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-               <title>Hva gjør at NRK kan distribuere H.264-video uten patentavtale med MPEG LA?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_gj_r_at_NRK_kan_distribuere_H_264_video_uten_patentavtale_med_MPEG_LA_.html</link>
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-                <pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2015 15:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Helt siden jeg i 2012 fikk beskjed fra MPEG LA om at
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MPEG_LA_mener_NRK_m__ha_avtale_med_dem_for___kringkaste_og_publisere_H_264_video.html&quot;&gt;NRK
-trengte patentavtale med dem&lt;/a&gt; hvis de distribuerte H.264-video til
-sluttbrukere, har jeg lurt på hva som gjør at NRK ikke har slik
-avtale.  For noen dager siden fikk jeg endelig gjort noe med min
-undring, og sendte 2015-05-28 følgende epost til info (at) nrk.no med
-tittel &quot;Hva gjør at NRK kan distribuere H.264-video uten patentavtale
-med MPEG LA?&quot;:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg lurer på en ting rundt NRKs bruk av H.264-video på sine
-websider samt distribusjon via RiksTV og kabel-TV.  Har NRK vurdert om
-det er behov for en patentavtale med
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpegla.com/&quot;&gt;MPEG LA&lt;/a&gt; slik det står i
-programvarelisensene til blant annet Apple Final Cut Studio, Adobe
-Premiere Pro, Avid og Apples Final Cut Pro X?&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Hvis dere har vurdert dette, hva var utfallet av en slik vurdering?&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Hvis dere ikke har vurdert dette, har NRK planer om å vurdere behovet
-for patentavtale?&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I følge en artikkel på
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://nrkbeta.no/2012/02/01/siste-kutt-for-final-cut/&quot;&gt;NRK
-Beta i 2012&lt;/a&gt; har NRK brukt eller testet både Apple Final Cut
-Studio, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid og Apples Final Cut Pro X til bruk
-for å redigere video før sending. Alle disse har bruksvilkår
-understøttet av opphavsretten som sier at de kun kan brukes til å lage
-filmer til personlig og ikke-kommersiell bruk - med mindre en har en
-lisensavtale med MPEG LA om bruk av patenter utstedt i USA for H.264.
-Se f.eks. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avid.com/static/resources/common/documents/corporate/LICENSE.pdf&quot;&gt;bruksvilkårene for Avid&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000101-264.html&quot;&gt;Adobe Premiere&lt;/a&gt; og &lt;a href=&quot;http://images.apple.com/legal/sla/docs/finalcutstudio2.pdf&quot;&gt;Apple Final
-Cut Studio&lt;/a&gt; og søk etter &quot;MPEG LA&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Dette får meg til å lure på om det er brudd på opphavsretten å bruke
-disse verktøyene i strid med bruksvilkårene uten patentavtale med MPEG
-LA.  Men NRK bruker jo tilsynelatende disse verktøyene uten patentavtale
-med MPEG LA.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I følge forfatteren av Open Broadcast Encoder finnes det to typer
-H.264-relaterte avtaler en kan få med MPEG LA. Det er én for å lage
-programvare og utstyr som produserer H.264-video, og en annen for å
-kringkaste video som bruker H.264. Dette forteller meg at selv om
-produsentene av utstyr og programvare som NRK bruker har en slik avtale
-med MPEG LA, så trenges det en egen avtale for å kringkaste video på det
-formatet.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I følge Ryan Rodriguez hos MPEG LA, da jeg spurte ham på epost i
-juni 2012, har NRK ikke en slik avtale med MPEG LA. Han sa videre at
-NRK trenger en slik avtale hvis NRK tilbyr H.264-kodet video til
-sluttbrukere.  Jeg sjekket listen med
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensees.aspx&quot;&gt;organisasjoner
-med avtale med MPEG LA&lt;/a&gt; og NRK står fortsatt ikke der.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg lurer dermed på hva som gjør at NRK kan bruke de overnevnte
-videoredigeringsverktøyene, som tilsynelatende har krav om avtale med
-MPEG LA for å kunne brukes slik NRK bruker dem, til å lage videofiler
-for distribusjon uten å ha en avtale med MPEG LA om distribusjon av
-H.264-video?  Dette er spesielt interessant å vite for oss andre som
-også vurderer å spre H.264-video etter å ha redigert dem med disse mye
-brukte videoredigeringsverktøyene.&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Samme dag fikk jeg automatisk svar om at min henvendelse hadde fått
-saksid 1294699.  Jeg fikk deretter følgende respons fra NRK
-2015-06-09:&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>In my hand, a pocket book edition of the Norwegian Free Culture book!</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/In_my_hand__a_pocket_book_edition_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/In_my_hand__a_pocket_book_edition_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2015 22:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Today, finally, my first printed draft edition of the Norwegian
+translation of Free Culture I have been working on for the last few
+years arrived in the mail.  I had to fake a cover to get the interior
+printed, and the exterior of the book look awful, but that is
+irrelevant at this point.  I asked for a printed pocket book version
+to get an idea about the font sizes and paper format as well as how
+good the figures and images look in print, but also to test what the
+pocket book version would look like.  After receiving the 500 page
+pocket book, it became obvious to me that that pocket book size is too
+small for this book.  I believe the book is too thick, and several
+tables and figures do not look good in the size they get with that
+small page sizes.  I believe I will go with the 5.5x8.5 inch size
+instead.  A surprise discovery from the paper version was how bad the
+URLs look in print.  They are very hard to read in the colophon page.
+The URLs are red in the PDF, but light gray on paper.  I need to
+change the color of links somehow to look better.  But there is a
+printed book in my hand, and it feels great. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Now I only need to fix the cover, wrap up the postscript with the
+store behind the book, and collect the last corrections from the proof
+readers before the book is ready for proper printing.  Cover artists
+willing to work for free and create a Creative Commons licensed vector
+file looking similar to the original is most welcome, as my skills as
+a graphics designer are mostly missing.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>First paper version of the Norwegian Free Culture book heading my way</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_paper_version_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_heading_my_way.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_paper_version_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_heading_my_way.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 9 Aug 2015 10:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Typesetting a book is harder than I hoped.  As the translation is
+mostly done, and a volunteer proof reader was going to check the text
+on paper, it was time this summer to focus on formatting my translated
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; based version of the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; book by Lawrence
+Lessig.  I&#39;ve been trying to get both docboox-xsl+fop and dblatex to
+give me a good looking PDF, but in the end I went with dblatex, because
+its Debian maintainer and upstream developer were responsive and very
+helpful in solving my formatting challenges.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Last night, I finally managed to create a PDF that no longer made
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lulu.com/&quot;&gt;Lulu.com&lt;/a&gt; complain after uploading,
+and I ordered a text version of the book on paper.  It is lacking a
+proper book cover and is not tagged with the correct ISBN number, but
+should give me an idea what the finished book will look like.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Instead of using Lulu, I did consider printing the book using
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.createspace.com/&quot;&gt;CreateSpace&lt;/a&gt;, but ended up
+using Lulu because it had smaller book size options (CreateSpace seem
+to lack pocket book with extended distribution).  I looked for a
+similar service in Norway, but have not seen anything so far.  Please
+let me know if I am missing out on something here.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;But I still struggle to decide the book size.  Should I go for
+pocket book (4.25x6.875 inches / 10.8x17.5 cm) with 556 pages, Digest
+(5.5x8.5 inches / 14x21.6 cm) with 323 pages or US Trade (6x8 inches /
+15.3x22.9 cm) with 280 pages?  Fewer pager give a cheaper book, and a
+smaller book is easier to carry around.  The test book I ordered was
+pocket book sized, to give me an idea how well that fit in my hand,
+but I suspect I will end up using a digest sized book in the end to
+bring the prize down further.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My biggest challenge at the moment is making nice cover art.  My
+inkscape skills are not yet up to the task of replicating the original
+cover in SVG format.  I also need to figure out what to write about
+the book on the back (will most likely use the same text as the
+description on web based book stores).  I would love help with this,
+if you are willing to license the art source and final version using
+the same CC license as the book.  My artistic skills are not really up
+to the task.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I plan to publish the book in both English and Norwegian and on
+paper, in PDF form as well as EPUB and MOBI format.  The current
+status can as usual be found on
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;
+in the archive/ directory.  So far I have spent all time on making the
+PDF version look good.  Someone should probably do the same with the
+dbtoepub generated e-book.  Help is definitely needed here, as I
+expect to run out of steem before I find time to improve the epub
+formatting.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Please let me know via github if you find typos in the book or
+discover translations that should be improved.  The final proof
+reading is being done right now, and I expect to publish the finished
+result in a few months.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Typesetting DocBook footnotes as endnotes with dblatex</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_DocBook_footnotes_as_endnotes_with_dblatex.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_DocBook_footnotes_as_endnotes_with_dblatex.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 16 Jul 2015 18:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m still working on the Norwegian version of the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture book by Lawrence
+Lessig&lt;/a&gt;, and is now working on the final typesetting and layout.
+One of the features I want to get the structure similar to the
+original book is to typeset the footnotes as endnotes in the notes
+chapter.  Based on the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/685063&quot;&gt;feedback from the Debian
+maintainer and the dblatex developer&lt;/a&gt;, I came up with this recipe I
+would like to share with you.  The proposal was to create a new LaTeX
+class file and add the LaTeX code there, but this is not always
+practical, when I want to be able to replace the class using a make
+file variable.  So my proposal misuses the latex.begindocument XSL
+parameter value, to get a small fragment into the correct location in
+the generated LaTeX File.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;First, decide where in the DocBook document to place the endnotes,
+and add this text there:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Hei, beklager lang svartid, men det tok litt tid å finne ut hvem som kunne
-svare på dette.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;pre&gt;
+&amp;lt;?latex \theendnotes ?&amp;gt;
+&lt;/pre&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;For selskaper som leverer h.264 til sluttbrukere på nett (f.eks
-NRKs nett- tv utgaver som bruker h.264) - og som leverer slike
-tjenester uten betaling fra forbrukere – er det heller ikke påkrevd
-noen patentavtale.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Next, create a xsl stylesheet file dblatex-endnotes.xsl to add the
+code needed to add the endnote instructions in the preamble of the
+generated LaTeX document, with content like this:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100825006629/en/MPEG-LA%E2%80%99s-AVC-License-Charge-Royalties-Internet#.VWb2ws_774Y&quot;&gt;http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100825006629/en/MPEG-LA%E2%80%99s-AVC-License-Charge-Royalties-Internet#.VWb2ws_774Y&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;pre&gt;
+&amp;lt;?xml version=&#39;1.0&#39;?&amp;gt;
+&amp;lt;xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform&quot; version=&#39;1.0&#39;&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;xsl:param name=&quot;latex.begindocument&quot;&amp;gt;
+    &amp;lt;xsl:text&amp;gt;
+\usepackage{endnotes}
+\let\footnote=\endnote
+\def\enoteheading{\mbox{}\par\vskip-\baselineskip }
+\begin{document}
+    &amp;lt;/xsl:text&amp;gt;
+  &amp;lt;/xsl:param&amp;gt;
+&amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt;
+&lt;/pre&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Med vennlig hilsen
-&lt;br&gt;Gunn Helen Berg
-&lt;br&gt;Informasjonskonsulent, Publikumsservice&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Finally, load this xsl file when running dblatex, for example like
+this:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;NRK
-&lt;br&gt;Strategidivisjonen
-&lt;Br&gt;Sentralbord: +47 23 04 70 00
-&lt;br&gt;Post: NRK Publikumsservice, 8608 Mo i Rana
-&lt;br&gt;nrk.no / info (at) nrk.no&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;pre&gt;
+dblatex --xsl-user=dblatex-endnotes.xsl freeculture.nb.xml
+&lt;/pre&gt;

