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-               <title>A Norwegian FixMyStreet have kept me busy the last few weeks</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Norwegian_FixMyStreet_have_kept_me_busy_the_last_few_weeks.html</link>        
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Norwegian_FixMyStreet_have_kept_me_busy_the_last_few_weeks.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 3 Apr 2011 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>
-&lt;p&gt;Here is a small update for my English readers.  Most of my blog
-posts have been in Norwegian the last few weeks, so here is a short
-update in English.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Experimental Open311 API for the mySociety fixmystreet system</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Experimental_Open311_API_for_the_mySociety_fixmystreet_system.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Experimental_Open311_API_for_the_mySociety_fixmystreet_system.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Today, the first draft implementation of an
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.open311.org/&quot;&gt;Open311 API&lt;/a&gt; for the Norwegian
+service &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;FiksGataMi&lt;/a&gt; started to
+work.  It is only available on the developer server for now, and I
+have not tested it using any existing Open311 client (I lack the
+platforms needed to run the clients I have found so far), but it is
+able to query the database and extract a list of open and closed
+requests within a given category and reported to a given municipality.
+I believe that is a good start to create a useful service for those
+that want to do data mining on the requests submitted so far.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The kids still keep me too busy to get much free software work
-done, but I did manage to organise a project to get a Norwegian port
-of the British service
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fixmystreet.com/&quot;&gt;FixMyStreet&lt;/a&gt; up and running,
-and it has been running for a month now.  The entire project has been
-organised by me and two others.  Around Christmas we gathered sponsors
-to fund the development work.  In January I drafted a contract with
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mysociety.org/&quot;&gt;mySociety&lt;/a&gt; on what to develop,
-and in February the development took place.  Most of it involved
-converting the source to use GPS coordinates instead of British
-easting/northing, and the resulting code should be a lot easier to get
-running in any country by now.  The Norwegian
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;FiksGataMi&lt;/a&gt; is using
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openstreetmap.org/&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; as the map
-source and the source for administrative borders in Norway, and
-support for this had to be added/fixed.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Where is it?  Visit
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://fiksgatami-dev.nuug.no/open311.cgi/v2/&quot;&gt;http://fiksgatami-dev.nuug.no/open311.cgi/v2/&lt;/a&gt;
+to have a look.  Please send feedback to the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/fiksgatami&quot;&gt;fiksgatami
+(at) nuug.no&lt;/a&gt; mailing list.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Initial notes on adding Open311 server API on FixMyStreet</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Initial_notes_on_adding_Open311_server_API_on_FixMyStreet.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Initial_notes_on_adding_Open311_server_API_on_FixMyStreet.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The last few days I have spent some time trying to add support for
+the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.open311.org/&quot;&gt;Open311 API&lt;/a&gt; in the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian FixMyStreet service&lt;/a&gt;.
+Earlier I believed Open311 would be a useful API to use to submit
+reports to the municipalities, but when I noticed that the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://fixmystreet.org.nz/&quot;&gt;New Zealand version&lt;/a&gt; of
+FixMyStreet had implemented Open311 on the server side, it occurred to
+me that this was a nice way to allow the public, press and
+municipalities to do data mining directly in the FixMyStreet service.
+Thus I went to work implementing the Open311 specification for
+FixMyStreet.  The implementation is not yet ready, but I am starting
+to get a draft limping along.  In the process, I have discovered a few
+issues with the Open311 specification.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The Norwegian version went live March 3th, and we spent the weekend
-polishing the system before we announced it March 7th.  The system is
-running on a KVM instance of Debian/Squeeze, and has seen almost 3000
-problem reports in a few weeks.  Soon we hope to announce the Android
-and iPhone versions making it even easier to report problems with the
-public infrastructure.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;One obvious missing feature is the lack of natural language
+handling in the specification.  The specification seem to assume all
+reports will be written in English, and do not provide a way for the
+receiving end to specify which languages are understood there.  To be
+able to use the same client and submit to several Open311 receivers,
+it would be useful to know which language to use when writing reports.
+I believe the specification should be extended to allow the receivers
+of problem reports to specify which language they accept, and the
+submitter to specify which language the report is written in.
