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-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Faktasjekk__Trond_Giske_hevder_Henry_Ford_sa_at_hvis_du_sp_r_folk_hva_de_vil_ha_s__svarer_de__en_st_rre_hest_.html">Faktasjekk: Trond Giske hevder Henry Ford sa at hvis du spør folk hva de vil ha så svarer de ”en større hest”</a></div>
-      <div class="date">27th March 2012</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>Næringsminister Trond Giske er av
-<a href="http://www.dn.no/forsiden/naringsliv/article2361916.ece">Dagens
-Næringsliv</a> i dag sitert på å ha sagt følgende:</p>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Intervju_med_digi_no_om_Norge_Digitalt_og_Openstreetmap.html">Intervju med digi.no om Norge Digitalt og Openstreetmap</a></div>
+      <div class="date">11th May 2012</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>I går ble jeg kontaktet på epost av
+<a href="http://www.digi.no">digi.no</a>s Eirik Rossen som lurte på om
+jeg hadde noen kommentarer til
+<a href="http://www.statkart.no/statkart.ny.no/nor/Statens_kartverk/Om_Statens_kartverk/Pressesenter/Nyhetsarkiv/Nyheter_2012/mai/Norge+i+tet+på+digitale+kartdata.d25-SwZLMWg.ips">kartverkets
+pressemelding</a> om Norges tetplassering når det gjelder
+kart-tilgjengelighet.  Jeg svarte følgende, som resulterte i noen
+sitater i
+<a href="http://www.digi.no/895420/norge-i-tet-paa-digitale-kartdata#debatt">Digis
+dekning</a> av kartverkets pressemelding.</p>

 
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-Henry Ford sa at hvis du spør folk hva de vil ha så svarer de ”en
-større hest”
+<p>Takk for muligheten til å kommentere.</p>
+
+<p>Pressemeldingen omhandler tilgjengeligheten av kart for aktører som er
+medlem i kartellet Norge Digitalt.  Det er ingen overraskelse for meg
+at tilgjengeligheten til kart hos disse medlemmene er god.  Men for
+oss på utsiden av kartellet er tilgjengelighet av det som burde være
+felleskapets og innbyggernes kart dårlig.</p>
+
+<p>Bruksvilkårene til kartene fra medlemmene i Norge Digital hindrer
+nyskapning og selv om en er villig til å betale den ublu prisen som
+forlanges får en fortsatt ikke tilgang til kartdata uten
+bruksbegresninger.  Derfor bruker jeg heller tid på å gjøre
+fribrukskartet OpenStreetmap bedre.  Der fremmer bruksvilkårene
+nyskapning og lar meg skape nye tjenester uten å måtte søke om
+tillatelse fra det offentlige.</p>
+
+<p>En annen problemstilling er jo sikkerhet til fjells og til sjøs.
+Mon tro hvor mange ulykker på sjøen som kunne vært unngått hvis
+sjøkartdata var tilgjengelig uten bruksbegrensninger, slik at enhver
+med GPS eller kartplotter tilnærmet kostnadsfritt kunne sikre seg mest
+mulig oppdaterte sjøkart?  Det hjelper jo ikke at offentlige etater
+har enkel tilgang til sjøkartene når det samme ikke gjelder hver
+båtkaptein og småbåtfører.  Jeg tror samfunnet som helhet hadde tjent
+på å unngå kostnadene ved disse ulykkene ved å tvinge sjøkartverket
+til å publisere sine kartdata på Internet uten bruksbegresninger.</p>

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-
-<p>Det syntes jeg var en så merkelig ting for Henry Ford å si at jeg
-sjekket litt rundt sitatet.  Det Giske ser ut til å feilsitere, er et
-sitat kreditert Henry Ford som lyder "If I had asked people what they
-wanted, they would have said faster horses".  Altså ikke større hest,
-men raskere hester.</p>
-
-<p>I følge
-<a href="http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/08/henry_ford_never_said_the_fast.html">Patrick
-Vlaskovits i en blogg</a> i Stanford Business Review, har Henry Ford
-aldri sagt dette, og den tidligste referansen han klarte å finne til
-sitatet er en bok fra 2002.  Jeg finner
-<a href="http://280group.com/blog/?p=1443">andre kilder</a> som også
-hevder at det ikke er påvist at Henry Ford faktisk har uttalt at
-kundene ville bedt om raskere hester .</p>
-
-<p>Konklusjonen min blir at Trond Giske ikke har fakta på sin side når
-det gjelder dette sitatet.  Med forbehold om at journalisten i Dagens
-Næringsliv skrev det som ble sagt, og ikke det journalisten hørte.</p>

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-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>. 
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>. 

         
         
