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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from August 2012</title>
   5                 <description>Entries from August 2012</description>
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  10                 <title>Da er det norske piratpartiet i gang med å samle underskrifter</title>
  11                 <link>http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Da_er_det_norske_piratpartiet_i_gang_med___samle_underskrifter.html</link>
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  13                 <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I dag har Digi en artikkel om at initiativet for å få et norsk
  15 Piratparti er
  16 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/900904/derfor-er-haakon-wium-lie-pirat&quot;&gt;i
  17 gang med å samle inn sine 5000 underskrifter&lt;/a&gt; for å få registrert
  18 seg som parti til neste års stortingsvalg.  Initiativet ble
  19 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/897296/piratene-vil-innta-stortinget&quot;&gt;annonsert
  20 i sommer&lt;/a&gt;, og har nå kommet så langt at det er på tide å signere
  21 (på papir, med penn og frimerke for innsending. :).&lt;/p&gt;
  22
  23 &lt;p&gt;Dagens partier har i stor grad spilt fallitt på det digitale
  24 området, så jeg er positiv til at det kommer en ny aktør på området
  25 som kan ruske opp litt i gamle strukturer og holdninger, og
  26 forhåpentligvis få gjennomslag for noen av sine saker.  Piratpartiet
  27 har laget og publisert
  28 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.opera.com/howcome/2012/piratpartiet/kjerneprogram.html&quot;&gt;et
  29 kjerneprogram&lt;/a&gt; som inneholder mange punkter en kan si seg enig
  30 i.&lt;/p&gt;
  31
  32 &lt;p&gt;Jeg er ikke sikker på om jeg kommer til å stemme på dem, men jeg
  33 stiller meg helt klart bak at de bør få lov til å stille til valg, og
  34 har selv begynt å samle inn underskrifter.  Jeg oppfordrer herved alle
  35 mine lesere til å gjøre det samme.  Det trengs 5000 underskrifter før
  36 nyttår, hvilket betyr at det må samles inn minst 40 underskrifter hver
  37 eneste dag frem til 31. desember.  Her er det mye arbeide som det
  38 haster med å få gjort.&lt;/p&gt;
  39
  40 &lt;p&gt;Min venn Håkon Wium Lie fronter initiativet, og
  41 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.princexml.com/howcome/2012/pp/&quot;&gt;skjema for
  42 individuell signering&lt;/a&gt; finnes på hans websider.  Hvis en vil få
  43 andre til å signere er det
  44 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.opera.com/howcome/2012/piratpartiet/skjema.pdf&quot;&gt;et
  45 egen skjema i PDF-format&lt;/a&gt; en kan skrive ut og sende inn. Her er det
  46 bare å sette igang!&lt;/p&gt;
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  51                 <title>Free software forced Microsoft to open Office (and don&#39;t forget Officeshots)</title>
  52                 <link>http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Free_software_forced_Microsoft_to_open_Office__and_don_t_forget_Officeshots_.html</link>
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  54                 <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
  55                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I came across a great comment from Simon Phipps today, about how
  56 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/how-microsoft-was-forced-open-office-200233&quot;&gt;Microsoft
  57 have been forced to open Office&lt;/a&gt;, and it made me remember and
  58 revisit the great site
  59 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.officeshots.org/&quot;&gt;officeshots&lt;/a&gt; which allow you
  60 to check out how different programs present the ODF file format.  I
  61 recommend both to those of my readers interested in ODF. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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  66                 <title>Half way there with translated docbook version of Free Culture</title>
  67                 <link>http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Half_way_there_with_translated_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html</link>
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  69                 <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
  70                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In my spare time, I currently work on a Norwegian
  71 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book
  72 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig,
  73 to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright law
  74 I can give to my parents and others that are reluctant to read an
  75 English book.  It is a marvellous set of examples on how the ever
  76 expanding copyright regulations hurt culture and society.  When the
  77 translation is done, I hope to find funding to print and ship a copy
