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-               <title>Debian Edu interview: Jürgen Leibner</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__J_rgen_Leibner.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__J_rgen_Leibner.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a few busy weeks for me, but I am finally back to
-publish another interview with the people behind
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.
-This time it is one of our German developers, who have helped out over the
-years to make sure both a lot of major but also a lot of the minor
-details get right before release.
+               <title>Trenger en avtale med MPEG-LA for å publisere og kringkaste H.264-video?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Trenger_en_avtale_med_MPEG_LA_for___publisere_og_kringkaste_H_264_video_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Trenger_en_avtale_med_MPEG_LA_for___publisere_og_kringkaste_H_264_video_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 21 Jun 2012 13:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Trengs det avtale med MPEG-LA for å ha lovlig rett til å
+distribuere og kringkaste video i MPEG4 eller med videokodingen H.264?
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://webmink.com/essays/h-264/&quot;&gt;H.264 og MPEG4 er jo ikke en
+fri og åpen standard&lt;/a&gt; i henhold til
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fri_og__pen_standard__slik_Digistan_ser_det.html&quot;&gt;definisjonen
+til Digistan&lt;/a&gt;, så i enkelte land er det ingen tvil om at du må ha
+en slik avtale, men jeg må innrømme at jeg ikke vet om det også
+gjelder Norge.  Det ser uansett ut til å være en juridisk interessant
+problemstilling.  Men jeg tenkte her om dagen som så, at hvis det er
+nødvendig, så har store aktører som
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nrk.no/&quot;&gt;NRK&lt;/a&gt; og
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.regjeringen.no/&quot;&gt;regjeringen&lt;/a&gt; skaffet seg en
+slik avtale.  Jeg har derfor sendt forespørsel til begge (for
+regjeringen sin del er det Departementenes Servicesenter som gjør
+jobben), og bedt om kopi av eventuelle avtaler de har om bruk av MPEG
+og/eller H.264 med MPEG-LA eller andre aktører som opererer på vegne
+av MPEG-LA.  Her er kopi av eposten jeg har sendt til
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dss.dep.no/&quot;&gt;Departementenes Servicesenter&lt;/a&gt;.
+Forespørselen til NRK er veldig lik.&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 Jürgen Leibner, I&#39;m 49 years old and living in
-Bielefeld, a town in northern Germany.  I worked nearly 20 years as
-certified engineer in the department for plant design and layout of an
-international company for machinery and equipment.  Since 2011 I&#39;m a
-certified technical writer (tekom e.V.) and doing technical
-documentations for a steam turbine manufacturer.  From April this year
-I will manage the department of technical documentation at a
-manufacturer of automation and assembly line engineering.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;My first contact with linux was around 1993. Since that time I used
-it at work and at home repeatedly but not exclusively as I do now at
-home since 2006.&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;Once a day in the early year of 2001 when I wanted to fetch my
-daughter from primary school, there was a teacher sitting in the
-middle of 20 old computers trying to boot them and he failed. I helped
-him to get them booting. That was seen by the school director and she
-asked me if I would like to manage that the school gets all that old
-computers in use. I answered: &quot;Yes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Some weeks later every of the 10 classrooms had one computer
-running Windows98. I began to collect old computers and equipment as
-gifts and installed the first computer room with a peer-to-peer
-network. I did my work at school without being payed in my spare time
-and with a lot of fun.  About one year later the school was connected
-to Internet and a local area network was installed in the school
-building.  That was the time to have a server and I knew it must be a
-Linux server to be able to fulfil all the wishes of the teachers and
-being able to do this in a transparent and economic way, without extra
-costs for things like licence and software.  So I searched for a
-school server system running under Linux and I found a couple of
-people nearby who founded &#39;skolelinux.de&#39;. It was the Skolelinux
-prerelease 32 I first tried out for being used at the school.  I
-managed the IT of that school until the municipal authority took over
-the IT management and centralised the services for all schools in
-Bielefeld in December of 2006.&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;When I&#39;m looking back to the beginning, there were other advantages
-for me as today.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;In the past there were advantages like:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;I don&#39;t need to buy it so it generates no costs to the school as
-they had little money to spent for computers and software.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;It has a licence which grands all rights to use it without
-cost.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Date: Tue, 19 Jun 2012 15:18:33 +0200
+&lt;br&gt;From: Petter Reinholdtsen
+&lt;br&gt;To: postmottak@dss.dep.no
+&lt;br&gt;Subject: Innsynsbegjæring om MPEG/H.264-relaterte avtaler
+ 
+&lt;p&gt;Hei.  Jeg ber herved om innsyn og kopi av dokumenter i DSS relatert
+til avtaler rundt bruk av videoformatene MPEG og H.264.  Jeg er
+spesielt interessert i å vite om DSS har lisensavtale med MPEG-LA
+eller noen som representerer MPEG-LA i Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;MPEG og H.264 er videoformater som brukes både til kringkasting
+(f.eks. i bakkenett og kabel-TV) og videopublisering på web, deriblant
+via Adobe Flash.  MPEG-LA, &amp;lt;URL:
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpeg-la.com/&quot;&gt;http://www.mpeg-la.com/&lt;/a&gt; &amp;gt;, er
+en organisasjon som har fått oppgaven, av de kjente rettighetshavere
+av immaterielle rettigheter knyttet til MPEG og H.264, å selge
+bruksrett for MPEG og H.264.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Via regjeringen.no kringkastes med MPEG og H.264-baserte
+videoformater, og dette ser ut til å være organisert av DSS.  Jeg
+antar dermed at DSS har avtale med en eller annen aktør om dette.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;F.eks. har Adobe Premiere Pro har følgende klausul i følge &amp;lt;URL:
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000101-264.html&quot;&gt;http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000101-264.html&lt;/a&gt;
+&amp;gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;It was more able to fit all requirements of a server system for
