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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_is_your_local_library_collecting_the__wrong__computer_books_.html">Why is your local library collecting the "wrong" computer books?</a></div>
  24       <div class="date"> 3rd October 2012</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>I just read the blog post from Tim Retout
  26 <a href="http://retout.co.uk/blog/2012/10/02/the-library-challenge">about
  27 the computer science book collection available in his local
  28 library</a>, and just wanted to share my comment on his theory about
  29 computer books becoming obsolete so soon.  That is part of the reason
  30 why the selection is so sad in almost any local library (it is in mine
  31 too), but I believe the major contributing factor is that the people
  32 buying books to the library have no way to know a good and future
  33 computer classic from trash.  And they need to know which one will
  34 become a classic in the future, as they would normally buy one of the
  35 recently published books.</p>
  36
  37 <p>During my university years, I worked for a while at the university
  38 library, and even there the person in charge of buying computer
  39 related books (and in fact any natural science related book), did not
  40 know enough about computers to make a good educated guess.  Once, just
  41 before Christmas, they had some leftover money on the book budget and
  42 I was asked if I could pick out a lot of computer books in the
  43 university book store, for the library to buy for their collection.  I
  44 had a great time picking all the books I dreamt of buying and reading,
  45 and the books I knew were classics (like most of the
  46 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Richard_Stevens">Stevens
  47 collection</a>).  I picked several of the generic O'Reilly books (ie
  48 documenting protocols, formats and systems, not specific versions of
  49 products) and stayed away from the 'teach yourself X in N days' class.
  50 I had a great time, and probably picked out more than a hundred books
  51 for the library that evening.</p>
  52
  53 <p>The sad fact is that there is no way a overworked librarian is
  54 going to know that
  55 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Programming">The
  56 Practice of Programming</a> is a must-have in any computer library,
  57 and they will most of the time end up picking the wrong books to buy.
  58 Perhaps you can help your local library make better choices by giving
  59 the suggestions for books to get?  I know they would love to hear from
  60 you, even if their budget might block them from getting your favourite
  61 book right away.</p>
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  75       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Ny_utgave__v2_1__av_den_frie_norske_stavekontrollen_gitt_ut.html">Ny utgave (v2.1) av den frie norske stavekontrollen gitt ut</a></div>
  76       <div class="date"> 2nd October 2012</div>
  77       <div class="body"><p>I helga fikk jeg endelig pakket sammen en ny versjon av den norske
  78 stavekontrollen, og gikk ut versjon 2.1 etter at det var gått fire og
  79 et halvt år siden sist.  I dag fikk vi sendt ut annonseringen.  Her er
  80 det vi sendte ut:</p>
  81
  82 <p>Oslo, 2012-10-02</p>
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  84 <p><strong>Pressemelding: Ny utgave av norsk stavekontroll med
