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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.
-
-&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;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;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;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;Nothing yet.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Cutting it short - and picking the right tool for the job</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Cutting_it_short___and_picking_the_right_tool_for_the_job.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://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>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUGs_leverer_h_ringsuttalelse_om_v3_1_av_statens_referansekatalog.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://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>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/HTC_One_X___Your_video___What_do_you_mean_.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://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;Which free software do you use daily?&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;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 quickly translated it to this English message:&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;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;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;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;

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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>Holder de ord og NUUG lanserer testtjeneste med stortingsinformasjon</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Holder_de_ord_og_NUUG_lanserer_testtjeneste_med_stortingsinformasjon.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://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;

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-               <title>Why the KDE menu is slow when /usr/ is NFS mounted - and a workaround</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html</link>        
-               <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>
-                <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
-up a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
-Lenny installation using LTSP diskless workstations, and in the
-process I discovered something very surprising.  The reason the KDE
-menu was responding slow when using it for the first time, was mostly
-due to the way KDE find application icons.  I discovered that showing
-the Multimedia menu would cause more than 20 000 IP packages to be
-passed between the LTSP client and the NFS server.  Most of these were
-
-NFS LOOKUP calls, resulting in a NFS3ERR_NOENT response.  Because the
-ping times between the client and the server were in the range 2-20
-ms, the menus would be very slow.  Looking at the strace of kicker in
-Lenny (or plasma-desktop i Squeeze - same problem there), I see that
-the source of these NFS calls are access(2) system calls for
-non-existing files.  KDE can do hundreds of access(2) calls to find
-one icon file.  In my example, just finding the mplayer icon required
-around 230 access(2) calls.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>RAND terms - non-reasonable and discriminatory</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAND_terms___non_reasonable_and_discriminatory.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://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;The KDE code seem to search for icons using a list of icon
-directories, and the list of possible directories is large.  In
-(almost) each directory, it look for files ending in .png, .svgz, .svg
-and .xpm.  The result is a very slow KDE menu when /usr/ is NFS
-mounted.  Showing a single sub menu may result in thousands of NFS
-requests.  I am not the first one to discover this.  I found a
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211416&quot;&gt;KDE bug report
-from 2009&lt;/a&gt; about this problem, and it is still unsolved.&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;My solution to speed up the KDE menu was to create a package
-kde-icon-cache that upon installation will look at all .desktop files
-used to generate the KDE menu, find their icons, search the icon paths
-for the file that KDE will end up finding at run time, and copying the
-icon file to /var/lib/kde-icon-cache/.  Finally, I add symlinks to
-these icon files in one of the first directories where KDE will look
-for them.  This cut down the number of file accesses required to find
-one icon from several hundred to less than 5, and make the KDE menu
-almost instantaneous.  I&#39;m not quite sure where to make the package
-publicly available, so for now it is only available on request.&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;The bug report mention that this do not only affect the KDE menu
-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;
+&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;If you got feedback on this issue, please let us know on debian-edu
-(at) lists.debian.org.&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;

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-               <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;.
+               <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>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://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;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&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;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;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
-project?&lt;/strong&gt;&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;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;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;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&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;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&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;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;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;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;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;&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;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;

 
 

-&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;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <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;

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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>        
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://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;
+               <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;
+</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;blockquote&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;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;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;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;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?&lt;/strong&gt;&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;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;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;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&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;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&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;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;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;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;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;
+&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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        </item>
        
        <item>
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        </item>
        
        <item>

-               <title>RAND terms - non-reasonable and discriminatory</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAND_terms___non_reasonable_and_discriminatory.html</link>        
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://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;
+               <title>Why the KDE menu is slow when /usr/ is NFS mounted - and a workaround</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html</link>        
+               <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>
+                <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
+up a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
+Lenny installation using LTSP diskless workstations, and in the
+process I discovered something very surprising.  The reason the KDE
+menu was responding slow when using it for the first time, was mostly
+due to the way KDE find application icons.  I discovered that showing
+the Multimedia menu would cause more than 20 000 IP packages to be
+passed between the LTSP client and the NFS server.  Most of these were

 
 

-&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;
+NFS LOOKUP calls, resulting in a NFS3ERR_NOENT response.  Because the
+ping times between the client and the server were in the range 2-20
+ms, the menus would be very slow.  Looking at the strace of kicker in
+Lenny (or plasma-desktop i Squeeze - same problem there), I see that
+the source of these NFS calls are access(2) system calls for
+non-existing files.  KDE can do hundreds of access(2) calls to find
+one icon file.  In my example, just finding the mplayer icon required
+around 230 access(2) calls.&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;The KDE code seem to search for icons using a list of icon
+directories, and the list of possible directories is large.  In
+(almost) each directory, it look for files ending in .png, .svgz, .svg
+and .xpm.  The result is a very slow KDE menu when /usr/ is NFS
+mounted.  Showing a single sub menu may result in thousands of NFS
+requests.  I am not the first one to discover this.  I found a
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211416&quot;&gt;KDE bug report
+from 2009&lt;/a&gt; about this problem, and it is still unsolved.&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;My solution to speed up the KDE menu was to create a package
+kde-icon-cache that upon installation will look at all .desktop files
+used to generate the KDE menu, find their icons, search the icon paths
+for the file that KDE will end up finding at run time, and copying the
+icon file to /var/lib/kde-icon-cache/.  Finally, I add symlinks to
+these icon files in one of the first directories where KDE will look
+for them.  This cut down the number of file accesses required to find
+one icon from several hundred to less than 5, and make the KDE menu
+almost instantaneous.  I&#39;m not quite sure where to make the package
+publicly available, so for now it is only available on request.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The bug report mention that this do not only affect the KDE menu
+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;
+
+&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 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;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
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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.
+
+&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;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;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;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;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;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;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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