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-               <title>Typesetting a short story using docbook for PDF, HTML and EPUB</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_a_short_story_using_docbook_for_PDF__HTML_and_EPUB.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Typesetting_a_short_story_using_docbook_for_PDF__HTML_and_EPUB.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 17:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;A few days ago, during a discussion in
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.efn.no/&quot;&gt;EFN&lt;/a&gt; about interesting books to read
-about copyright and the data retention directive, a suggestion to read
-the 1968 short story Kodémus by
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://web2.gyldendal.no/toraage/&quot;&gt;Tore Åge Bringsværd&lt;/a&gt;
-came up.  The text was only available in old paper books, and thus not
-easily available for current and future generations.  Some of the
-people participating in the discussion contacted the author, and
-reported back 2013-03-19 that the author was OK with releasing the
-short story using a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.creativecommons.org/&quot;&gt;Creative
-Commons&lt;/a&gt; license.  The text was quickly scanned and OCR-ed, and we
-were ready to start on the editing and typesetting.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;As I already had some experience formatting text in my project to
-provide a Norwegian version of the Free Culture book by Lawrence
-Lessig, I chipped in and set up a
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;DocBook&lt;/a&gt; processing framework to
-generate PDF, HTML and EPUB version of the short story.  The tools to
-transform DocBook to different formats are already in my Linux
-distribution of choice, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/&quot;&gt;Debian&lt;/a&gt;, so
-all I had to do was to use the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;dblatex&lt;/a&gt;,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/epub/README&quot;&gt;dbtoepub&lt;/a&gt;
-and &lt;a href=&quot;https://fedorahosted.org/xmlto/&quot;&gt;xmlto&lt;/a&gt; tools to do the
-conversion.  After a few days, we decided to replace dblatex with
-xsltproc/fop (aka
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookXslStylesheets&quot;&gt;docbook-xsl&lt;/a&gt;),
-to get the copyright information to show up in the PDF and to get a
-nicer &amp;lt;variablelist&amp;gt; typesetting, but that is just a minor
-technical detail.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;There were a few challenges, of course.  We want to typeset the
-short story to look like the original, and that require fairly good
-control over the layout.  The original short story have three
-parts/scenes separated by a single horizontally centred star (*), and
-the paragraphs do not contain only flowing text, but dialogs and text
-that started on a new line in the middle of the paragraph.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I initially solved the first challenge by using a paragraph with a
-single star in it, ie &amp;lt;para&amp;gt;*&amp;lt;/para&amp;gt;, but it made sure a
-placeholder indicated where the scene shifted.  This did not look too
-good without the centring.  The next approach was to create a new
-preprocessor directive &amp;lt;?newscene?&amp;gt;, mapping to &quot;&amp;lt;hr/&amp;gt;&quot;
-for HTML and &quot;&amp;lt;fo:block text-align=&quot;center&quot;&amp;gt;&amp;lt;fo:leader
-leader-pattern=&quot;rule&quot; rule-thickness=&quot;0.5pt&quot;/&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/fo:block&amp;gt;&quot;
-for FO/PDF output (did not try to implement this in dblatex, as we had
-switched at this time).  The HTML XSL file looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&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:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;newscene&#39;)&quot;&amp;gt;
-    &amp;lt;hr/&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
-&amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt; 
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;And the FO/PDF XSL file looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&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:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;newscene&#39;)&quot;&amp;gt;
-    &amp;lt;fo:block text-align=&quot;center&quot;&amp;gt;
-      &amp;lt;fo:leader leader-pattern=&quot;rule&quot; rule-thickness=&quot;0.5pt&quot;/&amp;gt;
-    &amp;lt;/fo:block&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
-&amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt; 
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Finally, I came across the &amp;lt;bridgehead&amp;gt; tag, which seem to be
-a good fit for the task at hand, and I replaced &amp;lt;?newscene?&amp;gt;
-with &amp;lt;bridgehead&amp;gt;*&amp;lt;/bridgehead&amp;gt;.  It isn&#39;t centred, but we
-can fix it with some XSL rule if the current visual layout isn&#39;t
-enough.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I did not find a good DocBook compliant way to solve the
-linebreak/paragraph challenge, so I ended up creating a new processor
-directive &amp;lt;?linebreak?&amp;gt;, mapping to &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt; in HTML, and
-&amp;lt;fo:block/&amp;gt; in FO/PDF.  I suspect there are better ways to do
-this, and welcome ideas and patches on github.  The HTML XSL file now
-look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&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:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;linebreak)&quot;&amp;gt;
-    &amp;lt;br/&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
-&amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt; 
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;And the FO/PDF XSL file looked like this:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&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;
-  xmlns:fo=&quot;http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format&quot;&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;xsl:template match=&quot;processing-instruction(&#39;linebreak)&quot;&amp;gt;
-    &amp;lt;fo:block/&amp;gt;
-  &amp;lt;/xsl:template&amp;gt;
-&amp;lt;/xsl:stylesheet&amp;gt; 
-&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;One unsolved challenge is our wish to expose different ISBN numbers
-per publication format, while keeping all of them in some conditional
-structure in the DocBook source.  No idea how to do this, so we ended
-up listing all the ISBN numbers next to their format in the colophon
-page.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you want to check out the finished result, check out the
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/sickel/kodemus&quot;&gt;source repository at
-github&lt;/a&gt;
-(&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/EFN/kodemus&quot;&gt;future/new/official
-repository&lt;/a&gt;).  We expect it to be ready and announced in a few
-days.&lt;/p&gt;
-</description>
-       </item>
-       
-       <item>
-               <title>Regjeringen, FAD og DIFI går inn for å fjerne ODF som obligatorisk standard i det offentlige</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Regjeringen__FAD_og_DIFI_g_r_inn_for___fjerne_ODF_som_obligatorisk_standard_i_det_offentlige.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Regjeringen__FAD_og_DIFI_g_r_inn_for___fjerne_ODF_som_obligatorisk_standard_i_det_offentlige.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 21:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;I
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://standard.difi.no/hoyring/forslag-om-endring-av-forskrift-om-it-standarder-i-offentlig-forvaltning&quot;&gt;siste
-høring&lt;/a&gt; om
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://standard.difi.no/forvaltningsstandarder&quot;&gt;referansekatalogen
-for IT-standarder i offentlig sektor&lt;/a&gt;, med høringsfrist 2012-09-30
-(DIFI-sak 2012/498), ble det foreslått å fjerne ODF som obligatorisk
-standard når en publiserte dokumenter som skulle kunne redigeres
-videre av mottaker.  NUUG og andre protesterte på forslaget, som er et
-langt steg tilbake når det gjelder å sikre like rettigheter for alle
-når en kommuniserer med det offentlige.  For noen dager siden ble jeg
-oppmerksom på at Direktoratet for forvaltning og IKT (DIFI) og
-Fornyings-,administrasjons- og kirkedepartementet (FAD) har
-konkludert, og oversendt forslag til regjeringen i saken. FADs
-dokument
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.oep.no/search/result.html?period=none&amp;descType=both&amp;caseNumber=2012%2F2168&amp;senderType=both&amp;documentType=all&amp;list2=94&amp;searchType=advanced&amp;Search=S%C3%B8k+i+journaler&quot;&gt;2012/2168&lt;/a&gt;-8,
-«Utkast til endring av standardiseringsforskriften» datert 2013-02-06
-har følgende triste oppsummering fra høringen i saken:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-Det kom noen innvendinger på forslaget om å fjerne ODF som
-obligatorisk standard for redigerbare dokumenter. Innvendingene har
-ikke blitt ilagt avgjørende vekt.
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Ved å fjerne ODF som obligatorisk format ved publisering av
-redigerbare dokumenter setter en Norge tiår tilbake.  Det som vil skje
-er at offentlige etater går tilbake til kun å publisere dokumenter på
-et av de mange formatene til Microsoft Office, og alle som ikke
-aksepterer bruksvilkårene til Microsoft eller ikke har råd til å bruke
-penger på å få tilgang til Microsoft Office må igjen basere seg på
-verktøy fra utviklerne som er avhengig av å reversutvikle disse
-formatene.  I og med at ISO-spesifikasjonen for OOXML ikke komplett og
-korrekt spesifiserer formatene til MS Office (men er nyttige å titte i
-når en reversutvikler), er en tilbake til en situasjon der en ikke har
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fri_og__pen_standard__slik_Digistan_ser_det.html&quot;&gt;en
-fri og åpen standard&lt;/a&gt; å forholde seg til, men i stedet må springe
-etter Microsoft.  Alle andre leverandører enn Microsoft vil dermed ha
-en seriøs ulempe.  Det er som å fjerne krav om bruk av meter som
-måleenhet, og heretter aksepterer alle måleenheter som like gyldige,
-når en vet at den mest brukte enheten vil være armlengden til Steve
-Ballmer slik Microsoft måler den.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg er ikke sikker på om forslaget er vedtatt av regjeringen ennå.
-Kristian Bergem hos DIFI nevnte på et møte forrige tirsdag at han
-trodde det var vedtatt i statsråd 8. mars, men jeg har ikke klart å
-finne en skriftlig kilde på regjeringen.no som bekrefter dette.