  85 synonymordliste</strong></p>
  86
  87 <p>Mer enn fire år etter at forrige utgave av den frie norske
  88 stavekontrollen ble utgitt, er en ny og forbedret versjon klar. Dette er
  89 noe utviklerne er veldig glade for.</p>
  90
  91 <p>Den største endringen er at byggesystemet for stavekontrollen er
  92 skrevet om til å akseptere ord med bindestrek (f.eks. «e-post»). Litt
  93 over 10.000 slike ordformer er lagt til i orddatabasen. I tillegg er
  94 det kommet en del nye ord og rettelser rapportert inn av de frivillige
  95 som gjennomfører korrektur av orddatabasen i prosjektet. For å få
  96 fortgang i dette korrekturarbeidet er det fint med flere frivillige
  97 som kan bidra i prosjektet.</p>
  98
  99 <p><blockquote>
 100  - En god og fritt tilgjengelig stavekontroll er en viktig byggestein
 101    for å fremme bruken av korrekt norsk språk, sier prosjektdeltager
 102    Petter Reinholdtsen.
 103 </blockquote></p>
 104
 105 <p>Takket være samarbeidet med synonymordlisteprosjektet er
 106 synonymordlista for bokmål tilgjengelig sammen med ordlista for bokmål
 107 og nynorsk. En synonymordliste for nynorsk er også med, men den er på
 108 prøvestadiet og meget liten.</p>
 109
 110 <p>Stavekontrollpakken og synonymordlistene brukes i
 111 LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org, Koffice, Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox og
 112 en rekke andre programmer, og på både Windows, Mac OS X, Linux og
 113 BSD.</p>
 114
 115 <p>Det hele utgis under den frie lisensen GPL og kan fritt lastes ned
 116 fra prosjektsidene på
 117 <a href="http://no.speling.org">no.speling.org</a>. Ferdige pakker for
 118 LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org er også tilgjengelige fra samme sted.</p>
 119
 120 <p>Det norske stavekontrollprosjektet er i kontakt med lignende
 121 prosjekter for blant annet å forbedre stavekontrollteknologien, å
 122 utveksle verktøy for vedlikehold av orddatabasen og å få tilgang til
 123 relevante datasett. Et av disse prosjektene er et separat prosjekt ved
 124 Sametinget som er i gang med å utvikle samisk stavekontroll for blant
 125 annet Microsoft Word og OpenOffice.org.</p>
 126
 127 <p>Et søsterprosjekt for å lage grammatikk-kontroll for
 128 LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org er igangsatt, men har ennå ikke kommet
 129 langt nok til å brukes. Frivillige til å bidra i dette prosjektet er
 130 også svært velkomne.</p>
 131
 132 <p><strong>Kontaktperson</strong></p>
 133
 134 <p><blockquote>
 135 Axel Bojer, prosjektdeltager
 136 <br>E-post: fri_programvare (at) bojer.no
 137 <br>Tlf: +47 954 32 417
 138 </blockquote></p>
 139
 140 <p><strong>Referanser</strong></p>
 141
 142 <ul>
 143
 144 <li>Det frie norske stavekontrollprosjektet for bokmål og nynorsk:
 145     <a href="http://no.speling.org">http://no.speling.org</a></li>
 146 <li>Samiske korrekturverktøy:
 147     <a href="http://divvun.no/">http://divvun.no/</a></li>
 148 <li>Ordlistene fra Norsk ordbank:
 149     <a href="http://www.edd.uio.no/prosjekt/ordbanken/">http://www.edd.uio.no/prosjekt/ordbanken/</a></li>
 150 <li>Last ned ordlistene:
 151     <a href="http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30577">http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30577</a>
 152     (PS: no_NO-pack2 for OOo 2.x))</li>
 153 </ul>
 154
 155 <p><strong>Fra NEWS-fila i kildekodepakken</strong></p>
 156
 157 <p>Release 2.1 (2012-09-30)</p>
 158
 159 <ul>
 160
 161 <li>Switch to new version scheme. Make new version 2.1, not 2.0.11. We do not
 162     release often enough to justify three digits.</li>
 163 <li>Switch build rules to build OOo v2 thesaurus files, as the v1 build rules
 164     no longer work. This require the libmythes-dev package on Debian.</li>
 165 <li>Introduce new Makefile variables hyphendir and thesdir to make it easier to
 166     control where to install these.</li>
 167 <li>Change script used to import from no.speling.org, to load new word
 168     boundaries if at least two people believed the boundaries was correct.</li>
 169 <li>Added word boundaries for several words (around 500 words) using the
 170     updated script.</li>
 171 <li>Imported thesarus for bokmål from synonymer.merg.net.</li>
 172 <li>Rewrote build rules to use = instead of - as combined word marker, thus
 173     allowing words like e-post.</li>
 174 <li>Imported a lot (around 10k words) of new words with dash (-) in them from
 175     no.speling.org now that it is handled by the build system.</li>
 176 </ul>
 177 </div>
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 180
 181         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll</a>.
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 188     <div class="entry">
 189       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUGs_h_ringsuttalelse_til_DIFIs_forslag_om___kaste_ut_ODF_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html">NUUGs høringsuttalelse til DIFIs forslag om å kaste ut ODF fra statens standardkatalog</a></div>
 190       <div class="date"> 1st October 2012</div>
 191       <div class="body"><p>Som jeg
 192 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/DIFI_foresl_r___kaste_ut_ODF_og_ta_inn_OOXML_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html">skrev
 193 i juni</a> har DIFI foreslått å fjerne krav om å bruke ODF til
 194 utveksling av redigerbare dokumenter med det offentlige, og
 195 derigjennom tvinge innbyggerne til å forholde seg til formatene til MS
 196 Office når en kommuniserer med det offentlige.</p>
 197
 198 <p>I går kveld fikk vi i <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a>
 199 fullført vår høringsuttalelse og sendt den inn til DIFI.  Du finner
 200 <a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/201209-forskrift-standardkatalog">uttalelsen
 201 på wikien</a>.  Ta en titt.  Fristen for å sende inn uttalelse var i
 202 går søndag, men en får kanskje sitt innspill med hvis en sender i
 203 dag.</p>
 204 </div>
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 206
 207
 208         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard</a>.
