Back in 2010, Mike Gabriel showed up on the
-Debian Edu and Skolelinux
-mailing list. He quickly proved to be a valuable developer, and
-thanks to his tireless effort we now have Kerberos integrated into the
-Debian Edu
-Squeeze version.
-
-
Who are you, and how do you spend your days?
-
-
My name is Mike Gabriel, I am 38 years old and live near Kiel,
-Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. I live together with a wonderful partner
-(Angela FuÃ) and two own children and two bonus children (contributed
-by Angela).
-
-
During the day I am part-time employed as a system administrator
-and part-time working as an IT consultant. The consultancy work
-touches free software topics wherever and whenever possible. During
-the nights I am a free software developer. In the gaps I also train in
-becoming an osteopath.
-
-
Starting in 2010 we (Andreas Buchholz, Angela FuÃ, Mike Gabriel)
-have set up a free software project in the area of Kiel that aims at
-introducing free software into schools. The project's name is
-"IT-Zukunft Schule" (IT future for schools). The project links IT
-skills with communication skills.
-
-
How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
-project?
-
-
While preparing our own customised Linux distribution for
-"IT-Zukunft Schule" we were repeatedly asked if we really wanted to
-reinvent the wheel. What schools really need is already available,
-people said. From this impulse we started evaluating other Linux
-distributions that target being used for school networks.
-
-
At the end we short-listed two approaches and compared them: a
-commercial Linux distribution developed by a company in Bremen,
-Germany, and Skolelinux / Debian Edu. Between 12/2010 and 03/2011 we
-went to several events and met people being responsible for marketing
-and development of either of the distributions. Skolelinux / Debian
-Edu was by far much more convincing compared to the other product that
-got short-listed beforehand--across the full spectrum. What was most
-attractive for me personally: the perspective of collaboration within
-the developmental branch of the Debian Edu project itself.
-
-
In parallel with this, we talked to many local and not-so-local
-people. People teaching at schools, headmasters, politicians, data
-protection experts, other IT professionals.
-
-
We came to two conclusions:
-
-
First, a technical conclusion: What schools need is available in
-bits and pieces here and there, and none of the solutions really fit
-by 100%. Any school we have seen has a very individual IT setup
-whereas most of each school's requirements could mapped by a standard
-IT solution. The requirement to this IT solution is flexibility and
-customisability, so that individual adaptations here and there are
-possible. In terms of re-distributing and rolling out such a
-standardised IT system for schools (a system that is still to some
-degree customisable) there is still a lot of work to do here
-locally. Debian Edu / Skolelinux has been our choice as the starting
-point.
-
-
Second, a holistic conclusion: What schools need does not exist at
-all (or we missed it so far). There are several technical solutions
-for handling IT at schools that tend to make a good impression. What
-has been missing completely here in Germany, though, is the enrolment
-of people into using IT and teaching with IT. "IT-Zukunft Schule"
-tries to provide an approach for this.
-
-
Only some schools have some sort of a media concept which explains,
-defines and gives guidance on how to use IT in class. Most schools in
-Northern Germany do not have an IT service provider, the school's IT
-equipment is managed by one or (if the school is lucky) two (admin)
-teachers, most of the workload these admin teachers get done in there
-spare time.
-
-
We were surprised that only a very few admin teachers were
-networked with colleagues from other schools. Basically, every school
-here around has its individual approach of providing IT equipment to
-teachers and students and the exchange of ideas has been quasi
-non-existent until 2010/2011.
-
-
Quite some (non-admin) teachers try to avoid using IT technology in
-class as a learning medium completely. Several reasons for this
-avoidance do exist.
-
-
We discovered that no-one has ever taken a closer look at this
-social part of IT management in schools, so far. On our quest journey
-for a technical IT solution for schools, we discussed this issue with
-several teachers, headmasters, politicians, other IT professionals and
-they all confirmed: a holistic approach of considering IT management
-at schools, an approach that includes the people in place, will be new
-and probably a gain for all.
-
-
What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?
-
-
There is a list of advantages: international context, openness to
-any kind of contributions, do-ocracy policy, the closeness to Debian,
-the different installation scenarios possible (from stand-alone
-workstation to complex multi-server sites), the transparency within
-project communication, honest communication within the group of
-developers, etc.
-
-
What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
-Edu?
-
-
Every coin has two sides:
-
-
Technically: BTS issue
-#311188, tricky upgradability of a Debian Edu main server, network
-client installations on top of a plain vanilla Debian installation
-should become possible sometime in the near future, one could think
-about splitting the very complex package debian-edu-config into
-several portions (to make it easier for new developers to
-contribute).
