X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/3aaa32eb193b6b49e948aa852fef60aa9c029c1c..8790ad6f9ee3d666fb2011b10acac74fd3f7603d:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index bb18ddde2a..7fc2352e24 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,239 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + NUUGs høringsuttalelse til DIFIs forslag om å kaste ut ODF fra statens standardkatalog + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUGs_h_ringsuttalelse_til_DIFIs_forslag_om___kaste_ut_ODF_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUGs_h_ringsuttalelse_til_DIFIs_forslag_om___kaste_ut_ODF_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html + Mon, 1 Oct 2012 08:20:00 +0200 + <p>Som jeg +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/DIFI_foresl_r___kaste_ut_ODF_og_ta_inn_OOXML_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html">skrev +i juni</a> 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.</p> + +<p>I går kveld fikk vi i <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a> +fullført vår høringsuttalelse og sendt den inn til DIFI. Du finner +<a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/201209-forskrift-standardkatalog">uttalelsen +på wikien</a>. 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.</p> + + + + + Etterprøvbar kunnskap under press, alle mann til pumpene! + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Etterpr_vbar_kunnskap_under_press__alle_mann_til_pumpene_.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Etterpr_vbar_kunnskap_under_press__alle_mann_til_pumpene_.html + Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:20:00 +0200 + <p>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, <a href="http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/3567">vitenskap +flyr deg til månen, religion flyr deg inn i bygninger</a>. 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:</p> + +<ul> + +<li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/21/drugs-industry-scandal-ben-goldacre">The +drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal</a> - Ben Goldacre i The Guardian +2012-09-21</li> + +<li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/09/22/kultur/debatt/debattinnlegg/utdanning/realfag/23535203/">Norsk +skole har ikke realfag</a> - kronikk av Hege Tunstad i Dagbladet +2012-09-22, basert på +<a href="http://hegetunstad.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/norsk-skole-har-ikke-realfag/">en bloggpost 2012-09-19</a>.</li> + +<li><a href="http://tjomlid.com/2012/09/22/folkeopplysningen-alt-du-trenger-a-vite-om-homeopati/">Folkeopplysningen: + Alt du trenger å vite om homeopati!</a> - bloggpost av Gunnar R. Tjomlid + 2012-09-22.</li> + +</ul> + +<p>Ingen tvil om at alle gode krefter må jobbe sammen for å sikre at +vi vet hvor vi skal fly.</p> + + + + + Seventy percent done with Norwegian docbook version of Free Culture + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Seventy_percent_done_with_Norwegian_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Seventy_percent_done_with_Norwegian_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html + Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0200 + <p>Since this summer, I have worked in my spare time on a Norwegian <a +href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book <a +href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> 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 +<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html">called +for volunteers</a> 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:</p> + +<img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png"> + +<p>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 +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p> + +<p>If you are curious what the translated book currently look like, +the updated +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a> +and +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a> +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.</p> + + + + + Vitenskaplig metode i politikken? + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskaplig_metode_i_politikken_.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskaplig_metode_i_politikken_.html + Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:00:00 +0200 + <p>Jeg ble for noen dager siden tipset om en rapport utarbeidet av +Cabinet Office i England ved navn +<a href="http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/test-learn-adapt-developing-public-policy-randomised-controlled-trials">Test, +Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled +Trials</a>, skrevet av blant annet Ben Goldacre (som jeg først ble +klar over da han holdt et veldig interessant TED-foredrag med tittel +<a href="http://archive.org/details/BenGoldacre_2011G">Battling bad +science</a>). 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:</p> + +<blockquote> +<p>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.</p> + +<p>However, RCTs are not rutinely used to test the effectiveness of + public policy interventions in the UK. We think they should be.</p> +</blockquote> + +<p>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.