 
 

-Da dette ikke helt var svar på det jeg lurte på, sendte jeg samme dag
-oppfølgerepost tilbake:
+&lt;p&gt;The end result can be seen on github, where
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;my
+book project&lt;/a&gt; is located.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Mimes brønn, norsk utgave av Alaveteli / WhatDoTheyKnow, endelig lansert</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mimes_br_nn__norsk_utgave_av_Alaveteli___WhatDoTheyKnow__endelig_lansert.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Mimes_br_nn__norsk_utgave_av_Alaveteli___WhatDoTheyKnow__endelig_lansert.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 9 Jul 2015 11:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I går fikk vi endelig lansert en norsk version av mySocietys
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/&quot;&gt;WhatDoTheyKnow&lt;/a&gt;.
+Tjenesten heter Mimes brønn, og ble
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/news/NUUG_lanserer_innsynstjenesten_Mimes_Br_nn.shtml&quot;&gt;annonsert
+av NUUG&lt;/a&gt; via blogg, epost og twitter til NUUG-assosierte personer.
+Det har tatt noen år, men de siste dagene fikk vi endelig tid til å få
+på plass de siste bitene.  Vi er to, Gorm og meg selv, som har vært
+primus motor for det hele, men vi har fått hjelp med oversettelser og
+oppsett fra mange flere.  Jeg vil si tusen takk til hver og en av dem,
+og er veldig fornøyd med at vi klarte å få tjenesten opp å kjøre før
+ferietiden slo inn for fullt.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Vi er usikker på hvor mye belastning den virtuelle maskinen der
+tjenesten kjører klarer, så vi har lansert litt i det stille og ikke
+til for mange folk for å se hvordan maskinen klarer seg over sommeren,
+før vi går mer aktivt ut og annonserer til høsten.  Ta en titt, og se
+om du kanskje har et spørsmål til det offentlige som er egnet å sende
+inn via Mimes brønn.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Hvis du lurer på hva i alle dager en slik tjenestes kan brukes til,
+anbefaler jeg deg å se
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/625321&quot;&gt;TED-foredraget til
+Heather Brook&lt;/a&gt; om hvordan hun brukte WhatDoTheyKnow til å lære
+hvordan offentlige midler ble misbrukt.  Det er en inspirerende
+historie.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>MPEG LA on &quot;Internet Broadcast AVC Video&quot; licensing and non-private use</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MPEG_LA_on__Internet_Broadcast_AVC_Video__licensing_and_non_private_use.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MPEG_LA_on__Internet_Broadcast_AVC_Video__licensing_and_non_private_use.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 7 Jul 2015 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;After asking the Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK)
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_gj_r_at_NRK_kan_distribuere_H_264_video_uten_patentavtale_med_MPEG_LA_.html&quot;&gt;why
+they can broadcast and stream H.264 video without an agreement with
+the MPEG LA&lt;/a&gt;, I was wiser, but still confused.  So I asked MPEG LA
+if their understanding matched that of NRK.  As far as I can tell, it
+does not.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I started by asking for more information about the various
+licensing classes and what exactly is covered by the &quot;Internet
+Broadcast AVC Video&quot; class that NRK pointed me at to explain why NRK
+did not need a license for streaming H.264 video:

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;

-&lt;p&gt;[Gunn Helen Berg]
-&lt;br&gt;&gt; Hei, beklager lang svartid, men det tok litt tid å finne ut hvem som
-&lt;br&gt;&gt; kunne svare på dette.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Takk for svar.  Men det besvarte ikke helt det jeg spurte om.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&gt; For selskaper som leverer h.264 til sluttbrukere på nett (f.eks NRKs
-&lt;br&gt;&gt; nett- tv utgaver som bruker h.264) - og som leverer slike tjenester
-&lt;br&gt;&gt; uten betaling fra forbrukere – er det heller ikke påkrevd noen
-&lt;br&gt;&gt; patentavtale.
-&lt;br&gt;&gt;
-&lt;br&gt;&gt; http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100825006629/en/MPEG-LA%E2%80%99s-AVC-License-Charge-Royalties-Internet#.VWb2ws_774Y&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Spørsmålet er ikke kun om MPEG LA krever patentavtale eller ikke
-(hvilket ikke helt besvares av pressemeldingen omtalt over, gitt at
-pressemeldingen kom i 2010, to år før MPEG LA ansvarlige for
-internasjonal lisensiering egen Ryan Rodriguez fortalte meg på epost
-at NRK trenger en lisens.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det er uklart fra pressemeldingen hva &quot;Internet Broadcast AVC
-Video&quot; konkret betyr, men i følge en
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avcweb.pdf&quot;&gt;presentasjon
-fra MPEG LA med tema &quot;AVC PAtent Portfoli License Briefing&quot; datert
-2015-05-15&lt;/a&gt; gjelder &quot;Internet Broadcast AVC Video&quot; kun kringkasting
-på Internet som ikke tilbyr valg av enkeltinnslag (&quot;not
-title-by-title&quot;), hvilket jo NRK gjør på sine nettsider.  I tillegg
-kringkaster jo NRK H.264-video også utenom Internet (RiksTV, kabel,
-satelitt), hvilket helt klart ikke er dekket av vilkårene omtalt i
-pressemeldingen.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Spørsmålet mitt er hvordan NRK kan bruke verktøy med bruksvilkår
-som krever avtale med MPEG LA for det NRK bruker dem til, når NRK ikke
-har avtale med MPEG LA.  Hvis jeg forsto spørsmålet riktig, så mener
-NRK at dere ikke trenger avtale med MPEG LA, men uten slik avtale kan
-dere vel ikke bruke hverken Apple Final Cut Studio, Adobe Premiere
-Pro, Avid eller Apples Final Cut Pro X for å redigere video før
-sending?&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Mine konkrete spørsmål var altså:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-
-&lt;li&gt;Hvis NRK har vurdert om det er behov for en patentavtale med MPEG LA
-   slik det er krav om i programvarelisensene til blant annet Apple
-   Final Cut Studio, Adobe Premiere Pro, Avid og Apples Final Cut Pro X,
-   hva var utfallet av en slik vurdering? Kan jeg få kopi av vurderingen
-   hvis den er gjort skriftlig?&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;Hvis NRK ikke har vurdert dette, har NRK planer om å vurdere behovet
-   for patentavtale?&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;According to
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20News%20List/Attachments/226/n-10-02-02.pdf&quot;&gt;a
+MPEG LA press release dated 2010-02-02&lt;/a&gt;, there is no charge when
+using MPEG AVC/H.264 according to the terms of &quot;Internet Broadcast AVC
+Video&quot;.  I am trying to understand exactly what the terms of &quot;Internet
+Broadcast AVC Video&quot; is, and wondered if you could help me.  What
+exactly is covered by these terms, and what is not?&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;li&gt;Hva slags saksnummer fikk min henvendelse i NRKs offentlige
-   postjournal?  Jeg ser at postjournalen ikke er publisert for den
-   aktuelle perioden ennå, så jeg fikk ikke sjekket selv.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The only source of more information I have been able to find is a
+PDF named
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avcweb.pdf&quot;&gt;AVC
+Patent Portfolio License Briefing&lt;/a&gt;, which states this about the
+fees:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

+&lt;ul&gt;
+ &lt;li&gt;Where End User pays for AVC Video
+  &lt;ul&gt;
+   &lt;li&gt;Subscription (not limited by title) – 100,000 or fewer
+     subscribers/yr = no royalty; &amp;gt; 100,000 to 250,000 subscribers/yr =
+     $25,000; &amp;gt;250,000 to 500,000 subscribers/yr = $50,000; &amp;gt;500,000 to
+     1M subscribers/yr = $75,000; &amp;gt;1M subscribers/yr = $100,000&lt;/li&gt;
+
+   &lt;li&gt;Title-by-Title - 12 minutes or less = no royalty; &amp;gt;12 minutes in
+     length = lower of (a) 2% or (b) $0.02 per title&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+
+ &lt;li&gt;Where remuneration is from other sources
+  &lt;ul&gt;
+   &lt;li&gt;Free Television - (a) one-time $2,500 per transmission encoder or
+     (b) annual fee starting at $2,500 for &amp;gt; 100,000 HH rising to
+     maximum $10,000 for &amp;gt;1,000,000 HH&lt;/li&gt;
+
+   &lt;li&gt;Internet Broadcast AVC Video (not title-by-title, not subscription)
+     – no royalty for life of the AVC Patent Portfolio License&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;

 &lt;/ul&gt;
 &lt;/ul&gt;

