<item>
- <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>
-<p>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.</p>
+ <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><p>Today, the first draft implementation of an
+<a href="http://www.open311.org/">Open311 API</a> for the Norwegian
+service <a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a> 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.</p>
-<p>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
-<a href="http://www.fixmystreet.com/">FixMyStreet</a> 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
-<a href="http://www.mysociety.org/">mySociety</a> 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
-<a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a> is using
-<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetmap</a> as the map
-source and the source for administrative borders in Norway, and
-support for this had to be added/fixed.</p>
+<p>Where is it? Visit
+<a href="http://fiksgatami-dev.nuug.no/open311.cgi/v2/">http://fiksgatami-dev.nuug.no/open311.cgi/v2/</a>
+to have a look. Please send feedback to the
+<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/fiksgatami">fiksgatami
+(at) nuug.no</a> mailing list.</p>
+</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><p>The last few days I have spent some time trying to add support for
+the <a href="http://www.open311.org/">Open311 API</a> in the
+<a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">Norwegian FixMyStreet service</a>.
+Earlier I believed Open311 would be a useful API to use to submit
+reports to the municipalities, but when I noticed that the
+<a href="http://fixmystreet.org.nz/">New Zealand version</a> 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.</p>
-<p>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.</p>
+<p>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.</p>
-<p>Perhaps something to consider for those of you in countries without
-such service?</p>
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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'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.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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've noticed
+<a href="http://seeclickfix.com/open311/">SeeClickFix</a> 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.</p>
+
+<p>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 <a href="http://www.gmane.org/">Gmane</a> to use for
+discussions instead of only
+<a href="http://lists.open311.org/groups/discuss">a forum<a/>. Oh,
+well. That will probably resolve itself, one way or another. I'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.</p>
+</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><p>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.</p>
+
+<ul>
+
+ <li>Østfold [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Østfold">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Østfold">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Akershus [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Akershus">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Akershus">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Oslo [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Oslo">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Oslo">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Hedmark [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Hedmark">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Hedmark">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Oppland [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Oppland">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Oppland">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Buskerud [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Buskerud">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Buskerud">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Vestfold [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Vestfold">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Vestfold">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Telemark [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Telemark">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Telemark">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Aust-Agder [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Aust-Agder">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Aust-Agder">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Vest-Agder [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Vest-Agder">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Vest-Agder">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Rogaland [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Rogaland">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Rogaland">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Hordaland [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Hordaland">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Hordaland">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Sogn og Fjordane [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Sogn%2Bog%2BFjordane">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Sogn%2Bog%2BFjordane">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Møre og Romsdal [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Møre%2Bog%2BRomsdal">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Møre%2Bog%2BRomsdal">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Sør-Trøndelag [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Sør-Trøndelag">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Sør-Trøndelag">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Nord-Trøndelag [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Nord-Trøndelag">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Nord-Trøndelag">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Nordland [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Nordland">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Nordland">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Troms [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Troms">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Troms">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+ <li>Finnmark [ <a href="http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Finnmark">Google Maps</a> ] | [ <a href="http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Finnmark">OpenStreetmap</a> ]</li>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p>Antall problemer returnert i GeoRSS-kildene justeres over tid etter
+hvert som vi får mer erfaring med hvilken belastning det gir på
+tjenesten.</p>
+
+<p>Oppdatering 2011-04-27: Endret URL til fylker med mellomrom i
+navnene fra %20 til %2B, slik at de fungerer i flere nettlesere.</p>
+</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><p>Neste mann ut er Marius Kotsbak, styremedlem i
+<a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/">FRISK</a> og mangeårig
+bidragsyter i
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>-prosjektet.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?</strong></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?</strong></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
+
+<p>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?</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?</strong></p>
+
+<p>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++.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
+skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?</strong></p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+</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><p><a href="http://www.getgnash.org/">The Gnash project</a> is still
+the most promising solution for a Free Software Flash implementation.
+A few days ago the project
+<a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash-dev/2011-04/msg00011.html">announced</a>
+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.</p>
</description>
</item>
<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_dag_skal_Stortinget_votere_over_datalagringsdirektivet.html</link>
<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_dag_skal_Stortinget_votere_over_datalagringsdirektivet.html</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 4 Apr 2011 07:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
- <description>
-<p>I dag ligger an til å bli en trist dag for Norge. I dag skal etter
+ <description><p>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.
</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>
-<p><a href="http://www.getgnash.org/">The Gnash project</a> is still
-the most promising solution for a Free Software Flash implementation.
-A few days ago the project
-<a href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash-dev/2011-04/msg00011.html">announced</a>
-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.</p>
+ <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><p>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.</p>
+
+<p>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
+<a href="http://www.fixmystreet.com/">FixMyStreet</a> 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
+<a href="http://www.mysociety.org/">mySociety</a> 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
+<a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a> is using
+<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/">OpenStreetmap</a> as the map
+source and the source for administrative borders in Norway, and
+support for this had to be added/fixed.</p>
+
+<p>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.</p>
+
+<p>Perhaps something to consider for those of you in countries without
+such service?</p>
</description>
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