- <title>Dugnadsnett for alle stiller på Oslo Maker Faire i januar 2014</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnadsnett_for_alle_stiller_p__Oslo_Maker_Faire_i_januar_2014.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Tue, 10 Dec 2013 19:20:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>Helga 18. og 19. januar 2014 arrangeres
-<a href="http://makerfaireoslo.no/no/program/dugnadsnett">Oslo Maker
-Faire</a>, og <a href="http://www.dugnadsnett.no/">Dugnadsnett for
-alle</a> har fått plass! Planen er å ha et bord med en plakat der vi
-forteller om hva Dugnadsnett for alle er for noe, og et lite verksted
-der vi hjelper folk som er interessert i å få opp sin egen mesh-node.
-Jeg gleder meg til å se hvordan prosjektet blir mottatt der.</p>
-
-<p>Målet med dugnadsnett for alle i Oslo er å få på plass et datanett
-for kommunikasjon ved hjelp av radio-repeaterstasjoner (kalt
-mesh-noder) som gjør at en kan direkte kommunisere med slekt, venner
-og bekjente i Oslo via andre som deltar i dugnadsnettet, samt gjøre
-det mulig komme ut på internett via dugnadsnettet. Første delmål er å
-kunne sende SMS-meldinger vha. IP-telefoni løsningen
-<a href="http://www.servalproject.org/">Serval project</a> mellom
-deltagerne i Dugnadsnett for alle i Oslo. Formålet er å ta tilbake
-kontrollen over egen nett-infrastruktur og gjøre det dyrere å bedrive
-massiv innsamling av informasjon om borgernes bruk av datanett.</p>
-
-<p>Høres dette interessant ut? Bli med på prosjektet, fortell oss
-hvor du kunne tenke deg å sette opp en radio-repeater (slik at folk i
-nærheten kan finne hverandre ved hjelp av
-<a href="http://flynor.net/mesh/mesh.php">kartet over planlagte og
-eksisterende radio-repeatere</A>), bli med på epostlisten
-<a href="http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/dugnadsnett">dugnadsnett
-(at) nuug.no</a> og stikk innom
-<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/#dugnadsnett.no">IRC-kanalen
-#dugnadsnett.no</a>. Så langt er det planlagt over 40
-radio-repeatere, med VPN-forbindelser via Internet for å la de delene
-av nettet som ikke når hverandre via radio kunne snakke med hverandre
-likevel.</p>
-</description>
- </item>
-
- <item>
- <title>Debian Edu interview: Klaus Knopper</title>
- <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Klaus_Knopper.html</link>
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- <pubDate>Fri, 6 Dec 2013 09:50:00 +0100</pubDate>
- <description><p>It has been a while since I managed to publish the last interview,
-but the <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu /
-Skolelinux</a> community is still going strong, and yesterday we even
-had a new school administrator show up on
-<a href="irc://irc.debian.org/#debian-edu">#debian-edu</a> to share
-his success story with installing Debian Edu at their school. This
-time I have been able to get some helpful comments from the creator of
-Knoppix, Klaus Knopper, who was involved in a Skolelinux project in
-Germany a few years ago.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I am Klaus Knopper. I have a master degree in electrical
-engineering, and is currently professor in information management at
-the university of applied sciences Kaiserslautern / Germany and
-freelance Open Source software developer and consultant.</p>
-
-<p>All of this is pretty much of the work I spend my days with. Apart
-from teaching, I'm also conducting some more or less experimental
-projects like the <a href="http://www.knoppix.org">Knoppix GNU/Linux live
-system</a> (Debian-based like Skolelinux),
-<a href="http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html">ADRIANE</a>
-(a blind-friendly talking desktop system) and
-<a href="http://www.knopper.net/linbo/index-en.html">LINBO</a>
-(Linux-based network boot console, a fast remote install and repair
-system supporting various operating systems).</p>
-
-<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
-project?</strong></p>
-
-<p>The credit for this have to go to Kurt Gramlich, who is the German
-coordinator for Skolelinux. We were looking for an all-in-one open
-source community-supported distribution for schools, and Kurt
-introduced us to Skolelinux for this purpose.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Quick installation,</li>
- <li>works (almost) out of the box,</li>
- <li>contains many useful software packages for teaching and learning,</li>
- <li>is a purely community-based distro and not controlled by a
- single company,</li>
- <li>has a large number of supporters and teachers who share their
- experience and problem solutions.</li>
-</ul>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<ul>
- <li>Skolelinux is - as we had to learn - not easily upgradable to
- the next version. Opposed to its genuine Debian base, upgrading to
- a new version means a full new installation from scratch to get it
- working again reliably.