-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det hjelper å ha funnet rette vedkommende i NRK, for denne gangen
-fikk jeg svar tilbake dagen etter (2015-06-10), fra Geir Børdalen i
-NRK:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Hei Petter Reinholdtsen&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg har sjekket saken med distribusjonssjef for tv, Arild Hellgren
-(som var teknologidirektør da bakkenettet ble satt opp). NRK v/
-Hellgren hadde møte med MPEG LA sammen med den europeiske
-kringkastingsunionen EBU før bakkenettet for TV ble satt opp
-(igangsatt høsten 2007). I dette møtet ble det avklart at NRK/EBU ikke
-trengte noen patentavtale for h.264 i forbindelse med oppsett av
-bakkenettet eller bruk av MPEG4 h.264 som kompresjonsalgoritme fordi
-tjenesten «in full»(nor: helt) var betalt av utsendelseselskapene og
-ikke av forbrukerne.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nrk.no/oppdrag/digitalt-bakkenett-1.3214555&quot;&gt;http://www.nrk.no/oppdrag/digitalt-bakkenett-1.3214555&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det er også klart slått fast at selskaper som leverer video basert
-på MPEG4 h.264 til sluttbrukere på nett, heller ikke påkrevd noen
-patentavtale – så lenge de leverer slike tjenester uten betaling fra
-sluttbrukere.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100825006629/en/MPEG-LA%E2%80%99s-AVC-License-Charge-Royalties-Internet#.VWb2ws_774Y&quot;&gt;http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20100825006629/en/MPEG-LA%E2%80%99s-AVC-License-Charge-Royalties-Internet#.VWb2ws_774Y&lt;/a&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;“MPEG LA announced today that its AVC Patent Portfolio License will
-continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to
-end users (known as “Internet Broadcast AVC Video”) during the entire
-life of this License. MPEG LA previously announced it would not charge
-royalties for such video through December 31, 2015 (see
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20News%20List/Attachments/226/n-10-02-02.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.mpegla.com/Lists/MPEG%20LA%20News%20List/Attachments/226/n-10-02-02.pdf&lt;/a&gt;),
-and today’s announcement makes clear that royalties will continue not
-to be charged for such video beyond that time. Products and services
-other than Internet Broadcast AVC Video continue to be
-royalty-bearing.”&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Vi har derfor ikke noe behov for å vurdere noen patentavtale med
-MPEG LA.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Understreker for øvrig at NRK ikke er låst til MPEG4 – h.264 som
-utsendelsesformat – og at vi har brukt og bruker flere andre
-alternativer i våre tjenester. Ulike «devicer» har ofte behov for
-forskjellige løsninger – og NRK har forsøkt å levere med best mulig
-kvalitet /økonomi /stabilitet avhengig av
-plattform. Produksjonsformater i NRK spenner for øvrig over en rekke
-forskjellige formater – hvor MPEG4 bare er en av disse. Når NRK kjøper
-teknisk utstyr er betaling for kodekstøtte ofte en del av
-anskaffelsesprisen for denne maskinvaren (enten dette er spesialiserte
-enkodere eller forskjellige typer produksjonsutstyr).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Vennlig hilsen
-&lt;br&gt;Geir Børdalen&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;________________________________________
-&lt;br&gt;Geir Børdalen
-&lt;br&gt;Investeringsansvarlig NRK / Hovedprosjektleder - Origo
-&lt;br&gt;Avdeling for utvikling, innovasjon, investering og eiendom
-&lt;br&gt;NRK medietjenester
-&lt;br&gt;Sentralbord: +47 23 04 70 00
-&lt;br&gt;Post: NRK, AUTV (RBM5), Pb. 8500 Majorstuen, 0340 Oslo
-&lt;br&gt;nrk.no
+&lt;p&gt;Am I correct in assuming that the four categories listed is the
+categories used when selecting licensing terms, and that &quot;Internet
+Broadcast AVC Video&quot; is the category for things that do not fall into
+one of the other three categories?  Can you point me to a good source
+explaining what is ment by &quot;title-by-title&quot; and &quot;Free Television&quot; in
+the license terms for AVC/H.264?&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Will a web service providing H.264 encoded video content in a
+&quot;video on demand&quot; fashing similar to Youtube and Vimeo, where no
+subscription is required and no payment is required from end users to
+get access to the videos, fall under the terms of the &quot;Internet
+Broadcast AVC Video&quot;, ie no royalty for life of the AVC Patent
+Portfolio license?  Does it matter if some users are subscribed to get
+access to personalized services?&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Note, this request and all answers will be published on the
+Internet.&lt;/p&gt;

 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;Et godt og grundig svar, som var informativt om hvordan NRK tenker
-rundt patentavtale med MPEG LA, men heller ikke helt besvarte det jeg
-lurte på, så jeg sendte epostoppfølging samme dag.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The answer came quickly from Benjamin J. Myers, Licensing Associate
+with the MPEG LA:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;

-&lt;p&gt;[Geir Børdalen]
-&lt;br&gt;&gt; Hei Petter Reinholdtsen&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Hei, og takk for raskt svar.  Er min henvendelse journalført slik
-at den dukker opp i NRKs postjournal?&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Svaret ditt var meget nyttig, og jeg forstår ut fra det du skriver
-at avklaringen med MPEG LA rundt H.264-distribusjon via bakkenettet
-gjelder alle TV-kanaler i Norge.  Hvilke saksnummer fikk dokumenter
-som ble opprettet i forbindelse med det omtalte møtet NRK v/Hellgren
-og EBU hadde med MPEG LA (dvs. referater, avtaler, etc),
-f.eks. dokumentet der formuleringen &quot;in full&quot; som du omtaler
-finnes?&lt;p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Men det er et par ting jeg fortsatt ikke forstår.  Det ene er
-hvorfor NRKs forståelse av hva &quot;Internet Broadcast AVC Video&quot; dekker
-ser ut til å avvike fra det som presenteres i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/avc/Documents/avcweb.pdf&quot;&gt;lysark
-fra MPEG LA&lt;/a&gt; i mai, der MPEG LA på lysark med overskriften
-&quot;AVC/H.264 License Terms Participation Fees&quot; og undertittel &quot;Where
-remuneration is from other sources&quot; skriver &quot;Internet Broadcast AVC
-Video (not title-by-title, not subscription) – no royalty for life of
-the AVC Patent Portfolio License&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Her leser jeg MPEG LA dithen at det kun er kringkasting uten
-abonnement via Internet som er dekket at vilkårne omtalt i
-pressemeldingen, mens jeg forstår deg dithen at NRK mener NRKs
-nettsider som også har enkeltfilmer og innslag (som jeg forstår dekket
-av formuleringen &quot;title-by-title&quot;) dekkes av &quot;Internet Broadcast AVC
-Video&quot; fra MPEG LA.  Hva baserer dere denne tolkningen på?  Jeg har
-ikke sett noe skriftlig fra MPEG LA som støtter NRKs tolkning, og
-lurer på om dere har andre kilder enn den pressemeldingen fra 5 år
-tilbake, der NRKS forståelse av hva &quot;Internet Broadcast AVC Video&quot;
-dekker er beskrevet?&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det andre er at eposten din ikke nevnte spørsmålet mitt om
-bruksvilkårene til videoredigeringsverktøyene som NRK bruker.  Disse
-har som tidligere nevnt krav om at de kun skal brukes til private og
-ikke-kommersielle formål med mindre en har avtale med MPEG LA, og uten
-avtale med MPEG LA kan det jo virke som om NRK bruker verktøyene i
-strid med bruksvilkårene.  Hva gjør at disse bruksvilkårene ikke
-gjelder for NRK?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Thank you for your message and for your interest in MPEG LA.  We
+appreciate hearing from you and I will be happy to assist you.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As you are aware, MPEG LA offers our AVC Patent Portfolio License
+which provides coverage under patents that are essential for use of
+the AVC/H.264 Standard (MPEG-4 Part 10).  Specifically, coverage is
+provided for end products and video content that make use of AVC/H.264
+technology.  Accordingly, the party offering such end products and
+video to End Users concludes the AVC License and is responsible for
+paying the applicable royalties.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Regarding Internet Broadcast AVC Video, the AVC License generally
+defines such content to be video that is distributed to End Users over
+the Internet free-of-charge.  Therefore, if a party offers a service
+which allows users to upload AVC/H.264 video to its website, and such
+AVC Video is delivered to End Users for free, then such video would
+receive coverage under the sublicense for Internet Broadcast AVC
+Video, which is not subject to any royalties for the life of the AVC
+License.  This would also apply in the scenario where a user creates a
+free online account in order to receive a customized offering of free
+AVC Video content.  In other words, as long as the End User is given
+access to or views AVC Video content at no cost to the End User, then
+no royalties would be payable under our AVC License.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;On the other hand, if End Users pay for access to AVC Video for a
+specific period of time (e.g., one month, one year, etc.), then such
+video would constitute Subscription AVC Video.  In cases where AVC
+Video is delivered to End Users on a pay-per-view basis, then such
+content would constitute Title-by-Title AVC Video.  If a party offers
+Subscription or Title-by-Title AVC Video to End Users, then they would
+be responsible for paying the applicable royalties you noted below.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Finally, in the case where AVC Video is distributed for free
+through an &quot;over-the-air, satellite and/or cable transmission&quot;, then
+such content would constitute Free Television AVC Video and would be
+subject to the applicable royalties.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For your reference, I have attached
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-07-07-mpegla.pdf&quot;&gt;a
+.pdf copy of the AVC License&lt;/a&gt;. You will find the relevant
+sublicense information regarding AVC Video in Sections 2.2 through
+2.5, and the corresponding royalties in Section 3.1.2 through 3.1.4.
+You will also find the definitions of Title-by-Title AVC Video,
+Subscription AVC Video, Free Television AVC Video, and Internet
+Broadcast AVC Video in Section 1 of the License.  Please note that the
+electronic copy is provided for informational purposes only and cannot
+be used for execution.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I hope the above information is helpful.  If you have additional
+questions or need further assistance with the AVC License, please feel
+free to contact me directly.&lt;/p&gt;

 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;Noen minutter senere får jeg foreløpig siste svar i
-føljetongen:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Having a fresh copy of the license text was useful, and knowing
+that the definition of Title-by-Title required payment per title made
+me aware that my earlier understanding of that phrase had been wrong.
+But I still had a few questions:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;

-&lt;p&gt;Hei igjen&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I have a small followup question.  Would it be possible for me to get
+a license with MPEG LA even if there are no royalties to be paid?  The
+reason I ask, is that some video related products have a copyright
+clause limiting their use without a license with MPEG LA.  The clauses
+typically look similar to this:

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Vårt dokumentarkiv har fått en kopi (journalføringsnr kan jeg
-dessverre ikke gi deg).&lt;p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&gt; Svaret ditt var meget nyttig, og jeg forstår ut fra det du
-&lt;br&gt;&gt; skriver at avklaringen med MPEG LA rundt H.264-distribusjon via
-&lt;br&gt;&gt; bakkenettet gjelder alle TV-kanaler i Norge.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
+  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.
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Svar: Kan ikke svare for andre enn for NRK/EBU - og for bakkenettet
-i Norge er det kun NRK som er et lisensbasert selskap. Kan ikke gi noe
-svar på saksnr på dokumenter eller ytterligere informasjon da jeg selv
-ikke var del i dette.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;It is unclear to me if this clause mean that I need to enter into
+an agreement with MPEG LA to use the product in question, even if
+there are no royalties to be paid to MPEG LA.  I suspect it will
+differ depending on the jurisdiction, and mine is Norway.  What is
+MPEG LAs view on this?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;&gt; Men det er et par ting jeg fortsatt ikke forstår.  ...&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;According to the answer, MPEG LA believe those using such tools for
+non-personal or commercial use need a license with them:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Svar: Kan ikke gå ytterligere inn i dette fra min side og mitt
-fagfelt som er produksjon/publisering og systemstrukturene bak
-disse. For øvrig ligger det etter vår formening ingen begrensninger
-for NRK i mulighetene til publisering mht til kodek i
-produksjonssystemer. Som tidligere skrevet mener vi at NRK ikke
-trenger noen avtale med MPEG LA og støtter oss til det vi allerede har
-kommunisert i forrige epost.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;

 
 

