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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/RAND_terms___non_reasonable_and_discriminatory.html">RAND terms - non-reasonable and discriminatory</a></div>
  24       <div class="date">19th April 2012</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Here in Norway, the
  26 <a href="http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dep/fad.html?id=339"> Ministry of
  27 Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs</a> is behind
  28 a <a href="http://standard.difi.no/forvaltningsstandarder">directory of
  29 standards</a> that are recommended or mandatory for use by the
  30 government.  When the directory was created, the people behind it made
  31 an effort to ensure that everyone would be able to implement the
  32 standards and compete on equal terms to supply software and solutions
  33 to the government.  Free software and non-free software could compete
  34 on the same level.</p>
  35
  36 <p>But recently, some standards with RAND
  37 (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_and_non-discriminatory_licensing">Reasonable
  38 And Non-Discriminatory</a>) terms have made their way into the
  39 directory.  And while this might not sound too bad, the fact is that
  40 standard specifications with RAND terms often block free software from
  41 implementing them.  The reasonable part of RAND mean that the cost per
  42 user/unit is low,and the non-discriminatory part mean that everyone
  43 willing to pay will get a license.  Both sound great in theory.  In
  44 practice, to get such license one need to be able to count users, and
  45 be able to pay a small amount of money per unit or user.  By
  46 definition, users of free software do not need to register their use.
  47 So counting users or units is not possible for free software projects.
  48 And given that people will use the software without handing any money
  49 to the author, it is not really economically possible for a free
  50 software author to pay a small amount of money to license the rights
  51 to implement a standard when the income available is zero.  The result
  52 in these situations is that free software are locked out from
  53 implementing standards with RAND terms.</p>
  54
  55 <p>Because of this, when I see someone claiming the terms of a
  56 standard is reasonable and non-discriminatory, all I can think of is
  57 how this really is non-reasonable and discriminatory.  Because free
  58 software developers are working in a global marked, it does not really
  59 help to know that software patents are not supposed to be enforceable
  60 in Norway.  The patent regimes in other countries affect us even here.
  61 I really hope the people behind the standard directory will pay more
  62 attention to these issues in the future.</p>
  63
  64 <p>You can find more on the issues with RAND, FRAND and RAND-Z terms
  65 from Simon Phipps
  66 (<a href="http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/simon-says/2010/11/rand-not-so-reasonable/">RAND:
  67 Not So Reasonable?</a>).</p>
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  80       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Forskning___GPL_gir_lokal_frihet_og_kontroll_gjennom_omfordeling_av_makt_fra_produsent_til_bruker_.html">Forskning: "GPL gir lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling av makt fra produsent til bruker"</a></div>
  81       <div class="date">15th April 2012</div>
  82       <div class="body"><p>Da jeg googlet etter noe annet kom jeg tilfeldigvis over
  83 <a href="http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/work.html?WORKID=58309">en
  84 hovedfagsoppgave</a> ved Universitetet i Oslo som diskuterer verdien
  85 av GPLs fire friheter for brukerne av IT-systemer.  Jeg ble fascinert
  86 over det som presenteres der.  Her er sammendraget:</p>
  87
  88 <p><blockquote>
  89
