+<p>Herved gjort. :)</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Call for help from docbook expert to tag Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Call_for_help_from_docbook_expert_to_tag_Free_Culture_by_Lawrence_Lessig.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Call_for_help_from_docbook_expert_to_tag_Free_Culture_by_Lawrence_Lessig.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jul 2012 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I am currently working on a
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html">project
+to translate</a> the book
+<a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig
+to Norwegian. And the source we base our translation on is the
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook">docbook</a> version, to
+allow us to use po4a and .po files to handle the translation, and for
+this to work well the docbook source document need to be properly
+tagged. The source files of this project is available from
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p>
+
+<p>The problem is that the docbook source have flaws, and we have
+no-one involved in the project that is a docbook expert. Is there a
+docbook expert somewhere that is interested in helping us create a
+well tagged docbook version of the book, and adjust our build process
+for the PDF, EPUB and HTML version of the book? This will provide a
+well tagged English version (our source document), and make it a lot
+easier for us to create a good Norwegian version. If you can and want
+to help, please get in touch with me or fork the github project and
+send pull requests with fixes. :)</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Fri programvare - "fri" som i "talefrihet", ikke som i "fri bar"</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fri_programvare____fri__som_i__talefrihet___ikke_som_i__fri_bar_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Fri_programvare____fri__som_i__talefrihet___ikke_som_i__fri_bar_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jul 2012 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Et ofte brukt sitat i fri programvareverden er Stallman-sitatet
+«<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html.en">Free Software,
+"free" as in "free speech", not as in "free beer"</a>». Men det er
+ikke direkte overførbart til norsk, da det baserer seg på koblingen
+gratis/fri på engelsk. En direkte oversettelse ville være «Fri
+programvare, "fri" som i "talefrihet", ikke som "gratis øl"», og det
+går jo glipp av poenget. I forbindelse med at vi er
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html">igang
+med å oversette</a> <a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a>
+av Lawrence Lessig, måtte jeg forsøke a finne en bedre
+oversettelse.</p>
+
+<p>Mitt forslag til oversettelse blir dermed å droppe ølet, og heller
+fokusere på det kjente norske uttrykket "fri bar". Dermed blir
+oversettelsen «Fri programvare - "fri" som i "talefrihet", ikke som i
+"fri bar"».</p>
+
+<p>Noen som har bedre forslag?</p>
+
+<p>Forøvrig bruker jeg fri programvare som et samlebegrep på norsk for
+begge de engelske uttrykkene Free Software og Open Source, jamfør
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/dokumenter/folder-friprogramvare.pdf">NUUGs
+lille folder om temaet</a>.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Dugnad for å sende norsk versjon av Free Culture til stortingets representanter!</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Da opphavsrettsloven ble revidert i forrige runde rundt 2005, var
+det skummelt å se hvor lite stortingsrepresentantene forsto hvordan
+Internet påvirket folks forhold til kulturuttrykk, og min venn Vidar
+og jeg spekulert på at det hadde kanskje vært fornuftig om samtlige
+representanter fikk en norsk utgave av boken
+<a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> av Lawrence Lessig
+som forklarte litt om problemstillingene. Vi endte opp med å
+prioritere utvikling i
+<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>-prosjektet i
+stedet, så den oversatte boken så aldri dagens lys. Men i forrige uke
+ble jeg inspirert til å ta opp tråden og se om det er mulig å få til
+bokprosjektet denne gang, da det er tydelig at kulturdepartementet i
+sitt nye forsøk på å gjøre opphavsrettsloven enda mer ubalansert til
+fordel for forlag og store mediehus fortsatt trenger en annen vinkling
+i debatten.</p>
+
+<p>Planen min er å oversette boka på dugnad, sette den opp for
