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  14      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/M__kommuner_journalf_re_og_svare_p__henvendelser_fra_innbyggerne_.html">Må kommuner journalføre og svare på henvendelser fra innbyggerne?</a></div>
  24       <div class="date"> 8th October 2012</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Et av grunnlagene for
  26 <a href="http://www.fiksgatami.no/">FiksGataMi</a> er at det offentlige
  27 er underlagt forvaltningsloven og må følge god forvaltningsskikk,
  28 hvilket for FiksGataMi betyr at de må ta imot henvendelser fra
  29 innbyggerne og svare på dem innen 30 dager eller sende den videre og
  30 orientere innbyggeren om dette hvis de mener henvendelsen er
  31 feilsendt.  Det har vist seg at dette er ukjent for endel offentlige
  32 etater, og det var derfor interessant å se en artikkel i Bladet
  33 Vesterålen om at
  34 <a href="http://www.blv.no/lokalsider/lodingen/article6165681.ece">Lødingen
  35 kommune tiltrekker seg oppmerksomheten fra sivilombudsmannen for å ha
  36 nektet å svare på en skriftlig henvendelse (epost) fra en
  37 innbygger</a>.  Ikke bare det, kommunen har latt være å journalføre
  38 henvendelsen.</p>
  39
  40 <p>Slo opp saken i postjournalen til Sivilombudsmannen, og den har
  41 fått saksnummer 2012/1638 der.  Så langt er det journalført fem brev i
  42 saken hos Sivilombudsmannen (dokumentdato, inn/ut, dokumenttittel og
  43 journal-ID):
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  45 <table>
  46 <tr><td>2012-07-05</td><td>Inn</td><td>Sak om manglende svar fra Lødingen kmmune (2012/13059)</td></tr>
  47 <tr><td>2012-07-25</td><td>Ut</td><td>Foreleggelse - manglende svar fra Lødingen kommune (2012/13052)</td></tr>
  48 <tr><td>2012-07-27</td><td>Inn</td><td>Foreleggelse - Manglende svar fra Lødningen kommune - Foreløpig svar (2012/14432)</td></tr>
  49 <tr><td>2012-07-30</td><td>Ut</td><td>Vedrørnede utsatt frist - Manglende svar fra Lødingen kommune (2012/14445)</td></tr>
  50 <tr><td>2012-09-24</td><td>Ut</td><td>Påminnelse - Manglende svar fra Lødingen kommune (2012/17986)</td></tr>
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  54 <p>Det blir interessant å følge denne saken videre.  Jeg har ikke
  55 rukket be om innsyn, men regner med at jeg tar opp tråden når den
  56 nærmer seg en konklusjon.  Jeg håper konklusjonen blir at kommunen
  57 også må svare på henvendelser fra folk de ikke ønsker å ha kontakt
  58 med.</p>
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  63         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>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn</a>.
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  71       <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>
  72       <div class="date"> 3rd October 2012</div>
  73       <div class="body"><p>I just read the blog post from Tim Retout
  74 <a href="http://retout.co.uk/blog/2012/10/02/the-library-challenge">about
  75 the computer science book collection available in his local
  76 library</a>, and just wanted to share my comment on his theory about
  77 computer books becoming obsolete so soon.  That is part of the reason
  78 why the selection is so sad in almost any local library (it is in mine
  79 too), but I believe the major contributing factor is that the people
  80 buying books to the library have no way to know a good and future
  81 computer classic from trash.  And they need to know which one will
  82 become a classic in the future, as they would normally buy one of the
  83 recently published books.</p>
  84
  85 <p>During my university years, I worked for a while at the university
  86 library, and even there the person in charge of buying computer
  87 related books (and in fact any natural science related book), did not
  88 know enough about computers to make a good educated guess.  Once, just
  89 before Christmas, they had some leftover money on the book budget and
  90 I was asked if I could pick out a lot of computer books in the
  91 university book store, for the library to buy for their collection.  I
  92 had a great time picking all the books I dreamt of buying and reading,
  93 and the books I knew were classics (like most of the
  94 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Richard_Stevens">Stevens
  95 collection</a>).  I picked several of the generic O'Reilly books (ie
  96 documenting protocols, formats and systems, not specific versions of
  97 products) and stayed away from the 'teach yourself X in N days' class.