-schools than a Microsoft server system, even if there are only Windows
-clients because of it&#39;s preconfigured overall concept of being a
-infrastructure solution and community for schools, not only a
-server&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;I was able to configure the server to the needs of the
-school.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;p&gt;6.17. AVC DISTRIBUTION. The following notice applies to software
+  containing AVC import and export functionality: THIS PRODUCT IS
+  LICENSED UNDER THE AVC PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE FOR THE PERSONAL AND
+  NON-COMMERCIAL USE OF A CONSUMER TO (a) ENCODE VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE
+  WITH THE AVC STANDARD (&quot;AVC VIDEO&quot;) AND/OR (b) DECODE AVC VIDEO THAT
+  WAS ENCODED BY A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL AND NON-COMMERCIAL
+  ACTIVITY AND/OR AVC VIDEO THAT WAS OBTAINED FROM A VIDEO PROVIDER
+  LICENSED TO PROVIDE AVC VIDEO. NO LICENSE IS GRANTED OR SHALL BE
+  IMPLIED FOR ANY OTHER USE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION MAY BE OBTAINED
+  FROM MPEG LA L.L.C. SEE
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpegla.com&quot;&gt;http://www.mpegla.com&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Today some of the advantages has been lost, changed or new ones
-came up in this way:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Her er det kun &quot;non-commercial&quot; og &quot;personal and non-commercial&quot;
+aktivitet som er tillatt uten ekstra avtale med MPEG-LA.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;Most schools here do have money to buy hardware and software
-now.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Et annet tilsvarende eksempel er Apple Final Cut Pro, som har
+følgende klausul i følge &amp;lt;URL:
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/finalcutstudio2.pdf&quot;&gt;http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/finalcutstudio2.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
+&amp;gt;:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;They are today mostly managed from central IT departments which
-have own concepts which often do not fit to Debian Edu concepts
-because they are to close to Microsoft ideology.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;With the Squeeze version of Debian Edu which now uses GOsa² for
-management I feel more able to manage the daily tasks than with the
-interfaces used in the past.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;p&gt;15. Merknad om H.264/AVC. Hvis Apple-programvaren inneholder
+  funksjonalitet for AVC-koding og/eller AVC-dekoding, krever
+  kommersiell bruk ekstra lisensiering og følgende gjelder:
+  AVC-FUNKSJONALITETEN I DETTE PRODUKTET KAN KUN ANVENDES AV
+  FORBRUKERE OG KUN FOR PERSONLIG OG IKKE- KOMMERSIELL BRUK TIL (i)
+  KODING AV VIDEO I OVERENSSTEMMELSE MED AVC-STANDARDEN (&quot;AVC-VIDEO&quot;)
+  OG/ELLER (ii) DEKODING AV AVC-VIDEO SOM ER KODET AV EN FORBRUKER TIL
+  PERSONLIG OG IKKE-KOMMERSIELL BRUK OG/ELLER DEKODING AV AVC-VIDEO
+  FRA EN VIDEOLEVERANDØR SOM HAR LISENS TIL Å TILBY
+  AVC-VIDEO. INFORMASJON OM ANNEN BRUK OG LISENSIERING KAN INNHENTES
+  FRA MPEG LA L.L.C. SE HTTP://WWW.MPEGLA.COM.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;Tilsvarende gjelder for andre programvarepakker, kamera, etc som
+bruker MPEG og H.264, at en må ha en avtale med MPEG-LA for å ha lov
+til å bruke programmet/utstyret hvis en skal lage noe annet enn
+private filmer og i ikke-kommersiell virksomhet.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg er altså interessert i kopi av avtaler DSS har som gjør at en
+ikke er begrenset av de generelle bruksvilkårene som gjelder for
+utstyr som bruker MPEG og/eller H.264.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;It is more modular than in the past and fits even better to the
-different needs.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Nå venter jeg spent på svaret.  Jeg planlegger å blogge om svaret
+her.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Gatemagasinet =Oslo får konkurrent fra Folk er Folk</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gatemagasinet__Oslo_f_r_konkurrent_fra_Folk_er_Folk.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gatemagasinet__Oslo_f_r_konkurrent_fra_Folk_er_Folk.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Aftenposten melder i dag at selgerne av
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.erlikoslo.no/&quot;&gt;gatemagasinet =Oslo&lt;/a&gt; er
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Oslo-selgerne-irritert-pa-nytt-gatemagasin-6850970.html&quot;&gt;irritert
+på at det er kommet en konkurrent på banen&lt;/a&gt; fra organisasjonen
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://oslo.folkerfolk.no/&quot;&gt;Folk er Folk&lt;/a&gt;,
+som støtter “rumenerne”, de mest uglesette av tiggerne i Norge.  Min
+første tanke da jeg leste nyheten er at slik må =Oslo-selgerne tåle
+når de nekter &quot;rumenerne&quot; og andre utenlandske tiggere å selge
+gatemagasinet sitt.  Det ble rapportert for noen år siden at
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Ikke-rom-i-herberget-6677803.html&quot;&gt;utenlandske
+tiggere ikke var velkomne som selgere&lt;/a&gt;, og å opprette en konkurrent
+virker da for meg som et rasjonelt alternativ.  Og at &quot;rumerene&quot;
+utelukkes gjelder visst ikke bare i Oslo.  I Adresseavisen fant jeg en
+artikkel om at selgerne av
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gatemagasinetsorgenfri.no/&quot;&gt;gateavisen
+Sorgenfri&lt;/a&gt; i Trondheim også
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/article1122005.ece?index=20&quot;&gt;utelukker
+utenlandske selgere&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Men situasjonen er visst ikke så rett frem som opprinnelige
+artikler kunne tyde på.  Mens jeg søkte opp gamle artikler og
+referanser om temaet, fant jeg et
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2008/07/29/542041.html&quot;&gt;leserbrev
+fra en av stifterne av =Oslo&lt;/a&gt;, som protesterte på
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2008/07/23/541530.html&quot;&gt;påstander
+fra likestillingsombudet om diskriminering&lt;/a&gt; og forteller at =Oslo
+krever at de som selger magasinet skal kunne kommunisere med kundene
+for å kunne representere magasinet utad, og at &quot;rumererne&quot; ikke
+ekskluderes for å være utlendinger men pga. at de ikke kan snakke
+norsk.  Det er jo ikke urimelig å kreve at en selger skal kunne
+kommunisere med kundene, men som kjøper har jeg ikke snakket så mye
+med =Oslo-selgerne at det ville vært et problem for meg om selgeren
+ikke kunne snakke norsk.  Jeg er dermed i tvil om hvorvidt
+argumentasjonen holder når effekten er at de mest uglesette tiggerne i
+Norge ekskluderes.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Uansett tror jeg ikke markedet for gatemagasiner i Oslo er mettet.