-Kanskje det ennå ikke er for sent...&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg ba i forrige uke om innsyn i dokument 6, 7 og 8 i FAD-saken, og
-har i dag fått innsyn i dokument 7 og 8.  Ble nektet innsyn i
-dokumentet med tittelen «Oppsummering av høring om endringer i
-forskrift om IT-standarder i offentlig forvaltning» med hjemmel i
-off. lovens §15.1, så det er vanskelig å vite hvordan argumentene fra
-høringen ble mottatt og forstått av saksbehandleren hos DIFI.  Lurer
-på hvordan jeg kan klage på at jeg ikke fikk se oppsummeringen.  Fikk
-tre PDFer tilsendt fra FAD,
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-FAD/20130115%20Notat%20FAD%20-%20EHF.pdf%20(L)(889185).pdf&quot;&gt;Endring av underversjon i EHF&lt;/a&gt;, 
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-FAD/Bakgrunnsnotat%20knyttet%20til%20versjon%20av%20EHF%20standarden%20i%20Forskrift%20om%20IT-standarder%20i%20offentlig%20sektor.pdf&quot;&gt;Bakgrunnsnotat knyttet til versjon av EHF standarden i Forskrift om IT-standarder i offentlig sektor&lt;/a&gt; og
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/pub/offentliginnsyn/from-FAD/Utkast%20Kongelig%20resolusjon.docx%20(L)(898064).pdf&quot;&gt;Utkast til endring av standardiseringsforskriften&lt;/a&gt;, hvis du vil ta en titt.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Fourth alpha release of Debian Edu/Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fourth_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fourth_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu_Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 3 Jul 2013 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The fourth wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today.  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.1+edu0~alpha3 released
+2013-07-03&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;These are the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+7.1+edu0~alpha3, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu, also known as
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
+out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
+network. Immediately 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, DVD 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
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&quot;&gt;more
+than 60 educational software packages&lt;/a&gt; and more are available from
+the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
+and Xfce desktop environment.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is the fourth test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
+this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
+Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Dropped ispell dictionaries from our default installation.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Dropped menu-xdg from the KDE desktop option, to drop the Debian
+    submenu.  It was not included with Gnome, LXDE or Xfce, so this
+    brings KDE in line with the others.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Dropped xdrawchem, xjig and xsok from our default installation as
+    they don&#39;t have a desktop menu entry and thus won&#39;t show up in the
+    menu now that menu-xdg was removed.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Removed the killer system to kill left behind processes on
+    multi-user machines, as it was no longer able to understand when a
+    X display was in use and killed the processes of the active users
+    too.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Dropped the golearn (from goplay) package as the debtags in wheezy
+    are too few to make the package useful.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Updated artwork matching http://wiki.debian.org/DebianArt/Themes/Joy
+  &lt;li&gt;Multi-arch i386/amd64 USB stick ISO available.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Got rid of ispell/wordlist related debconf questions that showed
+    up for some language options.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Switched to using http.debian.net as APT source by default.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Fixed proxy configuration on Main Server installations.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Changed LTSP setup to ask dpkg to use force-unsafe-io the same way
+    d-i is doing it.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Made sure root and user passwords were not left behind in the
+    debconf database after installation on Main Server installations.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Made Roaming Workstation dynamic setup more robust and added draft
+    script setup-ad-client to hook a Roaming Workstation up to a
+    Active Directory server instead of a Debian Edu Main Server.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Update system to install needed firmware packages during
+    installation, to work properly in Wheezy.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Update system to handle hardware quirks (debian-edu-hwsetup).&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Corrected PXE installation setup to properly pass selected desktop
+    and keymap settings to PXE installation clients.&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;LTSP diskless workstations use sshfs by default, allowing them to
+    work without adding them to DNS and NIS netgroups for NFS access.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
+    available yet (698840).&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Artwork not enabled for all desktops.&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-CD.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 2b161a99d2a848c376d8d04e3854e30c
+&lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 498922e9c508c0a7ee9dbe1dfe5bf830d779c3c8&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch USB stick ISO release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;ul&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.1+edu0~a3-USB.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 25e808e403a4c15dbef1d13c37d572ac
+&lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: 15ecfc93eb6b4f453b7eb0bc04b6a279262d9721&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Skolelinux 6 got a video review from Pcwizz</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_6_got_a_video_review_from_Pcwizz.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_6_got_a_video_review_from_Pcwizz.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 17 Mar 2013 10:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Via
-&lt;a href=&quot;https://twitter.com/pcwizz/status/313044373262716930&quot;&gt;twitter&lt;/a&gt;
-I just discovered that &lt;a href=&quot;http://pcwizz.net/&quot;&gt;Pcwizz&lt;/a&gt; have
-done a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPzTZ61Pcuc&quot;&gt;video
-review&lt;/a&gt; on Youtube of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
-/ Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt; version 6.  He installed the standalone profile and
-the video show a walk-through of of the menu content, demonstration of
-a few programs and his view of our distribution.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;There is also some really nice quotes (transcribed by me, might
-have heard wrong).  While looking thought the Graphics menu:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&quot;Basically everything you ever need in a school environment.&quot;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;And as a general evaluation of the entire distribution:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&quot;So, yeah, a bit bloated.  It kept all the Debian stuff in there, just
-to keep it nice and GNU.  So, I do not want to go on about it, but
-lets give it 7 out of 10.  I am not going to use it.  That is because
-I am not deploying a school network.  There may be some mythical
-feature to help you deploy Skolelinux on a school network.&quot;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;To bad he did not test the server profile, and discovered the PXE
-installation option.  It make it possible to install only the main
-server from CD, and the rest of the machines via the net, and might be
-considered the mythical feature he talk about. :)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;While looking through the menus, there is also this funny comment
-about the part of the K menu generated from the Debian menu subsystem:
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&quot;[The K menu] have a special Debian section for software that no-one
-is going to look at, because it contain lots of junky stuff that you
-actually don&#39;t need in the education distribution, but have just been
-included because it isn&#39;t stripped out for some reason.&quot;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I guess it is yet another argument for merging the Debian menu and
-Gnome/KDE desktop menu entries into
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/DebianMenuUsingDesktopEntries&quot;&gt;one
-consistent menu system&lt;/a&gt; instead of two incomplete and partly
-inconsistent menu systems.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The entire video is available below for those accepting iframe
-embedding:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;iframe width=&quot;560&quot; height=&quot;315&quot; src=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/embed/wPzTZ61Pcuc&quot; frameborder=&quot;0&quot; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;
+               <title>Automatically locate and install required firmware packages on Debian (Isenkram 0.4)</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatically_locate_and_install_required_firmware_packages_on_Debian__Isenkram_0_4_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Automatically_locate_and_install_required_firmware_packages_on_Debian__Isenkram_0_4_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jun 2013 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It annoys me when the computer fail to do automatically what it is
+perfectly capable of, and I have to do it manually to get things
+working.  One such task is to find out what firmware packages are
+needed to get the hardware on my computer working.  Most often this
+affect the wifi card, but some times it even affect the RAID
+controller or the ethernet card.  Today I pushed version 0.4 of the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/isenkram&quot;&gt;Isenkram package&lt;/a&gt;
+including a new script isenkram-autoinstall-firmware handling the
+process of asking all the loaded kernel modules what firmware files
+they want, find debian packages providing these files and install the
+debian packages.  Here is a test run on my laptop:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+# isenkram-autoinstall-firmware 
+info: kernel drivers requested extra firmware: ipw2200-bss.fw ipw2200-ibss.fw ipw2200-sniffer.fw
+info: fetching http://http.debian.net/debian/dists/squeeze/Contents-i386.gz
+info: locating packages with the requested firmware files
+info: Updating APT sources after adding non-free APT source
+info: trying to install firmware-ipw2x00
+firmware-ipw2x00
+firmware-ipw2x00
+Preconfiguring packages ...
+Selecting previously deselected package firmware-ipw2x00.
+(Reading database ... 259727 files and directories currently installed.)
+Unpacking firmware-ipw2x00 (from .../firmware-ipw2x00_0.28+squeeze1_all.deb) ...
+Setting up firmware-ipw2x00 (0.28+squeeze1) ...