  98 I had a great time, and probably picked out more than a hundred books
  99 for the library that evening.</p>
 100
 101 <p>The sad fact is that there is no way a overworked librarian is
 102 going to know that for example
 103 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Programming">The
 104 Practice of Programming</a> is a must-have in any computer library,
 105 and they will most of the time end up picking the wrong books to buy.
 106 Perhaps you can help your local library make better choices by giving
 107 the suggestions for books to get?  I know they would love to hear from
 108 you, even if their budget might block them from getting your favourite
 109 book right away.</p>
 110 </div>
 111       <div class="tags">
 112
 113
 114         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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 122       <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>
 123       <div class="date"> 2nd October 2012</div>
 124       <div class="body"><p>I helga fikk jeg endelig pakket sammen en ny versjon av den norske
 125 stavekontrollen, og gikk ut versjon 2.1 etter at det var gått fire og
 126 et halvt år siden sist.  I dag fikk vi sendt ut annonseringen.  Her er
 127 det vi sendte ut:</p>
 128
 129 <p>Oslo, 2012-10-02</p>
 130
 131 <p><strong>Pressemelding: Ny utgave av norsk stavekontroll med
 132 synonymordliste</strong></p>
 133
 134 <p>Mer enn fire år etter at forrige utgave av den frie norske
 135 stavekontrollen ble utgitt, er en ny og forbedret versjon klar. Dette er
 136 noe utviklerne er veldig glade for.</p>
 137
 138 <p>Den største endringen er at byggesystemet for stavekontrollen er
 139 skrevet om til å akseptere ord med bindestrek (f.eks. «e-post»). Litt
 140 over 10.000 slike ordformer er lagt til i orddatabasen. I tillegg er
 141 det kommet en del nye ord og rettelser rapportert inn av de frivillige
 142 som gjennomfører korrektur av orddatabasen i prosjektet. For å få
 143 fortgang i dette korrekturarbeidet er det fint med flere frivillige
 144 som kan bidra i prosjektet.</p>
 145
 146 <p><blockquote>
 147  - En god og fritt tilgjengelig stavekontroll er en viktig byggestein
 148    for å fremme bruken av korrekt norsk språk, sier prosjektdeltager
 149    Petter Reinholdtsen.
 150 </blockquote></p>
 151
 152 <p>Takket være samarbeidet med synonymordlisteprosjektet er
 153 synonymordlista for bokmål tilgjengelig sammen med ordlista for bokmål
 154 og nynorsk. En synonymordliste for nynorsk er også med, men den er på
 155 prøvestadiet og meget liten.</p>
 156
 157 <p>Stavekontrollpakken og synonymordlistene brukes i
 158 LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org, Koffice, Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox og
 159 en rekke andre programmer, og på både Windows, Mac OS X, Linux og
 160 BSD.</p>
 161
 162 <p>Det hele utgis under den frie lisensen GPL og kan fritt lastes ned
 163 fra prosjektsidene på
 164 <a href="http://no.speling.org">no.speling.org</a>. Ferdige pakker for
 165 LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org er også tilgjengelige fra samme sted.</p>
 166
 167 <p>Det norske stavekontrollprosjektet er i kontakt med lignende
 168 prosjekter for blant annet å forbedre stavekontrollteknologien, å
 169 utveksle verktøy for vedlikehold av orddatabasen og å få tilgang til
 170 relevante datasett. Et av disse prosjektene er et separat prosjekt ved
 171 Sametinget som er i gang med å utvikle samisk stavekontroll for blant
 172 annet Microsoft Word og OpenOffice.org.</p>
 173
 174 <p>Et søsterprosjekt for å lage grammatikk-kontroll for
 175 LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org er igangsatt, men har ennå ikke kommet
 176 langt nok til å brukes. Frivillige til å bidra i dette prosjektet er
 177 også svært velkomne.</p>
 178
 179 <p><strong>Kontaktperson</strong></p>
 180
 181 <p><blockquote>
 182 Axel Bojer, prosjektdeltager
 183 <br>E-post: fri_programvare (at) bojer.no
 184 <br>Tlf: +47 954 32 417
 185 </blockquote></p>
 186
 187 <p><strong>Referanser</strong></p>
 188
 189 <ul>
 190
 191 <li>Det frie norske stavekontrollprosjektet for bokmål og nynorsk:
 192     <a href="http://no.speling.org">http://no.speling.org</a></li>
 193 <li>Samiske korrekturverktøy:
 194     <a href="http://divvun.no/">http://divvun.no/</a></li>
 195 <li>Ordlistene fra Norsk ordbank:
 196     <a href="http://www.edd.uio.no/prosjekt/ordbanken/">http://www.edd.uio.no/prosjekt/ordbanken/</a></li>
 197 <li>Last ned ordlistene:
 198     <a href="http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30577">http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30577</a>
