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-		<title>A Norwegian FixMyStreet have kept me busy the last few weeks</title>
-		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Norwegian_FixMyStreet_have_kept_me_busy_the_last_few_weeks.html</link>        
-		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_Norwegian_FixMyStreet_have_kept_me_busy_the_last_few_weeks.html</guid>
-                <pubDate>Sun, 3 Apr 2011 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
-		<description>
-&lt;p&gt;Here is a small update for my English readers.  Most of my blog
-posts have been in Norwegian the last few weeks, so here is a short
-update in English.&lt;/p&gt;
+		<title>Experimental Open311 API for the mySociety fixmystreet system</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Experimental_Open311_API_for_the_mySociety_fixmystreet_system.html</link>        
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Experimental_Open311_API_for_the_mySociety_fixmystreet_system.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sat, 30 Apr 2011 17:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Today, the first draft implementation of an
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.open311.org/&quot;&gt;Open311 API&lt;/a&gt; for the Norwegian
+service &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;FiksGataMi&lt;/a&gt; started to
+work.  It is only available on the developer server for now, and I
+have not tested it using any existing Open311 client (I lack the
+platforms needed to run the clients I have found so far), but it is
+able to query the database and extract a list of open and closed
+requests within a given category and reported to a given municipality.
+I believe that is a good start to create a useful service for those
+that want to do data mining on the requests submitted so far.&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;The kids still keep me too busy to get much free software work
-done, but I did manage to organise a project to get a Norwegian port
-of the British service
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fixmystreet.com/&quot;&gt;FixMyStreet&lt;/a&gt; up and running,
-and it has been running for a month now.  The entire project has been
-organised by me and two others.  Around Christmas we gathered sponsors
-to fund the development work.  In January I drafted a contract with
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mysociety.org/&quot;&gt;mySociety&lt;/a&gt; on what to develop,
-and in February the development took place.  Most of it involved
-converting the source to use GPS coordinates instead of British
-easting/northing, and the resulting code should be a lot easier to get
-running in any country by now.  The Norwegian
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;FiksGataMi&lt;/a&gt; is using
-&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openstreetmap.org/&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; as the map
-source and the source for administrative borders in Norway, and
-support for this had to be added/fixed.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;Where is it?  Visit
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://fiksgatami-dev.nuug.no/open311.cgi/v2/&quot;&gt;http://fiksgatami-dev.nuug.no/open311.cgi/v2/&lt;/a&gt;
+to have a look.  Please send feedback to the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.nuug.no/mailman/listinfo/fiksgatami&quot;&gt;fiksgatami
+(at) nuug.no&lt;/a&gt; mailing list.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>Initial notes on adding Open311 server API on FixMyStreet</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Initial_notes_on_adding_Open311_server_API_on_FixMyStreet.html</link>        
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Initial_notes_on_adding_Open311_server_API_on_FixMyStreet.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2011 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;The last few days I have spent some time trying to add support for
+the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.open311.org/&quot;&gt;Open311 API&lt;/a&gt; in the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;Norwegian FixMyStreet service&lt;/a&gt;.
+Earlier I believed Open311 would be a useful API to use to submit
+reports to the municipalities, but when I noticed that the
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://fixmystreet.org.nz/&quot;&gt;New Zealand version&lt;/a&gt; of
+FixMyStreet had implemented Open311 on the server side, it occurred to
+me that this was a nice way to allow the public, press and
+municipalities to do data mining directly in the FixMyStreet service.
+Thus I went to work implementing the Open311 specification for
+FixMyStreet.  The implementation is not yet ready, but I am starting
+to get a draft limping along.  In the process, I have discovered a few
+issues with the Open311 specification.&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;The Norwegian version went live March 3th, and we spent the weekend
-polishing the system before we announced it March 7th.  The system is
-running on a KVM instance of Debian/Squeeze, and has seen almost 3000
-problem reports in a few weeks.  Soon we hope to announce the Android
-and iPhone versions making it even easier to report problems with the
-public infrastructure.&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;One obvious missing feature is the lack of natural language
+handling in the specification.  The specification seem to assume all
+reports will be written in English, and do not provide a way for the
+receiving end to specify which languages are understood there.  To be
+able to use the same client and submit to several Open311 receivers,
+it would be useful to know which language to use when writing reports.