+# 
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;When all the requested firmware is present, a simple message is
+printed instead:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+# isenkram-autoinstall-firmware 
+info: did not find any firmware files requested by loaded kernel modules.  exiting
+# 
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;It could use some polish, but it is already working well and saving
+me some time when setting up new machines. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;So, how does it work?  It look at the set of currently loaded
+kernel modules, and look up each one of them using modinfo, to find
+the firmware files listed in the module meta-information.  Next, it
+download the Contents file from a nearby APT mirror, and search for
+the firmware files in this file to locate the package with the
+requested firmware file.  If the package is in the non-free section, a
+non-free APT source is added and the package is installed using
+&lt;tt&gt;apt-get install&lt;/tt&gt;.  The end result is a slightly better working
+machine.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I hope someone find time to implement a more polished version of
+this script as part of the hw-detect debian-installer module, to
+finally fix &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/655507&quot;&gt;BTS report
+#655507&lt;/a&gt;.  There really is no need to insert USB sticks with
+firmware during a PXE install when the packages already are available
+from the nearby Debian mirror.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Til frikanalens støttespillere - fra styret i Frikanalen</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Til_frikanalens_st_ttespillere___fra_styret_i_Frikanalen.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Til_frikanalens_st_ttespillere___fra_styret_i_Frikanalen.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 11:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Min venn Erik Vold har på vegne av styret i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt; sendt ut
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/frikanalen/2013-March/000054.html&quot;&gt;følgende
-epost&lt;/a&gt; til alle kanalens medlemmer og støttespillere, i et forsøk
-på å redde kanalen etter at kulturdepartementet kuttet all
-finansiering i fjor høst.  Jeg fikk meldingen som
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt;-styremedlem, og mener den
-trenger et større publikum.  Jeg gjengir den derfor i sin helhet,
-inkludert lenken til budsjett og regnskapsutkast, etter
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/frikanalen/2013-March/000061.html&quot;&gt;avtale
-med Erik&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-&lt;p&gt;Til Frikanalens støttespillere&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Frivillighetens TV kanal har med minimal støtte avviklet daglige
-sendinger siden 2009 og til tross for at statsstøtten uteble i år, er
-vi nå i full gang med å utvikle et nytt TV system som foreningen selv
-vil eie. Departementet fikk dessverre ikke med seg at nettet vil
-berike TV sendingen fremfor å gjøre den overflødig. De har nå overlatt
-finansieringen av videre drift til frivilligheten og vi håper derfor
-på deres hjelp til å søke om midler. På kjøpet får dere langt flere
-muligheter til å nå ut med deres budskap og med utbyggingen av Hybrid
-TV (nett på TV) kan vi sammen motbevise departementets påstand.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Kostnaden med denne utviklingen er svært lav ettersom de fleste
-programmererne jobber gratis og alt er basert på åpen kildekode der
-man deler hverandres bidrag til kringkastingsorienterte systemer. I
-samarbeid med flere europeiske kanaler i EBU (SVT, BBC, NRK, ZDF, ARD,
-France Televisions etc) ønsker vi å bygge opp et nettverk for delt
-support og åpen kildekode der Frikanalen er den eneste sandkassen hvor
-ny teknologi kan testes på luft. Riks TV åpner for annonsering av
-nettinnhold relatert til det du ser på TV (streamevents i HbbTV)
-allerede i sommer. Med støtte fra Media Netwerk som drifter Frikanalen
-samt Sofia Digital som stiller med Hybrid TV server er vi &amp; NRK sikret
-en sentral rolle i utprøvingen. Det vil da bli mulig og streame
-direkte til Riks TV sine nye mottakere (og nye IDTV&#39;er) i HD samt at
-TV&#39;n kan annonsere en link til deres organisasjonssider, med
-oppdaterte nyheter (RSS feeds), relaterte videoer etc., under
-avviklingen av deres innslag.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Vi tror sendingene på den nye nettstyrte TV-kanalen vil bli rikere enn
-på den kommersielle plattformen vi har vært på så langt. Brukerne vil
-nå få en tettere integrasjon med sosiale medier samt at innholdet
-etterhvert kommer ut på Hybrid TV og mobile enheter. Teknisk ansvarlig
-i Frikanalen, Erik Vold, er sentral i utviklingen av streamingdelen
-for tv.nrk.no (årets produkt i PC World) og erfaringen NRK har gjort
-på mobile enheter kan videreføres til oss. Det er heller ingen tvil om
-at Hybrid TV vil bli en suksess også i Norge. Erik sitter i Nordig som
-har vedtatt en felles standard for de nordiske kringkasterne basert på
-HbbTV.  Denne standarden bruker web-protokoller som gjør det like
-enkelt og billig å utvikle tjenester for Hybrid TV som å lage en
-nettside. Samtlige nye TV apparater solgt i Norden vil ha støtte for
-HbbTV og med det tror vi oppslutningen vil bli like stor som ellers i
-Europa (Tyskland og Frankrike tredoblet antall HbbTV-brukere i
-fjor). Vi forventer også mye d rahjelp fra disse foregangslandene. Vår
-utvikler Tore Sinding Bekkedal er i skriv ende stund på en HbbTV
-workshop med EBU-medlemmer hos IRT i München der han på vegne av NRK
-tester og utvikler ny stremingteknologi (MPEG- DASH) for
-mobile enheter og hybrid TV.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Frikanalen har forøvrig flyttet inn i nye kostnadsfrie lokaler på
-Chateau Neuf.  Med massiv hjelp fra frivillige får vi der en
-flerkameraregi i egnede lokaler. Dette åpner for debatter, konserter,
-events og mye spennende innhold i samarbeid med Student TV&#39;ene.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Med hjelp fra NUUG har også streamingdelen av systemet fått plass på
-Uninett (Forskningsparken) og dermed er vi på Norges beste
-internettlinjer. Vi åpner med dette for live mottak fra samtlige
-medlemmer og på sikt kan vi tilby HD på hybrid TV og PC / MAC / mobil.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Avvikling på luft skjer allerede med egenutviklede løsninger i åpen
-kildekode (playout og live-koding). Det er også mulig å se første
-byggetrinn med programoversikt og videoer på nett, men foreløpig kun
-for nettleserne Opera, Chrome og Firefox:
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/guide/&quot;&gt;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/guide/&lt;/a&gt;
-og
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/&quot;&gt;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/video/&lt;/a&gt;. Kom
-gjerne med ønsker og tilbakemeldinger til vår hovedutvikler Benjamin
-Bruheim: grolgh (at) gmail.com&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Med en tettere tilknytning til Akademia og NRK, er det god grunn til å
-tro at utviklingen vil skyte fart og at vi raskere kommer ut med
-dagsaktuelt innhold.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Vi sender i dag på Riks TV og Altibox, men ikke lenger på TV8. Det er
-viktig for våre brukere igjen å komme ut på Get og Canal Digital,
-dermed er det svært heldig at vi nå har formidlingsplikt på kabel. Til
-tross for at det tar noe tid å få nye avtaler på plass, med frivillig
-juridisk bistand, vil vi sannsynligvis komme bedre ut i andre enden
-også her.  Formidlingsplikten gjelder samtlige kabeldistribusjoner i
-Norge, ikke bare de regionene TV8 hadde avtale med.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Om alt dette skal se dagens lys er vi avhengig av en
-grunnfinansiering. Deres medlemsavgifter er i så måte et svært viktig
-bidrag som vi er veldig takknemlige for.  Vi ser oss likevel nødt til
-å be dere om å delta i arbeidet med å dekke de resterende
-driftskostnader. Frikanalen sin arbeidskapasitet er betydelig redusert
-etter at foreningen ikke lenger kunne finansiere en daglig leder, men
-allmøtet kan åpne for at flere bidrar til inntjening (Ekstraordinær
-generalforsamling foreslo å tillate sponsorplakater på sendeflaten og
-deler av disse inntektene kan tilfalle kanalen).  Håper alle
-medlemmene kan hjelpe oss med å skrive søknader og skaffe sponsorer,
-eller i det minste komme med gode forslag til inntjening. Det er ikke
-mye som skal til for å klare videre drift, kun 0,5 mill. pr år.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Med en støtte som tilsvarer en norsk kortfilm vil vi kunne redde
-sendearkivet for flere tusen videoer bygget opp av frivilligheten
-gjennom 5 år og vi dobler kapasiteten for å ta imot nye (De som
-leverer HD vil for øvrig kunne få HD på nett, mobil og hybrid TV).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Vi vil også kunne videreføre konsesjonen på Riks TV og realisere en
-formidlingsplikt på kabel som har en årlig verdi på ca. 5 millioner
-kroner (når over 2/3 av Norges befolkning).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Uten støtte står verdens eneste nasjonale nettstyrte åpne TV kanal i
-fare for å forsvinne. En konkursbegjæring vil gjøre at utstyrsparken
-går til advokatsalærer i behandling av boet og kreditorene vil ikke
-kunne få dekket sine krav. Det mener vi ikke bare er urett ovenfor
-långiverne, men det er urett mot alle de som har bidratt med å bygge
-opp frivillighetens eneste sendearkiv og ikke minst alle de som i dag
-jobber frivillig med å videreutvikle TV-systemet.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Håper dere i likhet med styret ser verdien i videre drift og kan melde
-tilbake innen årsmøtet (Kontaktinformasjon til styret og frivillige
-utviklere er i kopifeltet).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Vennligst fyll ut det blå feltet i regnearket under med det dere tror
-er mulig å få inn. Det dere skriver her er ikke bindende, men gir
-styret en indikasjon på om videre drift er mulig. Det blir tatt
-stilling til av generalforsamlingen medio mars. Setter derfor pris på
-om alle kan bidra med forslag til støtte eller antatte verdier fra
-søknad/spons innen det.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Forhåpentligvis når vi også ønsket budsjett på 1 mill. pr år. Med det
-kan vi nedbetale gjelden raskere og sørge for en bedre
-tilgjengelighet, samt raskere utvikling:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AouVL_e9_H1QdDgyX01kbElvcWI0UjFQbVNGbFIyUmc&amp;usp=sharing#gid=0&quot;&gt;https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AouVL_e9_H1QdDgyX01kbElvcWI0UjFQbVNGbFIyUmc&amp;usp=sharing#gid=0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Med vennlig hilsen
-&lt;br&gt;Styret i Frikanalen&lt;/p&gt;
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Jeg håper noen av mine lesere med dette ser verdien av Frikanalen
-og melder seg inn for å sende sine videoer ut på TV til RiksTV og
-Altibox-seerne.  Det haster. Årsmøtet i foreningen Frikanalen skal
-straks avholdes, og innen den tid må en redningsplan være på plass.
