<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/</link>
+ <item>
+ <title>Vitenskaplig metode i politikken?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskaplig_metode_i_politikken_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskaplig_metode_i_politikken_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Jeg ble for noen dager siden tipset om en rapport utarbeidet av
+Cabinet Office i England ved navn
+<a href="http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/test-learn-adapt-developing-public-policy-randomised-controlled-trials">Test,
+Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled
+Trials</a>, skrevet av blant annet Ben Goldacre (som jeg først ble
+klar over da han holdt et veldig interessant TED-foredrag med tittel
+<a href="http://archive.org/details/BenGoldacre_2011G">Battling bad
+science</a>). Rapporten handler om hvordan det offentlige burde bruke
+vitenskaplige metoder i større grad for å finne ut hvilke virkemidler
+som er mest effektive når en skal regulere samfunnet. Her er et sitat
+fra starten av rapporten:</p>
+
+<blockquote>
+<p>Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are the best way to determine
+ wheather a policy is working. They are now used extensively in
+ international development, medicine, and business to identify which
+ policy, drug or sales method is most effective. They are also at
+ the heart of the Behavioural Insights Team's methodology.</p>
+
+<p>However, RCTs are not rutinely used to test the effectiveness of
+ public policy interventions in the UK. We think they should be.</p>
+</blockquote>
+
+<p>Her tror jeg også Norge har noe å lære. Det offentlige bruker mye
+penger på aktiviteter der det ikke er åpenbart (og heller ikke blir
+målt) at den reelle effekten er det en ønsker å oppnå. Ruters
+elektroniske billettsystem, NAV-reformen, økt bruk av penger på
+politiet og sykehussammenslåinger kommer meg i hug.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Debian Edu interview: Giorgio Pioda</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>After a long break in my row of interviews with people in the
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
+community, I finally found time to wrap up another. This time it is
+Giorgio Pioda, which showed up on the mailing list at the start of
+this year, asking questions and inspiring us to improve the first time
+administrators experience with Skolelinux. :) The interview was
+conduced in May, but I only found time to publish it now.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I have a PhD in chemistry but since several years I work as teacher
+in secondary (15-18 year old students) and tertiary (a kind of "light"
+university) schools. Five years ago I started to manage a Learning
+Management Service server and slowly I got more and more involved with
+IT. 3 years ago the graduating schools moved completely to Linux and I
+got the head of the IT for this. The experience collected in chemistry
+labs computers (for example NMR analysis of protein folding) and in
+the IT-courses during university where sufficient to start. Self
+training is anyway very important</p>
+
+<p>I live in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, and the
+<a href="http://www.spse.ch/">SPSE school</a> (secondary) is a very
+special sport school for young people who try to became sport pro (for
+all sports, we have dozens of disciplines represented) and we are
+recognised by the Olympic Swiss Organisation.
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Looking for Linux / Primary Domain Controller (PDC) I found it
+already several years ago. But since the system was still not
+Kerberized and since our schools relies strongly on laptops I didn't
+use it. I plan to introduce it in the next future, probably for the
+next school year, since the squeeze release solved this security
+hole.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Many. First of all there is a strong and living community that is
+very generous for help and hints. Chat help is crucial, together with
+the mailing list. Second. With Skolelinux you get an already well
+engineered platform and you don't have to start to build up your PDC
+and your clients from GNU/scratch; I've already done this once and I
+can tell it, it is hard. Third, since Skolelinux is a standard
+platform, it is way easier to educate other IT people and even if the
+head IT is sick another one could pick up the task without too much
+hassle.</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>The only real problem I see is that it is a little too less
+flexible at client level. Debian stable is rocky and desirable, but
+there are many reasons that force for another choice. For example the
+need of new drivers for new PC, or the need for a specific OS for some
+devices that have specific software packages for another specific
+distribution (I have such a case for whiteboards that have only
+Ubuntu packages). Thus, I prepared compatibility packages educlient
+and eduroaming, hoping not to use them ;-)</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I have a Debian Stable PDC at school (Kerberos, NIS, NFS) with
+mixed Debian and Ubuntu clients. If you think that this triad
+combination is exotic... well I discovered right yesterday that
+<a href="http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/Perceus-Report.html">Perceus</a>
+has the same...</p>
+
+<p>For myself I run Debian wheezy/sid, but this combination is good
+only I you have enough competence to fix stuff for yourself, if
+something breaks. Daily I use texmacs, gnumeric, a little bit of R
+statistics, kmplot, and less frequently OpenOffice.org.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<P>I think that the only real argument that school managers "hear" is
+cost reduction. They don't give too much weight on quality, stability,
+just because they are normally not open to change.</p>
+
+<p>Students adapts very quickly to GNU/Linux (and for them being able
+to switch between different OS is a plus value); teachers and managers
+don't.</p>
+
+<p>We decided to move to Linux because students at our school have own
+laptop and we have the responsibility to keep the laptop ready to use;
+we were really unsatisfied with Microsoft since every Monday we had 20
+machine to fix for viral infections... With Linux this has been
+reduced to zero, since people installs almost only from official
+repositories. I think that our special needs brought us to Linux.
