I am currently working on a -project -to translate the book -Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig -to Norwegian. And the source we base our translation on is the -docbook 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 -github.
+ +I helga fikk jeg endelig pakket sammen en ny versjon av den norske +stavekontrollen, og gikk ut versjon 2.1 etter at det var gått fire og +et halvt år siden sist. I dag fikk vi sendt ut annonseringen. Her er +det vi sendte ut:
+ +Oslo, 2012-10-02
+ +Pressemelding: Ny utgave av norsk stavekontroll med +synonymordliste
+ +Mer enn fire år etter at forrige utgave av den frie norske +stavekontrollen ble utgitt, er en ny og forbedret versjon klar. Dette er +noe utviklerne er veldig glade for.
+ +Den største endringen er at byggesystemet for stavekontrollen er +skrevet om til å akseptere ord med bindestrek (f.eks. «e-post»). Litt +over 10.000 slike ordformer er lagt til i orddatabasen. I tillegg er +det kommet en del nye ord og rettelser rapportert inn av de frivillige +som gjennomfører korrektur av orddatabasen i prosjektet. For å få +fortgang i dette korrekturarbeidet er det fint med flere frivillige +som kan bidra i prosjektet.
+ ++ - En god og fritt tilgjengelig stavekontroll er en viktig byggestein + for å fremme bruken av korrekt norsk språk, sier prosjektdeltager + Petter Reinholdtsen. ++ +
Takket være samarbeidet med synonymordlisteprosjektet er +synonymordlista for bokmål tilgjengelig sammen med ordlista for bokmål +og nynorsk. En synonymordliste for nynorsk er også med, men den er på +prøvestadiet og meget liten.
+ +Stavekontrollpakken og synonymordlistene brukes i +LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org, Koffice, Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox og +en rekke andre programmer, og på både Windows, Mac OS X, Linux og +BSD.
+ +Det hele utgis under den frie lisensen GPL og kan fritt lastes ned +fra prosjektsidene på +no.speling.org. Ferdige pakker for +LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org er også tilgjengelige fra samme sted.
+ +Det norske stavekontrollprosjektet er i kontakt med lignende +prosjekter for blant annet å forbedre stavekontrollteknologien, å +utveksle verktøy for vedlikehold av orddatabasen og å få tilgang til +relevante datasett. Et av disse prosjektene er et separat prosjekt ved +Sametinget som er i gang med å utvikle samisk stavekontroll for blant +annet Microsoft Word og OpenOffice.org.
+ +Et søsterprosjekt for å lage grammatikk-kontroll for +LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org er igangsatt, men har ennå ikke kommet +langt nok til å brukes. Frivillige til å bidra i dette prosjektet er +også svært velkomne.
+ +Kontaktperson
+ ++Axel Bojer, prosjektdeltager ++ +
E-post: fri_programvare (at) bojer.no +
Tlf: +47 954 32 417 +
Referanser
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- Det frie norske stavekontrollprosjektet for bokmål og nynorsk: + http://no.speling.org +
- Samiske korrekturverktøy: + http://divvun.no/ +
- Ordlistene fra Norsk ordbank: + http://www.edd.uio.no/prosjekt/ordbanken/ +
- Last ned ordlistene: + http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30577 + (PS: no_NO-pack2 for OOo 2.x)) +
Fra NEWS-fila i kildekodepakken
+ +Release 2.1 (2012-09-30)
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- Switch to new version scheme. Make new version 2.1, not 2.0.11. We do not + release often enough to justify three digits. +
- Switch build rules to build OOo v2 thesaurus files, as the v1 build rules + no longer work. This require the libmythes-dev package on Debian. +
- Introduce new Makefile variables hyphendir and thesdir to make it easier to + control where to install these. +
- Change script used to import from no.speling.org, to load new word + boundaries if at least two people believed the boundaries was correct. +
- Added word boundaries for several words (around 500 words) using the + updated script. +
- Imported thesarus for bokmål from synonymer.merg.net. +
- Rewrote build rules to use = instead of - as combined word marker, thus + allowing words like e-post. +
- Imported a lot (around 10k words) of new words with dash (-) in them from + no.speling.org now that it is handled by the build system. +
Som jeg +skrev +i juni har DIFI foreslått å fjerne krav om å bruke ODF til +utveksling av redigerbare dokumenter med det offentlige, og +derigjennom tvinge innbyggerne til å forholde seg til formatene til MS +Office når en kommuniserer med det offentlige.
+ +I går kveld fikk vi i NUUG +fullført vår høringsuttalelse og sendt den inn til DIFI. Du finner +uttalelsen +på wikien. Ta en titt. Fristen for å sende inn uttalelse var i +går søndag, men en får kanskje sitt innspill med hvis en sender i +dag.