-NUUG bidrar allerede litt ved å organisere utviklersamlinger og
-finansiere litt mat og drikke til de frivillige som stiller opp på
-dugnadsbasis for å utvikle den tekniske løsningen.  Det er ikke nok
-til å redde kanalen, men gir et lite steg i riktig retning.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Update 2013-03-13 13:00&lt;/strong&gt;: Epostlistelenkene
-fungerer ikke lenger, da epostarkivet nå ikke lenger er tilgjengelig
-for ikke-abonnenter.  Korrigerte teksten fra styret litt etter
-oppfordring fra Frikanalen-styret.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>The value of a good distro wide test suite...</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_value_of_a_good_distro_wide_test_suite___.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_value_of_a_good_distro_wide_test_suite___.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 22 Jun 2013 07:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;In the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; project, we include a post-installation test suite,
+which check that services are running, working, and return the
+expected results.  It runs automatically just after the first boot on
+test installations (using test ISOs), but not on production
+installations (using non-test ISOs).  It test that the LDAP service is
+operating, Kerberos is responding, DNS is replying, file systems are
+online resizable, etc, etc.  And it check that the PXE service is
+configured, which is the topic of this post.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The last week I&#39;ve fixed the DVD and USB stick ISOs for our Debian
+Edu Wheezy release.  These ISOs are supposed to be able to install a
+complete system without any Internet connection, but for that to
+happen all the needed packages need to be on them.  Thanks to our test
+suite, I discovered that we had forgotten to adjust our PXE setup to
+cope with the new names and paths used by the netboot d-i packages.
+When Internet connectivity was available, the installer fall back to
+using wget to fetch d-i boot images, but when offline it require
+working packages to get it working.  And ad the packages changed name
+from debian-installer-6.0-netboot-$arch to
+debian-installer-7.0-netboot-$arch, we no longer pulled in the
+packages during installation.  Without our test suite, I suspect we
+would never have discovered this before release.  Now it is fixed
+right after we got the ISOs operational.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Another by-product of the test suite is that we can ask system
+administrators with problems getting Debian Edu to work, to run the
+test suite using &lt;tt&gt;/usr/sbin/debian-edu-test-install&lt;/tt&gt; and see if
+any errors are detected.  This usually pinpoint the subsystem causing
+the problem.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you want to help us help kids learn how to share and create,
+please join us on
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu on
+irc.debian.org&lt;/a&gt; and the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/&quot;&gt;debian-edu@&lt;/a&gt; mailing
+list.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Osloskolen bryter loven når de sender politihunder inn i klasserom med elever</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Osloskolen_bryter_loven_n_r_de_sender_politihunder_inn_i_klasserom_med_elever.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Osloskolen_bryter_loven_n_r_de_sender_politihunder_inn_i_klasserom_med_elever.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Om noen år skal mine barn antagelig begynne på skolen i Oslo.  Der
-skal de blant annet lære seg å verdsette og håndheve sine egne grenser
-og beskytte sin personlige integritet og privatsfære.  Det blir ikke
-enkelt når ledelsen i Osloskolen med vitende og vilje legger opp til å
-krenke elevenes privatsfære ved å la politiet ransake elevene med
-narkohund i klasserommet.  Jon Wessel-Aas har publisert noen
-interessante kommentarer om hvorfor dette er ulovlig.
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Victor Nițu</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Victor_Ni_u.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Victor_Ni_u.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; distribution have users and contributors all around the
+globe.  And a while back, an enterprising young man showed up on
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;our IRC channel
+#debian-edu&lt;/a&gt; and started asking questions about how Debian Edu
+worked.  We answered as good as we could, and even convinced him to
+help us with translations.  And today I managed to get an interview
+with him, to learn more about him.&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;I&#39;m a 25 year old free software enthusiast, living in Romania,
+which is also my country of origin. Back in 2009, at a New Year&#39;s Eve
+party, I had a very nice &lt;strike&gt;beer&lt;/strike&gt; discussion with a
+friend, when we realized we have no organised Debian community in our
+country. A few days later, we put together the infrastructure for such
+community and even gathered a nice Debian-ish crowd. Since then, I
+began my quest as a free software hacker and activist and I am
+constantly trying to cover as much ground as possible on that
+field.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;A few years ago I founded a small web development company, which
+provided me the flexible schedule I needed so much for my
+activities. For the last 13 months, I have been the Technical Director
+of &lt;a href=&quot;http://ceata.org/&quot;&gt;Fundația Ceata&lt;/a&gt;, which is a free
+software activist organisation endorsed by the FSF and the FSFE, and
+the only one we have in our country.&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;The idea of participating in the Debian Edu project was a surprise
+even to me, since I never used it before I began getting involved in
+it. This year I had a great opportunity to deliver a talk on
+educational software, and I knew immediately where to look. It was a
+love at first sight, since I was previously involved with some of the
+technologies the project incorporates, and I rapidly found a lot of
+ways to contribute.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My first contributions consisted in translating the installer and
+configuration dialogs, then I found some bugs to squash (I still
+haven&#39;t fixed them yet though), and I even got my eyes on some other
+areas where I can prove myself helpful. Since the appetite for free
+software in my country is pretty low, I&#39;ll be happy to be the first
+one around here advocating for the project&#39;s adoption in educational
+environments, and maybe even get my hands dirty in creating a flavour
+for our own needs. I am not used to make very advanced plannings, so
+from now on, time will tell what I&#39;ll be doing next, but I think I
+have a pretty consistent starting point.&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;Not a long time ago, I was in the position of configuring and
+maintaining a LDAP server on some Debian derivative, and I must say it
+took me a while. A long time ago, I was maintaining a bigger
+Samba-powered infrastructure, and I must say I spent quite a lot of
+time on it. I have similar stories about many of the services included
+with Skolelinux, and the main advantage I see about it is the
+out-of-the box availability of them, making it quite competitive when
+it comes to managing a school&#39;s network, for example.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Of course, there is more to say about Skolelinux than the
+availability of the software included, its flexibility in various
+scenarios is something I can&#39;t wait to experiment &quot;into the wild&quot; (I
+only played with virtual machines so far). And I am sure there is a
+lot more I haven&#39;t discovered yet about it, being so new within the
+project.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
+Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;As usual, when it comes to Debian Blends, I see as the biggest
+disadvantage the lack of a numerous team dedicated to the
+project. Every day I see the same names in the changelogs, and I have
+a constantly fear of the bus factor in this story.  I&#39;d like to see
+Debian Edu advertised more as an entry point into the Debian
+ecosystem, especially amongst newcomers and students. IMHO there are a
+lot low-hanging fruits in terms of bug squashing, and enough
+opportunities to get the feeling of the Debian Project&#39;s dynamics. Not
+to mention it&#39;s a very fun blend to work on!&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Derived from the previous statement, is the delay in catching up
+with the main Debian release and documentation. This is common though
+to all blends and derivatives, but it&#39;s an issue we can all work
+on.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I can hardly imagine myself spending a day without Vim, since my
+daily routine covers writing code and hacking configuration files. I
+am a fan of the Awesome window manager (but I also like the
+Enlightenment project a lot!),
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.claws-mail.org/‎&quot;&gt;Claws Mail&lt;/a&gt; due to its ease of
+use and very configurable behaviour. Recently I fell in love with
+&lt;a href=&quot;https://launchpad.net/redshift&quot;&gt;Redshift&lt;/a&gt;, which helps me
+get through the night without headaches. Of course, there is much more
+stuff in this bag, but I&#39;ll need a blog on my own for doing this!&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;Well, on this field, I cannot do much more than experiment right
+now. So, being far from having a recipe for success, I can only assume
+that:&lt;/p&gt;

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

-  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uhuru.biz/?p=1293&quot;&gt;Bruk av narkohund i
-    klasserom – fra vondt til verre&lt;/a&gt; (2013-03-09)&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;schools would like to get rid of proprietary software&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;students will love the openness of the system, and will want to
+    experiment with it - maybe we need to harvest the native curiosity
+    of teenagers more?&lt;/li&gt;

 
 

-  &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uhuru.biz/?p=1018&quot;&gt;Ulovlig og
-    menneskerettsstridig bruk av narkohund i klasserom&lt;/a&gt;
-    (2012-03-12)&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;there is no &quot;right one&quot; when it comes to strategies, but it would
+    be useful to have some success stories published somewhere, so
+    other can get some inspiration from them (I know I&#39;d promote
+    them!)&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;more active promotion - talks, conferences, even small school
+    lectures can do magical things if they encounter at least one
+    person interested. Who knows who that person might be? ;-)&lt;/li&gt;

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

-&lt;p&gt;Jeg er veldig glad for at han bidrar med argumenter og forklaringer
-vi foreldre kan ta med oss når vi skal protestere på og få en slutt på
-denne forkastelige praksisen.  Narkotikaproblemet må adresseres på
-andre måter som ikke krenker barn og ungdoms integritet.  Jeg ønsker
-ikke at mine barn skal læres opp til å akseptere radering av
-privatlivets fred, men heller at de skal læres opp til å sloss imot
-den innføringen av stadig mer totalitær overvåkning som har pågått
-over mange år i Norge.  &lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;I also see some problems in getting Skolelinux into schools; for
+example, in our country we have a great deal of corruption issues, so
+it might be hard(er) to fight against proprietary solutions. Also,
+people who relied on commercial software for all their lives, would be
+very hard to convert against their will.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>First Skolelinux / Debian Edu Squeeze update released</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_update_released.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_update_released.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 8 Mar 2013 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Last Sunday, 2013-03-03,, Holger Levsen announced the first update
-of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux / Debian Edu&lt;/a&gt;
-based on Debian Squeeze.  This is the first update since
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html&quot;&gt;the
-initial release 2012-03-11&lt;/a&gt;.  This is the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2013/03/msg00000.html&quot;&gt;release
-announcement email from Holger&lt;/a&gt;:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hi,&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;it&#39;s my pleasure to announce the immediate availability of Debian
-Edu 6.0.7+r1 (&quot;Debian Edu Squeeze&quot;).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Debian Edu 6.0.7+r1 is an incremental update to Debian Edu
-6.0.4+r0, containing all the changes between Debian 6.0.4 and 6.0.7 as
-well Debian Edu specific bugfixes and enhancements. See below (in this
-mail) for the full list of (edu) changes.  Please see
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311&quot;&gt;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311&lt;/a&gt;
-for more information on &quot;Debian Edu Squeeze&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Images are available for download at
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;md5sums:
-&lt;br&gt;1fe79eb4f0f9ae1c58fc318e26cc1e2e  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-CD.iso
-&lt;br&gt;a6ddd924a8bd9a1b5ca122e8fe1c34ec  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-DVD.iso
-&lt;br&gt;ac6c72cd7925ccec51bfbf58e2a7c69c  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-source-DVD.iso&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;sha1sums:
-&lt;br&gt;a4b58233b672a99c7df8dc24fb6de3327654a5c3  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-CD.iso
-&lt;br&gt;9b524915e0ff2aa793f13d93123e5bd2bab2dbaa  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-DVD.iso
-&lt;br&gt;43997614893fc5e9e59ad6ce066b05d07fd836fa  debian-edu-6.0.7+r1-source-DVD.iso&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;These images are suitable for amd64+i386.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Changes for Debian Edu 6.0.7+r1 Codename &quot;Squeeze&quot;, released
-2013-03-03:&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;ul&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;sitesummary was updated from 0.1.3 to 0.1.8
-  &lt;ul&gt;
-        &lt;li&gt;Make Nagios configuration more robust and efficient&lt;/li&gt;
-        &lt;li&gt;Comply with 3.X kernel&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;debian-edu-doc from 1.4~20120310~6.0.4+r0 to 1.4~20130228~6.0.7+r1
-  &lt;ul&gt;
-        &lt;li&gt;Minor updates from the wiki&lt;/li&gt;
-        &lt;li&gt;Danish translation now complete&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;debian-edu-config from 1.453 to 1.455
-     &lt;ul&gt;
-        &lt;li&gt;Fix /etc/hosts for LTSP diskless workstations. Closes: #699880&lt;/li&gt;
-        &lt;li&gt;Make ltsp_local_mount script work for multiple devices.&lt;/li&gt;
-        &lt;li&gt;Correct Kerberos user policy: don&#39;t expire password after 2 days.