+trykking med en av de mange
+<a href="http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trykk_på_forespørsel">trykk på
+forespørsel</a>-tjenestene, skaffe sponsor til å finansiere trykking
+til stortingsrepresentantene og alle som har bidratt med
+oversettelser. Kanskje vi også kan få en avtale med et forlag om
+publisering når boka er ferdig? Kommentarene til
+<a href="http://newth.net/eirik/2011/04/01/e-selvpublisering/">Eirik
+Newth</a> og
+<a href="http://www.espen.com/norskblogg/archives/2008/09/erfaringer_med_publishing_on_demand.html">Espen
+Andersen</a> om erfaringene med selvpublisering og trykk på
+forespørsel er interessante og ikke avskrekkende, og jeg mistenker at
+<a href="http://www.lulu.com/">Lulu</a> er en grei leverandør av
+trykketjenester til prosjektet.</p>
+
+<p>Jeg har satt opp
+<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">et
+Github-prosjekt</a> for a lage boken, basert på Docbook-utgaven jeg
+fant fra Hans Schou. Skolelinux har hatt byggesystem for å lage
+oversatt HTML og PDF-utgave av Docbook-bøker i en årrekke, så jeg har
+kopiert og utvidet dette oppsettet. Originalteksten er i Docbook, og
+oversettelsen gjøres i .po-filer med hjelp av vanlige
+oversetterverktøy brukt i fri programvareverden. Dernest tar
+byggesystemet over og lager PDF og EPUB-utgave av den oversatte
+teksten. Resultatet kan ses i Github-prosjektet. For å komme raskt
+igang har jeg brukt maskinoversettelse av alle tekstbitene fra engelsk
+til norsk, noe som grovoversatte ca. 1300 av de ca. 1700 tekstbitene
+boken består av. Jeg håper nå at flere kan bidra med å få
+oversettelsen på plass, slik at teksten kan være klar i løpet av
+høsten. Når alt er oversatt må teksten gjennomgås for feil og
+konsistent språk. Totalt er det nok mange timer som trengs for å
+gjennomføre oversettelsen.</p>
+
+<p>Økonomien i dette er ikke avskrekkende. 169
+stortingsrepresentanter og nesten like mange varamedlemmer bør få
+bøker, og estimert produduksjonskostnad for hver bok er rundt 6 EURO i
+følge et raskt estimat fra Lulu. Jeg vet ennå ikke hvor mange sider
+det blir i størrelsen 5,5" x 8.5" (det er ca. 140 sider i A4-format),
+så jeg gjettet på 400 sider. Jeg tror originalutgaven har nesten 400
+sider. For 169*2 eksemplarer snakker vi om en trykkekostnad på
+ca. 2000 EURO, dvs. ca 15 000 NOK. Det burde være mulig å finne en
+sponsor for å dekke en slik sum. I tillegg kommer distribusjon og
+porto, som antagelig kommer på like mye.</p>
+
+<p>Kan du bidra med oversettelse og docbook-typesetting? Ta kontakt
+og send patcher i github. Jeg legger gjerne inn folk i prosjektet
+slik at du kan oppdatere direkte.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Debian Edu interview: George Bredberg</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__George_Bredberg.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__George_Bredberg.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Mon, 9 Jul 2012 00:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux</a> project have users all over the globe, but until
+recently we have not known about any users in Norway's neighbour
+country Sweden. This changed when George Bredberg showed up in March
+this year on the mailing list, asking interesting questions about how
+to adjust and scale the just released
+<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html">Debian Edu
+Wheezy</a> setup to his liking. He granted me an interview, and I am
+happy to share his answers with you here.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I'm a 44 year old country guy that have been working 12 years at
+the same school as 50% IT-manager and 50% Teacher. My educational
+background is fil.kand in history and religious beliefs, an exam as a
+"folkhighschool" teacher, that is, for teaching grownups. In
+Norwegian I believe it's called "Vuxenupplaring". I also have a master
+in "Technology and social change". So I'm not really a tech guy, I
+just like to study how humans and technology interact and that is my
+perspective when working with IT.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+I have followed the Skolelinux project for quite some time by
+now. Earlier I tested out the K12-LTSP project, which we used for some
+time, but I really like the idea of having a distribution aimed to be
+a complete solution for schools with necessary tools integrated. When
+K12-LTSP abandoned that idea some years ago, I started to look more
+seriously into Skolelinux instead.