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 216       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Etterpr_vbar_kunnskap_under_press__alle_mann_til_pumpene_.html">Etterprøvbar kunnskap under press, alle mann til pumpene!</a></div>
 217       <div class="date">24th September 2012</div>
 218       <div class="body"><p>Jeg har sterk tro på vitenskap, som er et annet navn på
 219 etterprøvbar kunnskap, som metode for å sikre et velfungerende
 220 samfunn.  Eller som en fantastisk reklamekampanje i England formulerte
 221 det, <a href="http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/3567">vitenskap
 222 flyr deg til månen, religion flyr deg inn i bygninger</a>.  Men den
 223 vitenskapelige metode trenger folk med kunnskap, evne og vilje til å
 224 gjøre sitt beste, og settes under press av et samfunn som ikke akkurat
 225 belønner slike egenskaper.  Her er noen skremmende og oppmuntrende
 226 lenker relatert jeg anbefaler alle å lese:</p>
 227
 228 <ul>
 229
 230 <li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/21/drugs-industry-scandal-ben-goldacre">The
 231 drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal</a> - Ben Goldacre i The Guardian
 232 2012-09-21</li>
 233
 234 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/09/22/kultur/debatt/debattinnlegg/utdanning/realfag/23535203/">Norsk
 235 skole har ikke realfag</a> - kronikk av Hege Tunstad i Dagbladet
 236 2012-09-22, basert på
 237 <a href="http://hegetunstad.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/norsk-skole-har-ikke-realfag/">en bloggpost 2012-09-19</a>.</li>
 238
 239 <li><a href="http://tjomlid.com/2012/09/22/folkeopplysningen-alt-du-trenger-a-vite-om-homeopati/">Folkeopplysningen:
 240   Alt du trenger å vite om homeopati!</a> - bloggpost av Gunnar R. Tjomlid
 241   2012-09-22.</li>
 242
 243 </ul>
 244
 245 <p>Ingen tvil om at alle gode krefter må jobbe sammen for å sikre at
 246 vi vet hvor vi skal fly.</p>
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 251         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap</a>.
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 259       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Seventy_percent_done_with_Norwegian_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html">Seventy percent done with Norwegian docbook version of Free Culture</a></div>
 260       <div class="date">23rd September 2012</div>
 261       <div class="body"><p>Since this summer, I have worked in my spare time on a Norwegian <a
 262 href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book <a
 263 href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig.
 264 The reason is that this book is a great primer on what problems exist
 265 in the current copyright laws, and I want it to be available also for
 266 those that are reluctant do read an English book.
 267
 268 When I started, I
 269 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html">called
 270 for volunteers</a> to help me, but too few have volunteered so far,
 271 and progress is a bit slow.  Anyway, today I broken the 70 percent
 272 mark for the first rough translation.  At the moment, less than 700
 273 strings (paragraphs, index terms, titles) are left to translate.  With
 274 my current progress of 10-20 strings per day, it will take a while to
 275 complete the translation.  This graph show the updated progress:</p>
 276
 277 <img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png">
 278
 279 <p>Progress have slowed down lately due to family and work
 280 commitments.  If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out
 281 the project files currently available from
 282 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p>
 283
 284 <p>If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
 285 the updated
 286 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>
 287 and
 288 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
 289 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
 290 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
 291 saw no point in linking to that version.</p>
 292 </div>
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 294
 295
 296         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture</a>.
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 304       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskaplig_metode_i_politikken_.html">Vitenskaplig metode i politikken?</a></div>
 305       <div class="date">20th September 2012</div>
 306       <div class="body"><p>Jeg ble for noen dager siden tipset om en rapport utarbeidet av
 307 Cabinet Office i England ved navn
 308 <a href="http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/test-learn-adapt-developing-public-policy-randomised-controlled-trials">Test,
 309 Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled
 310 Trials</a>, skrevet av blant annet Ben Goldacre (som jeg først ble
 311 klar over da han holdt et veldig interessant TED-foredrag med tittel
 312 <a href="http://archive.org/details/BenGoldacre_2011G">Battling bad
 313 science</a>).  Rapporten handler om hvordan det offentlige burde bruke
 314 vitenskaplige metoder i større grad for å finne ut hvilke virkemidler
 315 som er mest effektive når en skal regulere samfunnet.  Her er et sitat
 316 fra starten av rapporten:</p>
 317
 318 <blockquote>
 319 <p>Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are the best way to determine
 320   wheather a policy is working.  They are now used extensively in
 321   international development, medicine, and business to identify which
 322   policy, drug or sales method is most effective.  They are also at
 323   the heart of the Behavioural Insights Team's methodology.</p>
 324
 325 <p>However, RCTs are not rutinely used to test the effectiveness of
 326   public policy interventions in the UK.  We think they should be.</p>
 327 </blockquote>
 328
 329 <p>Her tror jeg også Norge har noe å lære.  Det offentlige bruker mye
 330 penger på aktiviteter der det ikke er åpenbart (og heller ikke blir
 331 målt) at den reelle effekten er det en ønsker å oppnå.  Ruters
 332 elektroniske billettsystem, NAV-reformen, økt bruk av penger på
 333 politiet og sykehussammenslåinger kommer meg i hug.</p>
 334 </div>
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 337
 338         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap</a>.
