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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from August 2012</title>
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  10                 <title>Free software forced Microsoft to open Office (and don&#39;t forget Officeshots)</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2012 14:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I came across a great comment from Simon Phipps today, about how
  15 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infoworld.com/d/open-source-software/how-microsoft-was-forced-open-office-200233&quot;&gt;Microsoft
  16 have been forced to open Office&lt;/a&gt;, and it made me remember and
  17 revisit the great site
  18 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.officeshots.org/&quot;&gt;officeshots&lt;/a&gt; which allow you
  19 to check out how different programs present the ODF file format.  I
  20 recommend both to those of my readers interested in ODF. :)&lt;/p&gt;
  21 </description>
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  25                 <title>Half way there with translated docbook version of Free Culture</title>
  26                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Half_way_there_with_translated_docbook_version_of_Free_Culture.html</link>
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  28                 <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 21:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
  29                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In my spare time, I currently work on a Norwegian
  30 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book
  31 &lt;a href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig,
  32 to get a Norwegian text explaining the problems with the copyright law
  33 I can give to my parents and others that are reluctant to read an
  34 English book.  It is a marvellous set of examples on how the ever
  35 expanding copyright regulations hurt culture and society.  When the
  36 translation is done, I hope to find funding to print and ship a copy
  37 to all the members of the Norwegian parliament, before they sit down
  38 to debate the latest revisions to the Norwegian copyright law.  This
  39 summer I
  40 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html&quot;&gt;called
  41 for volunteers&lt;/a&gt; to help me, and I have been able to secure the
  42 valuable contribution from at least one other Norwegian.&lt;/p&gt;
  43
  44 &lt;p&gt;Two days ago, we finally broke the 50% mark.  Then more than 50% of
  45 the number of strings to translate (normally paragraphs, but also
  46 titles and index entries are also counted).  All parts from the
  47 beginning up to and including chapter four is translated.  So is
  48 chapters six, seven and the conclusion.  I created a graph to show the
  49 progress:&lt;/p&gt;
  50
  51 &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;
  52
  53 &lt;p&gt;The number of strings to translate increase as I insert the index
  54 entries into the docbook.  They were missing with the docbook version
  55 I initially started with.  There are still quite a few index entries
  56 missing, but everyone starting with A, B, O, Z and Y are done.  I
  57 currently focus on completing the index entries, to get a complete
  58 english version of the docbook source.&lt;/p&gt;
  59
  60 &lt;p&gt;There is still need for translators and people with docbook
  61 knowledge, to be able to get a good looking book (I still struggle
  62 with dblatex, xmlto and docbook-xsl) as well as to do the draft
  63 translation and proof reading.  And I would like the figures to be
  64 redrawn as SVGs to make it easy to translate them.  Any SVG master
  65 around?  I am sure there are some legal terms that are unfamiliar to
  66 me.  If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out the
  67 project files currently available from &lt;a
  68 href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  69
  70 &lt;p&gt;If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
  71 the updated
  72 &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;
  73 and
  74 &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;
  75 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
  76 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
  77 saw no point in linking to that version.&lt;/p&gt;
  78 </description>
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  82                 <title>Gratulerer med 19-årsdagen, Debian!</title>
  83                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gratulerer_med_19__rsdagen__Debian_.html</link>
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  85                 <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 11:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
  86                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I dag fyller
  87 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120813&quot;&gt;Debian-prosjektet 19
  88 år&lt;/a&gt;.  Jeg har fulgt det de siste 12 årene, og er veldig glad for å kunne
  89 si gratulerer med dagen, Debian!&lt;/p&gt;
  90 </description>
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  94                 <title>Gladoppslag om Skolelinux i avisen Fremover</title>
  95                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Gladoppslag_om_Skolelinux_i_avisen_Fremover.html</link>
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  97                 <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
  98                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I sommer hadde avisen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fremover.no/&quot;&gt;Fremover&lt;/a&gt;
  99 et flott oppslag om bruken av
 100 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; på alle skolene
 101 der.  Artikkelen var på trykk på side 4 og 5 i papirutgaven
 102 2012-07-23, men mangler dessverre i nettutgaven av avisen.  Mine