+Personlig kunne jeg godt tenkte meg å kjøpe flere, men gidder ikke
+kjøpe den samme utgaven av =Oslo flere ganger.  En konkurrent som Folk
+er Folk kan dermed ende opp med å gjøre markedet større i stedet for å
+spise av markedsandelene til =Oslo.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>SQL-database med anbud publisert på Doffin</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SQL_database_med_anbud_publisert_p__Doffin.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SQL_database_med_anbud_publisert_p__Doffin.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jun 2012 13:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doffin.no/&quot;&gt;Doffin&lt;/a&gt; er det offentlige Norges
+portal for annonsering av anbudsutlysninger.  Nettstedet er mye brukt,
+men rådataene er ikke enkelt tilgjengelig for almenheten.  For å bøte
+på det har jeg som et &lt;a href=&quot;htt://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG-prosjekt&lt;/a&gt;
+laget en &lt;a href=&quot;http://scraperwiki.com/&quot;&gt;Scraperwiki&lt;/a&gt;-skraper som
+lager en
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/norwegian-doffin/&quot;&gt;SQL-database
+med nøkkelinformasjonen fra Doffin&lt;/a&gt;, slik at det er mulig å søke og
+analysere Doffin-oppføringene.  Det publiseres mellom 900-1500 anbud
+hver måned via Doffin.  Jeg har ingen konkrete planer for analyse, men
+håper enklere tilgjengelighet gjør at flere griper sjansen.  På sikt
+håper jeg å bruke denne databasen som grunnlag for å lage en database
+over anbudsdokumenter, som i dag ikke er tilgjengelig fra doffin, men
+må bestilles fra hver enkelt utlyser.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg var litt usikker på om det var rettighetsproblemer knyttet til
+skraping av informasjon fra Doffin, men ser i
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.doffin.no/sitehelp/help_terms.aspx&quot;&gt;vilkårene til
+Doffin&lt;/a&gt; følgende:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;The documentation is usable and gets better every day.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;More people than ever before are using Debian Edu all over the
-world and so the community, which is an very important part I think,
-is sharing knowledge and minds.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Opphavsrett mv&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;Most, maybe all, of the technical requirements for schools are
-solved today by Debian Edu. &lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Ved innleggig av kunngjøringer på Doffin aksepterer Oppdragsgiver
+at opphavsrett og andre rettigheter til materialet overføres til
+Fornyings- og administrasjonsdepartementet, eller den departementet
+utnevner.  Oppdragsgiver har imidlertid bruksrett til materialet, og
+kan benytte det til de formål de måtte ønske.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&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;Hvis informasjonen er vernet av opphavsrettsloven (hvilket jeg
+tviler på, gitt lovens begrensninger om informasjon fra det
+offentlige), så er det FAD som har de immaterielle rettighetene.  FAD
+er en del av staten, som opererer på vegne av folket, og enhver borger
+skulle dermed ha rett til å videreformidle informasjonen.  Ingen av
+offentlighetslovens unntak kommer til anvendelse, i og med at
+informasjonen allerede er publisert.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Debian Edu - some ideas for the future versions</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu___some_ideas_for_the_future_versions.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu___some_ideas_for_the_future_versions.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;During my work on
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.nb.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
+based on Squeeze&lt;/a&gt;, I came across some issues that should be
+addressed in the Wheezy release.  I finally found time to wrap up my
+notes and provide quick summary of what I found, with a bit
+explanation.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
 
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;
 

-&lt;li&gt;There are too few IT companies able to integrate Debian Edu into
-their product portfolio for serving schools with concepts or even
-whole municipality areas.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;We need to rewrite our package installation framework, as tasksel
+changed from using tasksel tasks to using meta packages (aka packages
+with dependencies like our education-* packages), and our installation
+system depend on tasksel tasks in
+/usr/share/tasksel/debian-edu-tasks.desc for package
+installation.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Enable Kerberos login for more services.  Now with the Kerberos
+foundation in place, we should use it to get single sign on with more
+services, and avoiding unneeded password / login questions.  We should
+at least try to enable it for these services:
+&lt;ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;Debian Edu has beside other free and open software projects not
-enough lobbyists which promote free and open software to
-politicians.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;CUPS for admins to add/configure printers and users when using
+    quotas.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Nagios for admins checking the system status.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;GOsa for admins updating LDAP and users changing their passwords.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;LDAP for admins updating LDAP.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Squid for users when exam mode / filtering is active.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;ssh for admins and users to save a password prompt.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;When we move GOsa to use Kerberos instead of LDAP bind to
+authenticate users, we should try to block or at least limit access to
+use LDAP bind for authentication, to ensure Kerberos is used when it
+is intended, and nothing fall back to using the less safe LDAP bind&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Merge debian-edu-config and debian-edu-install.  The split made
+sense when d-e-install did a lot more, but these days it is just an
+inconvenience when we update the debconf preseeding values.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Fix partman-auto to allow us to abort the installation before
+touching the disk if the disk is too small.  This is
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/653305&quot;&gt;BTS report #653305&lt;/a&gt; and the
+d-i developers are fine with the patch and someone just need to apply
+it and upload.  After this is done we need to adjust
+debian-edu-install to use this new hook.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Adjust to new LTSP framework (boot time config instead of install
+time config).  LTSP changed its design, and our hooks to install
+packages and update the configuration is most likely not going to work
+in Wheezy.