-
-
Another issue I see is that we (as Debian Edu developers) should
-find out more about the network of people who do the marketing for
-Debian Edu / Skolelinux. There is a very active group in Germany
-promoting Skolelinux on the bigger Linux Days within Germany. Are
-there other groups like that in other countries? How can we bring
-these marketing people together (marketing group A with group B and
-all of them with the group of Debian Edu developers)? During the last
-meeting of the German Skolelinux group, I got the impression of people
-there being rather disconnected from the development department of
-Debian Edu / Skolelinux.
-
-
Which free software do you use daily?
-
-
For my daily business, I do not use commercial software at all.
-
-
For normal stuff I use Iceweasel/Firefox, Libreoffice.org. For
-serious text writing I prefer LaTeX. I use gimp, inkscape, scribus for
-more artistic tasks. I run virtual machines in KVM and Virtualbox.
-
-
I am one of the upstream developers of X2Go. In 2010 I started the
-development of a Python based X2Go Client, called PyHoca-GUI.
-PyHoca-GUI has brought forth a Python X2Go Client API that currently
-is being integrated in Ubuntu's software center.
-
-
For communications I have my own Kolab server running using Horde
-as web-based groupware client. For IRC I love to use irssi, for Jabber
-I have several clients that I use, mostly pidgin, though. I am also
-the Debian maintainer of Coccinella, a Jabber-based interactive
-whiteboard.
-
-
My favourite terminal emulator is KDE's Yakuake.
-
-
Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
-get schools to use free software?
-
-
Communicate, communicate, communicate. Enrol people, enrol people,
-enrol people.
+
+
28th June 2012
+
Etter at NRK
+nektet
+Ã¥ spore opp eventuell avtale med MPEG-LA eller andre om bruk av
+MPEG/H.264-video etter at jeg ba
+om innsyn i slike avtaler, tenkte jeg at i stedet for å forsøke å
+få NRK til å finne en slik avtale, så burde det være like enkelt å
+spørre MPEG-LA om de hadde avtale med NRK. Spørsmålet ble sendt før
+jeg fikk tips fra Kieran Kunhya om hvor listen over lisensinnehavere
+"in Good Standing" befant seg. MPEG-LA svarte meg i dag, og kan
+fortelle at NRK ikke har noen avtale med dem, så da er i det minste det
+slått fast. Ikke overraskende mener MPEG-LA at det trengs en avtale
+med MPEG-LA for å streame H.264, men deres rammer er jo
+rettstilstanden i USA og ikke Norge. Jeg tar dermed den delen av
+svaret med en klype salt. Jeg er dermed fortsatt ikke klok på om det
+trengs en avtale, og hvis det trengs en avtale her i Norge, heller
+ikke sikker på om NRK har en avtale med noen andre enn MPEG-LA som
+gjør at de ikke trenger avtale direkte med MPEG-LA. Jeg håper NRKs
+jurister har vurdert dette, og at det er mulig å få tilgang til
+vurderingen uansett om de trenger en avtale eller ikke.
+
+
Her er epostutvekslingen med MPEG-LA så langt. Håper ikke
+utvekslingen fører til NRK plutselig får en litt uventet pakke fra
+MPEG-LA.
+
+
+Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2012 15:29:37 +0200
+
From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere (at) hungry.com>
+
To: licensing-web (at) mpegla.com
+
Subject: Do NRK have a license agreement with MPEG-LA?
+
+Hi. I have a small question for you, that I hope it is OK that I
+ask.
+
+Is there any license agreements between MPEG-LA and NRK, <URL:
+http://www.nrk.no/ >, the
+Norwegian national broadcasting cooperation? I am not sure if they
+need one, and am just curious if such agreeement exist.
+
+The postal address is
+
+
+ NRK
+
Postbox 8500, Majorstuen
+
0340 Oslo
+
Norway
+
+
+if it make it easier for you to locate such agreement.
+
+Can you tell me how many entities in Norway have an agreement with
+MPEG-LA, and the name of these entities?
+
+--
+
Happy hacking
+
Petter Reinholdtsen
+
+
+
I dag, to dager senere, fikk jeg følgende svar:
+
+
+Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:11:17 +0000
+
From: Ryan Rodriguez <RRodriguez (at) mpegla.com>
+
To: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere (at) hungry.com>
+
CC: MD Administration <MDAdministration (at) mpegla.com>
+
Subject: RE: Do NRK have a license agreement with MPEG-LA?
+
+Dear Mr. Reinholdtsen,
+
+Thank you for your message and for your interest in MPEG LA. We
+appreciate hearing from you and I will be happy to assist you.
