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  23       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_is_your_local_library_collecting_the__wrong__computer_books_.html">Why is your local library collecting the "wrong" computer books?</a></div>
  24       <div class="date"> 3rd October 2012</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>I just read the blog post from Tim Retout
  26 <a href="http://retout.co.uk/blog/2012/10/02/the-library-challenge">about
  27 the computer science book collection available in his local
  28 library</a>, and just wanted to share my comment on his theory about
  29 computer books becoming obsolete so soon.  That is part of the reason
  30 why the selection is so sad in almost any local library (it is in mine
  31 too), but I believe the major contributing factor is that the people
  32 buying books to the library have no way to know a good and future
  33 computer classic from trash.  And they need to know which one will
  34 become a classic in the future, as they would normally buy one of the
  35 recently published books.</p>
  36
  37 <p>During my university years, I worked for a while at the university
  38 library, and even there the person in charge of buying computer
  39 related books (and in fact any natural science related book), did not
  40 know enough about computers to make a good educated guess.  Once, just
  41 before Christmas, they had some leftover money on the book budget and
  42 I was asked if I could pick out a lot of computer books in the
  43 university book store, for the library to buy for their collection.  I
  44 had a great time picking all the books I dreamt of buying and reading,
  45 and the books I knew were classics (like most of the
  46 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Richard_Stevens">Stevens
  47 collection</a>).  I picked several of the generic O'Reilly books (ie
  48 documenting protocols, formats and systems, not specific versions of
  49 products) and stayed away from the 'teach yourself X in N days' class.
  50 I had a great time, and probably picked out more than a hundred books
  51 for the library that evening.</p>
  52
  53 <p>The sad fact is that there is no way a overworked librarian is
  54 going to know that for example
  55 <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Programming">The
  56 Practice of Programming</a> is a must-have in any computer library,
  57 and they will most of the time end up picking the wrong books to buy.
  58 Perhaps you can help your local library make better choices by giving
  59 the suggestions for books to get?  I know they would love to hear from
  60 you, even if their budget might block them from getting your favourite
  61 book right away.</p>
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  66         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
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  74       <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>
  75       <div class="date"> 2nd October 2012</div>
  76       <div class="body"><p>I helga fikk jeg endelig pakket sammen en ny versjon av den norske
  77 stavekontrollen, og gikk ut versjon 2.1 etter at det var gått fire og
  78 et halvt år siden sist.  I dag fikk vi sendt ut annonseringen.  Her er
  79 det vi sendte ut:</p>
  80
  81 <p>Oslo, 2012-10-02</p>
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  83 <p><strong>Pressemelding: Ny utgave av norsk stavekontroll med