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+The big point of Skolelinux to me is that it is a complete
+distribution, ready to install. It has LDAP-support, MS Windows
+integration tools and so forth already configured, saving an
+administrator a lot of time and headache. We were using another Linux
+based thin-client system called Thinlinc, that has served us very
+well. But that Skolelinux is based on VNC and LTSP, to me, is better
+when it comes to the kind of multimedia used in schools. That is
+showing videos from Youtube or educational TV. It is also easier to
+mix thin clients with workstations, since the user settings will be the
+same. In our VNC-based solution you had to "beat around the bush" by
+setting up a second, hidden, home-directory for user settings for the
+workstations, because they will be different from the ones used on the
+thin clients. Skolelinux support for diskless workstations are very
+convenient since a school today often need to use a class room
+projector showing videos in full screen. That is easily done with a
+small integrated media computer running as a diskless workstation. You
+have only two installs to update and configure. One for the thin
+clients and one for the workstations. Also saving a lot of time. Our
+old system was also based on Redhat and CentOS. They are both very
+nice distributions, but they are sometimes painfully slow when it
+comes to updating multimedia support and multimedia programs (even
+such as Gimp), leaving us with a bit "oldish" applications. Debian is
+quicker to update.
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Debian is a bit too quick when it comes to updating. As an example
+we use old HP terminals as thinclients, and two times already this
+year (2012) the updates you get from the repositories has stopped
+sound from working with them. It's a kernel/ALSA issue. So you have
+to be more careful properly testing the updates before you run them in
+a production environment. This has never happened with CentOS.</p>
+
+<p>I also would like to be able to set my own domain-settings at
+install time. In Skolelinux they are kind of hard coded into the
+distribution, when it comes to LDAP and at least samba integration.
+That is more a cosmetic/translation issue, and not a real problem.
+Running MS Windows applications within the Skolelinux environment needs
+to be better supported. That is, running them seamlessly via RDP, and
+support for single-sign on. That will make the transition to free
+software easier, because you can keep the applications you really
+need. No support will make it impossible if you work in a school where
+some applications can't be open source. As for us we really need to
+run Adobe InDesign in our journalist classes. We run a journalist
+education, and is one of the very few non university ones that is ok:d
+by Svenska journalistförbundet (Swedish journalist association). Our
+education gives the pupils the right of membership there, once they
+are done. This is important if you want to get a job.</p>
+
+<p>Adobe InDesign is the program most commonly used in newspapers and
+magazines. We used Quark Express before, but they seem to loose there
+market to Adobe. The only "equivalent" to InDesign in the opensource
+world is Scribus, and its not advanced enough. At least not according
+to the teacher. I think it would be possible to use it, because they
+are not supposed to learn a program, they are supposed to learn how to
+edit and compile a newspaper. But politically at our school we are not
+there yet. And Scribus lacks a lot of things you find i InDesign.</p>
+
+<p>We used even a windows program for sound editing when it comes to
+the radio-journalist part. The year to come we are going to try
+Audacity. That software has the same kind of limitations compared to
+Adobe Audition, but that teacher is a bit more open minded. We have
+tried Ardour also, but that instead is more like a music studio
+program, not intended for the kind of editing taking place in a radio
+studio. Its way to complex and the GUI is to scattered when you only
+want to cut, make pass-overs, add extra channels and normalise. Those
+things you can do in Audacity, but its not as easy as in Audition. You
+have to do more things manually with envelopes, and that is a bit old
+fashion and timewasting. Its also harder to cut and move sound from
+one channel to another, which is a thing that you do frequently
+because you often find yourself needing to rearrange parts of the
+sound file.</p>
+
+<p>So, I am not sure we will succeed in replacing even Audition, but we
+will try. The problem is the students have certain expectations when
+they start an education towards a profession. So the programs has to
+look and feel professional. Good thing with radio, there are many
+programs out there, that radio studios use, so its not as standardised
+as Newspaper editing. That means, it does not really matter what