+
+To begin, I will assume that you are referring to AVC/H.264
+technology in your message below, as this technology is commonly used
+in the transmission of video content. In that case, please allow me
+to briefly summarize the coverage provided by our AVC Patent Portfolio
+License.
+
+Our AVC License provides coverage for end products and video
+services that make use of AVC/H.264 technology. Accordingly, the
+party offering such end products and video to End Users concludes the
+AVC License and is responsible for paying the applicable royalties
+associated with the end products/video they offer.
+
+While the Norwegian Broadcast Corporation (NRK) is not currently a
+Licensee to MPEG LA's AVC License (or any other Portfolio License
+offered by MPEG LA), if NRK offers AVC Video to End Users for
+remuneration (for example, Title-by-Title, Subscription, Free
+Television, or Internet Broadcast AVC Video), then NRK will need to
+conclude the AVC License and may be responsible for paying applicable
+royalties associated with the AVC Video it distributes.
+
+Today I will send you a FedEx package containing a copy of our AVC
+License for your review. You should receive the License document
+within the next few days.
+
+Meanwhile, MPEG LA currently has several Norwegian Licensees that
+can be found under the "Licensees" header within the respective
+portion of our website. For example, you may find our list of
+Licensees in Good Standing to our AVC License in the AVC portion of
+our website,
+http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensees.aspx
+
+I hope the above information is helpful. If you have additional
+questions or need further assistance with the AVC License, please feel
+free to contact me directly. I look forward to hearing from you again
+soon.
+
+Best regards,
+
+Ryan
+
+Ryan M. Rodriguez
+
Licensing Associate
+
MPEG LA
+
5425 Wisconsin Avenue
+
Suite 801
+
Chevy Chase, MD 20815
+
U.S.A.
+
Phone: +1 (301) 986-6660 x211
+
Fax: +1 (301) 986-8575
+
Email: rrodriguez (at) mpegla.com
+
+
+
+
Meldingen om utsendt FedEx-pakke var så merkelig at jeg
+øyeblikkelig sendte svar tilbake og spurte hva i alle dager han mente,
+da han jo ikke hadde fått noen postadresse som nådde meg.
+
+
+
+Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 16:36:15 +0200
+
From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere (at) hungry.com>
+
To: Ryan Rodriguez <RRodriguez (at) mpegla.com>
+
Cc: MD Administration <MDAdministration (at) mpegla.com>
+
Subject: Re: Do NRK have a license agreement with MPEG-LA?
+
+[Ryan Rodriguez]
+
> Dear Mr. Reinholdtsen,
+
+Thank you for your quick reply.
+
+> Today I will send you a FedEx package containing a copy of our AVC
+
> License for your review. You should receive the License document
+
> within the next few days.
+
+The part about sending a FedEx package confused me, though. I did not
+
give you my address, nor am I associated with NRK in any way, so I hope
+
you did not try to send me a package using the address of NRK. If you
+
would send me the Internet address of to the document, it would be more
+
useful to me to be able to download it as an electronic document.
+
+> Meanwhile, MPEG LA currently has several Norwegian Licensees that can
+
> be found under the "Licensees" header within the respective portion
+
> of our website. For example, you may find our list of Licensees in
+
> Good Standing to our AVC License in the AVC portion of our website,
+
> http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensees.aspx
+
+How can I recognize the Norwegian licensees?
+
+--
+
Happy hacking
+
Petter Reinholdtsen
+
+
+
Selv om jeg svarte kun noen minutter etter at jeg fikk eposten fra
+MPEG-LA, fikk jeg eposten under som automatisk var beskjed på min
+siste epost. Får håpe noen likevel følger opp "FedEx-pakken". For å
+øke sjansen for at noen revurderer utsending av pakke uten mottaker,
+videresendte jeg min epost til swolf (at) mpegla.com, så får vi se.
+Har ikke hørt noe mer 3 timer senere, så jeg mistenker at ingen leste
+min epost tidsnok.
+
+
+
+Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 14:36:20 +0000
+
From: Ryan Rodriguez <RRodriguez (at) mpegla.com>
+
To: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere (at) hungry.com>
+
Subject: Automatic reply: Do NRK have a license agreement with MPEG-LA?
+
+Thank you for your message.
+
+I will be out of the office until Thursday, July 5 and will respond
+to all messages upon my return. If this is a matter that requires
+immediate attention, please contact Sidney Wolf (swolf (at)
+mpegla.com)
+
+Best regards,
+
+Ryan
+
+Ryan M. Rodriguez
+
Licensing Associate
+
MPEG LA
+
+
+
+
Litt klokere, men fortsatt ikke klok på mitt opprinnelige spørsmål,
+som er om en trenger avtale med MPEG-LA for å publisere eller
+kringkaste H.264-video i Norge.
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