-                Closes: #664596&lt;/li&gt;
-        &lt;li&gt;Handle &#39;#&#39; characters in the root or first users password.
-                Closes: #664976&lt;/li&gt;
-        &lt;li&gt;Fixes for gosa-sync:
-           &lt;ul&gt;
-                &lt;li&gt;Don&#39;t fail if password contains &quot;&lt;/li&gt;
-                &lt;li&gt;Don&#39;t disclose new password string in syslog&lt;/li&gt;
-           &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-        &lt;li&gt;Fixes for gosa-create:
-           &lt;ul&gt;
-                &lt;li&gt;Invalidate libnss cache before applying changes&lt;/li&gt;
-                &lt;li&gt;Multiple failures during mass user import into GOsa²&lt;/li&gt;
-                &lt;li&gt;gosa-netgroups plugin: don&#39;t erase entries of attribute type
-                         &quot;memberNisNetgroup&quot;. Closes: #687256&lt;/li&gt;
-                &lt;li&gt;First user now uses the same Kerberos policy as all other users&lt;/li&gt;
-           &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-        &lt;li&gt;Add Danish web page&lt;/li&gt;
-    &lt;/ul&gt;
-  &lt;li&gt;debian-edu-install from 1.528 to 1.530
-    &lt;ul&gt;
-        &lt;li&gt;Improve preseeding support and documentation&lt;/li&gt;
-    &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
-&lt;/ul&gt;
-        
-&lt;p&gt;End-user documentation in English is available at
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze/&lt;/a&gt;
-- translations to French, Italian, Danish and German are available in
-the debian-edu-doc package. (Other languages could use your help!)&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;If you want to contribute to Debian Edu, please join our
-mailinglist
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu/&quot;&gt;debian-edu@lists.debian.org&lt;/a&gt;!
-&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;I am very happy to see the fruits of a year of hard work. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Jonathan Carter</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jonathan_Carter.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Jonathan_Carter.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2013 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;There is a certain cross-over between the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu / Skolelinux
+project&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edubuntu.org/&quot;&gt;the Edubuntu
+project&lt;/a&gt;, and for example the LTSP packages in Debian are a joint
+effort between the projects.  One person with a foot in both camps is
+Jonathan Carter, which I am now happy to present to you.&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;I&#39;m a South-African free software geek who lives in Cape Town. My
+days vary quite a bit since I&#39;m involved in too many things. As I&#39;m
+getting older I&#39;m learning how to focus a bit more :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I&#39;m also an Edubuntu contributor and I love when there are
+opportunities for the Edubuntu and Debian Edu projects to benefit from
+each other.&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;I&#39;ve been somewhat familiar with the project before, but I think my
+first direct exposure to the project was when I met Petter
+[Reinholdtsen] and Knut [Yrvin] at the Edubuntu summit in 2005 in
+London. They provided great feedback that helped the bootstrapping of
+Edubuntu. Back then Edubuntu (and even Ubuntu) was still very new and
+it was great getting input from people who have been around longer. I
+was also still very excitable and said yes to everything and to this
+day I have a big todo list backlog that I&#39;m catching up with. I think
+over the years the relationship between Edubuntu and Debian-Edu has
+been gradually improving, although I think there&#39;s a lot that we could
+still improve on in terms of working together on packages. I&#39;m sure
+we&#39;ll get there one day.&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;Debian itself already has so many advantages. I could go on about
+it for pages, but in essence I love that it&#39;s a very honest project
+that puts its users first with no hidden agendas and also produces
+very high quality work.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I think the advantage of Debian Edu is that it makes many common
+set-up tasks simpler so that administrators can get up and running
+with a lot less effort and frustration. At the same time I think it
+helps to standardise installations in schools so that it&#39;s easier for
+community members and commercial suppliers to support.&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 had to re-type this one a few times because I&#39;m trying to
+separate &quot;disadvantages&quot; from &quot;areas that need improvement&quot; (which is
+what I originally rambled on about)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The biggest disadvantage I can think of is lack of manpower. The
+project could do so much more if there were more good contributors. I
+think some of the problems are external too. Free software and free
+content in education is a no-brainer but it takes some time to catch
+on. When you&#39;ve been working with the same proprietary eco-system for
+years and have gotten used to it, it can be hard to adjust to some
+concepts in the free software world. It would be nice if there were
+more Debian Edu consultants across the world. I&#39;d love to be one
+myself but I&#39;m already so over-committed that it&#39;s just not possible
+currently.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I think the best short-term solution to that large-scale problem is
+for schools to be pro-active and share their experiences and grow
+their skills in-house. I&#39;m often saddened to see how much money
+educational institutions spend on 3rd party solutions that they don&#39;t
+have access to after the service has ended and they could&#39;ve gotten so
+much more value otherwise by being more self-sustainable and
+autonomous.&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;My main laptop dual-boots between Debian and Windows 7. I was
+Windows free for years but started dual-booting again last year for
+some games which help me focus and relax (Starcraft II in
+particular). Gaming support on Linux is improving in leaps and bounds
+so I suppose I&#39;ll soon be able to regain that disk space :)&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Besides that I rely on Icedove, Chromium, Terminator, Byobu, irssi,
+git, Tomboy, KVM, VLC and LibreOffice. Recently I&#39;ve been torn on
+which desktop environment I like and I&#39;m taking some refuge in Xfce
+while I figure that out. I like tools that keep things simple. I enjoy
+Python and shell scripting. I went to an Arduino workshop recently and
+it was awesome seeing how easy and simple the IDE software was to get
+up and running in Debian compared to the users running Windows and OS
+X.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I also use mc which some people frown upon slightly. I got used to
+using Norton Commander in the early 90&#39;s and it stuck (I think the
+people who sneer at it is just jealous that they don&#39;t know how to use
+it :p)
+
+&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 trying to force it is unproductive. I also think that in
+many cases it&#39;s appropriate for schools to use non-free systems and I
+don&#39;t think that there&#39;s any particular moral or ethical problem with
+that.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I do think though that free software can already solve so so many
+problems in educational institutions and it&#39;s just a shame not taking
+advantage of that.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I also think that some curricula need serious review. For example,
+some areas of the world rely heavily on very specific versions of MS
+Office, teaching students to parrot menu items instead of learning the
+general concepts. I think that&#39;s very unproductive because firstly, MS
+Office&#39;s interface changes drastically every few years and on top of
+that it also locks in a generation to a product that might not be the
+best solution for them.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To answer your question, I believe that the right strategy is to
+educate and inform, giving someone the information they require to
+make a decision that would work for them.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Frikanalen - Complete TV station organised using the web</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Frikanalen___Complete_TV_station_organised_using_the_web.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Frikanalen___Complete_TV_station_organised_using_the_web.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 3 Mar 2013 07:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Do you want to set up your own TV station, schedule videos and
-broadcast them on the air?  Using free software?  With video on demand
-support using
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition&quot;&gt;free and
-open standards&lt;/a&gt;?  Included a web based video stream as well?  And
-administrate it all in your web browser from anywhere in the world?  A
-few years now the Norwegian public access TV-channel
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikanalen.no/&quot;&gt;Frikanalen&lt;/a&gt; have been building a
-system to do just this.  The source code for the solution is licensed
-using the GNU LGPL, and