  84 synonymordliste</strong></p>
  85
  86 <p>Mer enn fire år etter at forrige utgave av den frie norske
  87 stavekontrollen ble utgitt, er en ny og forbedret versjon klar. Dette er
  88 noe utviklerne er veldig glade for.</p>
  89
  90 <p>Den største endringen er at byggesystemet for stavekontrollen er
  91 skrevet om til å akseptere ord med bindestrek (f.eks. «e-post»). Litt
  92 over 10.000 slike ordformer er lagt til i orddatabasen. I tillegg er
  93 det kommet en del nye ord og rettelser rapportert inn av de frivillige
  94 som gjennomfører korrektur av orddatabasen i prosjektet. For å få
  95 fortgang i dette korrekturarbeidet er det fint med flere frivillige
  96 som kan bidra i prosjektet.</p>
  97
  98 <p><blockquote>
  99  - En god og fritt tilgjengelig stavekontroll er en viktig byggestein
 100    for å fremme bruken av korrekt norsk språk, sier prosjektdeltager
 101    Petter Reinholdtsen.
 102 </blockquote></p>
 103
 104 <p>Takket være samarbeidet med synonymordlisteprosjektet er
 105 synonymordlista for bokmål tilgjengelig sammen med ordlista for bokmål
 106 og nynorsk. En synonymordliste for nynorsk er også med, men den er på
 107 prøvestadiet og meget liten.</p>
 108
 109 <p>Stavekontrollpakken og synonymordlistene brukes i
 110 LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org, Koffice, Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox og
 111 en rekke andre programmer, og på både Windows, Mac OS X, Linux og
 112 BSD.</p>
 113
 114 <p>Det hele utgis under den frie lisensen GPL og kan fritt lastes ned
 115 fra prosjektsidene på
 116 <a href="http://no.speling.org">no.speling.org</a>. Ferdige pakker for
 117 LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org er også tilgjengelige fra samme sted.</p>
 118
 119 <p>Det norske stavekontrollprosjektet er i kontakt med lignende
 120 prosjekter for blant annet å forbedre stavekontrollteknologien, å
 121 utveksle verktøy for vedlikehold av orddatabasen og å få tilgang til
 122 relevante datasett. Et av disse prosjektene er et separat prosjekt ved
 123 Sametinget som er i gang med å utvikle samisk stavekontroll for blant
 124 annet Microsoft Word og OpenOffice.org.</p>
 125
 126 <p>Et søsterprosjekt for å lage grammatikk-kontroll for
 127 LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org er igangsatt, men har ennå ikke kommet
 128 langt nok til å brukes. Frivillige til å bidra i dette prosjektet er
 129 også svært velkomne.</p>
 130
 131 <p><strong>Kontaktperson</strong></p>
 132
 133 <p><blockquote>
 134 Axel Bojer, prosjektdeltager
 135 <br>E-post: fri_programvare (at) bojer.no
 136 <br>Tlf: +47 954 32 417
 137 </blockquote></p>
 138
 139 <p><strong>Referanser</strong></p>
 140
 141 <ul>
 142
 143 <li>Det frie norske stavekontrollprosjektet for bokmål og nynorsk:
 144     <a href="http://no.speling.org">http://no.speling.org</a></li>
 145 <li>Samiske korrekturverktøy:
 146     <a href="http://divvun.no/">http://divvun.no/</a></li>
 147 <li>Ordlistene fra Norsk ordbank:
 148     <a href="http://www.edd.uio.no/prosjekt/ordbanken/">http://www.edd.uio.no/prosjekt/ordbanken/</a></li>
 149 <li>Last ned ordlistene:
 150     <a href="http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30577">http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30577</a>
 151     (PS: no_NO-pack2 for OOo 2.x))</li>
 152 </ul>
 153
 154 <p><strong>Fra NEWS-fila i kildekodepakken</strong></p>
 155
 156 <p>Release 2.1 (2012-09-30)</p>
 157
 158 <ul>
 159
 160 <li>Switch to new version scheme. Make new version 2.1, not 2.0.11. We do not
 161     release often enough to justify three digits.</li>
 162 <li>Switch build rules to build OOo v2 thesaurus files, as the v1 build rules
 163     no longer work. This require the libmythes-dev package on Debian.</li>
 164 <li>Introduce new Makefile variables hyphendir and thesdir to make it easier to
 165     control where to install these.</li>
 166 <li>Change script used to import from no.speling.org, to load new word
 167     boundaries if at least two people believed the boundaries was correct.</li>
 168 <li>Added word boundaries for several words (around 500 words) using the
 169     updated script.</li>
 170 <li>Imported thesarus for bokmål from synonymer.merg.net.</li>