 199     (PS: no_NO-pack2 for OOo 2.x))</li>
 200 </ul>
 201
 202 <p><strong>Fra NEWS-fila i kildekodepakken</strong></p>
 203
 204 <p>Release 2.1 (2012-09-30)</p>
 205
 206 <ul>
 207
 208 <li>Switch to new version scheme. Make new version 2.1, not 2.0.11. We do not
 209     release often enough to justify three digits.</li>
 210 <li>Switch build rules to build OOo v2 thesaurus files, as the v1 build rules
 211     no longer work. This require the libmythes-dev package on Debian.</li>
 212 <li>Introduce new Makefile variables hyphendir and thesdir to make it easier to
 213     control where to install these.</li>
 214 <li>Change script used to import from no.speling.org, to load new word
 215     boundaries if at least two people believed the boundaries was correct.</li>
 216 <li>Added word boundaries for several words (around 500 words) using the
 217     updated script.</li>
 218 <li>Imported thesarus for bokmål from synonymer.merg.net.</li>
 219 <li>Rewrote build rules to use = instead of - as combined word marker, thus
 220     allowing words like e-post.</li>
 221 <li>Imported a lot (around 10k words) of new words with dash (-) in them from
 222     no.speling.org now that it is handled by the build system.</li>
 223 </ul>
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 227
 228         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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 235     <div class="entry">
 236       <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>
 237       <div class="date"> 1st October 2012</div>
 238       <div class="body"><p>Som jeg
 239 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/DIFI_foresl_r___kaste_ut_ODF_og_ta_inn_OOXML_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html">skrev
 240 i juni</a> har DIFI foreslått å fjerne krav om å bruke ODF til
 241 utveksling av redigerbare dokumenter med det offentlige, og
 242 derigjennom tvinge innbyggerne til å forholde seg til formatene til MS
 243 Office når en kommuniserer med det offentlige.</p>
 244
 245 <p>I går kveld fikk vi i <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a>
 246 fullført vår høringsuttalelse og sendt den inn til DIFI.  Du finner
 247 <a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/201209-forskrift-standardkatalog">uttalelsen
 248 på wikien</a>.  Ta en titt.  Fristen for å sende inn uttalelse var i
 249 går søndag, men en får kanskje sitt innspill med hvis en sender i
 250 dag.</p>
 251 </div>
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 254
 255         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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 263       <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>
 264       <div class="date">24th September 2012</div>
 265       <div class="body"><p>Jeg har sterk tro på vitenskap, som er et annet navn på
 266 etterprøvbar kunnskap, som metode for å sikre et velfungerende
 267 samfunn.  Eller som en fantastisk reklamekampanje i England formulerte
 268 det, <a href="http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/3567">vitenskap
 269 flyr deg til månen, religion flyr deg inn i bygninger</a>.  Men den
 270 vitenskapelige metode trenger folk med kunnskap, evne og vilje til å
 271 gjøre sitt beste, og settes under press av et samfunn som ikke akkurat
 272 belønner slike egenskaper.  Her er noen skremmende og oppmuntrende
 273 lenker relatert jeg anbefaler alle å lese:</p>
 274
 275 <ul>
 276
 277 <li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/21/drugs-industry-scandal-ben-goldacre">The
 278 drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal</a> - Ben Goldacre i The Guardian
 279 2012-09-21</li>
 280
 281 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/09/22/kultur/debatt/debattinnlegg/utdanning/realfag/23535203/">Norsk
 282 skole har ikke realfag</a> - kronikk av Hege Tunstad i Dagbladet
 283 2012-09-22, basert på
 284 <a href="http://hegetunstad.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/norsk-skole-har-ikke-realfag/">en bloggpost 2012-09-19</a>.</li>
 285
 286 <li><a href="http://tjomlid.com/2012/09/22/folkeopplysningen-alt-du-trenger-a-vite-om-homeopati/">Folkeopplysningen:
 287   Alt du trenger å vite om homeopati!</a> - bloggpost av Gunnar R. Tjomlid
 288   2012-09-22.</li>
 289
 290 </ul>
 291
 292 <p>Ingen tvil om at alle gode krefter må jobbe sammen for å sikre at
 293 vi vet hvor vi skal fly.</p>
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 298         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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 306       <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>