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-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Checking_email_with_kmail_using_Kerberos_authentication.html">Debian Edu screencast: Checking email with kmail using Kerberos authentication</a></div>
-      <div class="date">25th March 2012</div>
-      <div class="body"><!-- Video HTML based on http://www.diveintohtml5.net/video.html -->
-
-<p>The same Debian Edu developer that did the last screen cast I
-published, Wolfgang Schweer, has created a new screen cast showing how
-to set up Kmail in Debian Edu Squeze to authenticate using Kerberos,
-allowing users to check their local email account without providing
-any password. The video is embedded here in quarter size,
-and also available from <a href="https://vimeo.com/38601767">vimeo</a>
-and download as a
-<a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv">Ogg
-Theora</a> file.  Check it out below.</p>
-
-<p><video id="kmail-kerberos-movie" width="256" height="184" preload controls>
-  <source src="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
-    <p>Download video as
-      <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-03-14-Debian-Edu_Configure_Kmail_for_internal_usage.ogv">Ogg</a>.</p> 
-</video></p>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Cutting_it_short___and_picking_the_right_tool_for_the_job.html">Cutting it short - and picking the right tool for the job</a></div>
+      <div class="date">30th April 2012</div>
+      <div class="body"><p><!-- IMG_5869.JPG -->
+<img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/panasonic-er-1611.jpeg"></p>
+
+<p>I normally cut my hair short, and my tool of choice has been a
+common hair/beard cutter, bought in a electrical shop here in Norway.
+But the last ones have not really been up to the task.  My last
+cutter, some model from Braun, could only cut a few of my hairs at the
+time, and cutting my head took forever.  And the one before that did
+not work very well either.  We have looked for something better for a
+while, but it was not until I ended up visiting a hairdresser that we
+discovered that there are indeed better tools available.  But these
+are not marketed and sold to "regular consumers".  The hair saloons
+can get them through their suppliers, but their suppliers only sell
+companies.  The models they sell, are very different from the ones
+available from Elkjøp and Lefdal.  The main difference is their
+efficiency.  It would cut my hair in 5 minutes, instead of the 30-40
+minutes required by my impotent Braun.  The hairdresser I visited had
+a Panasonic ER160, which unfortunately is no longer available from the
+producer.  But I found it had a successor, the Panasonic ER1611.</p>
+
+<p>The next step was to find somewhere to buy it.  This was not
+straight forward.  The list of suppliers I got from the hairdresser
+did not want to sell anything to me.  But searching for the model on
+the web we found a supplier in Norway willing to sell it to us for
+around NOK 4000,-.  This was a bit much.  We kept searching and
+finally found a Danish supplier
+<a href="http://nicehair.dk/panasonic-er-1611-professionel-hartrimmer.html">selling
+it for around NOK 1800,-</a>.  We ordered one, and it arrived a few
+days ago.</p>
+
+<p>The instructions said it had to charge for 8 hours when we started
+to use it, so we left it charging over night.  Normally it will only
+need one hour to charge.  The following evening we successfully tested
+it, and I can warmly recommend it to anyone looking for a real hair
+cutter.  The ones we have used until now have been hair cutter
+toys.</p>

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-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>. 
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>. 

         
         
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-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html">Større PC-tetthet i skolen med Skolelinux?</a></div>
-      <div class="date">19th March 2012</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>Den siste uka har det vært en del skriverier om hvor store
-forskjeller det er mellom skolene når det gjelder digital kompetanse.
-Et eksempel er
-<a href="http://www.digi.no/891660/bekymret-for-it-i-skolen">oppslaget
-i Digi</a>.  Diskusjonen fikk meg til å bli litt nysgjerrig på om
-Linux-skoler har større PC-tettet enn snittet i landet.  Grunnlaget
-for diskusjonen har vært undersøkelsen
-<a href="https://iktsenteret.no/ressurser/monitor-2011-skolens-digitale-tilstand">Monitor
-2011</a>, som bruker informasjon fra
-<a href="https://www.wis.no/gsi">Grunnskolens Informasjonssystem</a>
-(GSI).  GSI-data kan lastes ned fra web og jeg lastet ned en Excel-fil
-(intet åpen standard-valg tilgjengelig) med navn på alle skoler,
-hvilke kommune de befinner seg i og hvor mange elever pr. elev-PC de
-har rapportert inn.  For å få en ide om svaret trenger jeg deretter å
-vite hvilke skoler i landet som bruker Linux, slik at jeg kan slå dem
-opp i GSI og finne ut hvor stor PC-tetthet de har.</p>
-
-<p>Jeg vet om skoler i Balsfjord, Flora, Harstad, Kongsvinger, Narvik,
-Nittedal, Nord-Odal, Randaberg og Sunndal som bruker Skolelinux eller
-andre Linux-varianter.  Jeg tror det er flere enn de 56 skolene jeg
-har klart å identifisere de siste dagene, men har ikke klart å få det
-bekreftet med offentlige kilder.</p>
-
-<p>Monitor 2011-rapporteres side 95 forteller at det "ifølge GSI
-(20120-2011) er det 3,11 elever per datamaskin når vi tar med alle
-grunnskoler (1.-10.trinn)".  For de 56 Linux-skolene jeg har klart å
-koble mot informasjon i GSI er det 2,28 elever per elevdatamaskin,
-hvilket betyr at det er 36% høyere PC-tetthet på Linux-skoler enn
-landsgjennomsnittet.  Linux-skolen med høyest tettet blant de jeg har
-notert -skole er Flora ungdomsskule i Flora kommune med 0.82 elev
-pr. PC (482 elever, 588 elevdatamaskiner).</p>
-
-<p>Skolelinux gir datamaskiner lengre levetid, og en kan dermed få
-flere operative datamaskiner for samme budsjett, i tillegg til en
-rekke andre fordeler.  Kan det være forklaringen på forskjellen?</p>
-
-<p>Tallene må tas med en liten klype, da GSI ser ut til å ha endel
-feilføringer.  Jeg synes i hvert fall en skole med 423 elever og 9
-elevmaskiner ser mistenkelig ut.  Eller en skole med 346 elever, 0
-elevmaskiner, som er et annet ekstremt eksempel jeg fant.</p>
-
-<p>Takk til Sturle Sunde, Klaus Ade Johnstad, Ole-Anders Andreassen og
-Trond Mæhlum for innspill om skoler med Linux.</p>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUGs_leverer_h_ringsuttalelse_om_v3_1_av_statens_referansekatalog.html">NUUGs leverer høringsuttalelse om v3.1 av statens referansekatalog</a></div>
+      <div class="date">27th April 2012</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>NUUG-styremedlem Hans-Petter Fjeld
+<a href="https://plus.google.com/u/0/110394259537201279374/posts/AGzRmAuFdW1">meldte
+nettopp</a> at han har sendt inn <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a>s
+høringsuttalelse angående Difi sin standardkatalog v3.1.  Jeg er veldig
+glad for at så mange bidro og sikret at vår stemme blir hørt i denne
+høringen.  Anbefaler alle å lese våre
+<a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/201204-standardkatalog-v3.1">to
+sider med innspill</a>.</p>

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-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>. 
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>. 