  78 to all the members of the Norwegian parliament, before they sit down
  79 to debate the latest revisions to the Norwegian copyright law.  This
  80 summer I
  81 &lt;a href=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html&quot;&gt;called
  82 for volunteers&lt;/a&gt; to help me, and I have been able to secure the
  83 valuable contribution from at least one other Norwegian.&lt;/p&gt;
  84
  85 &lt;p&gt;Two days ago, we finally broke the 50% mark.  Then more than 50% of
  86 the number of strings to translate (normally paragraphs, but also
  87 titles and index entries are also counted).  All parts from the
  88 beginning up to and including chapter four is translated.  So is
  89 chapters six, seven and the conclusion.  I created a graph to show the
  90 progress:&lt;/p&gt;
  91
  92 &lt;img width=&quot;80%&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; src=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png&quot;&gt;
  93
  94 &lt;p&gt;The number of strings to translate increase as I insert the index
  95 entries into the docbook.  They were missing with the docbook version
  96 I initially started with.  There are still quite a few index entries
  97 missing, but everyone starting with A, B, O, Z and Y are done.  I
  98 currently focus on completing the index entries, to get a complete
  99 english version of the docbook source.&lt;/p&gt;
 100
 101 &lt;p&gt;There is still need for translators and people with docbook
 102 knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle
 103 with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft
 104 translation and proof reading.  And I would like the figures to be
 105 redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them.  Any SVG master
 106 around?  I am sure there are some legal terms that are unfamiliar to
 107 me.  If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out the
 108 project files currently available from &lt;a
 109 href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 110
 111 &lt;p&gt;If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
 112 the updated
 113 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;
 114 and
 115 &lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true&quot;&gt;EPUB&lt;/a&gt;
 116 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
 117 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
 118 saw no point in linking to that version.&lt;/p&gt;
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 123                 <title>Gratulerer med 19-årsdagen, Debian!</title>
 124                 <link>http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Gratulerer_med_19__rsdagen__Debian_.html</link>
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 126                 <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
 127                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I dag fyller
 128 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120813&quot;&gt;Debian-prosjektet 19
 129 år&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg har fulgt det de siste 12 årene, og er veldig glad for å kunne
 130 si gratulerer med dagen, Debian!&lt;/p&gt;
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 135                 <title>Gladoppslag om Skolelinux i avisen Fremover</title>
 136                 <link>http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html</link>
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 138                 <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
 139                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I sommer hadde avisen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fremover.no/&quot;&gt;Fremover&lt;/a&gt;
 140 et flott oppslag om bruken av
 141 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; på alle skolene
 142 der.  Artikkelen var på trykk på side 4 og 5 i papirutgaven
 143 2012-07-23, men mangler dessverre i nettutgaven av avisen.  Mine
 144 henvendelser til avisen for å få artikkelen på nett har så langt ikke
 145 vært vellykket.&lt;/p&gt;
 146
 147 &lt;p&gt;Artikkelen med tittelen &quot;Narvik kommune bruker gratisprogram i
 148 skolen - Har spart millioner&quot;, forteller om hvordan bruken av
 149 Skolelinux er en stor suksess i Narvik siden det ble tatt i bruk i
 150 2004.  Her er noen fine sitater:&lt;/p&gt;
 151
 152 &lt;blockquote&gt;
 153 &quot;- Skolelinux har spart kommunen for store pengesummer, millionbeløp,
 154   som de heller kan bruke på andre ting, sier IKT-konsulent Viggo
 155   Fedreheim.&quot;
 156 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
 157
 158 &lt;p&gt;Avisen forteller at de har fått tilgang til beregninger som viser
 159 at Narvik kommune har spart noe mellom 10 og 20 millioner kroner de
 160 siste 8 årene på å bruke Skolelinux, og fortsetter:&lt;/p&gt;
 161
 162 &lt;blockquote&gt;
 163
 164 &quot;Regnestykket tar høyde for sparte kostnader til lisenser som medfølger
 165 de alternative operativsystemene, lavere driftskostnader og lengre
