<p>There is still need for translators and people with docbook
-knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle
-with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft
-translation and proof reading. And I would like the figures to be
-redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them. Any SVG master
-around? I am sure there are some legal terms that are unfamiliar to
-me. If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out the
-project files currently available from <a
-href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p>
-
-<p>If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
-the updated
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>
-and
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
-are published on github. The HTML version is published as well, but
-github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
-saw no point in linking to that version.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Gratulerer med 19-årsdagen, Debian!</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gratulerer_med_19__rsdagen__Debian_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gratulerer_med_19__rsdagen__Debian_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I dag fyller
-<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120813">Debian-prosjektet 19
-år</a>. Jeg har fulgt det de siste 12 årene, og er veldig glad for å kunne
-si gratulerer med dagen, Debian!</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Gladoppslag om Skolelinux i avisen Fremover</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I sommer hadde avisen <a href="http://www.fremover.no/">Fremover</a>
-et flott oppslag om bruken av
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a> på alle skolene
-der. Artikkelen var på trykk på side 4 og 5 i papirutgaven
-2012-07-23, men mangler dessverre i nettutgaven av avisen. Mine
-henvendelser til avisen for å få artikkelen på nett har så langt ikke
-vært vellykket.</p>
-
-<p>Artikkelen med tittelen "Narvik kommune bruker gratisprogram i
-skolen - Har spart millioner", forteller om hvordan bruken av
-Skolelinux er en stor suksess i Narvik siden det ble tatt i bruk i
-2004. Her er noen fine sitater:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-"- Skolelinux har spart kommunen for store pengesummer, millionbeløp,
- som de heller kan bruke på andre ting, sier IKT-konsulent Viggo
- Fedreheim."
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Avisen forteller at de har fått tilgang til beregninger som viser
-at Narvik kommune har spart noe mellom 10 og 20 millioner kroner de
-siste 8 årene på å bruke Skolelinux, og fortsetter:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-
-"Regnestykket tar høyde for sparte kostnader til lisenser som medfølger
-de alternative operativsystemene, lavere driftskostnader og lengre
-levetid på datautstyret. Totalt har Narvikskolen en maskinpark på
-1600 maskiner fordelt på de 11 skolene fra Skjomen i sør til Bjerkvik
-i nord."
-
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Viggo Fedreheim sier dette om hvor noe av gevinsten kommer fra:</p>
-
-<blockquote>
-"- Vi kan gjenbruke gamle maskiner i skolen som er for dårlig andre
- steder i kommunen der de ikke bruker Skolelinux. Levetiden på en
- datamaskin blir 3-5 år lenger med Skolelinux. Vi kaller det for
- grønn IT, miljøvennlig IT."
-</blockquote>
-
-<p>Her er det mulighet for flere kommuner å få et godt IT-system på
-skolene, hvis de er villige til å forsøke. De som ikke har kompetanse
-innomhus kan kjøpe det fra en av de kommersielle leverandørene av
-Skolelinux-tjenester, som <a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux
-Drift AS</a> (der jeg er styremedlem). Komplett liste er tilgjengelig
-via
-<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp">wikien</a>.</p>
-
-<p>Update 2012-08-16: Today I was allowed by Fremover to put the PDF I
-received from them with a copy of the article on the Internet. It is
-<a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/2012-07-23-fremover-narvik.pdf">now
-available</a> in the Skolelinux press archive.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Notes on language codes for Norwegian docbook processing...</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Notes_on_language_codes_for_Norwegian_docbook_processing___.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Notes_on_language_codes_for_Norwegian_docbook_processing___.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>In <a href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> one can specify
-the language used at the top, and the processing pipeline will use
-this information to pick the correct translations for 'chapter', 'see
-also', 'index' etc. And for most languages used with docbook, I guess
-this work just fine. For example a German user can start the document
-with &lt;book lang="de"&gt;, and the document will show up with the
-correct content with any of the docbook processors. This is not the
-case for the language
-<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_Culture_in_Norwegian___5_chapters_done__74_percent_left_to_do.html">I
-am working with at the moment</a>, Norwegian Bokmål.</p>
-
-<p>For a while, I was confused about which language code to use,
-because I was unable to find any language code that would work across
-all tools. I am currently testing dblatex, xmlto, docbook-xsl, and
-dbtoepub, and they do not handle Norwegian Bokmål the same way. Some
-of them do not handle it at all.</p>
-
-<p>A bit of background information is probably needed to understand
-this mess. Norwegian is not one, but two written variants. The
-variants are Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål. There are three
-two letter language codes associated with these languages, Norwegian
-is 'no', Norwegian Nynorsk is 'nn' and Norwegian Bokmål is 'nb'.