         
         
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-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__John_Ingleby.html">Debian Edu interview: John Ingleby</a></div>
-      <div class="date">19th March 2012</div>
-      <div class="body"><p><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
-users are spread all across the globe.  The second inteview after
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">the
-Squeeze release</a> was publised is with John Ingleby, a teacher and
-long time Linux user in United Kingdom.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
-
-<p>I teach ICT part time at the Rudolf Steiner School in Kings
-Langley, near London, UK. Previously I worked as a technical
-author/trainer while my children attended the school, and I also
-contributed to the Schoolforge UK community with the aim of
-encouraging UK schools to adopt free/open source software. Five or six
-years ago we had about 50 schools interested in some way, but we
-weren't able to convert many of them into sustainable
-installations.</p>
-
-<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
-project?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Skolelinux had two representatives at an early Edubuntu meeting in
-London which I attended. However at that time our school network had
-just been installed using CentOS, LTSP 4 and GNOME. When LTSP 5 came
-along we switched to Edubuntu thin client servers so now we have a
-mixed environment which includes Windows PCs and student laptops, as
-well as their MacBooks and iPads. However, the proprietary systems
-have always been rather problematic, and we never built a GUI for the
-LDAP server, so when I discovered Skolelinux is configured for all
-these things we decided to try it.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>By far the biggest advantage is the Debian Edu community. Apart
-from that I have always believed in the same "sustainable computing"
-goals that Skolelinux is built on: installing Linux on computers which
-would otherwise be thrown away, to provide a reliable, secure and
-low-cost IT environment for schools. From my own experience I know
-that a part-time person can teach and manage a network of about 25
-Linux computers, but it would take much more of my time if we had
-proprietary software everywhere.</p>
-
-<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?</strong></p>
-
-<p>As a newcomer I'm just finding out who's who in the community and
-how you're organised, and what your procedures are for dealing with
-various things such as editing manual pages and so-on. The only
-English language mailing list seems to be for developers as well as
-users, so my inbox needs heavy pruning each day!</p>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/HTC_One_X___Your_video___What_do_you_mean_.html">HTC One X - Your video?  What do you mean?</a></div>
+      <div class="date">26th April 2012</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>In <a href="http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article243690.ece">an
+article today</a> published by Computerworld Norway, the photographer
+<a href="http://www.urke.com/eirik/">Eirik Helland Urke</a> reports
+that the video editor application included with
+<a href="http://www.htc.com/www/smartphones/htc-one-x/#specs">HTC One
+X</a> have some quite surprising terms of use.  The article is mostly
+based on the twitter message from mister Urke, stating:

 
 

-<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+<p><blockquote>
+"<a href="http://twitter.com/urke/status/194062269724897280">Drøy
+brukeravtale: HTC kan bruke MINE redigerte videoer kommersielt. Selv
+kan jeg KUN bruke dem privat.</a>"
+</blockquote></p>

 
 

-<p>Besides the software already mentioned at school we use Samba,
-OpenLDAP, CUPS, Nagios and Dansguardian for the network, and on the
-desktops we have LibreOffice, Firefox, GIMP and Inkscape. At home I
-use Ubuntu and an Android 4 eePad Transformer (but I'm not sure if
-that counts...)</p>
+<p>I quickly translated it to this English message:</p>

 
 

-<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+<p><blockquote>
+"Arrogant user agreement: HTC can use MY edited videos
+commercially.  Although I can ONLY use them privately."
+</blockquote></p>

 
 

-<p>That's a tough question! For very many years UK schools installed
-and taught only proprietary software, so that at the highest levels
-the notion of "computer" means simply "proprietary office
-applications".  However, schools today are experiencing budget
-constraints, and many are having to think hard about upgrading Windows
-XP.  At the same time, we have students showing teachers how to use
-iPads, MacBooks and Android, so the choice of operating system is no
-longer quite so automatic. What is more, our government at last
-realised that we need people with programming skills, so they're
-putting coding back in the curriculum! And it's encouraging that the
-first 10,000 Raspberry Pi units sold out in 2 hours.</p>
-
-<p>I don't really know what strategy is going to get UK schools to use
-free software, but building an active community of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu users in this country has to be part of it.</p>
+<p>I've been unable to find the text of the license term myself, but
+suspect it is a variation of the MPEG-LA terms I
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Terms_of_use_for_video_produced_by_a_Canon_IXUS_130_digital_camera.html">discovered
+with my Canon IXUS 130</a>.  The HTC One X specification specifies that
+the recording format of the phone is .amr for audio and .mp3 for
+video.  AMR is
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adaptive_Multi-Rate_audio_codec#Licensing_and_patent_issues">Adaptive
+Multi-Rate audio codec</a> with patents which according to the
+Wikipedia article require an license agreement with
+<a href="http://www.voiceage.com/">VoiceAge</a>.  MP4 is
+<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.264/MPEG-4_AVC#Patent_licensing">MPEG4 with
+H.264</a>, which according to Wikipedia require a licence agreement
+with <a href="http://www.mpegla.com/">MPEG-LA</a>.</p>
+
+<p>I know why I prefer
+<a href="http://www.digistan.org/open-standard:definition">free and open
+standards</a> also for video.</p>

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-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>. 
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>. 

