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+ <title>Good causes: Debian Outreach Program for Women, EFF documenting the spying and Open access in Norway</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Good_causes__Debian_Outreach_Program_for_Women__EFF_documenting_the_spying_and_Open_access_in_Norway.html</link>
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+ <pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2013 21:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The last few days I came across a few good causes that should get
+wider attention. I recommend signing and donating to each one of
+these. :)</p>
+
+<p>Via <a href="http://www.debian.org/News/weekly/2013/18/">Debian
+Project News for 2013-10-14</a> I came across the Outreach Program for
+Women program which is a Google Summer of Code like initiative to get
+more women involved in free software. One debian sponsor has offered
+to match <a href="http://debian.ch/opw2013">any donation done to Debian
+earmarked</a> for this initiative. I donated a few minutes ago, and
+hope you will to. :)</p>
+
+<p>And the Electronic Frontier Foundation just announced plans to
+create <a href="https://supporters.eff.org/donate/nsa-videos">video
+documentaries about the excessive spying</a> on every Internet user that
+take place these days, and their need to fund the work. I've already
+donated. Are you next?</p>
+
+<p>For my Norwegian audience, the organisation Studentenes og
+Akademikernes Internasjonale Hjelpefond is collecting signatures for a
+statement under the heading
+<a href="http://saih.no/Bloggers_United/">Bloggers United for Open
+Access</a> for those of us asking for more focus on open access in the
+Norwegian government. So far 499 signatures. I hope you will sign it
+too.</p>
+</description>
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<title>Oslo community mesh network - with NUUG and Hackeriet at Hausmania</title>
<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Oslo_community_mesh_network___with_NUUG_and_Hackeriet_at_Hausmania.html</link>
the new project. A while back, the people at Hackeriet invited people
from the Freifunk community to Oslo to talk about mesh networks. I
came across this video where Hans Jørgen Lysglimt interview the
-speakers about this talk:</p>
+speakers about this talk (from
+<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2Kd7CLkhSY">youtube</a>):</p>
<p><iframe width="420" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N2Kd7CLkhSY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
figure out which one would be "best" for some definitions of best, but
given that the community mesh group in Oslo is so small, I believe it
is best to hook up with the existing one instead of trying to create a
-completely different setup, and thus this have decided to focus on
+completely different setup, and thus I have decided to focus on
batman-adv for now. It sure help me to know that the very cool
<a href="http://www.servalproject.org/">Serval project in Australia</a>
is using batman-adv as their meshing technology when it create a self
organizing and self healing telephony system for disaster areas and
less industrialized communities. Check out this cool video presenting
-that project:
+that project (from
+<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30qNfzJCQOA">youtube</a>):</p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/30qNfzJCQOA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></p>
B.A.T.M.A.N. advanced are protocols used by several free software
based community mesh networks.</p>
-</p>The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer 2
+<p>The batman-adv protocol is a bit special, as it provide layer 2
(as in ethernet ) routing, allowing ipv4 and ipv6 to work on the same
network. One way to think about it is that it provide a mesh based
vlan you can bridge to or handle like any other vlan connected to your
introduction</a> is available from the Open Mesh project. These are
the key settings needed to join the Oslo meshfx network:</p>
-<table>
+<p><table>
<tr><th>Setting</th><th>Value</th></tr>
<tr><td>Protocol / kernel module</td><td>batman-adv</td></tr>
<tr><td>ESSID</td><td>meshfx@hackeriet</td></tr>
<td>Channel / Frequency</td><td>11 / 2462</td></tr>
<td>Cell ID</td><td>02:BA:00:00:00:01</td>
-</table>
+</table></p>
<p>The reason for setting ad-hoc wifi Cell ID is to work around bugs
in firmware used in wifi card and wifi drivers. (See a nice post from
to figure out a good business plan for mesh networking and as far as I
know have closed down the experiment. Perhaps Telenor or others would
be interested in a cooperation?</p>
+
+<p><strong>Update 2013-10-12</strong>: I was just
+<a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/freedombox-discuss/2013-October/005900.html">told
+by the Serval project developers</a> that they no longer use
+batman-adv (but are compatible with it), but their own crypto based
+mesh system.</p>
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- <title>90 percent done with the Norwegian draft translation of Free Culture</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/90_percent_done_with_the_Norwegian_draft_translation_of_Free_Culture.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Fri, 2 Aug 2013 10:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description><p>It has been a while since my last update. Since last summer, I
-have worked 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. Yesterday, I finally broken the 90% mark, when counting the
-number of strings to translate. Due to real life constraints, I have
-not had time to work on it since March, but when the summer broke out,
-I found time to work on it again. Still lots of work left, but the
-first draft is nearing completion. I created a graph to show the
-progress of the translation:</p>
-
-<p><img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png"></p>
-
-<p>When the first draft is done, the translated text need to be
-proof read, and the remaining formatting problems with images and SVG
-drawings need to be fixed. There are probably also some index entries
-missing that need to be added. This can be done by comparing the
-index entries listed in the SiSU version of the book, or comparing the
-English docbook version with the paper version. Last, the colophon
-page with ISBN numbers etc need to be wrapped up before the release is
-done. I should also figure out how to get correct Norwegian sorting
-of the index pages. All docbook tools I have tried so far (xmlto,
-docbook-xsl, dblatex) get the order of symbols and the special
-Norwegian letters ÆØÅ wrong.</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? There are also some legal terms that are unfamiliar to me.
-If you want to help, please get in touch with me, 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>
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