  90 <p>Motivasjonen til å skrive denne oppgaven er en personlig undring
  91 over hvorfor det primært, og ofte eksklusivt, fokuseres på det
  92 økonomiske aspektet ved utredninger om fri programvare er et godt valg
  93 for det offentlige. Fri og produsenteid programvare bygger på
  94 fundamentalt forskjellige ideologier som kan ha implikasjoner utover
  95 økonomiske kostnader. Kunnskapskulturen som er med på å definere fri
  96 programvare er basert på åpenhet, og er en verdi i seg selv.</p>
  97
  98 <p>Oppgavens tema er programvarelisensen GPL og frihet. GPL-lisensiert
  99 programvare gir visse friheter i forhold til produsenteid
 100 programvare. Mitt spørsmål er om, og eventuelt i hvilken utstrekning,
 101 disse frihetene blir benyttet av ulike brukere og hvordan de
 102 manifesterer seg for disse brukerne. Sentrale spørsmål i oppgaven
 103 er:</p>
 104
 105 <ul>
 106 <li>Hvordan fordeles handlekraft gjennom lisensieringen av programvaren?</li>
 107 <li>Hvilke konsekvenser har programvarelisensen for de ulike brukere? </li>
 108 </ul>
 109
 110 <p>Fri programvare gir blant annet brukeren mulighet til å studere og
 111 modifisere kildekoden. Denne formen for frihet erverves gjennom
 112 kunnskap og krever at brukeren også er en ekspert. Hva skjer med
 113 frihetene til GPL når sluttbrukeren er en annen? Dette diskuteres i
 114 dialog med informantene.</p>
 115
 116 <p>Jeg har i denne oppgaven samlet inn intervjudata fra IKT-ansvarlige
 117 ved grunnskolene i Nittedal kommune, driftsansvarlig og IKT-veilederen
 118 for skolene i kommunen, samt IKT-koordinator for utdanning i Akershus
 119 fylkeskommune og bokmåloversettere av OpenOffice.org. Den empiriske
 120 delen av oppgaven er delt inn i to seksjoner; den første omhandler
 121 operativsystemet Skolelinux, den andre kontorprogrampakken
 122 OpenOffice.org.</p>
 123
 124 <p>Som vi vil se gir GPL lokal frihet og kontroll gjennom omfordeling
 125 av makt fra produsent til bruker. Brukerens makt analyseres gjennom
 126 begrepene brukermedvirkning og handlingsfrihet. Det blir også lagt
 127 vekt på strukturelle forhold rundt bruken av teknologi, og spesielt de
 128 økonomiske begrepene nettverkseksternaliteter, innlåsing og
 129 stiavhengighet. Dette er begreper av spesiell nytte når objektet som
 130 omsettes eller distribueres er et kommunikasjonsprodukt, fordi verdien
 131 til et slikt gode for en potensiell bruker avhenger av antall
 132 eksisterende brukere av godet. I tilknytning til denne problematikken
 133 inneholder oppgaven også en diskusjon rundt åpne standarder og
 134 formater.</p>
 135
 136 <p>Oppgaven konkluderer med at de «fire frihetene» som GPL-lisensen er
 137 laget for å beskytte er av avgjørende betydning for bruken av
 138 OpenOffice.org og Skolelinux, i Akershus fylkeskommune såvel som i
 139 skolene i Nittedal. Distribusjonen av handlekraft er ikke helt
 140 symmetrisk. Det er først og fremst de profesjonelle utviklerne i
 141 Skolelinux som direkte kan nyttiggjøre seg friheten til å endre kode,
 142 mens en sluttbruker som Nittedal kommune nyttiggjør seg den økonomiske
 143 friheten til å kunne distribuere programmene. Det er imidlertid også
 144 slik at ingen aktør klarer seg uten alle disse «frihetene».</p>
 145 </blockquote></p>
 146
 147 <p>Jeg fant også en masteroppgave fra 2006, men der ligger ikke
 148 komplett oppgave tilgjengelig.  På tide å holde et øye med
 149 <a href="http://www.duo.uio.no/sok/search.html?q=skolelinux">Skolelinux-søket</a>
 150 til DUO...</p>
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 156         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>.
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 164       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Andreas_Mundt.html">Debian Edu interview: Andreas Mundt</a></div>
 165       <div class="date">15th April 2012</div>
 166       <div class="body"><p>Behind <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and