         
         
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-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Writing_and_translating_documentation_in_Debian_Edu.html">Writing and translating documentation in Debian Edu</a></div>
-      <div class="date">16th March 2012</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>Documentation in Debian Edu is provided in several languages, and
-it is important to make it both easy to contribute and to keep the
-translated versions in sync.  To do this we have come up with what we
-believe is a very efficient work flow.</p>
-
-<ol>
-
-<li>The documentation is written in a
-<a href="http://moinmo.in">moinmoin wiki</a> (see for example
-<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">the
-Squeeze release manual</a>) with support for exporting the content as
-docbook XML.</li>
-
-<li>This docbook document is given to po4a to extract a gettext style
-.pot file with the content, which in turn is used to create .po files
-with the translated text.</li>
-
-<li>The .po files are given to translators, and they can always tell
-which part of the original wiki document is new or changed.  They can
-use their normal translation tools like lokalize or poedit to write
-the translation.  There is even a system in place to handle translated
-images.</li>
-
-<li>The translated .po files are combined with the original docbook
-XML document using po4a to create a translated docbook document.</li>
-
-<li>The final step is to use all the generated docbook files and
-create PDF and HTML version of the original and translated documents.</li>
-
-</ol>
-
-<p>This setup work very well, but have a few issues.  The biggest
-issue is that <a href="http://moinmo.in/DocBook">the docbook support
-we use in moinmoin</a> is not actively maintained.  The docbook
-support is also buggy, and our build system contain workarounds to
-make sure the generated docbook is usable despite these bugs.</p>
-
-<p>If you want to have a look at our setup, it is all there in the
-<a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/debian-edu-doc">debian-edu-doc
-package</a>.</p>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Holder_de_ord_og_NUUG_lanserer_testtjeneste_med_stortingsinformasjon.html">Holder de ord og NUUG lanserer testtjeneste med stortingsinformasjon</a></div>
+      <div class="date">22nd April 2012</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>I
+<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hva_har_mine_representanter_stemt_i_Storinget_.html">januar
+i fjor</a> startet vi i NUUG arbeid med å gjøre informasjon om hvem
+som har stemt hva på <a href="http://www.stortinget.no/">Stortinget</a>
+enklere tilgjengelig.  I løpet av få måneder fant vi sammen med
+organisasjonen <a href="http://www.holderdeord.no/">Holder de ord</a>
+som arbeidet mot et lignende mål.</p>
+
+<p>Siden den gang har vi fått tak i maskinelt lesbart informasjon om
+hvem som stemte hva mellom 1990 og våren 2010, og tilgang til
+stortingets nye datatjeneste som har informasjon fra høsten 2011 til i
+dag.  Det gjenstår litt arbeid med det første datasettet, men
+datasettet fra høsten 2011 er klart til bruk.  Begge datasettene er
+tilgjengelig <a href="https://gitorious.org/nuug/folketingparser">via
+git</a>.</p>
+
+<p>På
+<a href="http://www.goopen.no/holder-de-ord-datadrevet-oppfolging-av-politiske-lofter/">Go Open</a> i morgen lanserer
+NUUG sammen med Holder de ord <a href="http://beta.holderdeord.no/">en
+test-tjeneste</a> som viser hva som er og blir behandlet på Stortinget og
+hvem som har stemt hva siden oktober i fjor.  Du får herved mulighet
+til å ta en sniktitt.</p>

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+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget</a>. 

         
         
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-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUG_presentasjon__Skolelinux___ferdig_oppsatt_skolenettl_sning.html">NUUG-presentasjon: Skolelinux - ferdig oppsatt skolenettløsning</a></div>
-      <div class="date">13th March 2012</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>I dag presenterte jeg ny versjon av Skolelinux for NUUGs medlemmer.
-<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/mypapers/20120313-skolelinux-squeeze.html">Lysark</a>
-er tilgjengelige allerede og
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/">video-opptak</a>
-kommer så snart videogruppa til NUUG får publisert den.  Jeg kom på
-endel punkter om nye ting i Squeeze-utgaven under veis som jeg burde
-hatt med, og har sikkert skrevet noe tull på lysarkene som jeg ennå
-ikke har oppdaget.  Denne presentasjonen ble smurt ihop på veldig kort
-tid, og jeg rakk ikke finpusse den.  Håper den kan være lærerik
-likevel.</p>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAND_terms___non_reasonable_and_discriminatory.html">RAND terms - non-reasonable and discriminatory</a></div>
+      <div class="date">19th April 2012</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>Here in Norway, the
+<a href="http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/fad.html?id=339"> Ministry of
+Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs</a> is behind
+a <a href="http://standard.difi.no/forvaltningsstandarder">directory of
+standards</a> that are recommended or mandatory for use by the
+government.  When the directory was created, the people behind it made
+an effort to ensure that everyone would be able to implement the
+standards and compete on equal terms to supply software and solutions
+to the government.  Free software and non-free software could compete
+on the same level.</p>
+
+<p>But recently, some standards with RAND
+(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminatory_licensing">Reasonable
+And Non-Discriminatory</a>) terms have made their way into the
+directory.  And while this might not sound too bad, the fact is that
+standard specifications with RAND terms often block free software from
+implementing them.  The reasonable part of RAND mean that the cost per
+user/unit is low,and the non-discriminatory part mean that everyone
+willing to pay will get a license.  Both sound great in theory.  In
+practice, to get such license one need to be able to count users, and
+be able to pay a small amount of money per unit or user.  By
+definition, users of free software do not need to register their use.
+So counting users or units is not possible for free software projects.
+And given that people will use the software without handing any money
+to the author, it is not really economically possible for a free
+software author to pay a small amount of money to license the rights
+to implement a standard when the income available is zero.  The result
+in these situations is that free software are locked out from
+implementing standards with RAND terms.</p>
+
+<p>Because of this, when I see someone claiming the terms of a
+standard is reasonable and non-discriminatory, all I can think of is
+how this really is non-reasonable and discriminatory.  Because free
+software developers are working in a global market, it does not really
+help to know that software patents are not supposed to be enforceable
+in Norway.  The patent regimes in other countries affect us even here.
+I really hope the people behind the standard directory will pay more
+attention to these issues in the future.</p>
+
+<p>You can find more on the issues with RAND, FRAND and RAND-Z terms
+from Simon Phipps
+(<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/11/rand-not-so-reasonable/">RAND:
+Not So Reasonable?</a>).</p>
+
+<p>Update 2012-04-21: Just came across a
+<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/of-microsoft-netscape-patents-and-open-standards/index.htm">blog
+post from Glyn Moody</a> over at Computer World UK warning about the
+same issue, and urging people to speak out to the UK government.  I
+can only urge Norwegian users to do the same for
+<a href="http://www.standard.difi.no/hoyring/hoyring-om-nye-anbefalte-it-standarder">the
+hearing taking place at the moment</a> (respond before 2012-04-27).
+It proposes to require video conferencing standards including
+specifications with RAND terms.</p>

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-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>. 
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>. 