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://github.com/Frikanalen&quot;&gt;available from github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The idea is simple.  You upload a video file over the web, and
-attach meta information to the file.  You select a time slot in the
-program schedule, and when the time come it is played on the air and
-in the web stream.  It is also made available in a video on demand
-solution for anyone to see it also outside its scheduled time.  All
-you need to run a TV station - using your web browser.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;There are several parts to this web based solution.  I&#39;ll mention
-the three most important ones.  The first part is the database of
-videos and the schedule.  This is written in Django and include a REST
-API.  The current database is SQLite, but the plan is to migrate it to
-PostgreSQL.  At the moment this system can be tested on
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://beta.frikanalen.tv/&quot;&gt;beta.frikanalen.tv&lt;/a&gt;.  The
-second part is the video playout, taking the schedule information from
-the database and providing a video stream to broadcast.  This is done
-using &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.casparcg.com/&quot;&gt;CasparCG from SVT&lt;/a&gt; and
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mltframework.org/&quot;&gt;Media Lovin&#39; Toolkit&lt;/a&gt;.  Video
-signal distribution is handled using
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ob-encoder.com/&quot;&gt;Open Broadcast Encoder&lt;/a&gt;.  The
-third part is the converter, handling the transformation of uploaded
-video files to a format useful for broadcasting, streaming and video
-on demand.  It is still very much work in progress, so it is not yet
-decided what it will end up using.  Note that the source of the latter
-two parts are not yet pushed to github.  The lead author want to clean
-them up a bit more first.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The development is coordinated on the
-&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.freenode.net/%23frikanalen&quot;&gt;#frikanalen IRC
-channel&lt;/a&gt; (irc.freenode.net), and discussed on
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/frikanalen&quot;&gt;the
-frikanalen mailing list&lt;/a&gt;. The lead developer is Benjamin Bruheim
-(phed on IRC).  Anyone is welcome to participate in the
-development.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Fixing the Linux black screen of death on machines with Intel HD video</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_the_Linux_black_screen_of_death_on_machines_with_Intel_HD_video.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fixing_the_Linux_black_screen_of_death_on_machines_with_Intel_HD_video.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 11 Jun 2013 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;When installing RedHat, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu on some machines,
+the screen just turn black when Linux boot, either during installation
+or on first boot from the hard disk.  I&#39;ve seen it once in a while the
+last few years, but only recently understood the cause.  I&#39;ve seen it
+on HP laptops, and on my latest acquaintance the Packard Bell laptop.
+The reason seem to be in the wiring of some laptops.  The system to
+control the screen background light is inverted, so when Linux try to
+turn the brightness fully on, it end up turning it off instead.  I do
+not know which Linux drivers are affected, but this post is about the
+i915 driver used by the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.linlap.com/packard_bell_easynote_lv&quot;&gt;Packard Bell
+EasyNote LV&lt;/a&gt;, Thinkpad X40 and many other laptops.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The problem can be worked around two ways.  Either by adding
+i915.invert_brightness=1 as a kernel option, or by adding a file in
+/etc/modprobe.d/ to tell modprobe to add the invert_brightness=1
+option when it load the i915 kernel module.  On Debian and Ubuntu, it
+can be done by running these commands as root:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;pre&gt;
+echo options i915 invert_brightness=1 | tee /etc/modprobe.d/i915.conf
+update-initramfs -u -k all
+&lt;/pre&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Since March 2012 there is
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4dca20efb1a9c2efefc28ad2867e5d6c3f5e1955&quot;&gt;a
+mechanism in the Linux kernel&lt;/a&gt; to tell the i915 driver which
+hardware have this problem, and get the driver to invert the
+brightness setting automatically.  To use it, one need to add a row in
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c&quot;&gt;the
+intel_quirks array&lt;/a&gt; in the driver source
+&lt;tt&gt;drivers/gpu/drm/i915/intel_display.c&lt;/tt&gt; (look for &quot;&lt;tt&gt;static
+struct intel_quirk intel_quirks&lt;/tt&gt;&quot;), specifying the PCI device
+number (vendor number 8086 is assumed) and subdevice vendor and device
+number.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My Packard Bell EasyNote LV got this output from &lt;tt&gt;lspci
+-vvnn&lt;/tt&gt; for the video card in question:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation \
+    3rd Gen Core processor Graphics Controller [8086:0156] \
+    (rev 09) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
+ Subsystem: Acer Incorporated [ALI] Device [1025:0688]
+ Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- \
+    ParErr- Stepping- SE RR- FastB2B- DisINTx+
+ Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=fast &gt;TAbort- \
+    &lt;TAbort- &lt;MAbort-&gt;SERR- &lt;PERR- INTx-
+ Latency: 0
+ Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 42
+ Region 0: Memory at c2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
+ Region 2: Memory at b0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
+ Region 4: I/O ports at 4000 [size=64]
+ Expansion ROM at &lt;unassigned&gt; [disabled]
+ Capabilities: &lt;access denied&gt;
+ Kernel driver in use: i915
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The resulting intel_quirks entry would then look like this:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;
+struct intel_quirk intel_quirks[] = {
+       ...
+        /* Packard Bell EasyNote LV11HC needs invert brightness quirk */
+       { 0x0156, 0x1025, 0x0688, quirk_invert_brightness },
+       ...
+}
+&lt;/pre&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;According to the kernel module instructions (as seen using
+&lt;tt&gt;modinfo i915&lt;/tt&gt;), information about hardware needing the
+invert_brightness flag should be sent to the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel&quot;&gt;dri-devel
+(at) lists.freedesktop.org&lt;/a&gt; mailing list to reach the kernel
+developers.  But my email about the laptop sent 2013-06-03 have not
+yet shown up in
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2013-June/thread.html&quot;&gt;the
+web archive for the mailing list&lt;/a&gt;, so I suspect they do not accept
+emails from non-subscribers.  Because of this, I sent my patch also to
+the Debian bug tracking system instead as
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/710938&quot;&gt;BTS report #710938&lt;/a&gt;, to make
+sure the patch is not lost.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Unfortunately, it is not enough to fix the kernel to get Laptops
+with this problem working properly with Linux.  If you use Gnome, your
+worries should be over at this point.  But if you use KDE, there is
+something in KDE ignoring the invert_brightness setting and turning on
+the screen during login.  I&#39;ve reported it to Debian as
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/711237&quot;&gt;BTS report #711237&lt;/a&gt;, and
+have no idea yet how to figure out exactly what subsystem is doing
+this.  Perhaps you can help?  Perhaps you know what the Gnome
+developers did to handle this, and this can give a clue to the KDE
+developers?  Or you know where in KDE the screen brightness is changed
+during login?  If so, please update the BTS report (or get in touch if
+you do not know how to update BTS).&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Dr. Richard Stallman, founder of Free Software Foundation, give a talk in Oslo March 1st 2013</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dr__Richard_Stallman__founder_of_Free_Software_Foundation__give_a_talk_in_Oslo_March_1st_2013.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dr__Richard_Stallman__founder_of_Free_Software_Foundation__give_a_talk_in_Oslo_March_1st_2013.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Dr. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stallman.org/&quot;&gt;Richard Stallman&lt;/a&gt;,
-founder of &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fsf.org/&quot;&gt;Free Software Foundation&lt;/a&gt;,
-is giving &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20130301-rms/&quot;&gt;a
-talk in Oslo March 1st 2013 17:00 to 19:00&lt;/a&gt;.  The event is public
-and organised by &lt;a href=&quot;&quot;&gt;Norwegian Unix Users Group (NUUG)&lt;/a&gt;
-(where I am the chair of the board) and
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprog.no/&quot;&gt;The Norwegian Open Source Competence
-Center&lt;/a&gt;.  The title of the talk is «The Free Software Movement and
-GNU», with this description:
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
-The Free Software Movement campaigns for computer users&#39; freedom to
-cooperate and control their own computing. The Free Software Movement
-developed the GNU operating system, typically used together with the
-kernel Linux, specifically to make these freedoms possible.