+
+&lt;li&gt;Consider switching to NBD instead of NFS for LTSP root, to allow
+the Kernel to cache files in its normal file cache, possibly speeding
+up KDE login on slow networks.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Make it possible to create expired user passwords that need to
+change on first login.  This is useful when handing out password on
+paper, to make sure only the user know the password.  This require
+fixes to the PAM handling of kdm and gdm.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Make GUI for adding new machines automatically from sitesummary.
+The current command line script is not very friendly to people most
+familiar with GUIs.  This should probably be integrated into GOsa to
+have it available where the admin will be looking for it..&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;We should find way for Nagios to check that the DHCP service
+actually is working (as in handling out IP addresses).  None of the
+Nagios checks I have found so far have been working for me.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;We should switch from libpam-nss-ldapd to sssd for all profiles
+using LDAP, and not only on for roaming workstations, to have less
+packages to configure and consistent setup across all profiles.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;We should configure Kerberos to update LDAP and Samba password
+when changing password using the Kerberos protocol.  The hook was
+requested in &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/588968&quot;&gt;BTS report
+#588968&lt;/a&gt; and is now available in Wheezy.  We might need to write a
+MIT Kerberos plugin in C to get this.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;We should clean up the set of applications installed by default.
+&lt;ul&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;Technically there are no disadvantages I&#39;m aware of.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;reduce the number of chemistry visualisers&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;consider dropping xpaint&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;and probably more?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Some hardware need external firmware to work properly.  This is
+mostly the case for WiFi network cards, but there are some other
+examples too.  For popular laptops to work out of the box, such
+firmware need to be installed from non-free, and we should provide
+some GUI to do this.  Ubuntu already have this implemented, and we
+could consider using their packages.  At the moment we have some
+command line script to do this (one for the running system, another
+for the LTSP chroot).&lt;/li&gt;
+
+
+&lt;li&gt;In Squeeze, we provide KDE, Gnome and LXDE as desktop options.  We
+should extend the list to Xfce and Sugar, and preferably find a way to
+install several and allow the admin or the user to select which one to
+use.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;The golearn tool from the goplay package make it easy to check out
+interesting educational packages.  We should work on the package
+tagging in Debian to ensure it represent all the useful educational
+packages, and extend the tool to allow it to use packagekit to install
+new applications with a simple mouse click.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;The Squeeze version got half a exam solution already in place,
+with the introduction of iptable based network blocking, but for it to
+be a complete exam solution the Squid proxy need to enable
+filtering/blocking as well when the exam mode is enabled.  We should
+implement a way to easily enable this for the schools that want it,
+instead of the &quot;it is documented&quot; method of today.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;A feature used in several schools is the ability for a teacher to
+&quot;take over&quot; the desktop of individual or all computers in the room.
+There are at least three implementations,
+&lt;a href=&quot;italc.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;italc&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.itais.net/help/en/&quot;&gt;controlaula&lt;/a&gt; og
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.epoptes.org/&quot;&gt;epoptes&lt;/a&gt; and we should pick one of
+them and make it trivial to set it up in a school.  The challenges is
+how to distribute crypto keys and how to group computers in one room
+and how to set up which machine/user can control the machines in a
+given room.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Tablets and surf boards are getting more and more popular, and we
+should look into providing a good solution for integrating these into
+the Debian Edu network.  Not quite sure how.  Perhaps we should
+provide a installation profile with better touch screen support for
+them, or add some sync services to allow them to exchange
+configuration and data with the central server.  This should be
+investigated.&lt;/li&gt;

 
 &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 
 &lt;/ul&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 use Debian stable on my home server and on my little desktop
-computer. On my laptop I use Debian testing/sid. The applications I
-use on my laptop and my desktop are Open/Libre-office, Iceweasel,
-KMail, DigiKam, Amarok, Dolphin, okular and all the other programs I
-need from the KDE environment.  On console I use newsbeuter, mutt,
-screen, irssi and all the other famous and useful tools.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;My home server provides mail services with exim, dovecot, roundcube
-and mutt over ssh on the console, file services with samba, NFS,
-rsync, web services with apache, moinmoin-wiki, multimedia services
-with gallery2 and mediatomb and database services with MySQL for me
-and the whole family.  I probably forgot something.&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;I believe, we should provide concepts for IT companies to integrate
-Debian Edu into their product portfolio with use cases for different
-countries and areas all over the world.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I guess we will discover more as we continue to work on the Wheezy