         
         
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-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__K_re_Nordby.html">Skolelinux-intervju: Kåre Nordby</a></div>
-      <div class="date">12th March 2012</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>Første ut i serien med intervjuer av folk i
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>-miljøet etter at
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">ny
-versjon av Skolelinux</a> ble lansert i helga, er nylig valgte
-styremedlem i foreningen
-<a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/">Fri programvare i
-Skolen</a> (FRiSK) som organiserer
-Skolelinux-utviklingen og daglig leder i
-<a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux Drift AS</a>, selskapet
-prosjektet opprettet som et tilbud til skoler som ønsket en
-kommersiell samarbeidsparter.  Det bør nevnes at jeg er styremedlem i
-Skolelinux Drift AS og styreleder i selskapets hovedeier stiftelsen
-<a href="http://www.linuxiskolen.no/slxdebianlabs/">SLX Debian Labs</a>
-som beskytter verdiene til Skolelinux-prosjektet, og kjenner Kåre den
-veien.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Jeg har siden januar 2010 vært daglig leder i Skolelinux Drift AS,
-som leverer support, installasjon, tilpasning, drift, og opplæring på
-Debian Edu / Skolelinux. Fra 2012 er jeg valgt inn som styremedlem i
-FRiSK.  Min forrige jobb var som KAM i Redpill Linpro (som er en av
-eierne i Skolelinux Drift).  Før det var jeg daglig leder i et eget 7
-manns konsulent selskap som også startet med fri programvare mot
-slutten.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Jeg hørte om det først når jeg jobbet i Redpill Linpro.  Men jeg
-har også en datter som går på en friskole, som også bruker Skolelinux.
-Som kjent har ikke friskoler de samme økonomiske rammebetingelsene som
-offentlige skoler, så for dem var det det absolutt beste alternativet.
-De anser også Skolelinux som et stabilt system, som bare går og går (i
-motsetning til det lille Windows-baserte nettverket de har på
-admin-siden).</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Sentralisert drift av tynne og diskløse arbeidsstasjoner. Således
-lydløse og raskere arbeidsstasjoner som er bedre i klasserommet.
-Lengre levetid på PC'er.  Store besparelser på maskinvare og drift. Og
-så klart fjerning av alle lisenskostnader. Personlig synes jeg også at
-mange av programmene er bedre enn alternativene. Men dette er ofte en
-smakssak og avhengig om man må ha det man er vant til fra før.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?</strong></p>
-
-<p>For lite kjentskap til løsningen.  Noen ganger for dårlig
-kompatibilitet med arbeidsstasjoners/bærbare maskiner sine
-nettverksdrivere eller skjermkort. Men dette løser vi i skolene ved
-standardisering. Ellers er det få, om nesten ingen, av de kjente
-maskinvare / infrastruktur leverandørene til fylkes- / kommuner som
-tilbyr denne plattformen.  Skal dette endre seg så må kommunene selv
-sette slike krav til leverandørene.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Har brukt OpenOffice.org siden starten (2001 ?), Kun Linux på
-desktop siden 2005. Bruker i dag Kubuntu, Libreoffice og ymse annet
-programvare til ulik kontorbruk som er lett å installere / teste via
-alle programarkivene som finnes.</p>
-
-<p><strong>Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
-skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?</strong></p>
-
-<p>Fortsette å presentere flere av de gode eksemplene hvor Debian Edu
-/ Skolelinux brukes i kommuner og enkeltskoler.  Vi må få bedre frem
-at det er mulig tilknytte både Windows og Mac klienter på denne
-plattformen (selv om det vil øke driftskostnadene).  Dette gjøres
-mange steder.  Spesielt er det mange lærere som ønsker å bruke
-Windows/Mac-bærbare, gjerne som sin private PC også. Det er også mulig
-for kommunen å integrere med Active Directory i stedet for OpenLDAP
-som kommer med ut av boksen (selv om også dette øker kostnadene).
-Dette vil muligens bidra til å fjerne noe motstand hos noen
-potensielle brukere / driftpersonell for å ta i bruk noe
-nytt. Fremveksten av mobile brukere og nettbrett går i vår favør.
-Brukerne blir kjent og vant til flere nye operativsystemer /
-brukergrensesnitt. Så utviklerfellesskapet bør jobbe videre med å
-integrere flere nye klienttyper, som ultra lav-kostklienter og
-nettbrett (blant annet fri programvare-alternativet
-<a href="http://makeplaylive.com/">Spark</a> med
-<a href="http://www.merproject.org/">Mer OS</a> og
-<a href="http://plasma-active.org/">KDE Active Plasma</a>).</p>
-</div>
-      <div class="tags">
-        
-        
-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>. 
-        
-        
-      </div>
-    </div>
-    <div class="padding"></div>
-    
-    <div class="entry">
-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux___Debian_Edu_Squeeze_is_out_.html">Skolelinux / Debian Edu Squeeze is out!</a></div>
-      <div class="date">11th March 2012</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>This weekend we finally published the first stable release of
-<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux / Debian Edu</a> based
-on Debian/Squeeze.  The full announcement is
-<a href="http://lists.debian.org/debian-edu-announce/2012/03/msg00001.html">available</a>
-from the project announcement list.  Now is a good time to test if it
-you have not done so already.</p>
-
-<p>I plan to present the new version at
-<a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20120313-skolelinux/">a NUUG
-meeting</a> on tuesday.  I look forward to seeing you there if you are
-in Oslo, Norway.</p>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forskning___GPL_gir_lokal_frihet_og_kontroll_gjennom_omfordeling_av_makt_fra_produsent_til_bruker_.html">Forskning: "GPL gir lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling av makt fra produsent til bruker"</a></div>
+      <div class="date">15th April 2012</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>Da jeg googlet etter noe annet kom jeg tilfeldigvis over
+<a href="http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=58309">en
+hovedfagsoppgave</a> ved Universitetet i Oslo som diskuterer verdien
+av GPLs fire friheter for brukerne av IT-systemer.  Jeg ble fascinert
+over det som presenteres der.  Her er sammendraget:</p>
+
+<p><blockquote>
+
+<p>Motivasjonen til å skrive denne oppgaven er en personlig undring
+over hvorfor det primært, og ofte eksklusivt, fokuseres på det
+økonomiske aspektet ved utredninger om fri programvare er et godt valg
+for det offentlige. Fri og produsenteid programvare bygger på
+fundamentalt forskjellige ideologier som kan ha implikasjoner utover
+økonomiske kostnader. Kunnskapskulturen som er med på å definere fri
+programvare er basert på åpenhet, og er en verdi i seg selv.</p>
+
+<p>Oppgavens tema er programvarelisensen GPL og frihet. GPL-lisensiert
+programvare gir visse friheter i forhold til produsenteid
+programvare. Mitt spørsmål er om, og eventuelt i hvilken utstrekning,
+disse frihetene blir benyttet av ulike brukere og hvordan de
+manifesterer seg for disse brukerne. Sentrale spørsmål i oppgaven
+er:</p>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Hvordan fordeles handlekraft gjennom lisensieringen av programvaren?</li>
+<li>Hvilke konsekvenser har programvarelisensen for de ulike brukere? </li>
+</ul>
+
+<p>Fri programvare gir blant annet brukeren mulighet til å studere og
+modifisere kildekoden. Denne formen for frihet erverves gjennom
+kunnskap og krever at brukeren også er en ekspert. Hva skjer med
+frihetene til GPL når sluttbrukeren er en annen? Dette diskuteres i
+dialog med informantene.</p>
+
+<p>Jeg har i denne oppgaven samlet inn intervjudata fra IKT-ansvarlige
+ved grunnskolene i Nittedal kommune, driftsansvarlig og IKT-veilederen
+for skolene i kommunen, samt IKT-koordinator for utdanning i Akershus
+fylkeskommune og bokmåloversettere av OpenOffice.org. Den empiriske
+delen av oppgaven er delt inn i to seksjoner; den første omhandler
+operativsystemet Skolelinux, den andre kontorprogrampakken
+OpenOffice.org.</p>
+
+<p>Som vi vil se gir GPL lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling
+av makt fra produsent til bruker. Brukerens makt analyseres gjennom
+begrepene brukermedvirkning og handlingsfrihet. Det blir også lagt
+vekt på strukturelle forhold rundt bruken av teknologi, og spesielt de
+økonomiske begrepene nettverkseksternaliteter, innlåsing og
+stiavhengighet. Dette er begreper av spesiell nytte når objektet som
+omsettes eller distribueres er et kommunikasjonsprodukt, fordi verdien
+til et slikt gode for en potensiell bruker avhenger av antall
+eksisterende brukere av godet. I tilknytning til denne problematikken
+inneholder oppgaven også en diskusjon rundt åpne standarder og
+formater.</p>
+
+<p>Oppgaven konkluderer med at de «fire frihetene» som GPL-lisensen er
+laget for å beskytte er av avgjørende betydning for bruken av
+OpenOffice.org og Skolelinux, i Akershus fylkeskommune såvel som i
+skolene i Nittedal. Distribusjonen av handlekraft er ikke helt
+symmetrisk. Det er først og fremst de profesjonelle utviklerne i
+Skolelinux som direkte kan nyttiggjøre seg friheten til å endre kode,
+mens en sluttbruker som Nittedal kommune nyttiggjør seg den økonomiske
+friheten til å kunne distribuere programmene. Det er imidlertid også
+slik at ingen aktør klarer seg uten alle disse «frihetene».</p>
+</blockquote></p>
+
+<p>Jeg fant også en masteroppgave fra 2006, men der ligger ikke
+komplett oppgave tilgjengelig.  På tide å holde et øye med
+<a href="http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/search.html?q=skolelinux">Skolelinux-søket</a>
+til DUO...</p>
+