-Historically the 'no' language code was used for Norwegian Bokmål, but
-many years ago this was found to be å bad idea, and the recommendation
-is to use the most specific language code instead, to avoid confusion.
-In the transition period it is a good idea to make sure 'no' was an
-alias for 'nb'.</p>
-
-<p>Back to docbook processing tools in Debian. The dblatex tool only
-understand 'nn'. There are translations for 'no', but not 'nb' (BTS
-<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/684391">#684391</a>), but due to a bug
-(BTS <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/682936">#682936</a>) the 'no'
-language code is not recognised. The docbook-xsl tool chain only
-recognise 'nn' and 'nb', but not 'no'. The xmlto tool only recognise
-'nn' and 'nb', but not 'no'. The end result that there is no language
-code I can use to get the docbook file working with all of these tools
-at the same time. :(</p>
-
-<p>The correct solution is to use &lt;book lang="nb"&gt;, but it will
-take time before that will work with all the free software docbook
-processors. :(</p>
-
-<p>Oh, the joy of well integrated tools. :/</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Best way to create a docbook book?</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best_way_to_create_a_docbook_book_.html</link>
- <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Best_way_to_create_a_docbook_book_.html</guid>
- <pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>I tried to send this text to the
-<a href="https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/docbook-apps/">docbook-apps
-mailing list at lists.oasis-open.org</a>, but it only accept messages
-from subscribers and rejected my post, and I completely lack the
-bandwidth required to subscribe to another mailing list, so instead I
-try to post my message here and hope my blog readers can help me
-out.</p>
-
-<p>I am quite new to docbook processing, and am climbing a steep
-learning curve at the moment.</p>
-
-<p>To give you some background, I am working on a Norwegian
-translation of the book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig, and I use
-docbook to handle the process. The files to build the book are
-available from
-<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.
-The book got around 400 pages with parts, images, footnotes, tables,
-index entries etc, which has proven to be a challenge for the free
-software docbook processors. My build platform is Debian GNU/Linux
-Squeeze.</p>
-
-<p>I want to build PDF, EPUB and HTML version of the book, and have
-tried different tool chains to do the conversion from docbook to these
-formats. I am currently focusing on the PDF version, and have a few
-problems.</p>
-
-<ul>
-
-<li>Using dblatex, the &lt;part&gt; handling is not the way I want to,
- as &lt;/part&gt; do not really end the &lt;part&gt;. (See
- <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/683166">BTS report #683166</a>), the
- xetex backend (needed to process UTF-8) give incorrect hyphens in
- index references spanning several pages (See
- <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/682901">BTS report #682901</a>), and
- I am unable to get the norwegian template texts (See
- <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/682936">BTS report #682936</a>).</li>
-
-<li>Using straight xmlto fail with some latex error (See
- <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/683163">BTS report
- #683163</a>).</li>
-
-<li>Using xmlto with the fop backend fail to handle images (do not
- show up in the PDF), fail to handle a long footnote (overlap
- footnote and text body, see
- <a href="http://bugs.debian.org/683197">BTS report #683197</a>), and
- fail to create a correct index (some lack page ref, and the page
- refs listed are not right).</li>
-
-<li>Using xmlto with the dblatex backend behave like dblatex.</li>
-
-<li>Using docbook-xls with xsltproc + fop have the same footnote and
- index problems the xmlto + fop processing.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>So I wonder, what would be the best way to create the PDF version
-of this book? Are some of the bugs found above solved in new or
-experimental versions of some docbook tool chain?</p>
-
-<p>What about HTML and EPUB versions?</p>
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