+version.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Intervju med digi.no om Norge Digitalt og Openstreetmap</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intervju_med_digi_no_om_Norge_Digitalt_og_Openstreetmap.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intervju_med_digi_no_om_Norge_Digitalt_og_Openstreetmap.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 23:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I går ble jeg kontaktet på epost av
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no&quot;&gt;digi.no&lt;/a&gt;s Eirik Rossen som lurte på om
-jeg hadde noen kommentarer til
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.statkart.no/statkart.ny.no/nor/Statens_kartverk/Om_Statens_kartverk/Pressesenter/Nyhetsarkiv/Nyheter_2012/mai/Norge+i+tet+på+digitale+kartdata.d25-SwZLMWg.ips&quot;&gt;kartverkets
-pressemelding&lt;/a&gt; om Norges tetplassering når det gjelder
-kart-tilgjengelighet.  Jeg svarte følgende, som resulterte i noen
-sitater i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/895420/norge-i-tet-paa-digitale-kartdata#debatt&quot;&gt;Digis
-dekning&lt;/a&gt; av kartverkets pressemelding.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Takk for muligheten til å kommentere.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Pressemeldingen omhandler tilgjengeligheten av kart for aktører som er
-medlem i kartellet Norge Digitalt.  Det er ingen overraskelse for meg
-at tilgjengeligheten til kart hos disse medlemmene er god.  Men for
-oss på utsiden av kartellet er tilgjengelighet av det som burde være
-felleskapets og innbyggernes kart dårlig.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Bruksvilkårene til kartene fra medlemmene i Norge Digital hindrer
-nyskapning og selv om en er villig til å betale den ublu prisen som
-forlanges får en fortsatt ikke tilgang til kartdata uten
-bruksbegresninger.  Derfor bruker jeg heller tid på å gjøre
-fribrukskartet OpenStreetmap bedre.  Der fremmer bruksvilkårene
-nyskapning og lar meg skape nye tjenester uten å måtte søke om
-tillatelse fra det offentlige.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;En annen problemstilling er jo sikkerhet til fjells og til sjøs.
-Mon tro hvor mange ulykker på sjøen som kunne vært unngått hvis
-sjøkartdata var tilgjengelig uten bruksbegrensninger, slik at enhver
-med GPS eller kartplotter tilnærmet kostnadsfritt kunne sikre seg mest
-mulig oppdaterte sjøkart?  Det hjelper jo ikke at offentlige etater
-har enkel tilgang til sjøkartene når det samme ikke gjelder hver
-båtkaptein og småbåtfører.  Jeg tror samfunnet som helhet hadde tjent
-på å unngå kostnadene ved disse ulykkene ved å tvinge sjøkartverket
-til å publisere sine kartdata på Internet uten bruksbegresninger.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Litt statistikk fra Offentlig Elektronisk postjournal</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Litt_statistikk_fra_Offentlig_Elektronisk_postjournal.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Litt_statistikk_fra_Offentlig_Elektronisk_postjournal.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2012 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;De siste månedene har jeg sammen med andre i NUUG jobbet med å
+gjøre det enklere å få innsyn i offentlige dokumenter, og dette
+inkluderer å gjøre postjournaler enklere tilgjengelig for maskinell
+analyse og søk.  I den forbindelse tok jeg i dag å tittet litt på
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oep.no/&quot;&gt;Offentlig Elektronisk Postjournal
+(OEP)&lt;/a&gt;, FAD/DIFIs fellesløsning for departementer og statlige
+etater.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Her er antall oppføringer pr. måned det siste året,
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=htmltable&amp;name=postliste-oep&amp;query=select%20strftime(%22%25Y-%25m%22%2C%20%60recordpublishdate%60)%20as%20oeppubmonth%2C%20count(*)%20from%20%60swdata%60%20group%20by%20oeppubmonth%20order%20by%20oeppubmonth&quot;&gt;summert
+opp&lt;/a&gt; ved hjelp av
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/postliste-oep/&quot;&gt;en
+Scraperwiki-database&lt;/a&gt;.  Merk at denne Scraperwikien har
+ytelsesproblemer pga. mengden data. &lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Måned&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Antall&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-07&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;164355&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-08&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;153662&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-09&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;173134&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-10&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;170665&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-11&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;198409&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2011-12&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;175908&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-01&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;206875&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-02&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;202862&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-03&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;204225&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-04&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;207931&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-05&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;223754&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Det er også interessant å se hvor ofte ulike etater sender inn sine
+journaloppføringer til OEP.  OEP inneholder en liste med sist
+innrapporteringsdato for alle som sender til OEP, og ved å se når og
+hvor ofte det blir sendt inn fra etatene kan
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://api.scraperwiki.com/api/1.0/datastore/sqlite?format=htmltable&amp;name=postliste-oep-deliverydates&amp;query=select%20agency%2C%0A(julianday(datetime(&#39;now&#39;))%20-%20%0A%20julianday(min(%60deliverydate%60)))%2Fcount(*)%20as%20dayfreq%2C%0A%20count(*)%0Afrom%20%60swdata%60%20group%20by%20agency%20order%20by%20dayfreq%20desc&quot;&gt;frekvensen
+beregnes&lt;/a&gt;.  Her er bunnlista, dvs. de som leverer sjeldnere enn hver 10.