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+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>. 

         
         
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-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Nigel_Barker.html">Debian Edu interview: Nigel Barker</a></div>
-      <div class="date"> 9th March 2012</div>
-      <div class="body"><p>Inspired by <a href="http://raphaelhertzog.com/tag/interview/">the
-interview series</a> conducted by Raphael, I started a Norwegian
-interview series with people involved in the Debian Edu / Skolelinux
-community.  This was so popular that I believe it is time to move to a
-more international audience.</p>
-
-<p>While <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and
-Skolelinux</a> originated in France and Norway, and have most users in
-Europe, there are users all around the globe.  One of those far away
-from me is Nigel Barker, a long time Debian Edu system administrator
-and contributor.  It is thanks to him that Debian Edu is adjusted to
-work out of the box in Japan.  I got him to answer a few questions,
-and am happy to share the response with you. :)
-
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html">Debian Edu interview: Andreas Mundt</a></div>
+      <div class="date">15th April 2012</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>Behind <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and
+Skolelinux</a> there are a lot of people doing the hard work of
+setting together all the pieces.  This time I present to you Andreas
+Mundt, who have been part of the technical development team several
+years.  He was also a key contributor in getting GOsa and Kerberos set
+up in the recently released
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">Debian
+Edu Squeeze</a> version.</p>