-&lt;p&gt;Mvh
-&lt;br&gt;Geir Børdalen&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;With regard to the Notice to Customers, I would like to begin by
+clarifying that the Notice from Section 7.1 of the AVC License
+reads:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;THIS PRODUCT IS LICENSED UNDER THE AVC PATENT PORTFOLIO LICENSE FOR
+THE PERSONAL USE OF A CONSUMER OR OTHER USES IN WHICH IT DOES NOT
+RECEIVE REMUNERATION TO (i) ENCODE VIDEO IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE AVC
+STANDARD (&quot;AVC VIDEO&quot;) AND/OR (ii) DECODE AVC VIDEO THAT WAS ENCODED
+BY A CONSUMER ENGAGED IN A PERSONAL ACTIVITY AND/OR 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 HTTP://WWW.MPEGLA.COM&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The Notice to Customers is intended to inform End Users of the
+personal usage rights (for example, to watch video content) included
+with the product they purchased, and to encourage any party using the
+product for commercial purposes to contact MPEG LA in order to become
+licensed for such use (for example, when they use an AVC Product to
+deliver Title-by-Title, Subscription, Free Television or Internet
+Broadcast AVC Video to End Users, or to re-Sell a third party&#39;s AVC
+Product as their own branded AVC Product).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Therefore, if a party is to be licensed for its use of an AVC
+Product to Sell AVC Video on a Title-by-Title, Subscription, Free
+Television or Internet Broadcast basis, that party would need to
+conclude the AVC License, even in the case where no royalties were
+payable under the License.  On the other hand, if that party (either a
+Consumer or business customer) simply uses an AVC Product for their
+own internal purposes and not for the commercial purposes referenced
+above, then such use would be included in the royalty paid for the AVC
+Products by the licensed supplier.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Finally, I note that our AVC License provides worldwide coverage in
+countries that have AVC Patent Portfolio Patents, including
+Norway.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I hope this clarification is helpful.  If I may be of any further
+assistance, just let me know.&lt;/p&gt;

 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;Det syntes vanskelig å komme videre når NRK ikke ønsker å gå inn i
-problemstillingen rundt bruksvilkårene til videoredigeringsverktøyene
-NRK bruker, så jeg sendte takk for svarene og avsluttet utvekslingen
-så langt:&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;The mentioning of Norwegian patents made me a bit confused, so I
+asked for more information:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;

-&lt;p&gt;Tusen takk for rask respons, og oppklarende forklaring om hvordan
-NRK tenker rundt MPEG LA.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg vil høre med NRK-arkivet for å se om de kan spore opp de
-omtalte dokumentene.  Jeg setter pris på om du kan dele titler, dato
-eller annen informasjon som kan gjøre det enklere for arkivet å finne
-dem.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Når det gjelder hvordan bruksvilkårene til
-videoredigeringsverktøyene skal tolkes, så skal jeg høre med MPEG LA
-og produsentene av verktøyene for å forsøke å få klarhet i hva de
-mener er rikgig rettstilstand.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;But one minor question at the end.  If I understand you correctly,
+you state in the quote above that there are patents in the AVC Patent
+Portfolio that are valid in Norway.  This make me believe I read the
+list available from &amp;lt;URL:
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/PatentList.aspx&quot;&gt;http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/PatentList.aspx&lt;/a&gt;
+&amp;gt; incorrectly, as I believed the &quot;NO&quot; prefix in front of patents
+were Norwegian patents, and the only one I could find under Mitsubishi
+Electric Corporation expired in 2012.  Which patents are you referring
+to that are relevant for Norway?&lt;/p&gt;
+

 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;Jeg ble litt klokere, men fortsatt er det uklart for meg hva som er
-grunnlaget til NRK for å se bort fra bruksvilkår i
-videoredigeringsprogramvare som krever MPEG LA-avtale til alt annet
-enn privat og ikke-kommersiell bruk.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Blir det virkelig krav om fingeravtrykk i nasjonale ID-kort?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Blir_det_virkelig_krav_om_fingeravtrykk_i_nasjonale_ID_kort_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Blir_det_virkelig_krav_om_fingeravtrykk_i_nasjonale_ID_kort_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2015 11:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Noen finner det vanskelig å tro at Stortinget faktisk har vedtatt å
-kreve at alle norske borgerne må avgi fingeravtrykk til politiet for å
-fungere i samfunnet.  Jeg er blitt spurt hva som er grunnlaget for
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html&quot;&gt;min
-påstand i forrige bloggpost&lt;/a&gt; om at det nå blir krav om å avgi
-fingeravtrykk til politiet for å fungere som borger i Norge.  De som
-spør klarer ikke lese det ut fra det som er vedtatt.  Her er en liten
-oppsummering om hva jeg baserer det på.  Det sies ikke direkte i
-hverken proposisjon, innstilling eller vedtak, men fremgår når en ser
-på indirekte formuleringer.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dokumenter/prop.-66-l-2014-2015/id2399703/&quot;&gt;stortingsproposisjon
-66&lt;/a&gt;, avsnitt 6.3.5 (Avgivelse av biometriske personopplysninger)
-står det&lt;p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Again, the quick answer explained how to read the list of patents
+in that list:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
 
 
 &lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
 

-  &lt;p&gt;Departementet foreslår at både ansiktsfoto og fingeravtrykk skal
-  kunne opptas og lagres som identifikasjonsdata i de nasjonale
-  ID-kortene, på samme måte som i passene. Lovforslaget er derfor
-  utformet i tråd med passloven § 6 annet ledd, som fastslår at det
-  til bruk for senere verifisering eller kontroll av passinnehaverens
-  identitet kan innhentes og lagres i passet biometrisk
-  personinformasjon i form av ansiktsfoto og fingeravtrykk (to
-  fingre). Dagens ordning med lagring av ansiktsfoto og fingeravtrykk
-  i et kontaktløst smartkort i passet er basert på internasjonale
-  standarder. Fingeravtrykkene i nasjonalt ID-kort vil bli beskyttet
-  på samme måte som fingeravtrykkene i passene.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-  &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;/p&gt;
-
-  &lt;p&gt;For norske forhold understreker departementet at innføring av
-  nasjonale ID-kort sammen med innføring av nye systemer for sikrere
-  utstedelse og kontroll av pass og relaterte dokumenter gir mulighet
-  til å utforme ordningen slik at den best mulig møter utfordringene
-  forbundet med identitetskriminalitet. Det tilsier at fingeravtrykk
-  opptas og lagres i alle nasjonale ID-kort.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Your understanding is correct that the last AVC Patent Portfolio
+Patent in Norway expired on 21 October 2012.  Therefore, where AVC
+Video is both made and Sold in Norway after that date, then no
+royalties would be payable for such AVC Video under the AVC License.
+With that said, our AVC License provides historic coverage for AVC
+Products and AVC Video that may have been manufactured or Sold before
+the last Norwegian AVC patent expired.  I would also like to clarify
+that coverage is provided for the country of manufacture and the
+country of Sale that has active AVC Patent Portfolio Patents.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Therefore, if a party offers AVC Products or AVC Video for Sale in
+a country with active AVC Patent Portfolio Patents (for example,
+Sweden, Denmark, Finland, etc.), then that party would still need
+coverage under the AVC License even if such products or video are
+initially made in a country without active AVC Patent Portfolio
+Patents (for example, Norway).  Similarly, a party would need to
+conclude the AVC License if they make AVC Products or AVC Video in a
+country with active AVC Patent Portfolio Patents, but eventually Sell
+such AVC Products or AVC Video in a country without active AVC Patent
+Portfolio Patents.&lt;/p&gt;

 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 
 &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
 