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 345     <div class="entry">
 346       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html">Debian Edu interview: Giorgio Pioda</a></div>
 347       <div class="date">17th September 2012</div>
 348       <div class="body"><p>After a long break in my row of interviews with people in the
 349 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
 350 community, I finally found time to wrap up another.  This time it is
 351 Giorgio Pioda, which showed up on the mailing list at the start of
 352 this year, asking questions and inspiring us to improve the first time
 353 administrators experience with Skolelinux. :) The interview was
 354 conduced in May, but I only found time to publish it now.</p>
 355
 356 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 357
 358 <p>I have a PhD in chemistry but since several years I work as teacher
 359 in secondary (15-18 year old students) and tertiary (a kind of "light"
 360 university) schools. Five years ago I started to manage a Learning
 361 Management Service server and slowly I got more and more involved with
 362 IT. 3 years ago the graduating schools moved completely to Linux and I
 363 got the head of the IT for this. The experience collected in chemistry
 364 labs computers (for example NMR analysis of protein folding) and in
 365 the IT-courses during university where sufficient to start. Self
 366 training is anyway very important</p>
 367
 368 <p>I live in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, and the
 369 <a href="http://www.spse.ch/">SPSE school</a> (secondary) is a very
 370 special sport school for young people who try to became sport pro (for
 371 all sports, we have dozens of disciplines represented) and we are
 372 recognised by the Olympic Swiss Organisation.
 373
 374 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 375 project?</strong></p>
 376
 377 <p>Looking for Linux / Primary Domain Controller (PDC) I found it
 378 already several years ago. But since the system was still not
 379 Kerberized and since our schools relies strongly on laptops I didn't
 380 use it. I plan to introduce it in the next future, probably for the
 381 next school year, since the squeeze release solved this security
 382 hole.</p>
 383
 384 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 385 Edu?</strong></p>
 386
 387 <p>Many. First of all there is a strong and living community that is
 388 very generous for help and hints.  Chat help is crucial, together with
 389 the mailing list.  Second. With Skolelinux you get an already well
 390 engineered platform and you don't have to start to build up your PDC
 391 and your clients from GNU/scratch; I've already done this once and I
 392 can tell it, it is hard. Third, since Skolelinux is a standard
 393 platform, it is way easier to educate other IT people and even if the
 394 head IT is sick another one could pick up the task without too much
 395 hassle.</p>
 396
 397 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 398 Edu?</strong></p>
 399
 400 <p>The only real problem I see is that it is a little too less
 401 flexible at client level. Debian stable is rocky and desirable, but
 402 there are many reasons that force for another choice. For example the
 403 need of new drivers for new PC, or the need for a specific OS for some
 404 devices that have specific software packages for another specific
 405 distribution (I have such a case for whiteboards that have only
 406 Ubuntu packages). Thus, I prepared compatibility packages educlient
 407 and eduroaming, hoping not to use them ;-)</p>
 408
 409 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 410
 411 <p>I have a Debian Stable PDC at school (Kerberos, NIS, NFS) with
 412 mixed Debian and Ubuntu clients. If you think that this triad
 413 combination is exotic... well I discovered right yesterday that
 414 <a href="http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/Perceus-Report.html">Perceus</a>
 415 has the same...</p>
 416
 417 <p>For myself I run Debian wheezy/sid, but this combination is good
 418 only I you have enough competence to fix stuff for yourself, if
 419 something breaks.  Daily I use texmacs, gnumeric, a little bit of R
 420 statistics, kmplot, and less frequently OpenOffice.org.</p>
 421
 422 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 423 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 424
 425 <P>I think that the only real argument that school managers "hear" is
 426 cost reduction. They don't give too much weight on quality, stability,
 427 just because they are normally not open to change.</p>
 428
 429 <p>Students adapts very quickly to GNU/Linux (and for them being able
 430 to switch between different OS is a plus value); teachers and managers
 431 don't.</p>
 432
 433 <p>We decided to move to Linux because students at our school have own
 434 laptop and we have the responsibility to keep the laptop ready to use;
 435 we were really unsatisfied with Microsoft since every Monday we had 20
 436 machine to fix for viral infections... With Linux this has been
 437 reduced to zero, since people installs almost only from official
 438 repositories. I think that our special needs brought us to Linux.