+Those who don't have such needs will hardly move to Linux.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Naturvernforbundet i Oslo bruker OpenStreetmap i sin kalender</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Naturvernforbundet_i_Oslo_bruker_OpenStreetmap_i_sin_kalender.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Naturvernforbundet_i_Oslo_bruker_OpenStreetmap_i_sin_kalender.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 16 Sep 2012 12:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Veldig morsomt å se at
+<a href="http://naturvernforbundet.no/noa/">Naturvernforbundet Oslo og
+Akershus</a> bruker kart fra
+<a href="http://www.openstreetmap.no/">OpenStreetmap.org<a/> i
+<a href="http://naturvernforbundet.no/noa/bestill-markakalenderen-2013-article24039-1939.html">sine
+kalendere</a>. Vidar Gundersen i kartgruppa
+<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/kart/2012-September/003696.html">forteller
+på den norske epostlisten</a> til prosjektet at hvert blad i
+kalenderen har et turforslag på baksiden, med kart fra OpenStreetmap.
+Tidligere kjøpte de visst kart fra kartverket, men nå slipper de
+det.</p>
+
+<p>Denne nyheten synes jeg er fantastisk bra, og jeg håper de får
+følge av flere, slik at det potensielle og fryktede inntektstapet for
+kartverket ved frigjøring av kartdata blir mindre, og forhåpentligvis
+til slutt så lite at frykten for å frigjøre data overvinnes.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>IETF activity to standardise video codec</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_activity_to_standardise_video_codec.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_activity_to_standardise_video_codec.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 15 Sep 2012 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>After the
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_standardize_its_first_multimedia_codec__Opus.html">Opus
+codec made</a> it into <a href="http://www.ietf.org/">IETF</a> as
+<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716">RFC 6716</a>, I had a look
+to see if there is any activity in IETF to standardise a video codec
+too, and I was happy to discover that there is some activity in this
+area. A non-"working group" mailing list
+<a href="https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/video-codec">video-codec</a>
+was
+<a href="http://ietf.10.n7.nabble.com/New-Non-WG-Mailing-List-video-codec-Video-codec-BoF-discussion-list-td119548.html">created 2012-08-20</a>. It is intended to discuss the topic and if a
+formal working group should be formed.</p>
+
+<p>I look forward to see how this plays out. There is already
+<a href="http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/video-codec/current/msg00003.html">an
+email from someone</a> in the MPEG group at ISO asking people to
+participate in the ISO group. Given how ISO failed with OOXML and given
+that it so far (as far as I can remember) only have produced
+multimedia formats requiring royalty payments, I suspect
+joining the ISO group would be a complete waste of time, but I am not
+involved in any codec work and my opinion will not matter much.</p>
+
+<p>If one of my readers is involved with codec work, I hope she will
+join this work to standardise a royalty free video codec within
+IETF.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>IETF standardize its first multimedia codec: Opus</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_standardize_its_first_multimedia_codec__Opus.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_standardize_its_first_multimedia_codec__Opus.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 12 Sep 2012 13:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Yesterday, <a href="http://www.ietf.org/">IETF</a> announced the
+publication of of
+<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716">RFC 6716, the Definition
+of the Opus Audio Codec</a>, a low latency, variable bandwidth, codec
+intended for both VoIP, film and music. This is the first time, as
+far as I know, that IETF have standardized a multimedia codec. In
+<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3533">RFC 3533</a>, IETF
+standardized the OGG container format, and it has proven to be a great
+royalty free container for audio, video and movies. I hope IETF will
+continue to standardize more royalty free codeces, after ISO and MPEG
+have proven incapable of securing everyone equal rights to publish
+multimedia content on the Internet.</p>
+
+<p>IETF require two interoperating independent implementations to
+ratify a standard, and have so far ensured to only standardize royalty
+free specifications. Both are key factors to allow everyone (rich and
+poor), to compete on equal terms on the Internet.</p>
+
+<p>Visit the <a href="http://opus-codec.org/">Opus project page</a> if
+you want to learn more about the solution.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
<item>
<title>E-valg, fortsatt en dårlig idé (evaluering legges frem i Oslo)</title>
<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/E_valg__fortsatt_en_d_rlig_id___evaluering_legges_frem_i_Oslo_.html</link>
hemmelige valg i Norge, og at det nødvendigvis fører til at vi ikke
kan ha valg over Internet.</p>
-<p>Innlegget i BT forteller at det skal være et seminar om
-evalueringen av e-valgforsøket ved Litteraturhuset i morgen 2012-09-12
-9-11:45. Jeg hadde ikke fått med meg dette før nå, og kommer meg nok
-dessverre ikke innom, men håper det møter mange som fortsatt kan bidra
-til å få skutt ned e-valgsgalskapen.</p>
+<p>Innlegget i BT forteller at det skal være et
+<a href="http://www.samfunnsforskning.no/ISF-intern/ISF-Agenda/E-valg-i-et-demokratisk-perspektiv">seminar
+om evalueringen av e-valgforsøket</a> på Litteraturhuset i morgen
+2012-09-12 9-11:45. Jeg hadde ikke fått med meg dette før nå, og
+kommer meg nok dessverre ikke innom, men håper det møter mange som
+fortsatt kan bidra til å få skutt ned e-valgsgalskapen.</p>
<p>Det er lenge siden 2006, og jeg regner med at de fleste av mine
lesere har glemt eller ikke har lest høringsuttalelsen fra NUUG. Jeg
-gjengir det derfor her i sin helhet.</p>
+gjengir den derfor her i sin helhet.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Høringsuttalelse fra NUUG og EFN om elektronisk
ettertid (ikke-hemmelig), de som administrerer datasystemet kan
påvirke valgresultatet ved å endre, trekke fra eller legge til stemmer
(ikke-nøyaktig), og det ikke nødvendigvis er mulig å oppdage at slik
-påvirkning har funnet sted (ikkeetterprøvbart). Webbaserte
+påvirkning har funnet sted (ikke etterprøvbart). Webbaserte
valgsystemer uten spesiell klientprogramvare vil ha flere av disse
problemene.</p>
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