+Language of a text can also be automatically guessed using statistical
+methods, but for multi-lingual persons like myself, it is useful to
+know which language to use when writing a problem report.  I suspect
+some lang=nb,nn kind of attribute would solve it.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Perhaps something to consider for those of you in countries without
-such service?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;A key part of the Open311 API is the list of services provided,
+which is similar to the categories used by FixMyStreet.  One issue I
+run into is the need to specify both name and unique identifier for
+each category.  The specification do not state that the identifier
+should be numeric, but all example implementations have used numbers
+here.  In FixMyStreet, there is no number associated with each
+category.  As the specification do not forbid it, I will use the name
+as the unique identifier for now and see how open311 clients handle
+it.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The report format in open311 and the report format in FixMyStreet
+differ in a key part.  FixMyStreet have a title and a description,
+while Open311 only have a description and lack the title.  I&#39;m not
+quite sure how to best handle this yet.  When asking for a FixMyStreet
+report in Open311 format, I just merge title an description into the
+open311 description, but this is not going to work if the open311 API
+should be used for submitting new reports to FixMyStreet.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The search feature in Open311 is missing a way to ask for problems
+near a geographic location.  I believe this is important if one is to
+use Open311 as the query language for mobile units.  The specification
+should be extended to handle this, probably using some new lat=, lon=
+and range= options.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The final challenge I see is that the FixMyStreet code handle
+several administrations in one interface, while the Open311 API seem
+to assume only one administration.  For FixMyStreet, this mean a
+report can be sent to several administrations, and the categories
+available depend on the location of the problem.  Not quite sure how
+to best handle this.  I&#39;ve noticed
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://seeclickfix.com/open311/&quot;&gt;SeeClickFix&lt;/a&gt; added
+latitude and longitude options to the services request, but it do not
+solve the problem of what to return when no location is specified.
+Will have to investigate this a bit more.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My distaste for web forums have kept me from bringing these issues
+up with the open311 developer group.  I really wish they had a email
+list available via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gmane.org/&quot;&gt;Gmane&lt;/a&gt; to use for
+discussions instead of only
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.open311.org/groups/discuss&quot;&gt;a forum&lt;a/&gt;.  Oh,
+well.  That will probably resolve itself, one way or another.  I&#39;ve
+also tried visiting the IRC channel #open311 on FreeNode, but no-one
+seem to reply to my questions there.  This make me wonder if I just
+fail to understand how the open311 community work.  It sure do not
+work like the free software project communities I am used to.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>FiksGataMi - fylkesoversikt på kart</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/FiksGataMi___fylkesoversikt_p__kart.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/FiksGataMi___fylkesoversikt_p__kart.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Det er morsomt å følge med hvordan bruken av FiksGataMi sprer seg
+over det ganske land.  Her er lenkene til fylkesoversikt på kart over
+de (for tiden) 200 siste problemene.  Bruker her GeoRSS-kilden i
+FiksGataMi og presenterer enten via Google Maps eller en
+GeoRSS-fremviser jeg fant for OpenStreetmap.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+  &lt;li&gt;Østfold [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Østfold&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Østfold&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Akershus [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Akershus&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Akershus&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Oslo [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Oslo&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Oslo&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Hedmark [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Hedmark&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Hedmark&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Oppland [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Oppland&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Oppland&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Buskerud [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Buskerud&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Buskerud&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Vestfold [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Vestfold&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Vestfold&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Telemark [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Telemark&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Telemark&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Aust-Agder [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Aust-Agder&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Aust-Agder&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Vest-Agder [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Vest-Agder&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Vest-Agder&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Rogaland [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Rogaland&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Rogaland&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Hordaland [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Hordaland&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Hordaland&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Sogn og Fjordane [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Sogn%2Bog%2BFjordane&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Sogn%2Bog%2BFjordane&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Møre og Romsdal [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Møre%2Bog%2BRomsdal&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Møre%2Bog%2BRomsdal&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Sør-Trøndelag [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Sør-Trøndelag&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Sør-Trøndelag&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Nord-Trøndelag [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Nord-Trøndelag&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Nord-Trøndelag&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Nordland [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Nordland&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Nordland&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Troms [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Troms&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Troms&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Finnmark [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Finnmark&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Finnmark&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Antall problemer returnert i GeoRSS-kildene justeres over tid etter
+hvert som vi får mer erfaring med hvilken belastning det gir på
+tjenesten.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Oppdatering 2011-04-27: Endret URL til fylker med mellomrom i
+navnene fra %20 til %2B, slik at de fungerer i flere nettlesere.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Marius Kotsbak</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Marius_Kotsbak.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Marius_Kotsbak.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Neste mann ut er Marius Kotsbak, styremedlem i
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRISK&lt;/a&gt; og mangeårig
+bidragsyter i
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg er en systemutvikler/kybernetiker og jobber med dette til
+daglig. På fritiden tester jeg ut/bruker mye fri programvare, og
+bidrar med testing og utvikling når jeg ser stort nok behov for det og
+jeg har noe å bidra med.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Hmm, det er lenge siden, så det er nesten så jeg ikke husker. Jeg
+hadde vel hørt om prosjektet i media før en gjeng i Trondheim startet
+opp SPIST, Skolelinux-prosjektet i Sør-Trøndelag, hvor vi hjalp noen
+skoler i nærområdet med å installere Skolelinux og finne brukt
+IT-utstyr til disse. Det var moro å gjøre noe praktisk for å spre
+Skolelinux, og å se hvor fort gjort det var å sette opp utrangerte
+klientmaskiner og få disse opp som tynnklienter på helt nye datasaler
+på skolene, kun med kostnaden til servere.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Det er et system spesielt skreddersydd for drift av et stort antall
+klienter mot servere, og da spesielt i henhold til skolers behov.  Det
+er enkelt og billig å installere og drifte, og det trenger ikke ny
+maskinvare for god ytelse.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Hardwarestøtten kunne vært bedre og i enda større grad
+installerbart rett ut av boksen.  Distribusjonen har til tider hatt
+litt gammel programvare pga. at den følger Debian sine utgivelser.
+Kanskje man skulle vurdert en versjon basert på Ubuntu eller andre
+distribusjoner i tillegg?&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Oi, det er ikke lite. Her er det jeg kommer på i farta.  Jeg bruker
+Linux og Ubuntu, og på Ubuntu programene Firefox, Thunderbird,
+Chromium, Pidgin, Digikam, OpenOffice, Wireshark, git og irssi.
+Telefonen min er en Android, og der bruker jeg programmene K-9 Mail,
+OI Shopping list, Shuffle, ZXing, OI Notepad og ADW Desktop.  På jobb
+bruker jeg JBoss, Eclipse, uCLinux for Blackfin, RCF-CPP, Qt, Maven,
+og boost-bibliotekene for C++.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
+skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;En bør fokusere på totalkostnader inkludert driftsbehov,
+fleksibilitet, åpenhet og ikke låsing til en leverandør framfor sparte
+lisenskostnader, samt programvarens kvalitet og fortrinn, og at den
+fritt kan brukes på et ubegrenset antall PC-er, også hjemme hos
+elevene.  En bør også forbedre den fri programvaren ved testing,
+bugrapportering og kodebidrag om man kan, og ikke anbefale programvare
+uten at man har forsikret seg at den har tilstrekkelig kvalitet,
+ellers kan man lett oppnå det motsatte.  Tror en bør selge inn
+konseptet til fylkes-/statsnivå, kanskje med bidrag til
+utviklingsarbeid fra disse som alle landets skoler kan få glede
+av.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Gnash enteres Google Summer of Code 2011</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gnash_enteres_Google_Summer_of_Code_2011.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gnash_enteres_Google_Summer_of_Code_2011.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 6 Apr 2011 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.getgnash.org/&quot;&gt;The Gnash project&lt;/a&gt; is still
+the most promising solution for a Free Software Flash implementation.
+A few days ago the project
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash-dev/2011-04/msg00011.html&quot;&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt;
+that it will participate in Google Summer of Code.  I hope many
+students apply, and that some of them succeed in getting AVM2 support
+into Gnash.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <description>
-&lt;p&gt;I dag ligger an til å bli en trist dag for Norge.  I dag skal etter
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I dag ligger an til å bli en trist dag for Norge.  I dag skal etter

 planen Stortinget stemme over om det skal innføres elektronisk brev-
 og besøkskontroll for hele folket, og Arbeiderpartiet og Høyre utgjør
 et flertall som har annonsert at de er enige om at dette skal gjøres.
 planen Stortinget stemme over om det skal innføres elektronisk brev-
 og besøkskontroll for hele folket, og Arbeiderpartiet og Høyre utgjør
 et flertall som har annonsert at de er enige om at dette skal gjøres.