</p> + + + + + Debian Edu interview: Giorgio Pioda + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html + Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:10:00 +0200 + <p>After a long break in my row of interviews with people in the +<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a> +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.</p> + +<p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p> + +<p>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</p> + +<p>I live in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, and the +<a href="http://www.spse.ch/">SPSE school</a> (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. + +<p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu +project?</strong></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian +Edu?</strong></p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian +Edu?</strong></p> + +<p>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 ;-)</p> + +<p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p> + +<p>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 +<a href="http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/Perceus-Report.html">Perceus</a> +has the same...</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to +get schools to use free software?</strong></p> + +<P>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + +<p>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.</p> + + + Naturvernforbundet i Oslo bruker OpenStreetmap i sin kalender http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Naturvernforbundet_i_Oslo_bruker_OpenStreetmap_i_sin_kalender.html @@ -405,192 +638,5 @@ Science Songbook</a>.</p> - - Da er det norske piratpartiet i gang med å samle underskrifter - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Da_er_det_norske_piratpartiet_i_gang_med___samle_underskrifter.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Da_er_det_norske_piratpartiet_i_gang_med___samle_underskrifter.html - Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:30:00 +0200 - <p>I dag har Digi en artikkel om at initiativet for å få et norsk -Piratparti er -<a href="http://www.digi.no/900904/derfor-er-haakon-wium-lie-pirat">i -gang med å samle inn sine 5000 underskrifter</a> for å få registrert -seg som parti til neste års stortingsvalg. Initiativet ble -<a href="http://www.digi.no/897296/piratene-vil-innta-stortinget">annonsert -i sommer</a>, og har nå kommet så langt at det er på tide å signere -(på papir, med penn og frimerke for innsending. :).</p> - -<p>Dagens partier har i stor grad spilt fallitt på det digitale -området, så jeg er positiv til at det kommer en ny aktør på området -som kan ruske opp litt i gamle strukturer og holdninger, og -forhåpentligvis få gjennomslag for noen av sine saker. Piratpartiet -har laget og publisert -<a href="http://people.opera.com/howcome/2012/piratpartiet/kjerneprogram.html">et -kjerneprogram</a> som inneholder mange punkter en kan si seg enig -i.</p> - -<p>Jeg er ikke sikker på om jeg kommer til å stemme på dem, men jeg -stiller meg helt klart bak at de bør få lov til å stille til valg, og -har selv begynt å samle inn underskrifter. Jeg oppfordrer herved alle -mine lesere til å gjøre det samme. Det trengs 5000 underskrifter før -nyttår, hvilket betyr at det må samles inn minst 40 underskrifter hver -eneste dag frem til 31. desember. Her er det mye arbeide som det -haster med å få gjort.</p> - -<p>Min venn Håkon Wium Lie fronter initiativet, og -<a href="http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2012/pp/">skjema for -individuell signering</a> finnes på hans websider. Hvis en vil få -andre til å signere er det -<a href="http://people.opera.com/howcome/2012/piratpartiet/skjema.pdf">et -egen skjema i PDF-format</a> en kan skrive ut og sende inn. Her er det -bare å sette igang!</p> - - - - - Free software forced Microsoft to open Office (and don't forget Officeshots) - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_software_forced_Microsoft_to_open_Office__and_don_t_forget_Officeshots_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_software_forced_Microsoft_to_open_Office__and_don_t_forget_Officeshots_.html - Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:20:00 +0200 - <p>I came across a great comment from Simon Phipps today, about how -<a href="http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/how-microsoft-was-forced-open-office-200233">Microsoft -have been forced to open Office</a>, and it made me remember and -revisit the great site -<a href="http://www.officeshots.org/">officeshots</a> which allow you -to check out how different programs present the ODF file format. I -recommend both to those of my readers interested in ODF. :)</p> - - - - - Half way there with translated docbook version of Free Culture - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Half_way_there_with_translated_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Half_way_there_with_translated_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html - Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:50:00 +0200 - <p>In my spare time, I currently work on a Norwegian -<a href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book -<a href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig, -to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright law -I can give to my parents and others that are reluctant to read an -English book. It is a marvellous set of examples on how the ever -expanding copyright regulations hurt culture and society. When the -translation is done, I hope to find funding to print and ship a copy -to all the members of the Norwegian parliament, before they sit down -to debate the latest revisions to the Norwegian copyright law. This -summer I -<a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html">called -for volunteers</a> to help me, and I have been able to secure the -valuable contribution from at least one other Norwegian.