-&lt;p&gt;Departementet sier altså at sin anbefaling er at fingeravtrykk skal
-opptas og lagres i alle nasjonale ID-kort.  Det skrives som om det
-blir valgfritt, på samme måten som det skrives passloven, der det i
-loven sier at det kan
-«&lt;a href=&quot;https://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1997-06-19-82#§6&quot;&gt;innhentes
-og lagres i passet biometrisk personinformasjon i form av ansiktsfoto
-og fingeravtrykk (to fingre)&lt;/a&gt;».  Men på tross av bruken av «kan» i
-passloven er det innført krav om å avgi fingeravtrykk for å få et pass
-i Norge.  Proposisjonen sier i tillegg i del 1 (Proposisjonens
-hovedinnhold) at ID-kortene skal være like pålitelig som pass og ha
-samme sikkerhetsnivå som pass.  Departementet foreslår altså at
-ID-kortene skal gis etter samme regler som for pass.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Formuleringene fra hovedinnholdet i proposisjonen er videreført i
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-publikasjoner/Publikasjoner/Innstillinger/Stortinget/2014-2015/inns-201415-243/?lvl=0&quot;&gt;innstillingen
-fra stortingskomiteen&lt;/a&gt;, der det konkret står «De foreslåtte reglene
-vil gi befolkningen tilbud om et offentlig utstedt identitetsbevis som
-vil være like pålitelig som passet, og mer praktisk å bruke som
-legitimasjon» og «Det nasjonale ID-kortet skal også holde samme
-sikkerhetsnivå som passet».  Komiteen har altså ingen kommentarer
-eller innsigelser til dette forslaget, og gjorde i debatten da saken
-ble vedtatt det klart at dette var en god sak og at en enstemmig
-komité var glad for resultatet.  Stortinget har dermed stilt seg helt
-og fullt bak departementets forslag.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For meg er det åpenbart når en leser proposisjonen at «like
-pålitelig» og «samme sikkerhetsnivå» vil bli tolket av departementet
-som «med samme biometrisk informasjon som i passene», og departementet
-forklarer i tillegg i proposisjonen at de har tenkt at
-fingeravtrykkene «vil bli beskyttet på samme måte som fingeravtrykkene
-i passene».  Jeg ser det dermed som åpenbart at den samme
-tvangsinnhentingen av fingeravtrykk som gjelder for pass vil bli
-viderført til de nasjonale ID-kortene.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Det eneste som kan endre dette er massive protester fra
-befolkningen på at folk som ikke er mistenkt for noe kriminelt skal
-tvinges til å gi fingeravtrykket til politiet for å f.eks. kunne få
-bankkonto eller stemme ved valg.  Det kunne få departementet til å
-snu.  Det tror jeg ikke vil skje.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;As far as I understand it, MPEG LA believe anyone using Adobe
+Premiere and other video related software with a H.264 distribution
+license need a license agreement with MPEG LA to use such tools for
+anything non-private or commercial, while it is OK to set up a
+Youtube-like service as long as no-one pays to get access to the
+content.  I still have no clear idea how this applies to Norway, where
+none of the patents MPEG LA is licensing are valid.  Will the
+copyright terms take precedence or can those terms be ignored because
+the patents are not valid in Norway?&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Norwegian citizens now required by law to give their fingerprint to the police</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Norwegian_citizens_now_required_by_law_to_give_their_fingerprint_to_the_police.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2015 16:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;5 days ago, the Norwegian Parliament decided, unanimously, that all
-citizens of Norway, no matter if they are suspected of something
-criminal or not, are
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.holderdeord.no/votes/1430838871e&quot;&gt;required to
-give fingerprints to the police&lt;/a&gt; (vote details from Holder de
-ord).  The law make it sound like it will be optional, but in a few
-years there will be no option any more.  The ID will be required to
-vote, to get a bank account, a bank card, to change address on the
-post office, to receive an electronic ID or to get a drivers license
-and many other tasks required to function in Norway.  The banks plan
-to stop providing their own ID on the bank cards when this new
-national ID is introduced, and the national road authorities plan to
-change the drivers license to no longer be usable as identity cards.
-In effect, to function as a citizen in Norway a national ID card will
-be required, and to get it one need to provide the fingerprints to
-the police.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;In addition to handing the fingerprint to the police (which
-promised to not make a copy of the fingerprint image at that point in
-time, but say nothing about doing it later), a picture of the
-fingerprint will be stored on the RFID chip, along with a picture of
-the face and other information about the person.  Some of the
-information will be encrypted, but the encryption will be the same
-system as currently used in the passports.  The codes to decrypt will
-be available to a lot of government offices and their suppliers around
-the globe, but for those that do not know anyone in those circles it
-is good to know that
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/nov/17/news.homeaffairs&quot;&gt;the
-encryption is already broken&lt;/a&gt;.  And they
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.networkworld.com/article/2215057/wireless/bad-guys-could-read-rfid-passports-at-217-feet--maybe-a-lot-more.html&quot;&gt;can
-be read from 70 meters away&lt;/a&gt;.  This can be mitigated a bit by
-keeping it in a Faraday cage (metal box or metal wire container), but
-one will be required to take it out of there often enough to expose
-ones private and personal information to a lot of people that have no
-business getting access to that information.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The new Norwegian national IDs are a vehicle for identity theft,
-and I feel sorry for us all having politicians accepting such invasion
-of privacy without any objections.  So are the Norwegian passports,
-but it has been possible to function in Norway without those so far.
-That option is going away with the passing of the new law.  In this, I
-envy the Germans, because for them it is optional how much biometric
-information is stored in their national ID.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;And if forced collection of fingerprints was not bad enough, the
-information collected in the national ID card register can be handed
-over to foreign intelligence services and police authorities, &quot;when
-extradition is not considered disproportionate&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Update 2015-05-12: For those unable to believe that the Parliament
-really could make such decision, I wrote
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Blir_det_virkelig_krav_om_fingeravtrykk_i_nasjonale_ID_kort_.html&quot;&gt;a
-summary of the sources I have&lt;/a&gt; for concluding the way I do
-(Norwegian Only, as the sources are all in Norwegian).&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>New laptop - some more clues and ideas based on feedback</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_laptop___some_more_clues_and_ideas_based_on_feedback.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_laptop___some_more_clues_and_ideas_based_on_feedback.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 5 Jul 2015 21:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Several people contacted me after my previous blog post about my
+need for a new laptop, and provided very useful feedback.  I wish to
+thank every one of these.  Several pointed me to the possibility of
+fixing my X230, and I am already in the process of getting Lenovo to
+do so thanks to the on site, next day support contract covering the
+machine.  But the battery is almost useless (I expect to replace it
+with a non-official battery) and I do not expect the machine to live
+for many more years, so it is time to plan its replacement.  If I did
+not have a support contract, it was suggested to find replacement parts
+using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.francecrans.com/&quot;&gt;FrancEcrans&lt;/a&gt;, but it
+might present a language barrier as I do not understand French.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;One tip I got was to use the
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://skinflint.co.uk/?cat=nb&quot;&gt;Skinflint&lt;/a&gt; web service to
+compare laptop models.  It seem to have more models available than
+prisjakt.no.  Another tip I got from someone I know have similar
+keyboard preferences was that the HP EliteBook 840 keyboard is not
+very good, and this matches my experience with earlier EliteBook
+keyboards I tested.  Because of this, I will not consider it any further.
+
+&lt;p&gt;When I wrote my blog post, I was not aware of Thinkpad X250, the
+newest Thinkpad X model.  The keyboard reintroduces mouse buttons
+(which is missing from the X240), and is working fairly well with
+Debian Sid/Unstable according to
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.corsac.net/X250/&quot;&gt;Corsac.net&lt;/a&gt;.  The reports I
+got on the keyboard quality are not consistent.  Some say the keyboard
+is good, others say it is ok, while others say it is not very good.
+Those with experience from X41 and and X60 agree that the X250
+keyboard is not as good as those trusty old laptops, and suggest I
+keep and fix my X230 instead of upgrading, or get a used X230 to
+replace it.  I&#39;m also told that the X250 lack leds for caps lock, disk
+activity and battery status, which is very convenient on my X230.  I&#39;m
+also told that the CPU fan is running very often, making it a bit
+noisy.  In any case, the X250 do not work out of the box with Debian
+Stable/Jessie, one of my requirements.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I have also gotten a few vendor proposals, one was
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://pro-star.com&quot;&gt;Pro-Star&lt;/a&gt;, another was
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://shop.gluglug.org.uk/product/libreboot-x200/&quot;&gt;Libreboot&lt;/a&gt;.
+The latter look very attractive to me.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Again, thank you all for the very useful feedback.  It help a lot
+as I keep looking for a replacement.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Update 2015-07-06: I was recommended to check out the
+&lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&gt;lapstore.de&lt;/a&gt; web shop for used laptops.  They got several
+different
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lapstore.de/f.php/shop/lapstore/f/411/lang/x/kw/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X_Serie/&quot;&gt;old
+thinkpad X models&lt;/a&gt;, and provide one year warranty.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>What would it cost to store all phone calls in Norway?</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_would_it_cost_to_store_all_phone_calls_in_Norway_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/What_would_it_cost_to_store_all_phone_calls_in_Norway_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 1 May 2015 19:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Many years ago, a friend of mine calculated how much it would cost
-to store the sound of all phone calls in Norway, and came up with the
-cost of around 20 million NOK (2.4 mill EUR) for all the calls in a
-year.  I got curious and wondered what the same calculation would look
-like today.  To do so one need an idea of how much data storage is
-needed for each minute of sound, how many minutes all the calls in
-Norway sums up to, and the cost of data storage.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The 2005 numbers are from
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/analyser/2005/10/04/vi-prater-stadig-mindre-i-roret&quot;&gt;digi.no&lt;/a&gt;,
-the 2012 numbers are from
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nkom.no/aktuelt/nyheter/fortsatt-vekst-i-det-norske-ekommarkedet&quot;&gt;a
-NKOM report&lt;/a&gt;, and I got the 2013 numbers after asking NKOM via
-email.  I was told the numbers for 2014 will be presented May 20th,
-and decided not to wait for those, as I doubt they will be very
-different from the numbers from 2013.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The amount of data storage per minute sound depend on the wanted
-quality, and for phone calls it is generally believed that 8 Kbit/s is
-enough.  See for example a
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/voice/voice-quality/7934-bwidth-consume.html#topic1&quot;&gt;summary
-on voice quality from Cisco&lt;/a&gt; for some alternatives.  8 Kbit/s is 60
-Kbytes/min, and this can be multiplied with the number of call minutes
-to get the storage requirements.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Storage prices varies a lot, depending on speed, backup strategies,
-availability requirements etc.  But a simple way to calculate can be
-to use the price of a TiB-disk (around 1000 NOK / 120 EUR) and double
-it to take space, power and redundancy into account.  It could be much
-higher with high speed and good redundancy requirements.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;But back to the question, What would it cost to store all phone
-calls in Norway?  Not much.  Here is a small table showing the
-estimated cost, which is within the budget constraint of most medium
-and large organisations:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;table border=&quot;1&quot;&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;th&gt;Year&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Call minutes&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Size&lt;/th&gt;&lt;th&gt;Price in NOK / EUR&lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2005&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;24 000 000 000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;1.3 PiB&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;3 mill / 358 000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;18 000 000 000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;1.0 PiB&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;2.2 mill / 262 000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2013&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;17 000 000 000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;950 TiB&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;2.1 mill / 250 000&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
-&lt;/table&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;This is the cost of buying the storage.  Maintenance need to be
-taken into account too, but calculating that is left as an exercise
-for the reader.  But it is obvious to me from those numbers that
-recording the sound of all phone calls in Norway is not going to be
-stopped because it is too expensive.  I wonder if someone already is
-collecting the data?&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Time to find a new laptop, as the old one is broken after only two years</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_to_find_a_new_laptop__as_the_old_one_is_broken_after_only_two_years.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Time_to_find_a_new_laptop__as_the_old_one_is_broken_after_only_two_years.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2015 07:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;My primary work horse laptop is failing, and will need a
+replacement soon.  The left 5 cm of the screen on my Thinkpad X230
+started flickering yesterday, and I suspect the cause is a broken
+cable, as changing the angle of the screen some times get rid of the
+flickering.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My requirements have not really changed since I bought it, and is
+still as
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thank_you_Thinkpad_X41__for_your_long_and_trustworthy_service.html&quot;&gt;I
+described them in 2013&lt;/a&gt;.  The last time I bought a laptop, I had
+good help from
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prisjakt.no/category.php?k=353&quot;&gt;prisjakt.no&lt;/a&gt;
+where I could select at least a few of the requirements (mouse pin,
+wifi, weight) and go through the rest manually.  Three button mouse
+and a good keyboard is not available as an option, and all the three
+laptop models proposed today (Thinkpad X240, HP EliteBook 820 G1 and
+G2) lack three mouse buttons).  It is also unclear to me how good the
+keyboard on the HP EliteBooks are.  I hope Lenovo have not messed up
+the keyboard, even if the quality and robustness in the X series have
+deteriorated since X41.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I wonder how I can find a sensible laptop when none of the options
+seem sensible to me?  Are there better services around to search the
+set of available laptops for features?  Please send me an email if you
+have suggestions.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Update 2015-07-23: I got a suggestion to check out the FSF
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom&quot;&gt;list
+of endorsed hardware&lt;/a&gt;, which is useful background information.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>First Jessie based Debian Edu beta release</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Jessie_based_Debian_Edu_beta_release.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Jessie_based_Debian_Edu_beta_release.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2015 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I am happy to report that the Debian Edu team sent out
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2015/04/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;this
-announcement today&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;pre&gt;
-the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project is pleased to announce the first
-*beta* release of Debian Edu &quot;Jessie&quot; 8.0+edu0~b1, which for the first
-time is composed entirely of packages from the current Debian stable
-release, Debian 8 &quot;Jessie&quot;.
-
-(As most reading this will know, Debian &quot;Jessie&quot; hasn&#39;t actually been
-released by now. The release is still in progress but should finish
-later today ;)
-
-We expect to make a final release of Debian Edu &quot;Jessie&quot; in the coming
-weeks, timed with the first point release of Debian Jessie. Upgrades
-from this beta release of Debian Edu Jessie to the final release will
-be possible and encouraged!
-
-Please report feedback to debian-edu@lists.debian.org and/or submit
-bugs: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs
-
-Debian Edu - sometimes also known as &quot;Skolelinux&quot; - is a complete
-operating system for schools, universities and other
-organisations. Through its pre- prepared installation profiles
-administrators can install servers, workstations and laptops which
-will work in harmony on the school network.  With Debian Edu, the
-teachers themselves or their technical support staff can roll out a
-complete multi-user, multi-machine study environment within hours or
-days.
-
-Debian Edu is already in use at several hundred schools all over the
-world, particularly in Germany, Spain and Norway. Installations come
-with hundreds of applications pre-installed, plus the whole Debian
-archive of thousands of compatible packages within easy reach.
+               <title>MakerCon Nordic videos now available on Frikanalen</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MakerCon_Nordic_videos_now_available_on_Frikanalen.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/MakerCon_Nordic_videos_now_available_on_Frikanalen.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2015 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Last oktober I was involved on behalf of
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt; with recording the talks at
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.makercon.no/&quot;&gt;MakerCon Nordic&lt;/a&gt;, a conference for
+the Maker movement.  Since then it has been the plan to publish the
+recordings on &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt;, which
+finally happened the last few days.  A few talks are missing because
+the speakers asked the organizers to not publish them, but most of the
+talks are available.  The talks are being broadcasted on RiksTV
+channel 50 and using multicast on Uninett, as well as being available
+from the Frikanalen web site.  The unedited recordings are
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/user/MakerConNordic/&quot;&gt;available on
+Youtube too&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is the list of talks available at the moment.  Visit the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/video/?q=makercon&quot;&gt;Frikanalen video
+pages&lt;/a&gt; to view them.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-For those who want to give Debian Edu Jessie a try, download and
-installation instructions are available, including detailed
-instructions in the manual explaining the first steps, such as setting
-up a network or adding users.  Please note that the password for the
-user your prompted for during installation must have a length of at
-least 5 characters!
-
-== Where to download ==
-
-A multi-architecture CD / usbstick image (649 MiB) for network booting
-can be downloaded at the following locations:
-
-    http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~b1-CD.iso
-    rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~b1-CD.iso . 
-
-The SHA1SUM of this image is: 54a524d16246cddd8d2cfd6ea52f2dd78c47ee0a
+&lt;ul&gt;