 171 <li>Rewrote build rules to use = instead of - as combined word marker, thus
 172     allowing words like e-post.</li>
 173 <li>Imported a lot (around 10k words) of new words with dash (-) in them from
 174     no.speling.org now that it is handled by the build system.</li>
 175 </ul>
 176 </div>
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 179
 180         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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 187     <div class="entry">
 188       <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>
 189       <div class="date"> 1st October 2012</div>
 190       <div class="body"><p>Som jeg
 191 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/DIFI_foresl_r___kaste_ut_ODF_og_ta_inn_OOXML_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html">skrev
 192 i juni</a> har DIFI foreslått å fjerne krav om å bruke ODF til
 193 utveksling av redigerbare dokumenter med det offentlige, og
 194 derigjennom tvinge innbyggerne til å forholde seg til formatene til MS
 195 Office når en kommuniserer med det offentlige.</p>
 196
 197 <p>I går kveld fikk vi i <a href="http://www.nuug.no/">NUUG</a>
 198 fullført vår høringsuttalelse og sendt den inn til DIFI.  Du finner
 199 <a href="http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/201209-forskrift-standardkatalog">uttalelsen
 200 på wikien</a>.  Ta en titt.  Fristen for å sende inn uttalelse var i
 201 går søndag, men en får kanskje sitt innspill med hvis en sender i
 202 dag.</p>
 203 </div>
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 205
 206
 207         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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 215       <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>
 216       <div class="date">24th September 2012</div>
 217       <div class="body"><p>Jeg har sterk tro på vitenskap, som er et annet navn på
 218 etterprøvbar kunnskap, som metode for å sikre et velfungerende
 219 samfunn.  Eller som en fantastisk reklamekampanje i England formulerte
 220 det, <a href="http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/3567">vitenskap
 221 flyr deg til månen, religion flyr deg inn i bygninger</a>.  Men den
 222 vitenskapelige metode trenger folk med kunnskap, evne og vilje til å
 223 gjøre sitt beste, og settes under press av et samfunn som ikke akkurat
 224 belønner slike egenskaper.  Her er noen skremmende og oppmuntrende
 225 lenker relatert jeg anbefaler alle å lese:</p>
 226
 227 <ul>
 228
 229 <li><a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/21/drugs-industry-scandal-ben-goldacre">The
 230 drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal</a> - Ben Goldacre i The Guardian
 231 2012-09-21</li>
 232
 233 <li><a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/09/22/kultur/debatt/debattinnlegg/utdanning/realfag/23535203/">Norsk
 234 skole har ikke realfag</a> - kronikk av Hege Tunstad i Dagbladet
 235 2012-09-22, basert på
 236 <a href="http://hegetunstad.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/norsk-skole-har-ikke-realfag/">en bloggpost 2012-09-19</a>.</li>
 237
 238 <li><a href="http://tjomlid.com/2012/09/22/folkeopplysningen-alt-du-trenger-a-vite-om-homeopati/">Folkeopplysningen:
 239   Alt du trenger å vite om homeopati!</a> - bloggpost av Gunnar R. Tjomlid
 240   2012-09-22.</li>
 241
 242 </ul>
 243
 244 <p>Ingen tvil om at alle gode krefter må jobbe sammen for å sikre at
 245 vi vet hvor vi skal fly.</p>
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 250         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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 258       <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>
 259       <div class="date">23rd September 2012</div>
 260       <div class="body"><p>Since this summer, I have worked in my spare time on a Norwegian <a
 261 href="http://www.docbook.org/">docbook</a> version of the 2004 book <a
 262 href="http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture</a> by Lawrence Lessig.
 263 The reason is that this book is a great primer on what problems exist
 264 in the current copyright laws, and I want it to be available also for
 265 those that are reluctant do read an English book.