+I believe the specification should be extended to allow the receivers
+of problem reports to specify which language they accept, and the
+submitter to specify which language the report is written in.
+Language of a text can also be automatically guessed using statistical
+methods, but for multi-lingual persons like myself, it is useful to
+know which language to use when writing a problem report.  I suspect
+some lang=nb,nn kind of attribute would solve it.&lt;/p&gt;
 
-&lt;p&gt;Perhaps something to consider for those of you in countries without
-such service?&lt;/p&gt;
+&lt;p&gt;A key part of the Open311 API is the list of services provided,
+which is similar to the categories used by FixMyStreet.  One issue I
+run into is the need to specify both name and unique identifier for
+each category.  The specification do not state that the identifier
+should be numeric, but all example implementations have used numbers
+here.  In FixMyStreet, there is no number associated with each
+category.  As the specification do not forbid it, I will use the name
+as the unique identifier for now and see how open311 clients handle
+it.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The report format in open311 and the report format in FixMyStreet
+differ in a key part.  FixMyStreet have a title and a description,
+while Open311 only have a description and lack the title.  I&#39;m not
+quite sure how to best handle this yet.  When asking for a FixMyStreet
+report in Open311 format, I just merge title an description into the
+open311 description, but this is not going to work if the open311 API
+should be used for submitting new reports to FixMyStreet.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The search feature in Open311 is missing a way to ask for problems
+near a geographic location.  I believe this is important if one is to
+use Open311 as the query language for mobile units.  The specification
+should be extended to handle this, probably using some new lat=, lon=
+and range= options.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The final challenge I see is that the FixMyStreet code handle
+several administrations in one interface, while the Open311 API seem
+to assume only one administration.  For FixMyStreet, this mean a
+report can be sent to several administrations, and the categories
+available depend on the location of the problem.  Not quite sure how
+to best handle this.  I&#39;ve noticed
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://seeclickfix.com/open311/&quot;&gt;SeeClickFix&lt;/a&gt; added
+latitude and longitude options to the services request, but it do not
+solve the problem of what to return when no location is specified.
+Will have to investigate this a bit more.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;My distaste for web forums have kept me from bringing these issues
+up with the open311 developer group.  I really wish they had a email
+list available via &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gmane.org/&quot;&gt;Gmane&lt;/a&gt; to use for
+discussions instead of only
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.open311.org/groups/discuss&quot;&gt;a forum&lt;a/&gt;.  Oh,
+well.  That will probably resolve itself, one way or another.  I&#39;ve
+also tried visiting the IRC channel #open311 on FreeNode, but no-one
+seem to reply to my questions there.  This make me wonder if I just
+fail to understand how the open311 community work.  It sure do not
+work like the free software project communities I am used to.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>FiksGataMi - fylkesoversikt på kart</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/FiksGataMi___fylkesoversikt_p__kart.html</link>        
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/FiksGataMi___fylkesoversikt_p__kart.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Fri, 15 Apr 2011 13:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Det er morsomt å følge med hvordan bruken av FiksGataMi sprer seg
+over det ganske land.  Her er lenkene til fylkesoversikt på kart over
+de (for tiden) 200 siste problemene.  Bruker her GeoRSS-kilden i
+FiksGataMi og presenterer enten via Google Maps eller en
+GeoRSS-fremviser jeg fant for OpenStreetmap.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+
+  &lt;li&gt;Østfold [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Østfold&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Østfold&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Akershus [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Akershus&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Akershus&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Oslo [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Oslo&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Oslo&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Hedmark [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Hedmark&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Hedmark&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Oppland [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Oppland&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Oppland&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Buskerud [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Buskerud&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Buskerud&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Vestfold [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Vestfold&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Vestfold&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Telemark [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Telemark&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Telemark&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Aust-Agder [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Aust-Agder&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Aust-Agder&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Vest-Agder [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Vest-Agder&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Vest-Agder&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Rogaland [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Rogaland&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Rogaland&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Hordaland [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Hordaland&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Hordaland&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Sogn og Fjordane [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Sogn%2Bog%2BFjordane&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Sogn%2Bog%2BFjordane&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Møre og Romsdal [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Møre%2Bog%2BRomsdal&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Møre%2Bog%2BRomsdal&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Sør-Trøndelag [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Sør-Trøndelag&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Sør-Trøndelag&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Nord-Trøndelag [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Nord-Trøndelag&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Nord-Trøndelag&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Nordland [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Nordland&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Nordland&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Troms [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Troms&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Troms&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+  &lt;li&gt;Finnmark [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://maps.google.com/maps?q=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Finnmark&quot;&gt;Google Maps&lt;/a&gt; ] | [ &lt;a href=&quot;http://vgr.petschge.de/?url=http://www.fiksgatami.no/rss/reports/Finnmark&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; ]&lt;/li&gt;
+
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Antall problemer returnert i GeoRSS-kildene justeres over tid etter
+hvert som vi får mer erfaring med hvilken belastning det gir på
+tjenesten.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Oppdatering 2011-04-27: Endret URL til fylker med mellomrom i
+navnene fra %20 til %2B, slik at de fungerer i flere nettlesere.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>Skolelinux-intervju: Marius Kotsbak</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Marius_Kotsbak.html</link>        
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Skolelinux_intervju__Marius_Kotsbak.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Neste mann ut er Marius Kotsbak, styremedlem i
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/&quot;&gt;FRISK&lt;/a&gt; og mangeårig
+bidragsyter i
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;-prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Jeg er en systemutvikler/kybernetiker og jobber med dette til
+daglig. PÃ¥ fritiden tester jeg ut/bruker mye fri programvare, og
+bidrar med testing og utvikling når jeg ser stort nok behov for det og
+jeg har noe å bidra med.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Hmm, det er lenge siden, så det er nesten så jeg ikke husker. Jeg
+hadde vel hørt om prosjektet i media før en gjeng i Trondheim startet
+opp SPIST, Skolelinux-prosjektet i Sør-Trøndelag, hvor vi hjalp noen
+skoler i nærområdet med å installere Skolelinux og finne brukt
+IT-utstyr til disse. Det var moro å gjøre noe praktisk for å spre
+Skolelinux, og å se hvor fort gjort det var å sette opp utrangerte
+klientmaskiner og få disse opp som tynnklienter på helt nye datasaler
+på skolene, kun med kostnaden til servere.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Det er et system spesielt skreddersydd for drift av et stort antall
+klienter mot servere, og da spesielt i henhold til skolers behov.  Det
+er enkelt og billig å installere og drifte, og det trenger ikke ny
+maskinvare for god ytelse.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Hardwarestøtten kunne vært bedre og i enda større grad
+installerbart rett ut av boksen.  Distribusjonen har til tider hatt
+litt gammel programvare pga. at den følger Debian sine utgivelser.
+Kanskje man skulle vurdert en versjon basert på Ubuntu eller andre
+distribusjoner i tillegg?&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Oi, det er ikke lite. Her er det jeg kommer på i farta.  Jeg bruker
+Linux og Ubuntu, og på Ubuntu programene Firefox, Thunderbird,
+Chromium, Pidgin, Digikam, OpenOffice, Wireshark, git og irssi.