 
 

-Alternatively an extended DVD / usbstick image (4.9 GiB) is also
-available, with more software included (saving additional download
-time):
+  &lt;li&gt;Evolutionary algorithms as a design tool - from art
+      to robotics (Kyrre Glette)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-    http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~b1-USB.iso
-    rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-8.0+edu0~b1-USB.iso 
+  &lt;li&gt;Make and break (Hans Gerhard Meier)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-The SHA1SUM of this image is: fb1f1504a490c077a48653898f9d6a461cb3c636
+  &lt;li&gt;Making a one year school course for young makers
+      (Olav Helland)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-Sources are available from the Debian archive, see
-http://ftp.debian.org/debian-cd/8.0.0/source/ for some download
-options.
+  &lt;li&gt;Innovation Inspiration - IPR Databases as a Source of
+      Inspiration (Hege Langlo)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-== Debian Edu Jessie manual in seven languages ==
+  &lt;li&gt;Making a toy for makers (Erik Torstensson)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-Please see https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Jessie/ for
-the English version of the Debian Edu jessie manual.
+  &lt;li&gt;How to make 3D printer electronics (Elias Bakken)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-This manual has been fully translated to German, French, Italian,
-Danish, Dutch and Norwegian Bokmål. A partly translated version exists
-for Spanish.  See http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/ for
-online version of the translated manual.
+  &lt;li&gt;Hovering Clouds: Looking at online tool offerings for Product
+      Design and 3D Printing (William Kempton)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-More information about Debian 8 &quot;Jessie&quot; itself is provided in the
-release notes and the installation manual:
-- http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/releasenotes
-- http://www.debian.org/releases/jessie/installmanual
+  &lt;li&gt;Travelling maker stories (Øyvind Nydal Dahl)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

+  &lt;li&gt;Making the first Maker Faire in Sweden (Nils Olander)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-== Errata / known problems ==
+  &lt;li&gt;Breaking the mold: Printing 1000’s of parts (Espen Sivertsen)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-    It takes up to 15 minutes for a changed hostname to be updated via
-    DHCP (#780461).
+  &lt;li&gt;Ultimaker — and open source 3D printing (Erik de Bruijn)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-    The hostname script fails to update LTSP server hostname (#783087). 
+  &lt;li&gt;Autodesk’s 3D Printing Platform: Sparking innovation (Hilde
+      Sevens)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-Workaround: run update-hostname-from-ip on the client to update the
-hostname immediately.
+  &lt;li&gt;How Making is Changing the World – and How You Can Too!
+      (Jennifer Turliuk)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-Check https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Jessie for a possibly
-more current and complete list.
+  &lt;li&gt;Open-Source Adventuring: OpenROV, OpenExplorer and the Future of
+      Connected Exploration (David Lang)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-== Some more details about Debian Edu 8.0+edu0~b1 Codename Jessie released 2015-04-25 ==
+  &lt;li&gt;Making in Norway (Haakon Karlsen Jr., Graham Hayward and Jens
+      Dyvik)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-=== Software updates ===
+  &lt;li&gt;The Impact of the Maker Movement (Mike Senese)&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-Everything which is new in Debian 8 Jessie, e.g.:
+&lt;/ul&gt;

 
 

- * Linux kernel 3.16.7-ctk9; for the i386 architecture, support for
-   i486 processors has been dropped; oldest supported ones: i586 (like
-   Intel Pentium and AMD K5).
+&lt;p&gt;Part of the reason this took so long was that the scripts NUUG had
+to prepare a recording for publication were five years old and no
+longer worked with the current video processing tools (command line
+argument changes).  In addition, we needed better audio normalization,
+which sent me on a detour to
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Measuring_and_adjusting_the_loudness_of_a_TV_channel_using_bs1770gain.html&quot;&gt;package
+bs1770gain for Debian&lt;/a&gt;.  Now this is in place and it became a lot
+easier to publish NUUG videos on Frikanalen.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Hvem fører Medietilsynet tilsyn med?</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvem_f_rer_Medietilsynet_tilsyn_med_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvem_f_rer_Medietilsynet_tilsyn_med_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2015 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;I en global verden med eierskap på tvers, trengs det informasjon om
+hvem som har kontrollen i selskaper og bedrifter.  Og for å få tilgang
+til slik informasjon for alle som ønsker å analysere eierskap, holder
+med ikke med nasjonale databaser over eierskap, det må globale
+samledatabaser med åpne data til.  Heldigvis finnes det en
+internasjonal bevegelse for å gjøre selskapsinformasjon for alle land
+offentlig tilgjengelig.  En slik database heter
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://opencorporates.com&quot;&gt;OpenCorporates&lt;/a&gt;, der
+informasjonen er gratis tilgjengelig med en &quot;del på samme
+vilkår&quot;-lisens.  De samler inn selskapsinformasjon, eierskap,
+konsesjonstildelinger og lignende.  De manglet ganske mye for Norge,
+da bruksvilkårene til Norsk offentlig informasjon i stor grad
+blokkerer OpenCorporates fra å samle den inn.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Men jeg er jo involvert i
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt;, som har
+TV-konsesjon, og tenkte det kunne være fint om informasjon om alle
+mediakonsesjoner var tilgjengelig i OpenCorporates, så jeg sendte
+avgårde følgende spørsmål til Medietilsynet 2015-06-22:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Hei.  Finnes det en oversikt over enhetene som Mediatilsynet fører
+tilsyn med som åpne data?  Jeg lette etter den på
+&amp;lt;URL:&lt;a href=&quot;http://data.norge.no/&quot;&gt;http://data.norge.no/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt; og
+&amp;lt;URL:&lt;a href=&quot;http://hotell.difi.no/&quot;&gt;http://hotell.difi.no/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt; uten å
+finne noe der, og fant heller ikke noe under
+&amp;lt;URL:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.medietilsynet.no/&quot;&gt;http://www.medietilsynet.no/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg tenker på alle som har fått kringkastingskonsesjon og alle som
+er omtalt under
+&amp;lt;URL:&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.medietilsynet.no/mediebildet/&quot;&gt;http://www.medietilsynet.no/mediebildet/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg skulle gjerne hatt dette maskinlesbart, og inkludert
+organisasjonsnummer og hva slags forhold mediatilsynet har til
+organisasjonene.  Tanken er å importere det i
+&amp;lt;URL:&lt;a href=&quot;https://opencorporates.com/&quot;&gt;https://opencorporates.com/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;gt; for analyse, så det bør ikke ha
+bruksbegresninger som gjør dette umulig.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To dager senere fikk jeg svar, med de datasettene de hadde
+tilgjengelig.  Svaret fra Hanne Sekkelsten hos Medietilsynet var
+informativt og imøtekommende.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;blockquote&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Vi viser til din e-post av 22. juni, der du ber om å få tilsendt oversikter
+over aktører Medietilsynet fører tilsyn med.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Medietilsynet fører tilsyn med kringkastere og audiovisuelle
+bestillingstjenester som omfattes av kringkastingsloven, og med
+eierskap i aviser, fjernsyn radio og elektroniske medier etter
+medieeierskapsloven. I tillegg vil Medietilsynet etter at
+beskyttelsesloven trer i kraft fra 1. juli ha tilsyn med en rekke nye
+aktører. Nærmere informasjon om den nye loven finnes på Medietilsynets
+nettsted, her:
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.medietilsynet.no/mediebransjen/bildeprogramloven/&quot;&gt;http://www.medietilsynet.no/mediebransjen/bildeprogramloven/&lt;/a&gt;
+.  Vi har ikke utarbeidet oversikter over alle aktørene, men vi sender
+deg her de listene vi har utarbeidet, hentet fra våre databaser. Vi
+har dessverre ikke ferdige rapporter som inneholder
+organisasjonsnummer. Dersom du ønsker flere opplysninger ber vi om at
+du tar kontakt med oss slik at vi kan finne ut av hvilke opplysninger
+du trenger, og hvilke vi kan fremskaffe.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Vedlagt følger:

 
 

- * Desktop environments KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11.13, GNOME 3.14,
-   Xfce 4.12, LXDE 0.5.6
-   * new optional desktop environment: MATE 1.8
-   * KDE Plasma Workspaces is installed by default; to choose one of
-     the others see the manual.
- * the browsers Iceweasel 31 ESR and Chromium 41
- * LibreOffice 4.3.3
- * GOsa 2.7.4
- * LTSP 5.5.4
- * CUPS print system 1.7.5
- * new boot framework: systemd
- * Educational toolbox GCompris 14.12
- * Music creator Rosegarden 14.02
- * Image editor Gimp 2.8.14
- * Virtual stargazer Stellarium 0.13.1
- * golearn 0.9
- * tuxpaint 0.9.22
- * New version of debian-installer from Debian Jessie.
- * Debian Jessie includes about 43000 packages available for installation.
- * More information about Debian 8 Jessie is provided in its release
-   notes and the installation manual, see the link above.
+&lt;ul&gt;

 
 