+Jeg har sterk tro på vitenskap, som er et annet navn på +etterprøvbar kunnskap, som metode for å sikre et velfungerende +samfunn. Eller som en fantastisk reklamekampanje i England formulerte +det, vitenskap +flyr deg til månen, religion flyr deg inn i bygninger. Men den +vitenskapelige metode trenger folk med kunnskap, evne og vilje til å +gjøre sitt beste, og settes under press av et samfunn som ikke akkurat +belønner slike egenskaper. Her er noen skremmende og oppmuntrende +lenker relatert jeg anbefaler alle å lese:
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- The +drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal - Ben Goldacre i The Guardian +2012-09-21 + +
- Norsk +skole har ikke realfag - kronikk av Hege Tunstad i Dagbladet +2012-09-22, basert på +en bloggpost 2012-09-19. + +
- Folkeopplysningen: + Alt du trenger å vite om homeopati! - bloggpost av Gunnar R. Tjomlid + 2012-09-22. + +
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. :)
+Ingen tvil om at alle gode krefter må jobbe sammen for å sikre at +vi vet hvor vi skal fly.
Et ofte brukt sitat i fri programvareverden er Stallman-sitatet -«Free Software, -"free" as in "free speech", not as in "free beer"». 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 -igang -med å oversette Free Culture -av Lawrence Lessig, måtte jeg forsøke a finne en bedre -oversettelse.
- -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"».
- -Noen som har bedre forslag?
- -Forøvrig bruker jeg fri programvare som et samlebegrep på norsk for -begge de engelske uttrykkene Free Software og Open Source, jamfør -NUUGs -lille folder om temaet.
+ +Since this summer, I have worked in my spare time on a Norwegian docbook version of the 2004 book Free Culture by Lawrence Lessig. +The reason is that this book is a great primer on what problems exist +in the current copyright laws, and I want it to be available also for +those that are reluctant do read an English book. + +When I started, I +called +for volunteers to help me, but too few have volunteered so far, +and progress is a bit slow. Anyway, today I broken the 70 percent +mark for the first rough translation. At the moment, less than 700 +strings (paragraphs, index terms, titles) are left to translate. With +my current progress of 10-20 strings per day, it will take a while to +complete the translation. This graph show the updated progress:
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Progress have slowed down lately due to family and work +commitments. If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out +the project files currently available from +github.
+ +If you are curious what the translated book currently look like, +the updated +PDF +and +EPUB +are published on github. The HTML version is published as well, but +github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I +saw no point in linking to that version.
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 -Free Culture av Lawrence Lessig -som forklarte litt om problemstillingene. Vi endte opp med å -prioritere utvikling i -Skolelinux-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.
- -Planen min er å oversette boka på dugnad, sette den opp for -trykking med en av de mange -trykk på -forespørsel-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 -Eirik -Newth og -Espen -Andersen om erfaringene med selvpublisering og trykk på -forespørsel er interessante og ikke avskrekkende, og jeg mistenker at -Lulu er en grei leverandør av -trykketjenester til prosjektet.
- -Jeg har satt opp -et -Github-prosjekt 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.
- -Ãkonomien i dette er ikke avskrekkende. 169 -stortingsrepresentanter og nesten like mange varamedlemmer bør fÃ¥ -bøker, og estimert produduksjonskostnad for hver bok er rundt 6 EURO i -følge et raskt estimat fra Lulu. Jeg vet ennÃ¥ ikke hvor mange sider -det blir i størrelsen 5,5" x 8.5" (det er ca. 140 sider i A4-format), -sÃ¥ jeg gjettet pÃ¥ 400 sider. Jeg tror originalutgaven har nesten 400 -sider. For 169*2 eksemplarer snakker vi om en trykkekostnad pÃ¥ -ca. 2000 EURO, dvs. ca 15 000 NOK. Det burde være mulig Ã¥ finne en -sponsor for Ã¥ dekke en slik sum. I tillegg kommer distribusjon og -porto, som antagelig kommer pÃ¥ like mye.
- -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.
+ +Jeg ble for noen dager siden tipset om en rapport utarbeidet av +Cabinet Office i England ved navn +Test, +Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled +Trials, skrevet av blant annet Ben Goldacre (som jeg først ble +klar over da han holdt et veldig interessant TED-foredrag med tittel +Battling bad +science). Rapporten handler om hvordan det offentlige burde bruke +vitenskaplige metoder i større grad for å finne ut hvilke virkemidler +som er mest effektive når en skal regulere samfunnet. Her er et sitat +fra starten av rapporten:
+ +++ +Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are the best way to determine + wheather a policy is working. They are now used extensively in + international development, medicine, and business to identify which + policy, drug or sales method is most effective. They are also at + the heart of the Behavioural Insights Team's methodology.