 167 Skolelinux</a> there are a lot of people doing the hard work of
 168 setting together all the pieces.  This time I present to you Andreas
 169 Mundt, who have been part of the technical development team several
 170 years.  He was also a key contributor in getting GOsa and Kerberos set
 171 up in the recently released
 172 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">Debian
 173 Edu Squeeze</a> version.</p>
 174
 175 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 176
 177 <p>My name is Andreas Mundt, I grew up in south Germany.  After
 178 studying Physics I spent several years at university doing research in
 179 Quantum Optics.  After that I worked some years in an optics company.
 180 Finally I decided to turn over a new leaf in my life and started
 181 teaching 10 to 19 years old kids at school.  I teach math, physics,
 182 information technology and science/technology.</p>
 183
 184 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 185 project?</strong></p>
 186
 187 <p>Already before I switched to teaching, I followed the Debian Edu
 188 project because of my interest in education and Debian.  Within the
 189 qualification/training period for the teaching, I started
 190 contributing.</p>
 191
 192 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 193 Edu?</strong></p>
 194
 195 <p>The advantages of Debian Edu are the well known name, the
 196 out-of-the-box philosophy and of course the great free software of the
 197 Debian Project!</p>
 198
 199 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 200 Edu?</strong></p>
 201
 202 <p>As every coin has two sides, the out-of-the-box philosophy has its
 203 downside, too.  In my opinion, it is hard to modify and tweak the
 204 setup, if you need or want that.  Further more, it is not easily
 205 possible to upgrade the system to a new release.  It takes much too
 206 long after a Debian release to prepare the -Edu release, perhaps
 207 because the number of developers working on the core of the code is
 208 rather small and often busy elsewhere.</p>
 209
 210 <p>The <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLAN">Debian LAN</a>
 211 project might fill the use case of a more flexible system.</p>
 212
 213 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 214
 215 <p>I am only using non-free software if I am forced to and run Debian
 216 on all my machines.  For documents I prefer LaTeX and PGF/TikZ, then
 217 mutt and iceweasel for email respectively web browsing.  At school I
 218 have Arduino and Fritzing in use for a micro controller project.</p>
 219
 220 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 221 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 222
 223 <p>One of the major problems is the vendor lock-in from top to bottom:
 224 Especially in combination with ignorant government employees and
 225 politicians, this works out great for the "market-leader".  The school
 226 administration here in Baden-Wuerttemberg is occupied by that vendor.
 227 Documents have to be prepared in non-free, proprietary formats.  Even
 228 free browsers do not work for the school administration.  Publishers
 229 of school books provide software only for proprietary platforms.</p>
 230
 231 <p>To change this, political work is very important.  Parts of the
 232 political spectrum have become aware of the problem in the last years.
 233 However it takes quite some time and courageous politicians to 'free'
 234 the system.  There is currently some discussion about "Open Data" and
 235 "Free/Open Standards".  I am not sure if all the involved parties have
 236 a clue about the potential of these ideas, and probably only a
 237 fraction takes them seriously.  However it might slowly make free
 238 software and the philosophy behind it more known and popular.</p>
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 243         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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 251       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Jeg_skal_p__konferansen_Go_Open_2012.html">Jeg skal på konferansen Go Open 2012</a></div>
 252       <div class="date">13th April 2012</div>
 253       <div class="body"><p>Jeg har tenkt meg på konferansen <a href="http://www.goopen.no/">Go
 254 Open 2012</a> i Oslo 23. april.
 255 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">Medlemsforeningen NUUG</a> deler ut
 256 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/prisen/">prisen for fremme av fri
 257 programvare i Norge</a> der i år.  Kommer du?</p>
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 262         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>.
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 270       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Justin_B__Rye.html">Debian Edu interview: Justin B. Rye</a></div>
 271       <div class="date"> 8th April 2012</div>
 272       <div class="body"><p>It take all kind of contributions to create a Linux distribution