 307       <div class="date">23rd September 2012</div>
 308       <div class="body"><p>Since this summer, I have worked in my spare time on a Norwegian <a
 309 href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book <a
 310 href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig.
 311 The reason is that this book is a great primer on what problems exist
 312 in the current copyright laws, and I want it to be available also for
 313 those that are reluctant do read an English book.
 314
 315 When I started, I
 316 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html">called
 317 for volunteers</a> to help me, but too few have volunteered so far,
 318 and progress is a bit slow.  Anyway, today I broken the 70 percent
 319 mark for the first rough translation.  At the moment, less than 700
 320 strings (paragraphs, index terms, titles) are left to translate.  With
 321 my current progress of 10-20 strings per day, it will take a while to
 322 complete the translation.  This graph show the updated progress:</p>
 323
 324 <img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png">
 325
 326 <p>Progress have slowed down lately due to family and work
 327 commitments.  If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out
 328 the project files currently available from
 329 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p>
 330
 331 <p>If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
 332 the updated
 333 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>
 334 and
 335 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
 336 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
 337 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
 338 saw no point in linking to that version.</p>
 339 </div>
 340       <div class="tags">
 341
 342
 343         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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 350     <div class="entry">
 351       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskaplig_metode_i_politikken_.html">Vitenskaplig metode i politikken?</a></div>
 352       <div class="date">20th September 2012</div>
 353       <div class="body"><p>Jeg ble for noen dager siden tipset om en rapport utarbeidet av
 354 Cabinet Office i England ved navn
 355 <a href="http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/test-learn-adapt-developing-public-policy-randomised-controlled-trials">Test,
 356 Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled
 357 Trials</a>, skrevet av blant annet Ben Goldacre (som jeg først ble
 358 klar over da han holdt et veldig interessant TED-foredrag med tittel
 359 <a href="http://archive.org/details/BenGoldacre_2011G">Battling bad
 360 science</a>).  Rapporten handler om hvordan det offentlige burde bruke
 361 vitenskaplige metoder i større grad for å finne ut hvilke virkemidler
 362 som er mest effektive når en skal regulere samfunnet.  Her er et sitat
 363 fra starten av rapporten:</p>
 364
 365 <blockquote>
 366 <p>Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are the best way to determine
 367   wheather a policy is working.  They are now used extensively in
 368   international development, medicine, and business to identify which
 369   policy, drug or sales method is most effective.  They are also at
 370   the heart of the Behavioural Insights Team's methodology.</p>
 371
 372 <p>However, RCTs are not rutinely used to test the effectiveness of
 373   public policy interventions in the UK.  We think they should be.</p>
 374 </blockquote>
 375
 376 <p>Her tror jeg også Norge har noe å lære.  Det offentlige bruker mye
 377 penger på aktiviteter der det ikke er åpenbart (og heller ikke blir
 378 målt) at den reelle effekten er det en ønsker å oppnå.  Ruters
 379 elektroniske billettsystem, NAV-reformen, økt bruk av penger på
 380 politiet og sykehussammenslåinger kommer meg i hug.</p>
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 384
 385         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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 392     <div class="entry">
 393       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html">Debian Edu interview: Giorgio Pioda</a></div>
 394       <div class="date">17th September 2012</div>
 395       <div class="body"><p>After a long break in my row of interviews with people in the
 396 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
 397 community, I finally found time to wrap up another.  This time it is
 398 Giorgio Pioda, which showed up on the mailing list at the start of
 399 this year, asking questions and inspiring us to improve the first time