+dag beregnet fra
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://scraperwiki.com/scrapers/postliste-oep-deliverydates/&quot;&gt;en
+Scraperwiki-database&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
+
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt;Etat&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Frekvens&lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt;Leveringer&lt;/th&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Norges geologiske undersøkelse&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;83.7527546296&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Medietilsynet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;33.7527546296&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;1&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Departementenes servicesenter&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;23.8763773148&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Kunnskapsdepartementet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;15.8763773148&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Kompetansesenter for distriktsutvikling&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;15.3763773148&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Toll- og avgiftsdirektoratet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;15.3763773148&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;2&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Fredskorpset&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;12.5842515432&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Statens legemiddelverk&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;12.1881886574&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;4&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Utlendingsnemnda&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;11.5842515432&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Politidirektoratet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;10.9175848765&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Skattedirektoratet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;10.9175848765&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Statens innkrevingssentral&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;10.5842515432&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Barne-, ungdoms- og familiedirektoratet&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;10.2509182099&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+&lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Kunst i offentlige rom&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;10.2509182099&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;3&lt;/td&gt; &lt;/tr&gt;
+
+&lt;/table&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;En kan beregne lignende frekvenser ved å sammenligne
+journalføringsdato med publiseringsdato for hver enkelt oppføring i
+OEP, men den lenken legger jeg ikke ved her for å unngå at
+søkemotorroboter begynner å overbelaste Scraperwiki-databasen.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg har spurt Norges geologiske undersøkelse om hvorfor de leverer
+så sjelden, og det kommer av at de har problemer etter oppgradering av
+arkivsystemet sitt og jobber med å fikse det slik at de kan gå tilbake
+til å levere hver uke.  Har ikke undersøkt noen av de andre.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <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;
+               <title>TV with face recognition, for improved viewer experience</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TV_with_face_recognition__for_improved_viewer_experience.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/TV_with_face_recognition__for_improved_viewer_experience.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 9 Jun 2012 22:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Slashdot got a story about Intel planning a
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/06/09/0012247/intel-to-launch-tv-service-with-facial-recognition-by-end-of-the-year&quot;&gt;TV
+with face recognition&lt;/a&gt; to recognise the viewer, and it occurred to
+me that it would be more interesting to turn it around, and do face
+recognition on the TV image itself.  It could let the viewer know who
+is present on the screen, and perhaps look up their credibility,
+company affiliation, previous appearances etc for the viewer to better
+evaluate what is being said and done.  That would be a feature I would
+be willing to pay for.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I would not be willing to pay for a TV that point a camera on my
+household, like the big brother feature apparently proposed by Intel.
+It is the telescreen idea fetched straight out of the book
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt&quot;&gt;1984 by George
+Orwell&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <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;
+               <title>Web service to look up HP and Dell computer hardware support status</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Web_service_to_look_up_HP_and_Dell_computer_hardware_support_status.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 6 Jun 2012 23:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html&quot;&gt;I
+reported how to get&lt;/a&gt; the support status out of Dell using an
+unofficial and undocumented SOAP API, which I since have found out was
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2012-February/045959.html&quot;&gt;discovered
+by Daniel De Marco in february&lt;/a&gt;.  Combined with my web scraping
+code for HP, Dell and IBM
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html&quot;&gt;from
+2009&lt;/a&gt;, I got inspired and wrote
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/&quot;&gt;a
+web service&lt;/a&gt; based on Scraperwiki to make it easy to look up the
+support status and get a machine readable result back.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is what it look like at the moment when asking for the JSON
+output:
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+% GET &lt;a href=&quot;https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&amp;vendor=Dell&amp;servicetag=2v1xwn1&quot;&gt;https://views.scraperwiki.com/run/computer-hardware-support-status/?format=json&amp;vendor=Dell&amp;servicetag=2v1xwn1&lt;/a&gt;
+supportstatus({&quot;servicetag&quot;: &quot;2v1xwn1&quot;, &quot;warrantyend&quot;: &quot;2013-11-24&quot;, &quot;shipped&quot;: &quot;2010-11-24&quot;, &quot;scrapestamputc&quot;: &quot;2012-06-06T20:26:56.965847&quot;, &quot;scrapedurl&quot;: &quot;http://143.166.84.118/services/assetservice.asmx?WSDL&quot;, &quot;vendor&quot;: &quot;Dell&quot;, &quot;productid&quot;: &quot;&quot;})
+%
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;It currently support Dell and HP, and I am hoping for help to add
+support for other vendors.  The python source is available on
+Scraperwiki and I welcome help with adding more features.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <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:
+               <title>Kommentar til artikkel i Adresseavisa som omtaler FiksGataMi</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentar_til_artikkel_i_Adresseavisa_som_omtaler_FiksGataMi.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Kommentar_til_artikkel_i_Adresseavisa_som_omtaler_FiksGataMi.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2012 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg oppdaget nylig en
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adressa.no/nyheter/trondheim/article1831198.ece&quot;&gt;artikkel
+i Adresseavisa&lt;/a&gt; i Trondheim som nevner FiksGataMi, og der Trondheim
+kommune ser ut til å fortelle at de ikke følger forvaltningslovens
+krav ved mottak av meldinger sendt inn via FiksGataMi.  La derfor
+nettopp inn denne kommentaren til artikkelen:&lt;p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&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 quickly translated it to this English message:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Her er en liten faktaoppdatering om FiksGataMi-tjenesten, da noen
+ser ut til å ha misforstått hvordan den fungerer.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;FiksGataMi er et privat initiativ opprettet og drevet av
+medlemsforeningen NUUG.  FiksGataMi tar imot meldinger om feil i
+offentlig infrastruktur, og sender meldingen skriftlig videre på vegne
+av innmelder til aktuell aktør i det offentlige, det være seg kommune,
+fylke eller vegvesenregion.  Offentlig etat blir valgt ut fra
+geografisk plassering og kategori valgt av innsender.  Offentlige
+etater er i følge forvaltningsloven pliktig å følge opp og besvare
+skriftlige henvendelser, og hvis noen av mottakerne ikke gjør dette
+kan en klage på lovbrudd i det offentlige.  FiksGataMi fungerer dermed
+som en slags epostklient for innbyggerne der kopi av innsendte
+meldinger gjøres tilgjengelig og knyttes til kartplassering for enkel
+gjenfinning.  Å sende inn nye problemrapporter via FiksGataMi er
+dermed ikke avhengig av at kommunen aktivt må følge med på meldinger
+hos FiksGataMi, da de får dem tilsendt på sine offisielle
+epostmottakspunkter.  Hvorvidt noe blir fikset og om innbyggerne er