-=== Installation changes ===
+  &lt;li&gt;Konsesjoner - lokalradio FM pr. 31.12.2014 [&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Konsesjoner_lokalradio_fm_felles_31.12.2014.pdf&quot;&gt;PDF (original)&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-    Installations done via PXE now also install firmware automatically
-    for the hardware present.
+  &lt;li&gt;Konsesjoner - lokalfjernsyn i det digitale bakkenettet for fjernsyn, pr. mars 2015 [&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Lokalfjernsyn_DTT_konsesjoner_mars_2015.docx&quot;&gt;DOCX (original)&lt;/a&gt;, 
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Lokalfjernsyn_DTT_konsesjoner_mars_2015.pdf&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-=== Fixed bugs ===
+  &lt;li&gt;Konsesjoner - DAB-radio, status mars 2015 [&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Konsesjonaernummer_DAB.xps&quot;&gt;XPS (original)&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Konsesjonaernummer_DAB.pdf&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-A number of bugs have been fixed in this release; the most noticeable
-from a user perspective:
+  &lt;li&gt;Registreringspliktige kringkastere - status mars 2015: [&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Registreringspliktige_kringkastere_register_-_aktive.xps&quot;&gt;XPS (original)&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-28-medietilsynsdata/Registreringspliktige_kringkastere_register_-_aktive.pdf&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;]

 
 

- * Inserting incorrect DNS information in Gosa will no longer break
-   DNS completely, but instead stop DNS updates until the incorrect
-   information is corrected (710362)
+    &lt;ul&gt;
+      &lt;li&gt;Kabelsendt fjernsyn
+      &lt;li&gt;Satellittsendt fjernsyn
+      &lt;li&gt;Nett-tv
+      &lt;li&gt;Kabelsendt radio
+      &lt;li&gt;Satellittsendt radio
+      &lt;li&gt;Nett-radio
+    &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;

 
 

- * shutdown-at-night now shuts the system down if gdm3 is used (775608). 
+&lt;p&gt;Vi må ta forbehold om at det kan være enkelte feil i oversiktene
+siden disse ikke er oppdaterte pr. dags dato. Vi vil foreta nye
+oppdateringer i august.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Med hilsen&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Hanne Nistad Sekkelsten
+&lt;br&gt;Seniorrådgiver | Senior Legal Adviser
+&lt;br&gt;Medietilsynet | Norwegian Media Authority
+&lt;br&gt;A: Nygata 4, NO-1607 Fredrikstad
+&lt;br&gt;T: [telefonnummer fjernet]
+&lt;br&gt;E: [adresse fjernet] | W: www.medietilsynet.no
+&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;/blockquote&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Desverre er formatene for ustrukturerte til maskinell behandling og
+mangler endel informasjon, men det er gode oversikter over hvem
+Medietilsynet fører tilsyn med.  Filene er på formatene PDF, XPS
+(XML-basert PDF-lignende format fra Microsoft) og DOCX, så det vil
+være en stor jobb å strukturere informasjonen på en måte som kan
+importeres i OpenCorporates.  Svaret er ikke i tråd med
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lovdata.no/dokument/SF/forskrift/2013-04-05-959&quot;&gt;Forskrift
+om IT-standarder i offentlig forvaltning&lt;/a&gt; som sier epostvedlegg
+skal sendes som PDF, så jeg har gjorde PDF-utgaver av XPS og
+DOCX-utgavene tilgjengelig for å gjøre det enklere for alle å se
+innholdet.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Graphing the Norwegian company ownership structure</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Graphing_the_Norwegian_company_ownership_structure.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Graphing_the_Norwegian_company_ownership_structure.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It is a bit work to figure out the ownership structure of companies
+in Norway.  The information is publicly available, but one need to
+recursively look up ownership for all owners to figure out the complete
+ownership graph of a given set of companies.  To save me the work in
+the future, I wrote a script to do this automatically, outputting the
+ownership structure using the Graphviz/dotty format.  The data source
+is web scraping from &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.proff.no/&quot;&gt;Proff&lt;/a&gt;, because
+I failed to find a useful source directly from the official keepers of
+the ownership data, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brreg.no/&quot;&gt;Brønnøysundsregistrene&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To get an ownership graph for a set of companies, fetch
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/brreg-norway-ownership-graph&quot;&gt;the code from git&lt;/a&gt; and run it using the organisation number.  I&#39;m
+using the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet as an example here, as its
+ownership structure is very simple:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-=== Sugar desktop removed ===
+&lt;pre&gt;
+% time ./bin/eierskap-dotty 958033540 &gt; dagbladet.dot

 
 

-As the Sugar desktop was removed from Debian Jessie, it is also not
-available in Debian Edu jessie.
+real    0m2.841s
+user    0m0.184s
+sys     0m0.036s
+%
+&lt;/pre&gt;

 
 

+&lt;p&gt;The script accept several organisation numbers on the command line,
+allowing a cluster of companies to be graphed in the same image.  The
+resulting dot file for the example above look like this.  The edges
+are labeled with the ownership percentage, and the nodes uses the
+organisation number as their name and the name as the label:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-== About Debian Edu / Skolelinux ==
+&lt;pre&gt;
+digraph ownership {
+rankdir = LR;
+&quot;Aller Holding A/s&quot; -&gt; &quot;910119877&quot; [label=&quot;100%&quot;]
+&quot;910119877&quot; -&gt; &quot;998689015&quot; [label=&quot;100%&quot;]
+&quot;998689015&quot; -&gt; &quot;958033540&quot; [label=&quot;99%&quot;]
+&quot;974530600&quot; -&gt; &quot;958033540&quot; [label=&quot;1%&quot;]
+&quot;958033540&quot; [label=&quot;AS DAGBLADET&quot;]
+&quot;998689015&quot; [label=&quot;Berner Media Holding AS&quot;]
+&quot;974530600&quot; [label=&quot;Dagbladets Stiftelse&quot;]
+&quot;910119877&quot; [label=&quot;Aller Media AS&quot;]
+}
+&lt;/pre&gt;

 
 

-Debian Edu, also known as Skolelinux, is a Linux distribution based on
-Debian providing an out-of-the box environment of a completely
-configured school network. Directly after installation a school server
-running all services needed for a school network is set up just
-waiting for users and machines being added via GOsa², a comfortable
-Web-UI. A netbooting environment is prepared using PXE, so after
-initial installation of the main server from CD or USB stick all other
-machines can be installed via the network. The provided school server
-provides LDAP database and Kerberos authentication service,
-centralized home directories, DHCP server, web proxy and many other
-services.  The desktop contains more than 60 educational software
-packages and more are available from the Debian archive, and schools
-can choose between KDE, GNOME, LXDE, Xfce and MATE desktop
-environment.
+&lt;p&gt;To view the ownership graph, run &quot;&lt;tt&gt;dotty dagbladet.dot&lt;/tt&gt;&quot; or
+convert it to a PNG using &quot;&lt;tt&gt;dot -T png dagbladet.dot &gt;
+dagbladet.png&lt;/tt&gt;&quot;.  The result can be seen below:&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-== About Debian ==
+&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-15-ownership-graphs-norway-dagbladet.png&quot; width=&quot;80%&quot;&gt;

 
 

-The Debian Project was founded in 1993 by Ian Murdock to be a truly
-free community project. Since then the project has grown to be one of
-the largest and most influential open source projects. Thousands of
-volunteers from all over the world work together to create and
-maintain Debian software. Available in 70 languages, and supporting a
-huge range of computer types, Debian calls itself the universal
-operating system.
+&lt;p&gt;Note that I suspect the &quot;Aller Holding A/S&quot; entry to be incorrect
+data in the official ownership register, as that name is not
+registered in the official company register for Norway.  The ownership
+register is sensitive to typos and there seem to be no strict checking
+of the ownership links.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-== Thanks ==
+&lt;p&gt;Let me know if you improve the script or find better data sources.
+The code is licensed according to GPL 2 or newer.&lt;/p&gt;

 
 