 
 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 
 
 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 

-<p>My name is Nigel Barker, and I am British. I am married to Yumiko,
-and we have three lovely children, aged 15, 14 and 4(!) I am the IT
-Coordinator at Hiroshima International School, Japan. I am also a
-teacher, and in fact I spend most of my day teaching Mathematics,
-Science, IT, and Chemistry. I was originally a Chemistry teacher, but
-I have always had an interest in computers. Another teacher teaches
-primary school IT, but apart from that I am the only computer person,
-so that means I am the network manager, technician and webmaster,
-also, and I help people with their computer problems. I teach python
-to beginners in an after-school club. I am way too busy, so I really
-appreciate the simplicity of Skolelinux.</p>
+<p>My name is Andreas Mundt, I grew up in south Germany.  After
+studying Physics I spent several years at university doing research in
+Quantum Optics.  After that I worked some years in an optics company.
+Finally I decided to turn over a new leaf in my life and started
+teaching 10 to 19 years old kids at school.  I teach math, physics,
+information technology and science/technology.</p>

 
 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 project?</strong></p>
 
 
 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 project?</strong></p>
 

-<p>In around 2004 or 5 I discovered the ltsp project, and set up a
-server in the IT lab. I wanted some way to connect it to our central
-samba server, which I was also quite poor at configuring. I discovered
-Edubuntu when it came out, but it didn't really improve my setup. I
-did various desperate searches for things like "school Linux server"
-and ended up in a document called "Drift" something or other. Reading
-there it became clear that Skolelinux was going to solve all my
-problems in one go. I was very excited, but apprehensive, because my
-previous attempts to install Debian had ended in failure (I used
-Mandrake for everything - ltsp, samba, apache, mail, ns...). I
-downloaded a beta version, had some problems, so subscribed to the
-Debian Edu list for help. I have remained subscribed ever since, and
-my school has run a Skolelinux network since Sarge.</p>
+<p>Already before I switched to teaching, I followed the Debian Edu
+project because of my interest in education and Debian.  Within the
+qualification/training period for the teaching, I started
+contributing.</p>

 
 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 Edu?</strong></p>
 
 
 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 Edu?</strong></p>
 

-<p>For me the integrated setup. This is not just the server, or the
-workstation, or the ltsp. Its all of them, and its all configured
-ready to go. I read somewhere in the early documentation that it is
-designed to be setup and managed by the Maths or Science teacher, who
-doesn't necessarily know much about computers, in a small Norwegian
-school. That describes me perfectly if you replace Norway with
-Japan.</p>
+<p>The advantages of Debian Edu are the well known name, the
+out-of-the-box philosophy and of course the great free software of the
+Debian Project!</p>

 
 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 Edu?</strong></p>
 
 
 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 Edu?</strong></p>
 

-<p>The desktop is fairly plain. If you compare it with Edubuntu, who
-have fun themes for children, or with distributions such as Mint, who
-make the desktop beautiful. They create a good impression on people
-who don't need to understand how to use any of it, but who might be
-important to the school. School administrators or directors, for
-instance, or parents. Even kids. Debian itself usually has ugly
-default theme settings. It was my dream a few years back that some
-kind of integration would allow Edubuntu to do the desktop stuff and
-Debian Edu the servers, but now I realise how impossible that is.  A
-second disadvantage is that if something goes wrong, or you need to
-customise something, then suddenly the level of expertise required
-multiplies. For example, backup wasn't working properly in Lenny. It
-took me ages to learn how to set up my own server to do rsync backups.
-I am afraid of anything to do with ldap, but perhaps Gosa will
-help.</p>
+<p>As every coin has two sides, the out-of-the-box philosophy has its
+downside, too.  In my opinion, it is hard to modify and tweak the
+setup, if you need or want that.  Further more, it is not easily
+possible to upgrade the system to a new release.  It takes much too
+long after a Debian release to prepare the -Edu release, perhaps
+because the number of developers working on the core of the code is
+rather small and often busy elsewhere.</p>
+
+<p>The <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN">Debian LAN</a>
+project might fill the use case of a more flexible system.</p>

 
 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 
 
 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 

-<p>Nowadays I only use Debian on my personal computers. I have one for
-studio work (I play guitar and write songs), running AV Linux
-(customised Debian) a netbook running Squeeze, and a bigger laptop
-still running Skolelinux Lenny workstation. I have a Tjener in my
-house, that's very useful for the family photos and music.  At school
-the students only use Skolelinux. (Some teachers and the office still
-have windows). So that means we only use free software all day every
-day. Open office, The GIMP, Firefox/Iceweasel, VLC and Audacity are
-installed on every computer in school, irrespective of OS.  We also
-have Koha on Debian for the library, and Apache, Moodle, b2evolution
-and Etomite on Debian for the www. The firewall is Untangle.</p>
+<p>I am only using non-free software if I am forced to and run Debian
+on all my machines.  For documents I prefer LaTeX and PGF/TikZ, then
+mutt and iceweasel for email respectively web browsing.  At school I
+have Arduino and Fritzing in use for a micro controller project.</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>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 

-<p>Current trends are in our favour. Open source is big in industry,
-and ordinary people have heard of it. The spread of Android and the
-popularity of Apple have helped to weaken the impression that you have
-to have Microsoft on everything. People complain to me much less about
-file formats and Word than they did 5 years ago.  The Edu aspect is
-also a selling point. This is all customised for schools. Where is the
-Windows-edu, or the Mac-edu?  But of course the main attraction is
-budget.The trick is to convince people that the quality is not
-compromised when you stop paying and use free software instead. That
-is one reason why I say the desktop experience is a weakness. People
-are not impressed when their USB drive doesn't work, or their browser
-doesn't play flash, for example.</p>
+<p>One of the major problems is the vendor lock-in from top to bottom:
+Especially in combination with ignorant government employees and
+politicians, this works out great for the "market-leader".  The school
+administration here in Baden-Wuerttemberg is occupied by that vendor.
+Documents have to be prepared in non-free, proprietary formats.  Even
+free browsers do not work for the school administration.  Publishers
+of school books provide software only for proprietary platforms.</p>
+
+<p>To change this, political work is very important.  Parts of the
+political spectrum have become aware of the problem in the last years.
+However it takes quite some time and courageous politicians to 'free'
+the system.  There is currently some discussion about "Open Data" and
+"Free/Open Standards".  I am not sure if all the involved parties have
+a clue about the potential of these ideas, and probably only a
+fraction takes them seriously.  However it might slowly make free
+software and the philosophy behind it more known and popular.</p>