 166 levetid på datautstyret.  Totalt har Narvikskolen en maskinpark på
 167 1600 maskiner fordelt på de 11 skolene fra Skjomen i sør til Bjerkvik
 168 i nord.&quot;
 169
 170 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
 171
 172 &lt;p&gt;Viggo Fedreheim sier dette om hvor noe av gevinsten kommer fra:&lt;/p&gt;
 173
 174 &lt;blockquote&gt;
 175 &quot;- Vi kan gjenbruke gamle maskiner i skolen som er for dårlig andre
 176   steder i kommunen der de ikke bruker Skolelinux.  Levetiden på en
 177   datamaskin blir 3-5 år lenger med Skolelinux.  Vi kaller det for
 178   grønn IT, miljøvennlig IT.&quot;
 179 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
 180
 181 &lt;p&gt;Her er det mulighet for flere kommuner å få et godt IT-system på
 182 skolene, hvis de er villige til å forsøke.  De som ikke har kompetanse
 183 innomhus kan kjøpe det fra en av de kommersielle leverandørene av
 184 Skolelinux-tjenester, som &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
 185 Drift AS&lt;/a&gt; (der jeg er styremedlem).  Komplett liste er tilgjengelig
 186 via
 187 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp&quot;&gt;wikien&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 188
 189 &lt;p&gt;Update 2012-08-16: Today I was allowed by Fremover to put the PDF I
 190 received from them with a copy of the article on the Internet.  It is
 191 &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/2012-07-23-fremover-narvik.pdf&quot;&gt;now
 192 available&lt;/a&gt; in the Skolelinux press archive.&lt;/p&gt;
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 197                 <title>Notes on language codes for Norwegian docbook processing...</title>
 198                 <link>http://www.hungry.com/~pere/blog/Notes_on_language_codes_for_Norwegian_docbook_processing___.html</link>
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 200                 <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
 201                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; one can specify
 202 the language used at the top, and the processing pipeline will use
 203 this information to pick the correct translations for &#39;chapter&#39;, &#39;see
 204 also&#39;, &#39;index&#39; etc.  And for most languages used with docbook, I guess
 205 this work just fine.  For example a German user can start the document
 206 with &amp;lt;book lang=&quot;de&quot;&amp;gt;, and the document will show up with the
 207 correct content with any of the docbook processors.  This is not the
 208 case for the language
 209 &lt;a href=&quot;https://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_Culture_in_Norwegian___5_chapters_done__74_percent_left_to_do.html&quot;&gt;I
 210 am working with at the moment&lt;/a&gt;, Norwegian Bokmål.&lt;/p&gt;
 211
 212 &lt;p&gt;For a while, I was confused about which language code to use,
 213 because I was unable to find any language code that would work across
 214 all tools.  I am currently testing dblatex, xmlto, docbook-xsl, and
 215 dbtoepub, and they do not handle Norwegian Bokmål the same way.  Some
 216 of them do not handle it at all.&lt;/p&gt;
 217
 218 &lt;p&gt;A bit of background information is probably needed to understand
 219 this mess.  Norwegian is not one, but two written variants.  The
 220 variants are Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål.  There are three
 221 two letter language codes associated with these languages, Norwegian
 222 is &#39;no&#39;, Norwegian Nynorsk is &#39;nn&#39; and Norwegian Bokmål is &#39;nb&#39;.
 223 Historically the &#39;no&#39; language code was used for Norwegian Bokmål, but
 224 many years ago this was found to be å bad idea, and the recommendation
 225 is to use the most specific language code instead, to avoid confusion.
 226 In the transition period it is a good idea to make sure &#39;no&#39; was an
 227 alias for &#39;nb&#39;.&lt;/p&gt;
 228
 229 &lt;p&gt;Back to docbook processing tools in Debian.  The dblatex tool only
 230 understand &#39;nn&#39;.  There are translations for &#39;no&#39;, but not &#39;nb&#39; (BTS
 231 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/684391&quot;&gt;#684391&lt;/a&gt;), but due to a bug
 232 (BTS &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/682936&quot;&gt;#682936&lt;/a&gt;) the &#39;no&#39;
 233 language code is not recognised.  The docbook-xsl tool chain only
 234 recognise &#39;nn&#39; and &#39;nb&#39;, but not &#39;no&#39;.  The xmlto tool only recognise
 235 &#39;nn&#39; and &#39;nb&#39;, but not &#39;no&#39;.  The end result that there is no language
 236 code I can use to get the docbook file working with all of these tools
 237 at the same time. :(&lt;/p&gt;
 238
 239 &lt;p&gt;The correct solution is to use &amp;lt;book lang=&quot;nb&quot;&amp;gt;, but it will
 240 take time before that will work with all the free software docbook
 241 processors. :(&lt;/p&gt;
 242
 243 &lt;p&gt;Oh, the joy of well integrated tools. :/&lt;/p&gt;
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