 439 Those who don't have such needs will hardly move to Linux.</p>
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 443
 444         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian edu">debian edu</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju</a>.
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 451     <div class="entry">
 452       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Naturvernforbundet_i_Oslo_bruker_OpenStreetmap_i_sin_kalender.html">Naturvernforbundet i Oslo bruker OpenStreetmap i sin kalender</a></div>
 453       <div class="date">16th September 2012</div>
 454       <div class="body"><p>Veldig morsomt å se at
 455 <a href="http://naturvernforbundet.no/noa/">Naturvernforbundet Oslo og
 456 Akershus</a> bruker kart fra
 457 <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.no/">OpenStreetmap.org<a/> i
 458 <a href="http://naturvernforbundet.no/noa/bestill-markakalenderen-2013-article24039-1939.html">sine
 459 kalendere</a>.  Vidar Gundersen i kartgruppa
 460 <a href="http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/kart/2012-September/003696.html">forteller
 461 på den norske epostlisten</a> til prosjektet at hvert blad i
 462 kalenderen har et turforslag på baksiden, med kart fra OpenStreetmap.
 463 Tidligere kjøpte de visst kart fra kartverket, men nå slipper de
 464 det.</p>
 465
 466 <p>Denne nyheten synes jeg er fantastisk bra, og jeg håper de får
 467 følge av flere, slik at det potensielle og fryktede inntektstapet for
 468 kartverket ved frigjøring av kartdata blir mindre, og forhåpentligvis
 469 til slutt så lite at frykten for å frigjøre data overvinnes.</p>
 470 </div>
 471       <div class="tags">
 472
 473
 474         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
 475
 476
 477       </div>
 478     </div>
 479     <div class="padding"></div>
 480
 481     <div class="entry">
 482       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_activity_to_standardise_video_codec.html">IETF activity to standardise video codec</a></div>
 483       <div class="date">15th September 2012</div>
 484       <div class="body"><p>After the
 485 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_standardize_its_first_multimedia_codec__Opus.html">Opus
 486 codec made</a> it into <a href="http://www.ietf.org/">IETF</a> as
 487 <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716">RFC 6716</a>, I had a look
 488 to see if there is any activity in IETF to standardise a video codec
 489 too, and I was happy to discover that there is some activity in this
 490 area.  A non-"working group" mailing list
 491 <a href="https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/video-codec">video-codec</a>
 492 was
 493 <a href="http://ietf.10.n7.nabble.com/New-Non-WG-Mailing-List-video-codec-Video-codec-BoF-discussion-list-td119548.html">created 2012-08-20</a>.  It is intended to discuss the topic and if a
 494 formal working group should be formed.</p>
 495
 496 <p>I look forward to see how this plays out.  There is already
 497 <a href="http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/video-codec/current/msg00003.html">an
 498 email from someone</a> in the MPEG group at ISO asking people to
 499 participate in the ISO group.  Given how ISO failed with OOXML and given
 500 that it so far (as far as I can remember) only have produced
 501 multimedia formats requiring royalty payments, I suspect
 502 joining the ISO group would be a complete waste of time, but I am not
 503 involved in any codec work and my opinion will not matter much.</p>
 504
 505 <p>If one of my readers is involved with codec work, I hope she will
 506 join this work to standardise a royalty free video codec within
 507 IETF.</p>
 508 </div>
 509       <div class="tags">
 510
 511
 512         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/frikanalen">frikanalen</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
 513
 514
 515       </div>
 516     </div>
 517     <div class="padding"></div>
 518
 519     <div class="entry">
 520       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_standardize_its_first_multimedia_codec__Opus.html">IETF standardize its first multimedia codec: Opus</a></div>
 521       <div class="date">12th September 2012</div>
 522       <div class="body"><p>Yesterday, <a href="http://www.ietf.org/">IETF</a> announced the
 523 publication of of
 524 <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716">RFC 6716, the Definition
 525 of the Opus Audio Codec</a>, a low latency, variable bandwidth, codec
 526 intended for both VoIP, film and music.  This is the first time, as
 527 far as I know, that IETF have standardized a multimedia codec.  In
 528 <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3533">RFC 3533</a>, IETF
 529 standardized the OGG container format, and it has proven to be a great
 530 royalty free container for audio, video and movies.  I hope IETF will
 531 continue to standardize more royalty free codeces, after ISO and MPEG
 532 have proven incapable of securing everyone equal rights to publish
 533 multimedia content on the Internet.</p>
 534
 535 <p>IETF require two interoperating independent implementations to
 536 ratify a standard, and have so far ensured to only standardize royalty
 537 free specifications.  Both are key factors to allow everyone (rich and
 538 poor), to compete on equal terms on the Internet.</p>
 539
 540 <p>Visit the <a href="http://opus-codec.org/">Opus project page</a> if
 541 you want to learn more about the solution.</p>
 542 </div>
 543       <div class="tags">
 544
 545
 546         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/frikanalen">frikanalen</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video</a>.