-
- <li>Skolelinux is based on Debian/stable, and therefore always a
- little outdated in terms of program versions compared to Edubuntu or
- similar educational Linux distros, which rather use Debian/testing
- as their base.
-
- <li>Skolelinux has some very self-opinionated and stubborn default
- configuration which in my opinion adds unnecessary complexity and is
- not always suitable for a schools needs, the preset network
- configuration is actually a core definition feature of Skolelinux
- and not easy to change, so schools sometimes have to change their
- network configuration to make it "Skolelinux-compatible".
-
- <li>Some proposed extensions, which were made available as
- contribution, like secure examination mode and lecture material
- distribution and collection, were not accepted into the mainline
- Skolelinux development and are now not easy to maintain in the
- future because of Skolelinux somewhat undeterministic update
- schemes.</li>
-
- <li>Skolelinux has only a very tiny number of base developers
- compared to Debian.</li>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p>For these reasons and experience from our project, I would now
-rather consider using plain Debian for schools next time, until
-Skolelinux is more closely integrated into Debian and becomes
-upgradeable without reinstallation.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
-
-<p>GNU/Linux with LXDE desktop, bash for interactive dialog and
-programming, texlive for documentation and correspondence,
-occasionally LibreOffice for document format conversion. Various
-programming languages for teaching.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Strong arguments are</p>
-
-<ul>
-
- <li>Knowledge is free, and so should be methods and tools for
- teaching and learning.</li>
-
- <li>Students can learn with and use the same software at school, at
- home, and at their working place without running into license or
- conversion problems.</li>
-
- <li>Closed source or proprietary software hides knowledge rather
- than exposing it, and proprietary software vendors try to bind
- customers to certain products. But teachers need to teach
- science, not products.</li>
-
- <li>If you have everything you for daily work as open source, what
- would you need proprietary software for?</li>
-
-</ul>
+ <title>Suddenly I am the new upstream of the lsdvd command line tool</title>
+ <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Suddenly_I_am_the_new_upstream_of_the_lsdvd_command_line_tool.html</link>
+ <guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Suddenly_I_am_the_new_upstream_of_the_lsdvd_command_line_tool.html</guid>
+ <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+ <description><p>I use the <a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/">lsdvd tool</a>
+to handle my fairly large DVD collection. It is a nice command line
+tool to get details about a DVD, like title, tracks, track length,
+etc, in XML, Perl or human readable format. But lsdvd have not seen
+any new development since 2006 and had a few irritating bugs affecting
+its use with some DVDs. Upstream seemed to be dead, and in January I
+sent a small probe asking for a version control repository for the
+project, without any reply. But I use it regularly and would like to
+get <a href="https://packages.qa.debian.org/lsdvd">an updated version
+into Debian</a>. So two weeks ago I tried harder to get in touch with
+the project admin, and after getting a reply from him explaining that
+he was no longer interested in the project, I asked if I could take
+over. And yesterday, I became project admin.</p>
+
+<p>I've been in touch with a Gentoo developer and the Debian
+maintainer interested in joining forces to maintain the upstream
+project, and I hope we can get a new release out fairly quickly,
+collecting the patches spread around on the internet into on place.
+I've added the relevant Debian patches to the freshly created git
+repository, and expect the Gentoo patches to make it too. If you got
+a DVD collection and care about command line tools, check out
+<a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/git/ci/master/tree/">the git source</a> and join
+<a href="https://sourceforge.net/p/lsdvd/mailman/">the project mailing
+list</a>. :)</p>