 273 like <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>,
 274 and this time I lend the ear to Justin B. Rye, who is listed as a big
 275 contributor to the
 276 <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Squeeze">Debian
 277 Edu Squeeze release manual</a>.
 278
 279 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 280
 281 <p>I'm a 44-year-old linguistics graduate living in Edinburgh who has
 282 occasionally been employed as a sysadmin.</p>
 283
 284 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 285 project?</strong></p>
 286
 287 <p>I'm neither a developer nor a Skolelinux/Debian Edu user!  The only
 288 reason my name's in the credits for the documentation is that I hang
 289 around on debian-l10n-english waiting for people to mention things
 290 they'd like a native English speaker to proofread...  So I did a sweep
 291 through the wiki for typos and Norglish and inconsistent spellings of
 292 "localisation".</p>
 293
 294 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 295 Edu?</strong></p>
 296
 297 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 298 Edu?</strong></p>
 299
 300 <p>These questions are too hard for me - I don't use it!  In fact I
 301 had hardly any contact with I.T. until long after I'd got out of the
 302 education system.</p>
 303
 304 <p>I can tell you the advantages of Debian for me though: it soaks up
 305 as much of my free time as I want and no more, and lets me do
 306 everything I want a computer for without ever forcing me to spend
 307 money on the latest hardware.</p>
 308
 309 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 310
 311 <p>I've been using Debian since Rex; popularity-contest says the
 312 software that I use most is xinit, xterm, and xulrunner (in other
 313 words, I use a distinctly retro sort of desktop).</p>
 314
 315 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 316 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 317
 318 <p>Well, I don't know.  I suppose I'd be inclined to try reasoning
 319 with the people who make the decisions, but obviously if that worked
 320 you would hardly need a strategy.</p>
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 325         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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 333       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_the_KDE_menu_is_slow_when__usr__is_NFS_mounted___and_a_workaround.html">Why the KDE menu is slow when /usr/ is NFS mounted - and a workaround</a></div>
 334       <div class="date"> 6th April 2012</div>
 335       <div class="body"><p>Recently I have spent time with
 336 <a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux Drift AS</a> on speeding
 337 up a <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>
 338 Lenny installation using LTSP diskless workstations, and in the
 339 process I discovered something very surprising.  The reason the KDE
 340 menu was responding slow when using it for the first time, was mostly
 341 due to the way KDE find application icons.  I discovered that showing
 342 the Multimedia menu would cause more than 20 000 IP packages to be
 343 passed between the LTSP client and the NFS server.  Most of these were
 344
 345 NFS LOOKUP calls, resulting in a NFS3ERR_NOENT response.  Because the
 346 ping times between the client and the server were in the range 2-20
 347 ms, the menus would be very slow.  Looking at the strace of kicker in
 348 Lenny (or plasma-desktop i Squeeze - same problem there), I see that
 349 the source of these NFS calls are access(2) system calls for
 350 non-existing files.  KDE can do hundreds of access(2) calls to find
 351 one icon file.  In my example, just finding the mplayer icon required
 352 around 230 access(2) calls.</p>
 353
 354 <p>The KDE code seem to search for icons using a list of icon
 355 directories, and the list of possible directories is large.  In
 356 (almost) each directory, it look for files ending in .png, .svgz, .svg
 357 and .xpm.  The result is a very slow KDE menu when /usr/ is NFS
 358 mounted.  Showing a single sub menu may result in thousands of NFS
 359 requests.  I am not the first one to discover this.  I found a
 360 <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=211416">KDE bug report
 361 from 2009</a> about this problem, and it is still unsolved.</p>
 362
 363 <p>My solution to speed up the KDE menu was to create a package
 364 kde-icon-cache that upon installation will look at all .desktop files
 365 used to generate the KDE menu, find their icons, search the icon paths
 366 for the file that KDE will end up finding at run time, and copying the
 367 icon file to /var/lib/kde-icon-cache/.  Finally, I add symlinks to
 368 these icon files in one of the first directories where KDE will look
 369 for them.  This cut down the number of file accesses required to find
 370 one icon from several hundred to less than 5, and make the KDE menu
 371 almost instantaneous.  I'm not quite sure where to make the package
 372 publicly available, so for now it is only available on request.</p>
 373
 374 <p>The bug report mention that this do not only affect the KDE menu
 375 and icon handling, but also the login process.  Not quite sure how to
 376 speed up that part without replacing NFS with for example NBD, and
 377 that is not really an option at the moment.</p>
 378
 379 <p>If you got feedback on this issue, please let us know on debian-edu
 380 (at) lists.debian.org.</p>
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 385         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>.