 103 henvendelser til avisen for å få artikkelen på nett har så langt ikke
 104 vært vellykket.&lt;/p&gt;
 105
 106 &lt;p&gt;Artikkelen med tittelen &quot;Narvik kommune bruker gratisprogram i
 107 skolen - Har spart millioner&quot;, forteller om hvordan bruken av
 108 Skolelinux er en stor suksess i Narvik siden det ble tatt i bruk i
 109 2004.  Her er noen fine sitater:&lt;/p&gt;
 110
 111 &lt;blockquote&gt;
 112 &quot;- Skolelinux har spart kommunen for store pengesummer, millionbeløp,
 113   som de heller kan bruke på andre ting, sier IKT-konsulent Viggo
 114   Fedreheim.&quot;
 115 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
 116
 117 &lt;p&gt;Avisen forteller at de har fått tilgang til beregninger som viser
 118 at Narvik kommune har spart noe mellom 10 og 20 millioner kroner de
 119 siste 8 årene på å bruke Skolelinux, og fortsetter:&lt;/p&gt;
 120
 121 &lt;blockquote&gt;
 122
 123 &quot;Regnestykket tar høyde for sparte kostnader til lisenser som medfølger
 124 de alternative operativsystemene, lavere driftskostnader og lengre
 125 levetid på datautstyret.  Totalt har Narvikskolen en maskinpark på
 126 1600 maskiner fordelt på de 11 skolene fra Skjomen i sør til Bjerkvik
 127 i nord.&quot;
 128
 129 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
 130
 131 &lt;p&gt;Viggo Fedreheim sier dette om hvor noe av gevinsten kommer fra:&lt;/p&gt;
 132
 133 &lt;blockquote&gt;
 134 &quot;- Vi kan gjenbruke gamle maskiner i skolen som er for dårlig andre
 135   steder i kommunen der de ikke bruker Skolelinux.  Levetiden på en
 136   datamaskin blir 3-5 år lenger med Skolelinux.  Vi kaller det for
 137   grønn IT, miljøvennlig IT.&quot;
 138 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
 139
 140 &lt;p&gt;Her er det mulighet for flere kommuner å få et godt IT-system på
 141 skolene, hvis de er villige til å forsøke.  De som ikke har kompetanse
 142 innomhus kan kjøpe det fra en av de kommersielle leverandørene av
 143 Skolelinux-tjenester, som &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
 144 Drift AS&lt;/a&gt; (der jeg er styremedlem).  Komplett liste er tilgjengelig
 145 via
 146 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp&quot;&gt;wikien&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
 147
 148 &lt;p&gt;Update 2012-08-16: Today I was allowed by Fremover to put the PDF I
 149 received from them with a copy of the article on the Internet.  It is
 150 &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/2012-07-23-fremover-narvik.pdf&quot;&gt;now
 151 available&lt;/a&gt; in the Skolelinux press archive.&lt;/p&gt;
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 156                 <title>Notes on language codes for Norwegian docbook processing...</title>
 157                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Notes_on_language_codes_for_Norwegian_docbook_processing___.html</link>
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 159                 <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
 160                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; one can specify
 161 the language used at the top, and the processing pipeline will use
 162 this information to pick the correct translations for &#39;chapter&#39;, &#39;see
 163 also&#39;, &#39;index&#39; etc.  And for most languages used with docbook, I guess
 164 this work just fine.  For example a German user can start the document
 165 with &amp;lt;book lang=&quot;de&quot;&amp;gt;, and the document will show up with the
 166 correct content with any of the docbook processors.  This is not the
 167 case for the language
 168 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_Culture_in_Norwegian___5_chapters_done__74_percent_left_to_do.html&quot;&gt;I
 169 am working with at the moment&lt;/a&gt;, Norwegian Bokmål.&lt;/p&gt;
 170
 171 &lt;p&gt;For a while, I was confused about which language code to use,
 172 because I was unable to find any language code that would work across
 173 all tools.  I am currently testing dblatex, xmlto, docbook-xsl, and
 174 dbtoepub, and they do not handle Norwegian Bokmål the same way.  Some
 175 of them do not handle it at all.&lt;/p&gt;
 176
 177 &lt;p&gt;A bit of background information is probably needed to understand
 178 this mess.  Norwegian is not one, but two written variants.  The
 179 variants are Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål.  There are three
 180 two letter language codes associated with these languages, Norwegian
 181 is &#39;no&#39;, Norwegian Nynorsk is &#39;nn&#39; and Norwegian Bokmål is &#39;nb&#39;.
 182 Historically the &#39;no&#39; language code was used for Norwegian Bokmål, but
 183 many years ago this was found to be å bad idea, and the recommendation
 184 is to use the most specific language code instead, to avoid confusion.
 185 In the transition period it is a good idea to make sure &#39;no&#39; was an
 186 alias for &#39;nb&#39;.&lt;/p&gt;
 187
 188 &lt;p&gt;Back to docbook processing tools in Debian.  The dblatex tool only
 189 understand &#39;nn&#39;.  There are translations for &#39;no&#39;, but not &#39;nb&#39; (BTS
 190 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/684391&quot;&gt;#684391&lt;/a&gt;), but due to a bug
 191 (BTS &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/682936&quot;&gt;#682936&lt;/a&gt;) the &#39;no&#39;
 192 language code is not recognised.  The docbook-xsl tool chain only
 193 recognise &#39;nn&#39; and &#39;nb&#39;, but not &#39;no&#39;.  The xmlto tool only recognise
 194 &#39;nn&#39; and &#39;nb&#39;, but not &#39;no&#39;.  The end result that there is no language
 195 code I can use to get the docbook file working with all of these tools
 196 at the same time. :(&lt;/p&gt;
 197
 198 &lt;p&gt;The correct solution is to use &amp;lt;book lang=&quot;nb&quot;&amp;gt;, but it will
 199 take time before that will work with all the free software docbook
 200 processors. :(&lt;/p&gt;
 201
 202 &lt;p&gt;Oh, the joy of well integrated tools. :/&lt;/p&gt;
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