+Telefonen min er en Android, og der bruker jeg programmene K-9 Mail,
+OI Shopping list, Shuffle, ZXing, OI Notepad og ADW Desktop.  PÃ¥ jobb
+bruker jeg JBoss, Eclipse, uCLinux for Blackfin, RCF-CPP, Qt, Maven,
+og boost-bibliotekene for C++.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
+skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;En bør fokusere på totalkostnader inkludert driftsbehov,
+fleksibilitet, åpenhet og ikke låsing til en leverandør framfor sparte
+lisenskostnader, samt programvarens kvalitet og fortrinn, og at den
+fritt kan brukes på et ubegrenset antall PC-er, også hjemme hos
+elevene.  En bør også forbedre den fri programvaren ved testing,
+bugrapportering og kodebidrag om man kan, og ikke anbefale programvare
+uten at man har forsikret seg at den har tilstrekkelig kvalitet,
+ellers kan man lett oppnå det motsatte.  Tror en bør selge inn
+konseptet til fylkes-/statsnivå, kanskje med bidrag til
+utviklingsarbeid fra disse som alle landets skoler kan få glede
+av.&lt;/p&gt;
+</description>
+	</item>
+	
+	<item>
+		<title>Gnash enteres Google Summer of Code 2011</title>
+		<link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gnash_enteres_Google_Summer_of_Code_2011.html</link>        
+		<guid isPermaLink="true">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gnash_enteres_Google_Summer_of_Code_2011.html</guid>
+                <pubDate>Wed, 6 Apr 2011 09:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.getgnash.org/&quot;&gt;The Gnash project&lt;/a&gt; is still
+the most promising solution for a Free Software Flash implementation.
+A few days ago the project
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnash-dev/2011-04/msg00011.html&quot;&gt;announced&lt;/a&gt;
+that it will participate in Google Summer of Code.  I hope many
+students apply, and that some of them succeed in getting AVM2 support
+into Gnash.&lt;/p&gt;
 </description>
 	</item>
 	
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-&lt;p&gt;I dag ligger an til å bli en trist dag for Norge.  I dag skal etter
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;I dag ligger an til å bli en trist dag for Norge.  I dag skal etter
 planen Stortinget stemme over om det skal innføres elektronisk brev-
 og besøkskontroll for hele folket, og Arbeiderpartiet og Høyre utgjør
 et flertall som har annonsert at de er enige om at dette skal gjøres.
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+		<title>A Norwegian FixMyStreet have kept me busy the last few weeks</title>
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+                <pubDate>Sun, 3 Apr 2011 22:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
+		<description>&lt;p&gt;Here is a small update for my English readers.  Most of my blog
+posts have been in Norwegian the last few weeks, so here is a short
+update in English.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The kids still keep me too busy to get much free software work
+done, but I did manage to organise a project to get a Norwegian port
+of the British service
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fixmystreet.com/&quot;&gt;FixMyStreet&lt;/a&gt; up and running,
+and it has been running for a month now.  The entire project has been
+organised by me and two others.  Around Christmas we gathered sponsors
+to fund the development work.  In January I drafted a contract with
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mysociety.org/&quot;&gt;mySociety&lt;/a&gt; on what to develop,
+and in February the development took place.  Most of it involved
+converting the source to use GPS coordinates instead of British
+easting/northing, and the resulting code should be a lot easier to get
+running in any country by now.  The Norwegian
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;FiksGataMi&lt;/a&gt; is using
+&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openstreetmap.org/&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap&lt;/a&gt; as the map
+source and the source for administrative borders in Norway, and
+support for this had to be added/fixed.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;The Norwegian version went live March 3th, and we spent the weekend
+polishing the system before we announced it March 7th.  The system is
+running on a KVM instance of Debian/Squeeze, and has seen almost 3000
+problem reports in a few weeks.  Soon we hope to announce the Android
+and iPhone versions making it even easier to report problems with the
+public infrastructure.&lt;/p&gt;
+
+&lt;p&gt;Perhaps something to consider for those of you in countries without
+such service?&lt;/p&gt;
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