 400 administrators experience with Skolelinux. :) The interview was
 401 conduced in May, but I only found time to publish it now.</p>
 402
 403 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 404
 405 <p>I have a PhD in chemistry but since several years I work as teacher
 406 in secondary (15-18 year old students) and tertiary (a kind of "light"
 407 university) schools. Five years ago I started to manage a Learning
 408 Management Service server and slowly I got more and more involved with
 409 IT. 3 years ago the graduating schools moved completely to Linux and I
 410 got the head of the IT for this. The experience collected in chemistry
 411 labs computers (for example NMR analysis of protein folding) and in
 412 the IT-courses during university where sufficient to start. Self
 413 training is anyway very important</p>
 414
 415 <p>I live in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, and the
 416 <a href="http://www.spse.ch/">SPSE school</a> (secondary) is a very
 417 special sport school for young people who try to became sport pro (for
 418 all sports, we have dozens of disciplines represented) and we are
 419 recognised by the Olympic Swiss Organisation.
 420
 421 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 422 project?</strong></p>
 423
 424 <p>Looking for Linux / Primary Domain Controller (PDC) I found it
 425 already several years ago. But since the system was still not
 426 Kerberized and since our schools relies strongly on laptops I didn't
 427 use it. I plan to introduce it in the next future, probably for the
 428 next school year, since the squeeze release solved this security
 429 hole.</p>
 430
 431 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 432 Edu?</strong></p>
 433
 434 <p>Many. First of all there is a strong and living community that is
 435 very generous for help and hints.  Chat help is crucial, together with
 436 the mailing list.  Second. With Skolelinux you get an already well
 437 engineered platform and you don't have to start to build up your PDC
 438 and your clients from GNU/scratch; I've already done this once and I
 439 can tell it, it is hard. Third, since Skolelinux is a standard
 440 platform, it is way easier to educate other IT people and even if the
 441 head IT is sick another one could pick up the task without too much
 442 hassle.</p>
 443
 444 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 445 Edu?</strong></p>
 446
 447 <p>The only real problem I see is that it is a little too less
 448 flexible at client level. Debian stable is rocky and desirable, but
 449 there are many reasons that force for another choice. For example the
 450 need of new drivers for new PC, or the need for a specific OS for some
 451 devices that have specific software packages for another specific
 452 distribution (I have such a case for whiteboards that have only
 453 Ubuntu packages). Thus, I prepared compatibility packages educlient
 454 and eduroaming, hoping not to use them ;-)</p>
 455
 456 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 457
 458 <p>I have a Debian Stable PDC at school (Kerberos, NIS, NFS) with
 459 mixed Debian and Ubuntu clients. If you think that this triad
 460 combination is exotic... well I discovered right yesterday that
 461 <a href="http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/Perceus-Report.html">Perceus</a>
 462 has the same...</p>
 463
 464 <p>For myself I run Debian wheezy/sid, but this combination is good
 465 only I you have enough competence to fix stuff for yourself, if
 466 something breaks.  Daily I use texmacs, gnumeric, a little bit of R
 467 statistics, kmplot, and less frequently OpenOffice.org.</p>
 468
 469 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 470 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 471
 472 <P>I think that the only real argument that school managers "hear" is
 473 cost reduction. They don't give too much weight on quality, stability,
 474 just because they are normally not open to change.</p>
 475
 476 <p>Students adapts very quickly to GNU/Linux (and for them being able
 477 to switch between different OS is a plus value); teachers and managers
 478 don't.</p>
 479
 480 <p>We decided to move to Linux because students at our school have own
 481 laptop and we have the responsibility to keep the laptop ready to use;
 482 we were really unsatisfied with Microsoft since every Monday we had 20
 483 machine to fix for viral infections... With Linux this has been
 484 reduced to zero, since people installs almost only from official
 485 repositories. I think that our special needs brought us to Linux.