+program they learn, because once they start working they still have to
+learn the program the studio uses, so instead focus has to be to learn
+the editing part without to much focus on a specific software.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Myself I'm running Linux Mint, or Ubuntu these days. I use almost
+only open source software, and preferably Linux based. When it comes
+to most used applications its OpenOffice, and Firefox (of course ;)
+)</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>To get schools to use free software there has to be good open
+source software that are windows based, to ease the transition. But
+it's also very important that the multimedia support is working
+flawlessly. The problems with Youtube, Twitter, Facebook and whatever
+will create problems when it comes to both teachers and
+students. Economy are also important for schools, so using thin
+clients, as long as they have good multimedia support, is a very good
+idea. It's also important that the open source software works even for
+the administration. It's hard to convince the teachers to stick with
+open source, if the principal has to run Windows. It also creates a
+problem if some classes has to use Windows for there tasks, since that
+will create a difference in "status" between classes, so a good
+support for running windows applications via the thin client (Linux)
+desktop is essential. At least at our school, where we have mixed
+level of educations, from high-school to journalist-school.</p>
+
+<p>Update 2012-07-09 08:30: Paul Wise tipped me on IRC about three
+useful sources related to Free Software for radio stations: the LWN
+article <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/481607/">Radio station
+management with Airtime</a>,
+<a href="http://www.sourcefabric.org/en/airtime/">Airtime</a> which
+claim to be a Free open source radio automation software and
+<a href="http://www.rivendellaudio.org/">Rivendell</a> which claim to
+be complete radio broadcast automation solution. All of them seem
+useful to the aspiring radio producer.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Why do schools waste money on IT?</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_do_schools_waste_money_on_IT_.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_do_schools_waste_money_on_IT_.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sun, 8 Jul 2012 09:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>In the Debian Edu / Skolelinux project, we have realised that one
+of the major blockers for the project success is the purchasing skills
+in schools and municipalities. We provide what the happy users of
+Debian Edu / Skolelinux say they need and to a lower cost than the
+alternatives, and yet so few schools decide to use our solution. I
+was pleased to discover the same observation done by mySociety and Tom
+Steinberg in his blog post
+"<a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2012/06/19/can-you-recognize-the-million-pound-chair/">Can
+you recognize the million pound chair?</a>". Read it and weep for the
+spending of your tax money.</p>
+
+<p>Of course there are other factors involved as well, like our
+projects bad marketing skills and the Linux community fragmentation
+causing worry with the people on the outside, so we as a project need
+to keep working hard to gain users, but it is a up-hill battle when
+public decision makers are unable to understand computer system
+purchases.</p>
+</description>
+ </item>
+
+ <item>
+ <title>Free Timetabling Software - nice free software</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_Timetabling_Software___nice_free_software.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_Timetabling_Software___nice_free_software.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Sat, 7 Jul 2012 09:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>Included in <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
+Skolelinux</a> is a large collection of end user and school specific
+software. It is one of the packages not installed by default but
+provided in the Debian archive for schools to install if they want to,
+is a system to automatically plan the school time table using
+information about available teachers, classes and rooms, combined with
+the list of required courses and how many hours each topic should
+receive. The software is
+
+<a href="http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/">named FET</a>, and it provide a
+graphical user interface to input the required information, save the
+result in a fairly simple XML format, and generate time tables for
+both teachers and students. It is available both for
+<a href="http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/download.html">Linux, MacOSX and
+Windows</a>.</p>
+
+<p>This is <a href="http://lalescu.ro/liviu/fet/features.html">the
+feature list</a>, liftet from the project web site:</p>
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