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 393       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_in_the_Linux_Weekly_News.html">Debian Edu in the Linux Weekly News</a></div>
 394       <div class="date"> 5th April 2012</div>
 395       <div class="body"><p>About two weeks ago, I was interviewed via email about
 396 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a> by
 397 Bruce Byfield in Linux Weekly News.  The result was made public for
 398 non-subscribers today.  I am pleased to see liked our Linux solution
 399 for schools.  Check out his article
 400 <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/488805/">Debian Edu/Skolelinux: A
 401 distribution for education</a> if you want to learn more.</p>
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 406         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>.
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 414       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Wolfgang_Schweer.html">Debian Edu interview: Wolfgang Schweer</a></div>
 415       <div class="date"> 1st April 2012</div>
 416       <div class="body"><p>Germany is a core area for the
 417 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
 418 user community, and this time I managed to get hold of Wolfgang
 419 Schweer, a valuable contributor to the project from Germany.
 420
 421 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 422
 423 <p>I've studied Mathematics at the university 'Ruhr-Universität' in
 424 Bochum, Germany. Since 1981 I'm working as a teacher at the school
 425 "<a href="http://www.westfalenkolleg-dortmund.de/">Westfalen-Kolleg
 426 Dortmund</a>", a second chance school.  Here, young adults is given
 427 the opportunity to get further education in order to do the school
 428 examination 'Abitur', which will allow to study at a university. This
 429 second chance is of value for those who want a better job perspective
 430 or failed to get a higher school examination being teens.</p>
 431
 432 <p>Besides teaching I was involved in developing online courses for a
 433 blended learning project called 'abitur-online.nrw' and in some other
 434 information technology related projects. For about ten years I've been
 435 teacher and coordinator for the 'abitur-online' project at my
 436 school. Being now in my early sixties, I've decided to leave school at
 437 the end of April this year.</p>
 438
 439 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 440 project?</strong></p>
 441
 442 <p>The first information about Skolelinux must have come to my
 443 attention years ago and somehow related to LTSP (Linux Terminal Server
 444 Project).  At school, we had set up a network at the beginning of 1997
 445 using Suse Linux on the desktop, replacing a Novell network. Since
 446 2002, we used old machines from the city council of Dortmund as thin
 447 clients (LTSP, later Ubuntu/Lessdisks) cause new hardware was out of
 448 reach. At home I'm using Debian since years and - subscribed to the
 449 Debian news letter - heard from time to time about Skolelinux. About
 450 two years ago I proposed to replace the (somehow undocumented and only
 451 known to me) system at school by a well known Debian based system:
 452 Skolelinux.</p>
 453
 454 <p>Students and teachers appreciated the new system because of a
 455 better look and feel and an enhanced access to local media on thin
 456 clients.  The possibility to alter and/or reset passwords using a GUI
 457 was welcomed, too. Being able to do administrative tasks using a GUI
 458 and to easily set up workstations using PXE was of very high value for
 459 the admin teachers.</p>
 460
 461 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 462 Edu?</strong></p>
 463
 464 <p>It's open source, easy to set up, stable and flexible due to it's
 465 Debian base. It integrates LTSP out-of-the-box. And it is documented!
 466 So it was a perfect choice.</p>
 467
 468 <p>Being open source, there are no license problems and so it's
 469 possible to point teachers and students to programs like
 470 OpenOffice.org, ViewYourMind (mind mapping) and The Gimp.  It's of
 471 high value to be able to adapt parts of the system to special needs of
 472 a school and to choose where to get support for this.</p>
 473
 474 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 475 Edu?</strong></p>
 476
 477 <p>Nothing yet.</p>
 478
 479 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 480
 481 <p>At home (Debian Sid with Gnome Desktop): Iceweasel, LibreOffice,
 482 Mutt, Gedit, Document Viewer, Midnight Commander, flpsed (PDF
 483 Annotator).  At school (Skolelinux Lenny): Iceweasel, Gedit,
 484 LibreOffice.</p>
 485
 486 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 487 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 488
 489 <p>Some time ago I thought it was enough to tell people about it. But
 490 that doesn't seem to work quite well. Now I concentrate on those more
 491 interested and hope to get multiplicators that way.</p>
 492 </div>
 493       <div class="tags">
 494
 495
 496         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>.