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 558 <h2>Archive</h2>
 559 <ul>
 560
 561 <li>2012
 562 <ul>
 563
 564 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
 565
 566 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
 567
 568 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
 569
 570 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/04/">April (12)</a></li>
 571
 572 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/05/">May (12)</a></li>
 573
 574 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/06/">June (20)</a></li>
 575
 576 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/07/">July (17)</a></li>
 577
 578 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/08/">August (6)</a></li>
 579
 580 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/09/">September (9)</a></li>
 581
 582 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (3)</a></li>
 583
 584 </ul></li>
 585
 586 <li>2011
 587 <ul>
 588
 589 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
 590
 591 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
 592
 593 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
 594
 595 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/04/">April (7)</a></li>
 596
 597 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/05/">May (3)</a></li>
 598
 599 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/06/">June (2)</a></li>
 600
 601 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/07/">July (7)</a></li>
 602
 603 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/08/">August (6)</a></li>
 604
 605 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
 606
 607 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 608
 609 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 610
 611 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
 612
 613 </ul></li>
 614
 615 <li>2010
 616 <ul>
 617
 618 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
 619
 620 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
 621
 622 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
 623
 624 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/04/">April (3)</a></li>
 625
 626 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/05/">May (9)</a></li>
 627
 628 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/06/">June (14)</a></li>
 629
 630 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
 631
 632 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
 633
 634 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
 635
 636 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
 637
 638 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
 639
 640 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
 641
 642 </ul></li>
 643
 644 <li>2009
 645 <ul>
 646
 647 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
 648
 649 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
 650
 651 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/03/">March (12)</a></li>
 652
 653 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/04/">April (10)</a></li>
 654
 655 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/05/">May (9)</a></li>
 656
 657 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/06/">June (3)</a></li>
 658
 659 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
 660
 661 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
 662
 663 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
 664
 665 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 666
 667 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 668
 669 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
 670
 671 </ul></li>
 672
 673 <li>2008
 674 <ul>
 675
 676 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
 677
 678 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
 679
 680 </ul></li>
 681
 682 </ul>
 683
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 692
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 709  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
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 720
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 722
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 729  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ltsp">ltsp (1)</a></li>
 730
 731  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (25)</a></li>
 732
 733  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (199)</a></li>
 734
 735  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (144)</a></li>
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 737  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn (4)</a></li>
 738
 739  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/open311">open311 (2)</a></li>
 740
 741  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (35)</a></li>
 742
 743  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (49)</a></li>
 744
 745  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/raid">raid (1)</a></li>
 746
 747  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reprap">reprap (11)</a></li>
 748
 749  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rfid">rfid (2)</a></li>
 750
 751  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot (4)</a></li>
 752
 753  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rss">rss (1)</a></li>
 754
 755  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ruter">ruter (4)</a></li>
 756
 757  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/scraperwiki">scraperwiki (2)</a></li>
 758
 759  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (23)</a></li>
 760
 761  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (4)</a></li>
 762
 763  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (2)</a></li>
 764
 765  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (38)</a></li>
 766
 767  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (2)</a></li>
 768
 769  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (4)</a></li>
 770
 771  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (10)</a></li>
 772
 773  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (7)</a></li>
 774
 775  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (34)</a></li>
 776
 777  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (3)</a></li>
 778
 779  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (25)</a></li>
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