 266
 267 When I started, I
 268 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html">called
 269 for volunteers</a> to help me, but too few have volunteered so far,
 270 and progress is a bit slow.  Anyway, today I broken the 70 percent
 271 mark for the first rough translation.  At the moment, less than 700
 272 strings (paragraphs, index terms, titles) are left to translate.  With
 273 my current progress of 10-20 strings per day, it will take a while to
 274 complete the translation.  This graph show the updated progress:</p>
 275
 276 <img width="80%" align="center" src="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png">
 277
 278 <p>Progress have slowed down lately due to family and work
 279 commitments.  If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out
 280 the project files currently available from
 281 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github</a>.</p>
 282
 283 <p>If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
 284 the updated
 285 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true">PDF</a>
 286 and
 287 <a href="https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true">EPUB</a>
 288 are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
 289 github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
 290 saw no point in linking to that version.</p>
 291 </div>
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 293
 294
 295         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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 302     <div class="entry">
 303       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskaplig_metode_i_politikken_.html">Vitenskaplig metode i politikken?</a></div>
 304       <div class="date">20th September 2012</div>
 305       <div class="body"><p>Jeg ble for noen dager siden tipset om en rapport utarbeidet av
 306 Cabinet Office i England ved navn
 307 <a href="http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/test-learn-adapt-developing-public-policy-randomised-controlled-trials">Test,
 308 Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled
 309 Trials</a>, skrevet av blant annet Ben Goldacre (som jeg først ble
 310 klar over da han holdt et veldig interessant TED-foredrag med tittel
 311 <a href="http://archive.org/details/BenGoldacre_2011G">Battling bad
 312 science</a>).  Rapporten handler om hvordan det offentlige burde bruke
 313 vitenskaplige metoder i større grad for å finne ut hvilke virkemidler
 314 som er mest effektive når en skal regulere samfunnet.  Her er et sitat
 315 fra starten av rapporten:</p>
 316
 317 <blockquote>
 318 <p>Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are the best way to determine
 319   wheather a policy is working.  They are now used extensively in
 320   international development, medicine, and business to identify which
 321   policy, drug or sales method is most effective.  They are also at
 322   the heart of the Behavioural Insights Team's methodology.</p>
 323
 324 <p>However, RCTs are not rutinely used to test the effectiveness of
 325   public policy interventions in the UK.  We think they should be.</p>
 326 </blockquote>
 327
 328 <p>Her tror jeg også Norge har noe å lære.  Det offentlige bruker mye
 329 penger på aktiviteter der det ikke er åpenbart (og heller ikke blir
 330 målt) at den reelle effekten er det en ønsker å oppnå.  Ruters
 331 elektroniske billettsystem, NAV-reformen, økt bruk av penger på
 332 politiet og sykehussammenslåinger kommer meg i hug.</p>
 333 </div>
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 336
 337         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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 344     <div class="entry">
 345       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Giorgio_Pioda.html">Debian Edu interview: Giorgio Pioda</a></div>
 346       <div class="date">17th September 2012</div>
 347       <div class="body"><p>After a long break in my row of interviews with people in the
 348 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu and Skolelinux</a>
 349 community, I finally found time to wrap up another.  This time it is
 350 Giorgio Pioda, which showed up on the mailing list at the start of
 351 this year, asking questions and inspiring us to improve the first time
 352 administrators experience with Skolelinux. :) The interview was
 353 conduced in May, but I only found time to publish it now.</p>
 354
 355 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 356
 357 <p>I have a PhD in chemistry but since several years I work as teacher
 358 in secondary (15-18 year old students) and tertiary (a kind of "light"
 359 university) schools. Five years ago I started to manage a Learning
 360 Management Service server and slowly I got more and more involved with
 361 IT. 3 years ago the graduating schools moved completely to Linux and I
 362 got the head of the IT for this. The experience collected in chemistry
 363 labs computers (for example NMR analysis of protein folding) and in
 364 the IT-courses during university where sufficient to start. Self
 365 training is anyway very important</p>
 366
 367 <p>I live in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, and the
 368 <a href="http://www.spse.ch/">SPSE school</a> (secondary) is a very
 369 special sport school for young people who try to became sport pro (for
 370 all sports, we have dozens of disciplines represented) and we are
 371 recognised by the Olympic Swiss Organisation.