</p> - -<p>Two days ago, we finally broke the 50% mark. Then more than 50% of -the number of strings to translate (normally paragraphs, but also -titles and index entries are also counted). All parts from the -beginning up to and including chapter four is translated. So is -chapters six, seven and the conclusion. I created a graph to show the -progress:</p> - -<img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png"> - -<p>The number of strings to translate increase as I insert the index -entries into the docbook. They were missing with the docbook version -I initially started with. There are still quite a few index entries -missing, but everyone starting with A, B, O, Z and Y are done. I -currently focus on completing the index entries, to get a complete -english version of the docbook source.</p> - -<p>There is still need for translators and people with docbook -knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle -with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft -translation and proof reading. And I would like the figures to be -redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them. Any SVG master -around? I am sure there are some legal terms that are unfamiliar to -me. If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out the -project files currently available from <a -href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p> - -<p>If you are curious what the translated book currently look like, -the updated -<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a> -and -<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a> -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.</p> - - - - - Gratulerer med 19-årsdagen, Debian! - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gratulerer_med_19__rsdagen__Debian_.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gratulerer_med_19__rsdagen__Debian_.html - Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:20:00 +0200 - <p>I dag fyller -<a href="http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120813">Debian-prosjektet 19 -år</a>. Jeg har fulgt det de siste 12 årene, og er veldig glad for å kunne -si gratulerer med dagen, Debian!</p> - - - - - Gladoppslag om Skolelinux i avisen Fremover - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html - Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:20:00 +0200 - <p>I sommer hadde avisen <a href="http://www.fremover.no/">Fremover</a> -et flott oppslag om bruken av -<a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a> på alle skolene -der. Artikkelen var på trykk på side 4 og 5 i papirutgaven -2012-07-23, men mangler dessverre i nettutgaven av avisen. Mine -henvendelser til avisen for å få artikkelen på nett har så langt ikke -vært vellykket.</p> - -<p>Artikkelen med tittelen "Narvik kommune bruker gratisprogram i -skolen - Har spart millioner", forteller om hvordan bruken av -Skolelinux er en stor suksess i Narvik siden det ble tatt i bruk i -2004. Her er noen fine sitater:</p> - -<blockquote> -"- Skolelinux har spart kommunen for store pengesummer, millionbeløp, - som de heller kan bruke på andre ting, sier IKT-konsulent Viggo - Fedreheim." -</blockquote> - -<p>Avisen forteller at de har fått tilgang til beregninger som viser -at Narvik kommune har spart noe mellom 10 og 20 millioner kroner de -siste 8 årene på å bruke Skolelinux, og fortsetter:</p> - -<blockquote> - -"Regnestykket tar høyde for sparte kostnader til lisenser som medfølger -de alternative operativsystemene, lavere driftskostnader og lengre -levetid på datautstyret. Totalt har Narvikskolen en maskinpark på -1600 maskiner fordelt på de 11 skolene fra Skjomen i sør til Bjerkvik -i nord." - -</blockquote> - -<p>Viggo Fedreheim sier dette om hvor noe av gevinsten kommer fra:</p> - -<blockquote> -"- Vi kan gjenbruke gamle maskiner i skolen som er for dårlig andre - steder i kommunen der de ikke bruker Skolelinux. Levetiden på en - datamaskin blir 3-5 år lenger med Skolelinux. Vi kaller det for - grønn IT, miljøvennlig IT." -</blockquote> - -<p>Her er det mulighet for flere kommuner å få et godt IT-system på -skolene, hvis de er villige til å forsøke. De som ikke har kompetanse -innomhus kan kjøpe det fra en av de kommersielle leverandørene av -Skolelinux-tjenester, som <a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux -Drift AS</a> (der jeg er styremedlem). Komplett liste er tilgjengelig -via -<a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp">wikien</a>.</p> - -<p>Update 2012-08-16: Today I was allowed by Fremover to put the PDF I -received from them with a copy of the article on the Internet. It is -<a href="http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/2012-07-23-fremover-narvik.pdf">now -available</a> in the Skolelinux press archive.</p> - - -