X-Git-Url: http://pere.pagekite.me/gitweb/homepage.git/blobdiff_plain/cd970c24651e1d4594569750819d1f45f6f703b7..d4d8529eebb91cf5da5c7f93cee3e2a5b70a60a5:/blog/index.rss diff --git a/blog/index.rss b/blog/index.rss index 9f77f0a71e..477f484f67 100644 --- a/blog/index.rss +++ b/blog/index.rss @@ -6,6 +6,57 @@ http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/ + + Book cover for the Free Culture book finally done + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Book_cover_for_the_Free_Culture_book_finally_done.html + http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Book_cover_for_the_Free_Culture_book_finally_done.html + Thu, 3 Sep 2015 21:00:00 +0200 + <p>Creating a good looking book cover proved harder than I expected. +I wanted to create a cover looking similar to the original cover of +the +<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">Free +Culture</a> book we are translating to Norwegian, and I wanted it in +vector format for high resolution printing. But my inkscape knowledge +were not nearly good enough to pull that off. + +<p>But thanks to the great inkscape community, I was able to wrap up +the cover yesterday evening. I asked on the +<a href="irc://irc.freenode.net/%23inkscape">#inkscape IRC channel</a> +on Freenode for help and clues, and Marc Jeanmougin (Mc-) volunteered +to try to recreate it based on the PDF of the cover from the HTML +version. Not only did he create a +<a href="https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/copy1.svg ">SVG document with +the original and his vector version side by side</a>, he even provided +an <a href="https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/out-1.ogv">instruction +video</a> explaining how he did it</a>. But the instruction video is +not easy to follow for an untrained inkscape user. The video is a +recording on how he did it, and he is obviously very experienced as +the menu selections are very quick and he mentioned on IRC that he did +use some keyboard shortcuts that can't be seen on the video, but it +give a good idea about the inkscape operations to use to create the +stripes with the embossed copyright sign in the center.</p> + +<p>I took his SVG file, copied the vector image and re-sized it to fit +on the cover I was drawing. I am happy with the end result, and the +current english version look like this:</p> + +<img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.png" width="70%" align="center"/> + +<p>I am not quite sure about the text on the back, but guess it will +do. I picked three quotes from the official site for the book, and +hope it will work to trigger the interest of potential readers. The +Norwegian cover will look the same, but with the texts and bar code +replaced with the Norwegian version.</p> + +<p>The book is very close to being ready for publication, and I expect +to upload the final draft to Lulu in the next few days and order a +final proof reading copy to verify that everything look like it should +before allowing everyone to order their own copy of Free Culture, in +English or Norwegian Bokmål. I'm waiting to give the the productive +proof readers a chance to complete their work.</p> + + + In my hand, a pocket book edition of the Norwegian Free Culture book! http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/In_my_hand__a_pocket_book_edition_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_.html @@ -746,79 +797,5 @@ innholdet.</p> - - Graphing the Norwegian company ownership structure - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Graphing_the_Norwegian_company_ownership_structure.html - http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Graphing_the_Norwegian_company_ownership_structure.html - Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:00:00 +0200 - <p>It is a bit work to figure out the ownership structure of companies -in Norway. The information is publicly available, but one need to -recursively look up ownership for all owners to figure out the complete -ownership graph of a given set of companies. To save me the work in -the future, I wrote a script to do this automatically, outputting the -ownership structure using the Graphviz/dotty format. The data source -is web scraping from <a href="http://www.proff.no/">Proff</a>, because -I failed to find a useful source directly from the official keepers of -the ownership data, <a href="http://www.brreg.no/">Brønnøysundsregistrene</a>.</p> - -<p>To get an ownership graph for a set of companies, fetch -<a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/brreg-norway-ownership-graph">the code from git</a> and run it using the organisation number. I'm -using the Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet as an example here, as its -ownership structure is very simple:</p> - -<pre> -% time ./bin/eierskap-dotty 958033540 > dagbladet.dot - -real 0m2.841s -user 0m0.184s -sys 0m0.036s -% -</pre> - -<p>The script accept several organisation numbers on the command line, -allowing a cluster of companies to be graphed in the same image. The -resulting dot file for the example above look like this. The edges -are labeled with the ownership percentage, and the nodes uses the -organisation number as their name and the name as the label:</p> - -<pre> -digraph ownership { -rankdir = LR; -"Aller Holding A/s" -> "910119877" [label="100%"] -"910119877" -> "998689015" [label="100%"] -"998689015" -> "958033540" [label="99%"] -"974530600" -> "958033540" [label="1%"] -"958033540" [label="AS DAGBLADET"] -"998689015" [label="Berner Media Holding AS"] -"974530600" [label="Dagbladets Stiftelse"] -"910119877" [label="Aller Media AS"] -} -</pre> - -<p>To view the ownership graph, run "<tt>dotty dagbladet.dot</tt>" or -convert it to a PNG using "<tt>dot -T png dagbladet.dot > -dagbladet.png</tt>". The result can be seen below:</p> - -<img src="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-06-15-ownership-graphs-norway-dagbladet.png" width="80%"> - -<p>Note that I suspect the "Aller Holding A/S" entry to be incorrect -data in the official ownership register, as that name is not -registered in the official company register for Norway. The ownership -register is sensitive to typos and there seem to be no strict checking -of the ownership links.</p> - -<p>Let me know if you improve the script or find better data sources. -The code is licensed according to GPL 2 or newer.</p> - -<p>Update 2015-06-15: Since the initial post I've been told that -"<a href="http://www.proff.dk/firma/carl-allers-etablissement-aktieselskab/københavn-v/hovedkontorer/13624518-3/">Aller -Holding A/S</a>" is a Danish company, which explain why it did not -have a Norwegian organisation number. I've also been told that there -is a <a href="http://www.brreg.no/automatiske/webservices/">web -services API available</a> from Brønnøysundsregistrene, for those -willing to accept the terms or pay the price.</p> - - -