 372
 373 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
 374 project?</strong></p>
 375
 376 <p>Looking for Linux / Primary Domain Controller (PDC) I found it
 377 already several years ago. But since the system was still not
 378 Kerberized and since our schools relies strongly on laptops I didn't
 379 use it. I plan to introduce it in the next future, probably for the
 380 next school year, since the squeeze release solved this security
 381 hole.</p>
 382
 383 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 384 Edu?</strong></p>
 385
 386 <p>Many. First of all there is a strong and living community that is
 387 very generous for help and hints.  Chat help is crucial, together with
 388 the mailing list.  Second. With Skolelinux you get an already well
 389 engineered platform and you don't have to start to build up your PDC
 390 and your clients from GNU/scratch; I've already done this once and I
 391 can tell it, it is hard. Third, since Skolelinux is a standard
 392 platform, it is way easier to educate other IT people and even if the
 393 head IT is sick another one could pick up the task without too much
 394 hassle.</p>
 395
 396 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
 397 Edu?</strong></p>
 398
 399 <p>The only real problem I see is that it is a little too less
 400 flexible at client level. Debian stable is rocky and desirable, but
 401 there are many reasons that force for another choice. For example the
 402 need of new drivers for new PC, or the need for a specific OS for some
 403 devices that have specific software packages for another specific
 404 distribution (I have such a case for whiteboards that have only
 405 Ubuntu packages). Thus, I prepared compatibility packages educlient
 406 and eduroaming, hoping not to use them ;-)</p>
 407
 408 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 409
 410 <p>I have a Debian Stable PDC at school (Kerberos, NIS, NFS) with
 411 mixed Debian and Ubuntu clients. If you think that this triad
 412 combination is exotic... well I discovered right yesterday that
 413 <a href="http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/Perceus-Report.html">Perceus</a>
 414 has the same...</p>
 415
 416 <p>For myself I run Debian wheezy/sid, but this combination is good
 417 only I you have enough competence to fix stuff for yourself, if
 418 something breaks.  Daily I use texmacs, gnumeric, a little bit of R
 419 statistics, kmplot, and less frequently OpenOffice.org.</p>
 420
 421 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 422 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 423
 424 <P>I think that the only real argument that school managers "hear" is
 425 cost reduction. They don't give too much weight on quality, stability,
 426 just because they are normally not open to change.</p>
 427
 428 <p>Students adapts very quickly to GNU/Linux (and for them being able
 429 to switch between different OS is a plus value); teachers and managers
 430 don't.</p>
 431
 432 <p>We decided to move to Linux because students at our school have own
 433 laptop and we have the responsibility to keep the laptop ready to use;
 434 we were really unsatisfied with Microsoft since every Monday we had 20
 435 machine to fix for viral infections... With Linux this has been
 436 reduced to zero, since people installs almost only from official
 437 repositories. I think that our special needs brought us to Linux.
 438 Those who don't have such needs will hardly move to Linux.</p>
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 442
 443         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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 450     <div class="entry">
 451       <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>
 452       <div class="date">16th September 2012</div>
 453       <div class="body"><p>Veldig morsomt å se at
 454 <a href="http://naturvernforbundet.no/noa/">Naturvernforbundet Oslo og
 455 Akershus</a> bruker kart fra
 456 <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.no/">OpenStreetmap.org<a/> i
 457 <a href="http://naturvernforbundet.no/noa/bestill-markakalenderen-2013-article24039-1939.html">sine
 458 kalendere</a>.  Vidar Gundersen i kartgruppa
 459 <a href="http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/kart/2012-September/003696.html">forteller
 460 på den norske epostlisten</a> til prosjektet at hvert blad i
 461 kalenderen har et turforslag på baksiden, med kart fra OpenStreetmap.
 462 Tidligere kjøpte de visst kart fra kartverket, men nå slipper de
 463 det.</p>
 464
 465 <p>Denne nyheten synes jeg er fantastisk bra, og jeg håper de får
 466 følge av flere, slik at det potensielle og fryktede inntektstapet for
 467 kartverket ved frigjøring av kartdata blir mindre, og forhåpentligvis
 468 til slutt så lite at frykten for å frigjøre data overvinnes.</p>
 469 </div>
 470       <div class="tags">
 471
 472
 473         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>.