+opp til mottaker av meldingene.  For Trondheim kommune er
+mottaksadressen bydrift.vegdrift@trondheim.kommune.no, en adresse jeg
+inntil jeg leste denne artikkelen trodde ble håndtert i henhold til
+forvaltningslovens krav.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Kan ellers fortelle at 57 kommuner lenker til FiksGataMi fra sine
+nettsider, og at 37 % (4182 av 11266 ) av problemrapportene sendt inn
+via FiksGataMi er markert som løst i løsningen.  Trondheim kommune har
+fått tilbud om å få rapportene levert på datamaskinlesbart format i
+stedet for epost, men har ikke takket ja så langt.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Vennlig hilsen Petter Reinholdtsen, en av NUUG-folkene bak FiksGataMi.no&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;/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>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;
-</description>
-       </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;
-
-&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;
+&lt;p&gt;Det høres for meg ut som om innbyggerne i Trondheim burde klage på
+kommunens potensielle lovbrudd.&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;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Mike Gabriel</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Mike_Gabriel.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 2 Jun 2012 15:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Back in 2010, Mike Gabriel showed up on the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
+mailing list.  He quickly proved to be a valuable developer, and
+thanks to his tireless effort we now have Kerberos integrated into the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
+Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; version.&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;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;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <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;
+&lt;p&gt;My name is Mike Gabriel, I am 38 years old and live near Kiel,
+Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. I live together with a wonderful partner
+(Angela Fuß) and two own children and two bonus children (contributed
+by Angela).&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;During the day I am part-time employed as a system administrator
+and part-time working as an IT consultant. The consultancy work
+touches free software topics wherever and whenever possible. During
+the nights I am a free software developer. In the gaps I also train in
+becoming an osteopath.&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;Starting in 2010 we (Andreas Buchholz, Angela Fuß, Mike Gabriel)
+have set up a free software project in the area of Kiel that aims at
+introducing free software into schools. The project&#39;s name is
+&quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; (IT future for schools). The project links IT
+skills with communication skills.&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;While preparing our own customised Linux distribution for
+&quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot; we were repeatedly asked if we really wanted to
+reinvent the wheel. What schools really need is already available,
+people said.  From this impulse we started evaluating other Linux
+distributions that target being used for school networks.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;At the end we short-listed two approaches and compared them: a
+commercial Linux distribution developed by a company in Bremen,
+Germany, and Skolelinux / Debian Edu. Between 12/2010 and 03/2011 we
+went to several events and met people being responsible for marketing
+and development of either of the distributions. Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu was by far much more convincing compared to the other product that
+got short-listed beforehand--across the full spectrum. What was most
+attractive for me personally: the perspective of collaboration within
+the developmental branch of the Debian Edu project itself.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;In parallel with this, we talked to many local and not-so-local
+people.  People teaching at schools, headmasters, politicians, data
+protection experts, other IT professionals.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;We came to two conclusions:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;First, a technical conclusion: What schools need is available in
+bits and pieces here and there, and none of the solutions really fit
+by 100%. Any school we have seen has a very individual IT setup
+whereas most of each school&#39;s requirements could mapped by a standard
+IT solution.  The requirement to this IT solution is flexibility and
+customisability, so that individual adaptations here and there are
+possible.  In terms of re-distributing and rolling out such a
+standardised IT system for schools (a system that is still to some
+degree customisable) there is still a lot of work to do here
+locally. Debian Edu / Skolelinux has been our choice as the starting
+point.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Second, a holistic conclusion: What schools need does not exist at
+all (or we missed it so far). There are several technical solutions
+for handling IT at schools that tend to make a good impression. What
+has been missing completely here in Germany, though, is the enrolment
+of people into using IT and teaching with IT. &quot;IT-Zukunft Schule&quot;
+tries to provide an approach for this.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Only some schools have some sort of a media concept which explains,
+defines and gives guidance on how to use IT in class. Most schools in
+Northern Germany do not have an IT service provider, the school&#39;s IT
+equipment is managed by one or (if the school is lucky) two (admin)
+teachers, most of the workload these admin teachers get done in there
+spare time.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;We were surprised that only a very few admin teachers were
+networked with colleagues from other schools. Basically, every school
+here around has its individual approach of providing IT equipment to
+teachers and students and the exchange of ideas has been quasi
+non-existent until 2010/2011.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Quite some (non-admin) teachers try to avoid using IT technology in
+class as a learning medium completely. Several reasons for this
+avoidance do exist.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;We discovered that no-one has ever taken a closer look at this
+social part of IT management in schools, so far. On our quest journey
+for a technical IT solution for schools, we discussed this issue with
+several teachers, headmasters, politicians, other IT professionals and
+they all confirmed: a holistic approach of considering IT management
+at schools, an approach that includes the people in place, will be new
+and probably a gain for all.&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;There is a list of advantages: international context, openness to
+any kind of contributions, do-ocracy policy, the closeness to Debian,
+the different installation scenarios possible (from stand-alone
+workstation to complex multi-server sites), the transparency within
+project communication, honest communication within the group of
+developers, etc.&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;Every coin has two sides:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Technically: &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/311188&quot;&gt;BTS issue
+#311188&lt;/a&gt;, tricky upgradability of a Debian Edu main server, network
+client installations on top of a plain vanilla Debian installation
+should become possible sometime in the near future, one could think
+about splitting the very complex package debian-edu-config into
+several portions (to make it easier for new developers to
+contribute).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Another issue I see is that we (as Debian Edu developers) should
+find out more about the network of people who do the marketing for
+Debian Edu / Skolelinux. There is a very active group in Germany
+promoting Skolelinux on the bigger Linux Days within Germany. Are
+there other groups like that in other countries? How can we bring
+these marketing people together (marketing group A with group B and
+all of them with the group of Debian Edu developers)? During the last
+meeting of the German Skolelinux group, I got the impression of people
+there being rather disconnected from the development department of
+Debian Edu / Skolelinux.&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;For my daily business, I do not use commercial software at all.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For normal stuff I use Iceweasel/Firefox, Libreoffice.org. For
+serious text writing I prefer LaTeX. I use gimp, inkscape, scribus for
+more artistic tasks. I run virtual machines in KVM and Virtualbox.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am one of the upstream developers of X2Go. In 2010 I started the
+development of a Python based X2Go Client, called PyHoca-GUI.