+ +However, RCTs are not rutinely used to test the effectiveness of + public policy interventions in the UK. We think they should be.
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Her tror jeg også Norge har noe å lære. Det offentlige bruker mye +penger på aktiviteter der det ikke er åpenbart (og heller ikke blir +målt) at den reelle effekten er det en ønsker å oppnå. Ruters +elektroniske billettsystem, NAV-reformen, økt bruk av penger på +politiet og sykehussammenslåinger kommer meg i hug.
The Debian Edu / -Skolelinux 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 -Debian Edu -Wheezy setup to his liking. He granted me an interview, and I am -happy to share his answers with you here.
+ +After a long break in my row of interviews with people in the +Debian Edu and Skolelinux +community, I finally found time to wrap up another. This time it is +Giorgio Pioda, which showed up on the mailing list at the start of +this year, asking questions and inspiring us to improve the first time +administrators experience with Skolelinux. :) The interview was +conduced in May, but I only found time to publish it now.
Who are you, and how do you spend your days?
-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.
+I have a PhD in chemistry but since several years I work as teacher +in secondary (15-18 year old students) and tertiary (a kind of "light" +university) schools. Five years ago I started to manage a Learning +Management Service server and slowly I got more and more involved with +IT. 3 years ago the graduating schools moved completely to Linux and I +got the head of the IT for this. The experience collected in chemistry +labs computers (for example NMR analysis of protein folding) and in +the IT-courses during university where sufficient to start. Self +training is anyway very important
+ +I live in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, and the +SPSE school (secondary) is a very +special sport school for young people who try to became sport pro (for +all sports, we have dozens of disciplines represented) and we are +recognised by the Olympic Swiss Organisation.
How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu project?
-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. +Looking for Linux / Primary Domain Controller (PDC) I found it +already several years ago. But since the system was still not +Kerberized and since our schools relies strongly on laptops I didn't +use it. I plan to introduce it in the next future, probably for the +next school year, since the squeeze release solved this security +hole.
What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu?
-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. +Many. First of all there is a strong and living community that is +very generous for help and hints. Chat help is crucial, together with +the mailing list. Second. With Skolelinux you get an already well +engineered platform and you don't have to start to build up your PDC +and your clients from GNU/scratch; I've already done this once and I +can tell it, it is hard. Third, since Skolelinux is a standard +platform, it is way easier to educate other IT people and even if the +head IT is sick another one could pick up the task without too much +hassle.
What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian Edu?
-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.
- -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.
- -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.
- -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.
- -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.
+The only real problem I see is that it is a little too less +flexible at client level. Debian stable is rocky and desirable, but +there are many reasons that force for another choice. For example the +need of new drivers for new PC, or the need for a specific OS for some +devices that have specific software packages for another specific +distribution (I have such a case for whiteboards that have only +Ubuntu packages). Thus, I prepared compatibility packages educlient +and eduroaming, hoping not to use them ;-)
Which free software do you use daily?
-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 ;) -)
+I have a Debian Stable PDC at school (Kerberos, NIS, NFS) with +mixed Debian and Ubuntu clients. If you think that this triad +combination is exotic... well I discovered right yesterday that +Perceus +has the same...
+ +For myself I run Debian wheezy/sid, but this combination is good +only I you have enough competence to fix stuff for yourself, if +something breaks. Daily I use texmacs, gnumeric, a little bit of R +statistics, kmplot, and less frequently OpenOffice.org.
Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to get schools to use free software?
-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.
- -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 Radio station -management with Airtime, -Airtime which -claim to be a Free open source radio automation software and -Rivendell which claim to -be complete radio broadcast automation solution. All of them seem -useful to the aspiring radio producer.
+I think that the only real argument that school managers "hear" is +cost reduction. They don't give too much weight on quality, stability, +just because they are normally not open to change.
+ +Students adapts very quickly to GNU/Linux (and for them being able +to switch between different OS is a plus value); teachers and managers +don't.
+ +We decided to move to Linux because students at our school have own +laptop and we have the responsibility to keep the laptop ready to use; +we were really unsatisfied with Microsoft since every Monday we had 20 +machine to fix for viral infections... With Linux this has been +reduced to zero, since people installs almost only from official +repositories. I think that our special needs brought us to Linux. +Those who don't have such needs will hardly move to Linux.