-&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The meeting is open for everyone.  Due to space limitations, the
-doors opens for NUUG members at 16:15, and everyone else at 16:45.  I
-am really curious how many will show up.  See
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20130301-rms/&quot;&gt;the event
-page&lt;/a&gt; for the location details.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Third alpha release of Debian Edu / Skolelinux based on Debian Wheezy</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Third_alpha_release_of_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux_based_on_Debian_Wheezy.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;The third wheezy based alpha release of Debian Edu was wrapped up
+today.  This is the release announcement:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;New features for Debian Edu 7.0.0 alpha2 released
+2013-06-10&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is the release notes for for Debian Edu / Skolelinux 7.0.0 edu
+alpha2, based on Debian with codename &quot;Wheezy&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;About Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu, also known as
+Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;, is a Linux distribution based on Debian providing an
+out-of-the box environment of a completely configured school
+network. Immediately 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, DVD 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
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Educational_applications_included_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux__the_screenshot_collection____.html&quot;&gt;more
+than 60 educational software packages&lt;/a&gt; and more are available from
+the Debian archive, and schools can choose between KDE, Gnome, LXDE
+and Xfce desktop environment.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;This is the third test release based on Debian Wheezy. Basically
+this is an updated and slightly improved version compared to the
+Squeeze release.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Software updates&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Iceweasel was updated from 10 to 17. (DSA 2699-1) 
+&lt;li&gt;Updated libxv (DSA-2674), libxvmc (DSA-2675), libxfixes (DSA-2676), libxrender (DSA-2677), mesa (DSA-2678), xserver-xorg-video-openchrome (DSA-2679), libxt (DSA-2680), libxcursor (DSA-2681), libxext (DSA-2682), libxi (DSA-2683), libxrandr (DSA-2684), libxp (DSA-2685), libxcb (DSA-2686), libfs (DSA-2687), libxres (DSA-2688), libxtst (DSA-2689), libxxf86dga (DSA-2690), libxinerama (DSA-2691), libxxf86vm (DSA-2692), libx11 (DSA-2693), chromium-browser (DSA-2695), gnutls26 (DSA-2697), wireshark (DSA-2700), krb5 (DSA-2701), telepathy-gabble (DSA-2702) and subversion (DSA-2703). 
+&lt;li&gt;Switched xrdp on thin client servers to use tightvncserver instead of xvnc4. 
+&lt;li&gt;Now install software oscilloscope xoscope by default. 
+&lt;li&gt;Now install music tools gtick, lingot and pianobooster by default. 
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other changes&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;The subnet-change script is now able to change all files needing a change on the main-server when changing the IP network used. 
+&lt;li&gt;Updated translation of the installation. 
+&lt;li&gt;New Romanian translation. 
+&lt;li&gt;Fix security problem causing root and first user password to no longer show up in /var/cache/debconf/templates.dat. 
+&lt;li&gt;Fix roaming workstation setup (Closed in libpam-mklocaluser/0.8, libpam-mklocaluser/0.8~deb7u1: #706753: libpam-mklocaluser: Fail to create local user during first login).
+&lt;li&gt;Made roaming workstation setup more robust in non-Debian Edu environments. 
+&lt;li&gt;New script debian-edu-bless to transform a Debian installation to a Debian Edu profile. 
+&lt;li&gt;Adjust Iceweasel setup to improve performance when $HOME is on NFS. 
+&lt;li&gt;More testsuite tests. 
+&lt;li&gt;Make automatic proxy configuration more robust. 
+&lt;li&gt;Adjust GOsa² GUI configuration. 
+
+&lt;li&gt;Update thin client and diskless workstation setup to work with
+LTSP in Wheezy.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Diskless workstations now run out of the box -- no need to set
+them up with GOsa².&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Update IMAP server setup. &lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Fix login into Skolelinux Backup Tool (Closed in
+slbackup-php/0.4.4-1: #700257: slbackup-php: Fails to submit correctly
+entered password). &lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Known issues&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;DVD binary and source images are not yet ready.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;No mass import of user account data in GOsa (ldif or csv)
+available yet (Open in gosa/2.7.4-4: #698840: gosa-plugin-ldapmanager:
+missing import feature).&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;Missing artwork for the KDE desktop (and probably a few others). &lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;KDE Debian submenu lacks icons (Closed: #502192: menu-xdg: invents
+own icon names instead of using existing). This will remain
+unfixed.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Where to get it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;To download the multiarch netinstall CD release you can use&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso&quot;&gt;ftp://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso&quot;&gt;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;rsync -avzP ftp.skolelinux.org::skolelinux-cd/wheezy/debian-edu-7.0+edu0~a2-CD.iso .&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The MD5SUM of this image is: 27bbcace407743382f3c42c08dbe8178 
+&lt;br&gt;The SHA1SUM of this image is: e35f7d7908566cd3075375b3721fa10ee420d419&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How to report bugs&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&quot;&gt;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/HowTo/ReportBugs&lt;/a&gt;
+</description>
+       </item>
+       
+       <item>
+               <title>Is there a PHP expert in the building?  Debian Edu need help!</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_there_a_PHP_expert_in_the_building___Debian_Edu_need_help_.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Is_there_a_PHP_expert_in_the_building___Debian_Edu_need_help_.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 5 Jun 2013 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Here is a call for help from the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project.
+We have two problems blocking the release of the Wheezy version we
+hope to get released soon.  The two problems require some with PHP
+skills, and we seem to lack anyone with both time and PHP skills in
+the project:
+
+&lt;ol&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;It is impossible to log into the slbackup web interface
+  (slbackup-php) using the root user and password.  This is
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/700257&quot;&gt;BTS report #700257&lt;/a&gt;.
+  This used to work, but stopped working some time since Squeeze.
+  Perhaps some obsolete PHP feature was used?&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;It is not possible to &quot;mass import&quot; user lists in Gosa, neither
+  using ldif nor using CSV files.  The feature was disabled after a
+  major rewrite of Gosa, and need to be ported to the new system.
+  This is &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/698840&quot;&gt;BTS report
+  #698840&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ol&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;If you can help us, please join us on IRC
+(&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu on
+irc.debian.org&lt;/a&gt;) and provide patches via the BTS.&lt;/p&gt;

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-               <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Helge Tore Høyland</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Helge_Tore_H_yland.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Helge_Tore_H_yland.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 08:10:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;Etter en lang pause og travle uker har jeg endelig klart å få
-samlet et nytt intervju med en av folkene i
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-miljøet.
-Denne gang er det Helge Tore Høyland, en mangeårig bidragsyter på
-epostlistene og ellers i prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Eg er IT-konsulent/teknikker hjå eit firma i Steinkjer med navn
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://unoit.no/&quot;&gt;Uno IT&lt;/a&gt;.  Uno IT er eit lite firma som
-drifter nettverk og maskiner for små og mellomstore firma
-Steinkjer-området. Per dags dato er me 2 ansatte. Min faglege bakgrunn
-er Fagbrev som it-teknikker, samt nokre fag innen nettverk- og
-server-drift frå HiST og NTNU. Dagleg arbeid består i oppsett av nye
-maskiner og hjelp til sluttbrukere, samt oppsett og vedlikehold av eit
-vidt spekter av fagsystemer ute hjå kunder. Erfaring med Skolelinux
-har eg hatt i forbindelse med drifting av
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bjorkly.no/&quot;&gt;Bjørkly skule&lt;/a&gt;, ein privat
-grunnskule i Namsos-området.  I dag har skulen 65 elever, 15 lærere, 1
-hovedserver og ca 60 klienter som kjører halvtjukt.  Eg har bygd og
-driftet systemet sidan summaren 2006.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Eg kom i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet via ein artikkel i eit
-fagblad, som eg ikkje lenger hugsar namnet på.  I og med at eg allereie
-hadde pusla med nettverk for ein annan skule, fatta eg straks
-interesse for prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Fordelane med Skolelinux er sentralisert administrasjon og svært
-mange gode verktøy «ut av boksen». Veldig kjekt å kunne drifte 60
-klientar med berre å «bry» seg med ein server. Levetid for systemets
-hardware er og ein veldig fin effekt. I tillegg kjem fordelar som økt
-sikkerhet og mindre lisenskostnader. Etter min erfaring er det og
-mykje mindre driftskostnader med eit slikt system enn konkurrerande
-system, pga enkelhet med sentralisert administrasjon. På grunn av at
-Skolelinux er basert på Debian er det òg svært stabilt.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Ulemper er mangel på vilje til å følge standarer ute i markedet,
-som fører til mangel på støtte til nokre mykje brukte ting. Flash og
-Java er typiske eksempel. Sidan Debian satsar på stabilitet framfor å
-ha nyeste pakke av eit program, kan ein i nokre tilfeller kome borti
-at program vert «for gamle». Det er spesielt nettlesaren som er
-utsett. Mangel på vilje til å utvikle pedagogisk programvare, i Noreg,
-for «alle» platformer fører òg til noko hovudbry.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Til dagleg bruker eg svært mange forskjellige «fri programvare»
-program.  Firefox, Thunderbird, Freecommander, ImgBurn, Clonezilla,
-OCS inventory, Icinga, Skolelinux, SystemRescueCD og mykje meir.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
-skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;Strategisk må ein fokusere på at sluttbruker eigentleg ikkje er så
-fokusert på at det er fri programvare men at det skal «berre fungere».
-Gjer det enkelt å bruker og ikkje minst å administrere. For Skolelinux
-sin del må ein få eit betre fokus på overganger. Utbytting av servere
-må gå meir automatisk, import og eksport av brukerbase og maskinbase
-med meir må kunne gå enkelt og oppgradering til neste versjon må bli
-mykje meir automatisk og gjennomtesta. Ein må unngå at ein må sette
-opp frå start når ein byter ut ein server eller oppgraderer til neste
-versjon. For å få Skolelinux til å bli eit betre alternativ for skular
-må ein ha fokus på nettlesaren. Denne må bli «up to date» og støtte
-dei protokollar og tillegg som vert brukt av forlag med meir.  Etter
-kvart som meir og meir blir flytta ut i «skya» vert dette viktigare og
-viktigare. Ein kunne ynskje og jobbe for at forlag med fleire tar i
-bruk opne standarer, men inntil det skjer, må systemet kunne brukast
-mot desse fagsystema.&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;For meg har prosjektet med Skolelinux vore ein svært artig og
-lærerik prosess. Miljøet rundt er ikkje enormt stort, dog stort nok,
-men det er svært hjelpevillig og engasjert.&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Debian Edu interview: Cédric Boutillier</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__C_dric_Boutillier.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__C_dric_Boutillier.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Tue, 4 Jun 2013 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a while since my last English
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
+interview last November.  But the developers and translators are still
+pulling along to get the Wheezy based release out the door, and this
+time I managed to get an interview from one of the French translators
+in the project, Cédric Boutillier.&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;I am 34 year old. I live near Paris, France. I am an assistant
+professor in probability theory. I spend my daytime teaching
+mathematics at the university and doing fundamental research in
+probability in connexion with combinatorics and statistical physics.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I have been involved in the Debian project for a couple of years
+and became Debian Developer a few months ago. I am working on Ruby
+packaging, publicity and translation.&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;I came to the Debian Edu project after a call for translation of
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals&quot;&gt;the
+Debian Edu manual&lt;/a&gt; for the release of Debian Edu Squeeze. Since
+then, I have been working on updating the French translation of the
+manual.