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@@ -559,28 +469,81 @@ doesn't play flash, for example.</p>
     <div class="padding"></div>
     
     <div class="entry">
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     <div class="entry">

-      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_screencast__Mass_creation_of_user_accounts_in_Squeeze.html">Debian Edu screencast: Mass creation of user accounts in Squeeze</a></div>
-      <div class="date"> 7th March 2012</div>
-      <div class="body"><!-- Video HTML based on http://www.diveintohtml5.net/video.html -->
-
-<p>One of the Debian Edu developers, Wolfgang Schweer, just created a
-screen cast documenting how to create a lot of new users in LDAP on
-Debian Edu Squeeze.  The video is embedded here in quarter size, and
-also available from <a href="http://vimeo.com/37675399">vimeo</a> and
-download as a
-<a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv">Ogg
-Theora</a> file.  Check it out below.</p>
-
-<p><video id="gosa-mass-user-create-movie" width="256" height="184" preload controls>
-  <source src="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv" type='video/ogg; codecs="theora, vorbis"' />
-    <p>Download video as
-      <a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/screencasts/2012-02-29-debian_edu_mass_create_user_accounts.ogv">Ogg</a>.</p> 
-</video></p>
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jeg_skal_p__konferansen_Go_Open_2012.html">Jeg skal på konferansen Go Open 2012</a></div>
+      <div class="date">13th April 2012</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>Jeg har tenkt meg på konferansen <a href="http://www.goopen.no/">Go
+Open 2012</a> i Oslo 23. april.
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Medlemsforeningen NUUG</a> deler ut
+<a href="http://www.nuug.no/prisen/">prisen for fremme av fri
+programvare i Norge</a> der i år.  Kommer du?</p>
+</div>
+      <div class="tags">
+        
+        
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>. 
+        
+        
+      </div>
+    </div>
+    <div class="padding"></div>
+    
+    <div class="entry">
+      <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html">Debian Edu interview: Justin B. Rye</a></div>
+      <div class="date"> 8th April 2012</div>
+      <div class="body"><p>It take all kind of contributions to create a Linux distribution
+like <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>,
+and this time I lend the ear to Justin B. Rye, who is listed as a big
+contributor to the
+<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">Debian
+Edu Squeeze release manual</a>.
+
+<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I'm a 44-year-old linguistics graduate living in Edinburgh who has
+occasionally been employed as a sysadmin.</p>
+
+<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
+project?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I'm neither a developer nor a Skolelinux/Debian Edu user!  The only
+reason my name's in the credits for the documentation is that I hang
+around on debian-l10n-english waiting for people to mention things
+they'd like a native English speaker to proofread...  So I did a sweep
+through the wiki for typos and Norglish and inconsistent spellings of
+"localisation".</p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
+Edu?</strong></p>
+
+<p>These questions are too hard for me - I don't use it!  In fact I
+had hardly any contact with I.T. until long after I'd got out of the
+education system.</p>
+
+<p>I can tell you the advantages of Debian for me though: it soaks up
+as much of my free time as I want and no more, and lets me do
+everything I want a computer for without ever forcing me to spend
+money on the latest hardware.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
+
+<p>I've been using Debian since Rex; popularity-contest says the
+software that I use most is xinit, xterm, and xulrunner (in other
+words, I use a distinctly retro sort of desktop).</p>
+
+<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
+get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
+
+<p>Well, I don't know.  I suppose I'd be inclined to try reasoning
+with the people who make the decisions, but obviously if that worked
+you would hardly need a strategy.</p>

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       <div class="tags">
         
         
 </div>
       <div class="tags">
         
         

-        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>. 
+        Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>. 

         
         
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@@ -602,7 +565,11 @@ Theora</a> file.  Check it out below.</p>
 
 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
 
 
 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
 

-<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (14)</a></li>
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/04/">April (12)</a></li>
+
+<li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/05/">May (1)</a></li>

 
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@@ -723,19 +690,19 @@ Theora</a> file.  Check it out below.</p>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (54)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian (54)</a></li>
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (91)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu (99)</a></li>

 
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan (7)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/digistan">digistan (8)</a></li>

 
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (117)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english (125)</a></li>

 
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (14)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (15)</a></li>

 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling (12)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fildeling">fildeling (12)</a></li>
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju (19)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju (23)</a></li>

 
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart (15)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart (16)</a></li>

 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ldap">ldap (8)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ldap">ldap (8)</a></li>
 


@@ -743,17 +710,17 @@ Theora</a> file.  Check it out below.</p>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ltsp">ltsp (1)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ltsp">ltsp (1)</a></li>
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (14)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (16)</a></li>

 
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (153)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (161)</a></li>

 
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (120)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (124)</a></li>

 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/open311">open311 (2)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (24)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/open311">open311 (2)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (24)</a></li>
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (46)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (47)</a></li>

 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/raid">raid (1)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/raid">raid (1)</a></li>
 


@@ -771,21 +738,21 @@ Theora</a> file.  Check it out below.</p>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (4)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (4)</a></li>
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (24)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (27)</a></li>

 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (1)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (1)</a></li>
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (3)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (4)</a></li>

 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (9)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (6)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (9)</a></li>
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (6)</a></li>
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (23)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (25)</a></li>

 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (1)</a></li>
 
 
  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (1)</a></li>
 

- <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (18)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (19)</a></li>

 
 </ul>
 
 
 </ul>