-Thanks to everyone making Debian and Debian Edu / Skolelinux happen!
-You rock.
-&lt;/pre&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Debian Edu interview: Shirish Agarwal</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Shirish_Agarwal.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Shirish_Agarwal.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2015 09:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;It was a surprise to me to learn that project to create a complete
-computer system for schools I&#39;ve involved in,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, was
-being used in India.  But apparently it is, and I managed to get an
-interview with one of the friends of the project there, Shirish
-Agarwal.&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 Shirish Agarwal. Based out of the educational and
-historical city of Pune, from the western state of Maharashtra, India.
-My bread comes from giving training, giving policy tips,
-installations on free software to mom and pop shops in different
-fields from Desktop publishing to retail shops as well as work with
-few software start-ups as well.&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;It started innocently enough. I have been using Debian for a few
-years and in one local minidebconf / debutsav I was asked if there was
-anything for schools or education. I had worked / played with free
-educational softwares such as Gcompris and Stellarium for my many
-nieces and nephews so researched and found Debian Edu or Skolelinux as
-it was known then.  Since then I have started using the various
-education meta-packages provided by the project.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;It&#39;s closest I have seen where a package full of educational
-software are packed, which are free and open (both literally and
-figuratively).  Even if I take the simplest software which is
-gcompris, the number of activities therein are amazing. Another one of
-the softwares that I have liked for a long time is stellarium. Even
-pysycache is cool except for couple of issues I encountered
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/781841&quot;&gt;#781841&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://bugs.debian.org/781842&quot;&gt;#781842&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I prefer software installed on the system over web based solutions,
-as a web site can disappear any time but the software on disk has the
-possibility of a larger life span.  Of course with both it&#39;s more a
-question if it has enough users who make it fun or sustainable or both
-for the developer per-se.&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;I do see that the Debian Edu team seems to be short-handed and I
-think more efforts should be made to make it popular and ask and take
-help from people and the larger community wherever possible.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I don&#39;t see any disadvantage to use Skolelinux apart from the fact
-that most apps. are generic which is good or bad how you see it.
-However, saying that I do acknowledge the fact that the canvas is
-pretty big and there are lot of interesting ideas that could be done
-but for reasons not known not done or if done I don&#39;t know about them.
-Let me share some of the ideas (these are more upstream based but
-still) I have had for a long time :&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;1. Classical maths question of two trains in opposing directions
-each running @x kmph/mph at y distance, when they will meet and how
-far would each travel and similar questions like these.
-
-&lt;p&gt;The computer is a fantastic system where questions like these can
-be drawn, animated and the methodology and answers teased out in
-interactive manner. While sites such as the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://mathforum.org/dr.math/faq/faq.two.trains.html&quot;&gt;Ask
-Dr. Math FAQ on The Two Trains problem&lt;/a&gt; (as an example or point of
-inspiration) can be used there is lot more that can be done.  I dunno
-if there is a free software which does something like this.  The idea
-being a blend of objects + animation + interaction which does
-this. The whole interaction could be gamified with points or sounds or
-colourful celebration whenever the user gets even part of the question
-or/and methodology right. That would help reinforce good behaviour.
-This understanding could be used to share/showcase everything from how
-the first wheel came to be, to evolution to how astronomy started,
-psychics and everything in-between.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;One specific idea in the train part was having the Linux mascot on
-one train and the BSD or GNU mascot on the other train and they
-meeting somewhere in-between. Characters from blender movies could
-also be used.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;2. Loads of crossword-puzzles with reference to subjects: We have
-enormous data sets in Wikipedia and Wikitionary.  I don&#39;t think it
-should be a big job to design crossword puzzles. Using categories and
-sub-categories it should be doable to have Q&amp;A single word answers
-from the existing data-sets. What would make it easy or hard could be
-the length of the word + existence of many or few vowels depending on
-the user&#39;s input.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;3. Jigsaw puzzles - We already have a great software called
-palapeli with number of slicers making it pretty interesting. What
-needs to be done is to download large number of public domain and
-copyleft images, tease and use IPTC tags to categorise them into
-nature, history etc.  and let it loose. This could turn to be really
-huge collection of images. One source could be taken from
-commons.wikimedia.org, others could be huge collection of royalty-free
-stock photos. Potential is immense.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Apart from this, free software suffers in two directions, we lag
-both in development (of using new features per-se) and maintenance a
-lot.  This is more so in educational software as these applications
-need to be timely and the opportunity cost of missing deadlines is
-immense. If we are able to solve issues of funding for development and
-maintenance of such software I don&#39;t see any big difficulties. I know
-of few start-ups in and around India who would love to develop and
-maintain such software if funding issues could be solved.&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;That would be huge list. Some of the softwares are obviously apt,
-aptitude, debdelta, leafpad, the shell of course (zsh nowadays),
-quassel for IRC. In games I use shisen-sho while card-games are evenly
-between kpat and Aiselriot.  In desktops it&#39;s a tie between
-gnome-flashback and mate.&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 think it should first start with using specific FOSS apps. in
-whatever environment they are. If it&#39;s MS-Windows or Mac so be it.
-Once they are habitual with the apps. and there is buy-in from the
-school management then it could be installed anywhere. Most of the
-people now understand the concept of a repository because of the
-various online stores so it isn&#39;t hard to convince on that front.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;What is harder is having enough people with technical skills and
-passion to service them. If you get buy-in from one or two teachers
-then ideas like above could also be asked to be done as a project as
-well.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I think where we fall short more than anything is in marketing. For
-instance, Debian has this whole range of fonts in its archive but
-there isn&#39;t even a page where all those different fonts in the La
-Ipsum format could be tried out for newcomers.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;One of the issues faced constantly in installations is with updates
-and upgrades.  People have this myth that each update and upgrade
-means the user interface will / has to change. I have seen this
-innumerable times.  That perhaps is one of the reasons which browsers
-like Iceweasel / Firefox change user interfaces so much, not because
-it might be needed or be functional but because people believe that
-changed user interfaces are better. This, can easily be pointed with
-the user interfaces changed with almost every MS-Windows and Mac OS
-releases.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The problems with Debian Edu for deployment are many. The biggest
-is the huge gap between what is taught in schools and what Debian Edu
-is aimed at.
-
-&lt;p&gt;Me and my friends did teach on week-ends in a government school for
-around 2 years, and
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2012/10/08/sharings/&quot;&gt;gathered
-some experience&lt;/a&gt; there.  Some of the things we learnt/discovered
-there was :&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ol&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;Most of the teachers are very territorial about their subjects
-   and they do not want you to teach anything out of the
-   portion/syllabus given.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;They want any activity on the system in accordance to whatever
-   is in the syllabus.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-  &lt;li&gt;There are huge barriers both with the English language and at
-   times with objects or whatever. An example, let&#39;s say in gcompris
-   you have objects falling down and you have to name them and let&#39;s
-   say the falling object is a hat or a fedora hat, this would not be
-   as recognizable as say a
-   &lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puneri_Pagadi&quot;&gt;Puneri
-   Pagdi&lt;/a&gt; so there is need to inject local objects, words wherever
-   possible. Especially for word-games there are so many hindi words
-   which have become part of english vocabulary (for instance in
-   parley), those could be made into a hinglish collection or
-   something but that is something for upstream to do.&lt;/li&gt;
-
-&lt;/ol&gt;
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-               <title>I&#39;m going to the Open Source Developers&#39; Conference Nordic 2015!</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_m_going_to_the_Open_Source_Developers__Conference_Nordic_2015_.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/I_m_going_to_the_Open_Source_Developers__Conference_Nordic_2015_.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Tue, 7 Apr 2015 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I am happy to let you all know that I&#39;m going to the &lt;a
-href=&quot;http://act.osdc.no/osdc2015no/&quot;&gt;Open Source Developers&#39;
-Conference Nordic 2015&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;It take place Friday 8th to Sunday 10th of May in Oslo next to
-where I work, and I finally got around to submitting
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://act.osdc.no/osdc2015no/talk/6192&quot;&gt;a talk proposal for
-it&lt;/a&gt; (dead link for most people until the talk is accepted).  As
-part of my involvement with the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian Unix User Group member
-association&lt;/a&gt; I have been slightly involved in the planning of this
-conference for a while now, with a focus on organising a Civic Hacking
-Hackathon with our friends
-over at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mysociety.org/&quot;&gt;mySociety&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.holderdeord.no/&quot;&gt;Holder de ord&lt;/a&gt;.  This part is
-named the &#39;My Society&#39; track in the program.  There is still space for
-more talks and participants.  I hope to see you there.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Check out &lt;a href=&quot;http://act.osdc.no/osdc2015no/talks&quot;&gt;the talks
-submitted and accepted so far&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Proof reading the Norwegian translation of Free Culture by Lessig</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Proof_reading_the_Norwegian_translation_of_Free_Culture_by_Lessig.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Proof_reading_the_Norwegian_translation_of_Free_Culture_by_Lessig.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 4 Apr 2015 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;During eastern I had some time to continue working on the Norwegian
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig.
-At the moment I am proof reading the finished text, looking for typos,
-inconsistent wordings and sentences that do not flow as they should.
-I&#39;m more than two thirds done with the text, and welcome others to
-check the text up to chapter 13.  The current status is available on the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;
-project pages.  You can also check out the 
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true&quot;&gt;EPUB&lt;/a&gt;
-and HTML version available in the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/tree/master/archive&quot;&gt;archive
-directory&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Please report typos, bugs and improvements to the github project if
-you find any.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Frikanalen, Norwegian TV channel for technical topics</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Frikanalen__Norwegian_TV_channel_for_technical_topics.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Frikanalen__Norwegian_TV_channel_for_technical_topics.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 9 Mar 2015 11:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian Unix User Group&lt;/a&gt;,
-where I am a member, and where people interested in free software,
-open standards and UNIX like operating systems like Linux and the BSDs
-come together, record our monthly technical presentations on video.
-The purpose is to document the talks and spread them to a wider
-audience.  For this, the the Norwegian nationwide open channel
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt; is a useful venue.
-Since a few days ago, when I figured out the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.no/api/&quot;&gt;REST API&lt;/a&gt; to program the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/guide/&quot;&gt;channel time schedule&lt;/a&gt;,
-the channel has been filled with NUUG talks, related recordings and
-some Creative Commons licensed TED talks (from archive.org).  I fill
-all &quot;leftover bits&quot; on the channel with content from NUUG, which at
-the moment is almost 17 of 24 hours every day.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The list of NUUG videos
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/organization/82&quot;&gt;uploaded so far&lt;/a&gt;
-include things like a
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/625090&quot;&gt;one hour talk by John
-Perry Barlow when he visited Oslo&lt;/a&gt;, a presentation of
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/624275&quot;&gt;Haiku, the BeOS
-re-implementation&lt;/a&gt;, the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/624493&quot;&gt;history of FiksGataMi,
-the Norwegian version of FixMyStreet&lt;/a&gt;, the good old
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/623566&quot;&gt;Warriors of the net
-video&lt;/A&gt; and many others.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;We have a large backlog of NUUG talks not yet uploaded to
-Frikanalen, and plan to upload every useful bit to the channel to
-spread the word there.  I also hope to find useful recordings from the
-Chaos Computer Club and Debian conferences and spread them on the
-channel as well.  But this require locating the videos and their meta
-information (title, description, license, etc), and preparing the
-recordings for broadcast, and I have not yet had the spare time to
-focus on this.  Perhaps you want to help.  Please join us on IRC,
-&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.freenode.net/%23nuug&quot;&gt;#nuug on irc.freenode.net&lt;/a&gt;
-if you want to help make this happen.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;But as I said, already the channel is already almost exclusively
-filled with technical topics, and if you want to learn something new
-today, check out the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.tv/se&quot;&gt;Ogg Theora
-web stream&lt;/a&gt; or use one of the other ways to get access to the
-channel.  Unfortunately the Ogg Theora recoding for distribution still
-do not properly sync the video and sound.  It is generated by recoding
-a internal MPEG transport stream with MPEG4 coded video (ie H.264) to
-Ogg Theora / Vorbis, and we have not been able to find a way that
-produces acceptable quality.  Help needed, please get in touch if you
-know how to fix it using free software.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
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-               <title>The Citizenfour documentary on the Snowden confirmations to Norway</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Citizenfour_documentary_on_the_Snowden_confirmations_to_Norway.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Citizenfour_documentary_on_the_Snowden_confirmations_to_Norway.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sat, 28 Feb 2015 22:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Today I was happy to learn that the documentary
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://citizenfourfilm.com/&quot;&gt;Citizenfour&lt;/a&gt; by
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Poitras&quot;&gt;Laura Poitras&lt;/a&gt;
-finally will show up in Norway.  According to the magazine
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://montages.no/&quot;&gt;Montages&lt;/a&gt;, a deal has finally been
-made for
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://montages.no/nyheter/snowden-dokumentaren-citizenfour-far-norsk-kinodistribusjon/&quot;&gt;Cinema
-distribution in Norway&lt;/a&gt; and the movie will have its premiere soon.
-This is great news.  As part of my involvement with
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;the Norwegian Unix User Group&lt;/a&gt;, me and
-a friend have
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/news/Dokumentar_om_Snowdenbekreftelsene_til_Norge_.shtml&quot;&gt;tried
-to get the movie to Norway&lt;/a&gt; ourselves, but obviously
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/news/Dokumentar_om_Snowdenbekreftelsene_endelig_til_Norge_.shtml&quot;&gt;we
-were too late&lt;/a&gt; and Tor Fosse beat us to it.  I am happy he did, as
-the movie will make its way to the public and we do not have to make
-it happen ourselves.
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiGwAvd5mvM&quot;&gt;The trailer&lt;/a&gt;
-can be seen on youtube, if you are curious what kind of film this
-is.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The whistle blower Edward Snowden really deserve political asylum
-here in Norway, but I am afraid he would not be safe.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Update 2015-06-15: Since the initial post I&#39;ve been told that
+&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.proff.dk/firma/carl-allers-etablissement-aktieselskab/københavn-v/hovedkontorer/13624518-3/&quot;&gt;Aller
+Holding A/S&lt;/a&gt;&quot; is a Danish company, which explain why it did not
+have a Norwegian organisation number.  I&#39;ve also been told that there
+is a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brreg.no/automatiske/webservices/&quot;&gt;web
+services API available&lt;/a&gt; from Brønnøysundsregistrene, for those
+willing to accept the terms or pay the price.&lt;/p&gt;

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