 486 Those who don't have such needs will hardly move to Linux.</p>
 487 </div>
 488       <div class="tags">
 489
 490
 491         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>.
 492
 493
 494       </div>
 495     </div>
 496     <div class="padding"></div>
 497
 498     <div class="entry">
 499       <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>
 500       <div class="date">16th September 2012</div>
 501       <div class="body"><p>Veldig morsomt å se at
 502 <a href="http://naturvernforbundet.no/noa/">Naturvernforbundet Oslo og
 503 Akershus</a> bruker kart fra
 504 <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.no/">OpenStreetmap.org<a/> i
 505 <a href="http://naturvernforbundet.no/noa/bestill-markakalenderen-2013-article24039-1939.html">sine
 506 kalendere</a>.  Vidar Gundersen i kartgruppa
 507 <a href="http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/kart/2012-September/003696.html">forteller
 508 på den norske epostlisten</a> til prosjektet at hvert blad i
 509 kalenderen har et turforslag på baksiden, med kart fra OpenStreetmap.
 510 Tidligere kjøpte de visst kart fra kartverket, men nå slipper de
 511 det.</p>
 512
 513 <p>Denne nyheten synes jeg er fantastisk bra, og jeg håper de får
 514 følge av flere, slik at det potensielle og fryktede inntektstapet for
 515 kartverket ved frigjøring av kartdata blir mindre, og forhåpentligvis
 516 til slutt så lite at frykten for å frigjøre data overvinnes.</p>
 517 </div>
 518       <div class="tags">
 519
 520
 521         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>.
 522
 523
 524       </div>
 525     </div>
 526     <div class="padding"></div>
 527
 528     <div class="entry">
 529       <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>
 530       <div class="date">15th September 2012</div>
 531       <div class="body"><p>After the
 532 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_standardize_its_first_multimedia_codec__Opus.html">Opus
 533 codec made</a> it into <a href="http://www.ietf.org/">IETF</a> as
 534 <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716">RFC 6716</a>, I had a look
 535 to see if there is any activity in IETF to standardise a video codec
 536 too, and I was happy to discover that there is some activity in this
 537 area.  A non-"working group" mailing list
 538 <a href="https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/video-codec">video-codec</a>
 539 was
 540 <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
 541 formal working group should be formed.</p>
 542
 543 <p>I look forward to see how this plays out.  There is already
 544 <a href="http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/video-codec/current/msg00003.html">an
 545 email from someone</a> in the MPEG group at ISO asking people to
 546 participate in the ISO group.  Given how ISO failed with OOXML and given
 547 that it so far (as far as I can remember) only have produced
 548 multimedia formats requiring royalty payments, I suspect
 549 joining the ISO group would be a complete waste of time, but I am not
 550 involved in any codec work and my opinion will not matter much.</p>
 551
 552 <p>If one of my readers is involved with codec work, I hope she will
 553 join this work to standardise a royalty free video codec within
 554 IETF.</p>
 555 </div>
 556       <div class="tags">
 557
 558
 559         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>.