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-               <title>Gnash enteres Google Summer of Code 2011</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gnash_enteres_Google_Summer_of_Code_2011.html</link>        
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gnash_enteres_Google_Summer_of_Code_2011.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 6 Apr 2011 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.getgnash.org/&quot;&gt;The Gnash project&lt;/a&gt; is still
-the most promising solution for a Free Software Flash implementation.
-A few days ago the project
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash-dev/2011-04/msg00011.html&quot;&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt;
-that it will participate in Google Summer of Code.  I hope many
-students apply, and that some of them succeed in getting AVM2 support
-into Gnash.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Marius Kotsbak</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Marius_Kotsbak.html</link>        
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Marius_Kotsbak.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>
-&lt;p&gt;Neste mann ut er Marius Kotsbak, styremedlem i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRISK&lt;/a&gt; og mangeårig
-bidragsyter i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg er en systemutvikler/kybernetiker og jobber med dette til
-daglig. På fritiden tester jeg ut/bruker mye fri programvare, og
-bidrar med testing og utvikling når jeg ser stort nok behov for det og
-jeg har noe å bidra med.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Hmm, det er lenge siden, så det er nesten så jeg ikke husker. Jeg
-hadde vel hørt om prosjektet i media før en gjeng i Trondheim startet
-opp SPIST, Skolelinux-prosjektet i Sør-Trøndelag, hvor vi hjalp noen
-skoler i nærområdet med å installere Skolelinux og finne brukt
-IT-utstyr til disse. Det var moro å gjøre noe praktisk for å spre
-Skolelinux, og å se hvor fort gjort det var å sette opp utrangerte
-klientmaskiner og få disse opp som tynnklienter på helt nye datasaler
-på skolene, kun med kostnaden til servere.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det er et system spesielt skreddersydd for drift av et stort antall
-klienter mot servere, og da spesielt i henhold til skolers behov.  Det
-er enkelt og billig å installere og drifte, og det trenger ikke ny
-maskinvare for god ytelse.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Hardwarestøtten kunne vært bedre og i enda større grad
-installerbart rett ut av boksen.  Distribusjonen har til tider hatt
-litt gammel programvare pga. at den følger Debian sine utgivelser.
-Kanskje man skulle vurdert en versjon basert på Ubuntu eller andre
-distribusjoner i tillegg?&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Oi, det er ikke lite. Her er det jeg kommer på i farta.  Jeg bruker
-Linux og Ubuntu, og på Ubuntu programene Firefox, Thunderbird,
-Chromium, Pidgin, Digikam, OpenOffice, Wireshark, git og irssi.
-Telefonen min er en Android, og der bruker jeg programmene K-9 Mail,
-OI Shopping list, Shuffle, ZXing, OI Notepad og ADW Desktop.  På jobb
-bruker jeg JBoss, Eclipse, uCLinux for Blackfin, RCF-CPP, Qt, Maven,
-og boost-bibliotekene for C++.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
-skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;En bør fokusere på totalkostnader inkludert driftsbehov,
-fleksibilitet, åpenhet og ikke låsing til en leverandør framfor sparte
-lisenskostnader, samt programvarens kvalitet og fortrinn, og at den
-fritt kan brukes på et ubegrenset antall PC-er, også hjemme hos
-elevene.  En bør også forbedre den fri programvaren ved testing,
-bugrapportering og kodebidrag om man kan, og ikke anbefale programvare
-uten at man har forsikret seg at den har tilstrekkelig kvalitet,
-ellers kan man lett oppnå det motsatte.  Tror en bør selge inn
-konseptet til fylkes-/statsnivå, kanskje med bidrag til
-utviklingsarbeid fra disse som alle landets skoler kan få glede
-av.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>FiksGataMi - fylkesoversikt på kart</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/FiksGataMi___fylkesoversikt_p___kart.html</link>        
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/FiksGataMi___fylkesoversikt_p___kart.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>
-&lt;p&gt;Det er morsomt å følge med hvordan bruken av FiksGataMi sprer seg
-over det ganske land.  Her er lenkene til fylkesoversikt på kart over
-de (for tiden) 200 siste problemene.  Bruker her GeoRSS-kilden i
-FiksGataMi og presenterer enten via Google Maps eller en