+
+&lt;p&gt;I had the opportunity to make an installation of Debian Edu in a
+virtual machine when I was preparing localised version of some screen
+shots for the manual. I was amazed to see it worked out of the box and
+how comprehensive the list of software installed by default was.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;What amazed me was the complete network infrastructure directly
+ready to use, which can and the nice administration interface provided
+by &lt;a href=&quot;https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/&quot;&gt;GOsa²&lt;/a&gt;.  What pleased
+me also was the fact that among the software installed by default,
+there were many &quot;traditional&quot; educative software to learn languages,
+to count, to program... but also software to develop creativity and
+artistic skills with music (&lt;a href=&quot;http://ardour.org/&quot;&gt;Ardour&lt;/a&gt;,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://audacity.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;Audacity&lt;/a&gt;) and
+movies/animation (I was especially thinking of
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://linuxstopmotion.sourceforge.net/&quot;&gt;Stopmotion&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am following the development of Debian Edu and am hanging out on
+&lt;a href=&quot;irc://irc.debian.org/%23debian-edu&quot;&gt;#debian-edu&lt;/a&gt;.
+Unfortunately, I don&#39;t much time to get more involved in this
+beautiful 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;For me, the main advantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu are its
+community of experts and its precise documentation, as well as the
+fact that it provides a solution ready to use.&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;I would add also the fact that it is based on the rock solid Debian
+distribution, which ensures stability and provides a huge collection
+of educational free software.&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;Maybe the lack of manpower to do lobbying on the
+project. Sometimes, people who need to take decisions concerning IT do
+not have all the elements to evaluate properly free software
+solutions. The fact that support by a company may be difficult to find
+is probably a problem if the school does not have IT personnel.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;One can find support from a company by looking at
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp&quot;&gt;the
+wiki dokumentation&lt;/a&gt;, where some countries already have a number of
+companies providing support for Debian Edu, like Germany or
+Norway. This list is easy to find readily from the manual. However,
+for other countries, like France, the list is empty. I guess that
+consultants proposing support for Debian would be able to provide some
+support for Debian Edu as well.&lt;/p&gt;
+  
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I am using the KDE Plasma Desktop. But the pieces of software I use
+most runs in a terminal: Mutt and OfflineIMAP for emails, latex for
+scientific documents, mpd for music. VIM is my editor of choice.  I am
+also using the mathematical software
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.scilab.org/en/scilab/about‎&quot;&gt;Scilab&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sagemath.org/index.html‎&quot;&gt;Sage&lt;/a&gt; (built from
+source as not completely packaged for Debian, yet).
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Do you have any suggestions for teachers interested in
+using the free software in Debian to teach mathematics and
+statistics?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I do not have any &quot;nice&quot; recommendations for statistics. At our
+university, we use both &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.r-project.org/‎&quot;&gt;R&lt;/a&gt; and
+Scilab to teach statistics and probabilistic simulations. For
+geometry, there are nice programs:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.drgeo.eu/&quot;&gt;drgeo&lt;/a&gt; and
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/kig‎&quot;&gt;kig&lt;/a&gt; to do
+constructions in planar geometry
+
+&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/software/download/kali.html&quot;&gt;kali&lt;/a&gt;
+to discover symmetry groups (the so-called wallpapers and frieze
+groups), although the interface looks a bit old.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;I like also
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://edu.kde.org/applications/all/cantor&quot;&gt;cantor&lt;/a&gt;, which
+provides a uniform interface to SciLab, Sage,
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/Octave‎&quot;&gt;Octave&lt;/a&gt;, etc...&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;My suggestions would be to&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;advertise the reduction of costs when free software is used.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;communicate about the quality of free software projects, using
+    well known examples like Firefox, ThunderBird and
+    OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;advertise the living and strong community around the project.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;show that it is not more difficult to use than any other
+    system.&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;

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-               <title>Frikart - Free Garmin maps for European countries based on OpenStreetmap</title>
-               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Frikart___Free_Garmin_maps_for_European_countries_based_on_OpenStreetmap.html</link>
-               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Frikart___Free_Garmin_maps_for_European_countries_based_on_OpenStreetmap.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2013 09:30:00 +0100</pubDate>
-               <description>&lt;p&gt;If you, like me, want an updated a map for your Garmin GPS, there is
-now a great source of free maps available from
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frikart.no/garmin/index.html&quot;&gt;Frikart&lt;/a&gt;.  To
-download a map, just click on the country you are interested in, and
-download the map type you want.  There are 8 different maps available,
-using different colours and data selection.  Pick one of Roadmap, Topo
-Summer, Topo Winter, Roadmap II, Topo Summer II, Topo Winter II,
-&quot;Trails - overlay map&quot; and &quot;Cross country - overlay map&quot; (see the web
-page for descriptions).&lt;/p&gt;
-
-&lt;p&gt;The maps are updated weekly, so if you find something wrong in the
-map you can just edit the
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openstreetmap.org/&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; map source
-(anyone can contribute) and fetch a fixed map a week later. :)&lt;/p&gt;
+               <title>Åpent møte på onsdag om bruken av Microsoft Exchange ved Universitetet i Oslo</title>
+               <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html</link>
+               <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_pent_m_te_p__onsdag_om_bruken_av_Microsoft_Exchange_ved_Universitetet_i_Oslo.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Mon, 3 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+               <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg jobber til daglig ved &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uio.no/&quot;&gt;Universitetet
+i Oslo&lt;/a&gt;, en institusjon som lenge har vektlagt verdien av åpne
+standarder og fri programvare.  Men noe har endret seg, og for en
+liten stund tilbake annonserte USIT at dagens fungerende e-postsystemet
+basert på fri programvare skulle byttes ut med Microsoft Exchange og
+at Microsoft Outlook skulle bli den best fungerende men antagelig ikke
+eneste støttede e-postklienten.  Annonseringen har ført til flere
+protester og &lt;a href=&quot;http://folk.uio.no/dssantos/nooutlookatuio/&quot;&gt;en
+underskriftskampanje&lt;/a&gt;, initiert av Diana Santos, der så langt 253
+personer har signert.  Prosjektet
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usit.uio.no/prosjekter/nike/&quot;&gt;NIKE (Ny integrert
+kalender/e-post)&lt;/a&gt; ble initiert for å se på mulige løsninger med
+utgangspunkt i at en kombinert epost/kalenderløsning var påkrevd, og
+prosjektet
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usit.uio.no/prosjekter/nike-implementasjon/&quot;&gt;NIKE-implementasjon&lt;/a&gt;
+er igang med å rulle ut MS Exchange ved Universitetet i Oslo.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;For kun kort tid siden ble det annonsert at det blir et åpent møte
+med ledelsen hos universitetet i Oslo med disse planene som tema:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Tid: &lt;strong&gt;Onsdag 2013-06-05 kl. 10:00&lt;/strong&gt;
+&lt;br&gt;Sted: &lt;strong&gt;9. etasje i Lucy Smiths hus (admin-bygget)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt; Det kan være en god plass å stille opp hvis en som meg ikke tror
+valget av Microsoft Exchange som sentral epostinfrastruktur er et
+heldig valg for Norges ledende forskningsuniversitet, men at en er mer
+tjent med å selv
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://nuug.no/dokumenter/kronikk-friprog-itsikkerhet.shtml&quot;&gt;beholde
+kontrollen over egen infrastruktur&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Saken har ført til endel presseoppslag så langt.  Her er de jeg har
+fått med meg:&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;2013-05-29
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://universitas.no/nyhet/58462/forsvarer-nytt-it-system&quot;&gt;Forsvarer
+  nytt IT-system&lt;/a&gt; - Universitas&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;li&gt;2013-05-23
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uniforum.uio.no/nyheter/2013/05/uio-innforer-nytt-epost-og-kalendersystem.html&quot;&gt;UiO
+  innfører nytt epost- og kalenderverktøy&lt;/a&gt; - Uniforum&lt;/li&gt;
+
+
+&lt;li&gt;2013-05-22
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://universitas.no/nyhet/58424/protestgruppe-vil-stanse-it-system&quot;&gt;Protestgruppe
+  vil stanse IT-system&lt;/a&gt; - Universitas&lt;/li&gt;
+
+
+&lt;li&gt;2013-05-15
+  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.uniforum.uio.no/leserbrev/2013/uio-ma-ha-kontroll-over-sitt-eget-epostsystem.html&quot;&gt;UiO
+  må ha kontroll over sitt eget epostsystem&lt;/a&gt; - Uniforum&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+

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