 560
 561
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 570
 571 <h2>Archive</h2>
 572 <ul>
 573
 574 <li>2012
 575 <ul>
 576
 577 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
 578
 579 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
 580
 581 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
 582
 583 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/04/">April (12)</a></li>
 584
 585 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/05/">May (12)</a></li>
 586
 587 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/06/">June (20)</a></li>
 588
 589 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/07/">July (17)</a></li>
 590
 591 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/08/">August (6)</a></li>
 592
 593 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/09/">September (9)</a></li>
 594
 595 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (4)</a></li>
 596
 597 </ul></li>
 598
 599 <li>2011
 600 <ul>
 601
 602 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
 603
 604 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
 605
 606 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
 607
 608 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/04/">April (7)</a></li>
 609
 610 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/05/">May (3)</a></li>
 611
 612 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/06/">June (2)</a></li>
 613
 614 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/07/">July (7)</a></li>
 615
 616 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/08/">August (6)</a></li>
 617
 618 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
 619
 620 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 621
 622 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 623
 624 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
 625
 626 </ul></li>
 627
 628 <li>2010
 629 <ul>
 630
 631 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
 632
 633 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
 634
 635 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
 636
 637 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/04/">April (3)</a></li>
 638
 639 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/05/">May (9)</a></li>
 640
 641 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/06/">June (14)</a></li>
 642
 643 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
 644
 645 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
 646
 647 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
 648
 649 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
 650
 651 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
 652
 653 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
 654
 655 </ul></li>
 656
 657 <li>2009
 658 <ul>
 659
 660 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
 661
 662 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
 663
 664 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/03/">March (12)</a></li>
 665
 666 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/04/">April (10)</a></li>
 667
 668 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/05/">May (9)</a></li>
 669
 670 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/06/">June (3)</a></li>
 671
 672 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
 673
 674 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
 675
 676 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
 677
 678 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 679
 680 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 681
 682 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
 683
 684 </ul></li>
 685
 686 <li>2008
 687 <ul>
 688
 689 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
 690
 691 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
 692
 693 </ul></li>
 694
 695 </ul>
 696
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 702  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/3d-printer">3d-printer (13)</a></li>
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 705
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 717
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 719
 720  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook (7)</a></li>
 721
 722  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
 723
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 726  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/fiksgatami">fiksgatami (18)</a></li>
 727
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 729
 730  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freeculture">freeculture (8)</a></li>
 731
 732  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/frikanalen">frikanalen (8)</a></li>
 733
 734  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/intervju">intervju (31)</a></li>
 735
 736  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/kart">kart (17)</a></li>
 737
 738  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ldap">ldap (8)</a></li>
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 743
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 745
 746  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (200)</a></li>
 747
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 750  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn (5)</a></li>
 751
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 753
 754  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (35)</a></li>
 755
 756  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern (49)</a></li>
 757
 758  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/raid">raid (1)</a></li>
 759
 760  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reprap">reprap (11)</a></li>
 761
 762  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rfid">rfid (2)</a></li>
 763
 764  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot (4)</a></li>
 765
 766  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rss">rss (1)</a></li>
 767
 768  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ruter">ruter (4)</a></li>
 769
 770  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/scraperwiki">scraperwiki (2)</a></li>
 771
 772  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (23)</a></li>
 773
 774  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (4)</a></li>
 775
 776  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (2)</a></li>
 777
 778  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (38)</a></li>
 779
 780  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (2)</a></li>
 781
 782  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (4)</a></li>
 783
 784  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (10)</a></li>
 785
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 787
 788  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (34)</a></li>
 789
 790  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (3)</a></li>
 791
 792  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (25)</a></li>
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