-GeoRSS-fremviser jeg fant for OpenStreetmap.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Østfold [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Østfold&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Østfold&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Akershus [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Akershus&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Akershus&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Oslo [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Oslo&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Oslo&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Hedmark [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Hedmark&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Hedmark&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Oppland [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Oppland&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Oppland&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Buskerud [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Buskerud&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Buskerud&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Vestfold [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Vestfold&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Vestfold&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Telemark [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Telemark&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Telemark&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Aust-Agder [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Aust-Agder&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Aust-Agder&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Vest-Agder [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Vest-Agder&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Vest-Agder&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Rogaland [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Rogaland&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Rogaland&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Hordaland [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Hordaland&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Hordaland&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Sogn og Fjordane [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Sogn%2Bog%2BFjordane&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Sogn%2Bog%2BFjordane&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Møre og Romsdal [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Møre%2Bog%2BRomsdal&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Møre%2Bog%2BRomsdal&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Sør-Trøndelag [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Sør-Trøndelag&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Sør-Trøndelag&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Nord-Trøndelag [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Nord-Trøndelag&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Nord-Trøndelag&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Nordland [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Nordland&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Nordland&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Troms [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Troms&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Troms&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;Finnmark [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Finnmark&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Finnmark&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Antall problemer returnert i GeoRSS-kildene justeres over tid etter
-hvert som vi får mer erfaring med hvilken belastning det gir på
-tjenesten.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Oppdatering 2011-04-27: Endret URL til fylker med mellomrom i
-navnene fra %20 til %2B, slik at de fungerer i flere nettlesere.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Initial notes on adding Open311 server API on FixMyStreet</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Initial_notes_on_adding_Open311_server_API_on_FixMyStreet.html</link>        
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Initial_notes_on_adding_Open311_server_API_on_FixMyStreet.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>
-&lt;p&gt;The last few days I have spent some time trying to add support for
-the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.open311.org/&quot;&gt;Open311 API&lt;/a&gt; in the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian FixMyStreet service&lt;/a&gt;.
-Earlier I believed Open311 would be a useful API to use to submit
-reports to the municipalities, but when I noticed that the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://fixmystreet.org.nz/&quot;&gt;New Zealand version&lt;/a&gt; of
-FixMyStreet had implemented Open311 on the server side, it occurred to
-me that this was a nice way to allow the public, press and
-municipalities to do data mining directly in the FixMyStreet service.
-Thus I went to work implementing the Open311 specification for
-FixMyStreet.  The implementation is not yet ready, but I am starting
-to get a draft limping along.  In the process, I have discovered a few
-issues with the Open311 specification.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;One obvious missing feature is the lack of natural language
-handling in the specification.  The specification seem to assume all
-reports will be written in English, and do not provide a way for the
-receiving end to specify which languages are understood there.  To be
-able to use the same client and submit to several Open311 receivers,
-it would be useful to know which language to use when writing reports.
-I believe the specification should be extended to allow the receivers
-of problem reports to specify which language they accept, and the
-submitter to specify which language the report is written in.