 497
 498
 499       </div>
 500     </div>
 501     <div class="padding"></div>
 502
 503     <div class="entry">
 504       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/56_kommuner_omfavner_FiksGataMi.html">56 kommuner omfavner FiksGataMi</a></div>
 505       <div class="date">30th March 2012</div>
 506       <div class="body"><p>I dag omfavnet nok en kommune NUUGs
 507 <a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a>.  Med 56 kommuner
 508 som lenker til FiksGataMi fra sine hjemmesider er "markedsandelen"
 509 oppe i 13% (av 429 kommuner).  Sist ut er Sel kommune, som slår følge
 510 med kommunene Askim, Askøy, Audnedal, Aure, Bærum, Eide, Farsund,
 511 Flekkefjord, Folldal, Gran, Grue, Hadsel, Halden, Halsa, Hamar, Hobøl,
 512 Holtålen, Hægebostad, Høyanger, Kongsberg, Kristiansund, Kvinesdal,
 513 Kviteseid, Levanger, Lindesnes, Luster, Lyngdal, Lørenskog, Løten,
 514 Mandal, Marnardal, Moss, Namsos, Nissedal, Nordreisa, Randaberg,
 515 Rindal, Sirdal, Skiptvet, Sortland, Spydeberg, Stjørdal, Stord, Søgne,
 516 Sør-Odal, Tolga, Trysil, Tynset, Tysvær, Ullensvang Herad, Vennesla,
 517 Verdal, Vågan, Vågå og Åseral.</p>
 518
 519 <p>I snitt rapporteres det nå 150 meldinger fra innbyggerne i uka via
 520 FiksGataMi.</p>
 521 </div>
 522       <div class="tags">
 523
 524
 525         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>.
 526
 527
 528       </div>
 529     </div>
 530     <div class="padding"></div>
 531
 532     <div class="entry">
 533       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Linux_skoler_har_h_yere_PC_tetthet_enn_landsgjennomsnittet___pressemelding_fra_FRiSK.html">Linux-skoler har høyere PC-tetthet enn landsgjennomsnittet - pressemelding fra FRiSK</a></div>
 534       <div class="date">30th March 2012</div>
 535       <div class="body"><p>I dag har <a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no">FRiSK</a>
 536 sendt ut følgende pressemelding basert på mine beregninger av
 537 PC-tetthet på Linux-skoler:</p>
 538
 539 <p><strong>Linux-skoler har høyere PC-tetthet enn
 540 landsgjennomsnittet</strong></p>
 541
 542 <p>Oslo, 30 Mars 2012</p>
 543
 544 <p>Det er store forskjeller på skolenes digitale tilstand, viser
 545 undersøkelsen Monitor 2011 som er laget på oppdrag fra
 546 Kunnskapsdepartementet. Dette har ført til debatt om PC-tilgangen i
 547 skolen, og om de med Linux i skolen gjør det bedre bedre eller
 548 dårligere enn snittet i landet.</p>
 549
 550 <p>Nå har vi tallene. Skoler med Linux har 36% større PC-tetthet en
 551 landsgjennomsnittet. På spørsmål hvorfor skoler med Linux har større
 552 PC-tetthet, observerer Paul Reidar Løsnesløkken som er IKT-konsulent i
 553 Nord-Odal:</p>
 554
 555 <p><blockquote>"Vi erfarer at klienter med Skolelinux har god funksjon
 556 til de er 8 til 10 år gamle. Dette er omtrent dobbelt så lenge som
 557 andre løsninger, og skolene får mer datautstyr for
 558 pengene."</blockquote></p>
 559
 560 <p>Undersøkelsen baserer seg på 56 skoler som har gjort det offentlig
 561 at de kjører Skolelinux eller annen Linux-utgave. De kan også ha PC-er
 562 med Windows i skolenettet. Når en sammenligner PC-tetthetene på
 563 skolene i kommunene Flora, Harstad, Kongsvinger, Narvik, Nittedal,
 564 Nord-Odal og Randaberg, er det i snitt 2,28 elev pr. PC på skolene med
 565 Linux. På landsbasis er det 3.11 elev per PC i grunnskolen, i følge
 566 side 95 i Monitor-rapporten for 2011. Målingen viser dermed 36% større
 567 PC-tetthet i skoler med Linux.</p>
 568
 569 <p><strong>Om Skolelinux/Debian Edu</strong></p>
 570
 571 <p>Skolelinux har til hensikt å gi alle barn full tilgang til
 572 skoleaktuelle dataprogram på sitt eget morsmål. Derfor følger det med
 573 godt over 100 skoleaktuelle programmene laget for læring. De fleste
 574 programmene er oversatt til over 50 språk. Elevene skal også kunne
 575 studere alle sider av dataprogrammene. Derfor følger også kildekode
 576 med. Elever med interesse kan lære av eksperter som har laget
 577 systemet. Dette med enkelt programmering i læreprogram som KTurtle,
 578 til profesjonelle verktøy som Qt Creator eller Java.</p>
 579
 580 <p>Skolelinux er laget for sentralisert drift, der alt teknisk