+PyHoca-GUI has brought forth a Python X2Go Client API that currently
+is being integrated in Ubuntu&#39;s software center.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For communications I have my own Kolab server running using Horde
+as web-based groupware client. For IRC I love to use irssi, for Jabber
+I have several clients that I use, mostly pidgin, though. I am also
+the Debian maintainer of Coccinella, a Jabber-based interactive
+whiteboard.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My favourite terminal emulator is KDE&#39;s Yakuake.&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;
+&lt;p&gt;Communicate, communicate, communicate. Enrol people, enrol people,
+enrol people.&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>SOAP based webservice from Dell to check server support status</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/SOAP_based_webservice_from_Dell_to_check_server_support_status.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 1 Jun 2012 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few years ago I wrote
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Checking_server_hardware_support_status_for_Dell__HP_and_IBM_servers.html&quot;&gt;how
+to extract support status&lt;/a&gt; for your Dell and HP servers.  Recently
+I have learned from colleges here at the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uio.no/&quot;&gt;University of Oslo&lt;/a&gt; that Dell have
+made this even easier, by providing a SOAP based web service.  Given
+the service tag, one can now query the Dell servers and get machine
+readable information about the support status.  This perl code
+demonstrate how to do it:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+use SOAP::Lite;
+use Data::Dumper;
+my $GUID = &#39;11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111&#39;;
+my $App = &#39;test&#39;;
+my $servicetag = $ARGV[0] or die &quot;Please supply a servicetag. $!\n&quot;;
+my ($deal, $latest, @dates);
+my $s = SOAP::Lite
+    -&gt; uri(&#39;http://support.dell.com/WebServices/&#39;)
+    -&gt; on_action( sub { join &#39;&#39;, @_ } )
+    -&gt; proxy(&#39;http://xserv.dell.com/services/assetservice.asmx&#39;)
+    ;
+my $a = $s-&gt;GetAssetInformation(
+    SOAP::Data-&gt;name(&#39;guid&#39;)-&gt;value($GUID)-&gt;type(&#39;&#39;),
+    SOAP::Data-&gt;name(&#39;applicationName&#39;)-&gt;value($App)-&gt;type(&#39;&#39;),
+    SOAP::Data-&gt;name(&#39;serviceTags&#39;)-&gt;value($servicetag)-&gt;type(&#39;&#39;),
+);
+print Dumper($a -&gt; result) ;
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The output can look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+$VAR1 = {
+          &#39;Asset&#39; =&gt; {
+                     &#39;Entitlements&#39; =&gt; {
+                                       &#39;EntitlementData&#39; =&gt; [
+                                                            {
+                                                              &#39;EntitlementType&#39; =&gt; &#39;Expired&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;EndDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2009-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;Provider&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;StartDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;DaysLeft&#39; =&gt; &#39;0&#39;
+                                                            },
+                                                            {
+                                                              &#39;EntitlementType&#39; =&gt; &#39;Expired&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;EndDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2009-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;Provider&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;StartDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;DaysLeft&#39; =&gt; &#39;0&#39;
+                                                            },
+                                                            {
+                                                              &#39;EntitlementType&#39; =&gt; &#39;Expired&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;EndDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2007-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;Provider&#39; =&gt; &#39;&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;StartDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T00:00:00&#39;,
+                                                              &#39;DaysLeft&#39; =&gt; &#39;0&#39;
+                                                            }
+                                                          ]
+                                     },
+                     &#39;AssetHeaderData&#39; =&gt; {
+                                          &#39;SystemModel&#39; =&gt; &#39;GX620&#39;,
+                                          &#39;ServiceTag&#39; =&gt; &#39;8DSGD2J&#39;,
+                                          &#39;SystemShipDate&#39; =&gt; &#39;2006-07-29T19:00:00-05:00&#39;,
+                                          &#39;Buid&#39; =&gt; &#39;2323&#39;,
+                                          &#39;Region&#39; =&gt; &#39;Europe&#39;,
+                                          &#39;SystemID&#39; =&gt; &#39;PLX_GX620&#39;,
+                                          &#39;SystemType&#39; =&gt; &#39;OptiPlex&#39;
+                                        }
+                   }
+        };
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I have not been able to find any documentation from Dell about this
+service outside the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://xserv.dell.com/services/assetservice.asmx?op=GetAssetInformation&quot;&gt;inline
+documentation&lt;/a&gt;, and according to
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://iboyd.net/index.php/2012/02/14/updated-dell-warranty-information-script/&quot;&gt;one
+comment&lt;/a&gt; it can have stability issues, but it is a lot better than
+scraping HTML pages. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Wonder if HP and other server vendors have a similar service.  If
+you know of one, drop me an email. :)&lt;/p&gt;

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