-Language of a text can also be automatically guessed using statistical
-methods, but for multi-lingual persons like myself, it is useful to
-know which language to use when writing a problem report.  I suspect
-some lang=nb,nn kind of attribute would solve it.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;A key part of the Open311 API is the list of services provided,
-which is similar to the categories used by FixMyStreet.  One issue I
-run into is the need to specify both name and unique identifier for
-each category.  The specification do not state that the identifier
-should be numeric, but all example implementations have used numbers
-here.  In FixMyStreet, there is no number associated with each
-category.  As the specification do not forbid it, I will use the name
-as the unique identifier for now and see how open311 clients handle
-it.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The report format in open311 and the report format in FixMyStreet
-differ in a key part.  FixMyStreet have a title and a description,
-while Open311 only have a description and lack the title.  I&#39;m not
-quite sure how to best handle this yet.  When asking for a FixMyStreet
-report in Open311 format, I just merge title an description into the
-open311 description, but this is not going to work if the open311 API
-should be used for submitting new reports to FixMyStreet.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The search feature in Open311 is missing a way to ask for problems
-near a geographic location.  I believe this is important if one is to
-use Open311 as the query language for mobile units.  The specification
-should be extended to handle this, probably using some new lat=, lon=
-and range= options.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>A Norwegian FixMyStreet have kept me busy the last few weeks</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Norwegian_FixMyStreet_have_kept_me_busy_the_last_few_weeks.html</link>        
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Norwegian_FixMyStreet_have_kept_me_busy_the_last_few_weeks.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 3 Apr 2011 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Here is a small update for my English readers.  Most of my blog
+posts have been in Norwegian the last few weeks, so here is a short
+update in English.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;The final challenge I see is that the FixMyStreet code handle
-several administrations in one interface, while the Open311 API seem
-to assume only one administration.  For FixMyStreet, this mean a
-report can be sent to several administrations, and the categories
-available depend on the location of the problem.  Not quite sure how
-to best handle this.  I&#39;ve noticed
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://seeclickfix.com/open311/&quot;&gt;SeeClickFix&lt;/a&gt; added
-latitude and longitude options to the services request, but it do not
-solve the problem of what to return when no location is specified.
-Will have to investigate this a bit more.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The kids still keep me too busy to get much free software work
+done, but I did manage to organise a project to get a Norwegian port
+of the British service
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fixmystreet.com/&quot;&gt;FixMyStreet&lt;/a&gt; up and running,
+and it has been running for a month now.  The entire project has been
+organised by me and two others.  Around Christmas we gathered sponsors
+to fund the development work.  In January I drafted a contract with
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mysociety.org/&quot;&gt;mySociety&lt;/a&gt; on what to develop,
+and in February the development took place.  Most of it involved
+converting the source to use GPS coordinates instead of British
+easting/northing, and the resulting code should be a lot easier to get
+running in any country by now.  The Norwegian
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;FiksGataMi&lt;/a&gt; is using
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openstreetmap.org/&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; as the map
+source and the source for administrative borders in Norway, and
+support for this had to be added/fixed.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;My distaste for web forums have kept me from bringing these issues
-up with the open311 developer group.  I really wish they had a email
-list available via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gmane.org/&quot;&gt;Gmane&lt;/a&gt; to use for
-discussions instead of only
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.open311.org/groups/discuss&quot;&gt;a forum&lt;a/&gt;.  Oh,
-well.  That will probably resolve itself, one way or another.  I&#39;ve
-also tried visiting the IRC channel #open311 on FreeNode, but no-one
-seem to reply to my questions there.  This make me wonder if I just
-fail to understand how the open311 community work.  It sure do not
-work like the free software project communities I am used to.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Experimental Open311 API for the mySociety fixmystreet system</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Experimental_Open311_API_for_the_mySociety_fixmystreet_system.html</link>        
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Experimental_Open311_API_for_the_mySociety_fixmystreet_system.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>
-&lt;p&gt;Today, the first draft implementation of an
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.open311.org/&quot;&gt;Open311 API&lt;/a&gt; for the Norwegian
-service &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;FiksGataMi&lt;/a&gt; started to
-work.  It is only available on the developer server for now, and I
-have not tested it using any existing Open311 client (I lack the
-platforms needed to run the clients I have found so far), but it is
-able to query the database and extract a list of open and closed
-requests within a given category and reported to a given municipality.
-I believe that is a good start to create a useful service for those
-that want to do data mining on the requests submitted so far.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The Norwegian version went live March 3th, and we spent the weekend
+polishing the system before we announced it March 7th.  The system is
+running on a KVM instance of Debian/Squeeze, and has seen almost 3000
+problem reports in a few weeks.  Soon we hope to announce the Android
+and iPhone versions making it even easier to report problems with the
+public infrastructure.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Where is it?  Visit
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://fiksgatami-dev.nuug.no/open311.cgi/v2/&quot;&gt;http://fiksgatami-dev.nuug.no/open311.cgi/v2/&lt;/a&gt;
-to have a look.  Please send feedback to the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/fiksgatami&quot;&gt;fiksgatami
-(at) nuug.no&lt;/a&gt; mailing list.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Perhaps something to consider for those of you in countries without
+such service?&lt;/p&gt;

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