 581 administrasjon av alle skolene kan gjøres sentralt fra kommunehuset
 582 eller sentralt i en region.  F.eks. drifter to-tre personer 70.000
 583 skoledatamaskiner på 200 skoler i delstaten Extremadura i
 584 Spania. Etter velykket bruk av Debian Edu i skolen, legger delstaten
 585 over til Debian på 40.000 datamaskiner i administrasjonen. Det er idag
 586 mange selskap som tilbyr profesjonell støtte til innføring og drift i
 587 Norge og verden.</p>
 588
 589 <p><strong>Om FRiSK</strong></p>
 590
 591 <p>Medlemsforeningen Fri Programvare i Skolen organiserer
 592 dugnadsprosjektet som står bak Skolelinux.</p>
 593
 594 <p><strong>Kontaktperson</strong></p>
 595
 596 <p>Knut Yrvin</p>
 597
 598 <p>Leder av Fri Programvare i Skolen (FRISK)</p>
 599
 600 <p>Epost: knuty at skolelinux.no
 601 <br>Mobil: +47 93 479 561</p>
 602
 603 <p><strong>Referanser</strong></p>
 604
 605 <p><ul>
 606
 607  <li><a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">http://www.skolelinux.org/</a></li>
 608  <li><a href="http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/">http://www.friprogramvareiskolen.no/</a></li>
 609  <li><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Download">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Download</a></li>
 610  <li><a href="https://www.wis.no/gsi">https://www.wis.no/gsi</a></li>
 611  <li><a href="http://iktsenteret.no/sites/iktsenteret.no/files/attachments/monitor2011.pdf">http://iktsenteret.no/sites/iktsenteret.no/files/attachments/monitor2011.pdf</a></li>
 612  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html">http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/St_rre_PC_tetthet_i_skolen_med_Skolelinux_.html</a></li>
 613  <li><a href="https://init.linpro.no/pipermail/skolelinux.no/linuxiskolen/2012-March/018500.html">https://init.linpro.no/pipermail/skolelinux.no/linuxiskolen/2012-March/018500.html</a></li>
 614
 615 </ul></p>
 616 </div>
 617       <div class="tags">
 618
 619
 620         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>.
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 633 <ul>
 634
 635 <li>2012
 636 <ul>
 637
 638 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
 639
 640 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
 641
 642 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
 643
 644 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/04/">April (8)</a></li>
 645
 646 </ul></li>
 647
 648 <li>2011
 649 <ul>
 650
 651 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
 652
 653 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
 654
 655 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
 656
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 658
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 660
 661 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/06/">June (2)</a></li>
 662
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 664
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 666
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 668
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 670
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 672
 673 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
 674
 675 </ul></li>
 676
 677 <li>2010
 678 <ul>
 679
 680 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
 681
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 699
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 701
 702 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
 703
 704 </ul></li>
 705
 706 <li>2009
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 708
 709 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
 710
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 724
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 726
 727 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 728
 729 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 730
 731 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
 732
 733 </ul></li>
 734
 735 <li>2008
 736 <ul>
 737
 738 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
 739
 740 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
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