 474
 475
 476       </div>
 477     </div>
 478     <div class="padding"></div>
 479
 480     <div class="entry">
 481       <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>
 482       <div class="date">15th September 2012</div>
 483       <div class="body"><p>After the
 484 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_standardize_its_first_multimedia_codec__Opus.html">Opus
 485 codec made</a> it into <a href="http://www.ietf.org/">IETF</a> as
 486 <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716">RFC 6716</a>, I had a look
 487 to see if there is any activity in IETF to standardise a video codec
 488 too, and I was happy to discover that there is some activity in this
 489 area.  A non-"working group" mailing list
 490 <a href="https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/video-codec">video-codec</a>
 491 was
 492 <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
 493 formal working group should be formed.</p>
 494
 495 <p>I look forward to see how this plays out.  There is already
 496 <a href="http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/video-codec/current/msg00003.html">an
 497 email from someone</a> in the MPEG group at ISO asking people to
 498 participate in the ISO group.  Given how ISO failed with OOXML and given
 499 that it so far (as far as I can remember) only have produced
 500 multimedia formats requiring royalty payments, I suspect
 501 joining the ISO group would be a complete waste of time, but I am not
 502 involved in any codec work and my opinion will not matter much.</p>
 503
 504 <p>If one of my readers is involved with codec work, I hope she will
 505 join this work to standardise a royalty free video codec within
 506 IETF.</p>
 507 </div>
 508       <div class="tags">
 509
 510
 511         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>.
 512
 513
 514       </div>
 515     </div>
 516     <div class="padding"></div>
 517
 518     <div class="entry">
 519       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/IETF_standardize_its_first_multimedia_codec__Opus.html">IETF standardize its first multimedia codec: Opus</a></div>
 520       <div class="date">12th September 2012</div>
 521       <div class="body"><p>Yesterday, <a href="http://www.ietf.org/">IETF</a> announced the
 522 publication of of
 523 <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6716">RFC 6716, the Definition
 524 of the Opus Audio Codec</a>, a low latency, variable bandwidth, codec
 525 intended for both VoIP, film and music.  This is the first time, as
 526 far as I know, that IETF have standardized a multimedia codec.  In
 527 <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3533">RFC 3533</a>, IETF
 528 standardized the OGG container format, and it has proven to be a great
 529 royalty free container for audio, video and movies.  I hope IETF will
 530 continue to standardize more royalty free codeces, after ISO and MPEG
 531 have proven incapable of securing everyone equal rights to publish
 532 multimedia content on the Internet.</p>
 533
 534 <p>IETF require two interoperating independent implementations to
 535 ratify a standard, and have so far ensured to only standardize royalty
 536 free specifications.  Both are key factors to allow everyone (rich and
 537 poor), to compete on equal terms on the Internet.</p>
 538
 539 <p>Visit the <a href="http://opus-codec.org/">Opus project page</a> if
 540 you want to learn more about the solution.</p>
 541 </div>
 542       <div class="tags">
 543
 544
 545         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>.
 546
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 557 <h2>Archive</h2>
 558 <ul>
 559
 560 <li>2012
 561 <ul>
 562
 563 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/01/">January (7)</a></li>
 564
 565 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/02/">February (10)</a></li>
 566
 567 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/03/">March (17)</a></li>
 568
 569 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/04/">April (12)</a></li>
 570
 571 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/05/">May (12)</a></li>
 572
 573 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/06/">June (20)</a></li>
 574
 575 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/07/">July (17)</a></li>
 576
 577 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/08/">August (6)</a></li>
 578
 579 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/09/">September (9)</a></li>
 580
 581 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2012/10/">October (3)</a></li>
 582
 583 </ul></li>
 584
 585 <li>2011
 586 <ul>
 587
 588 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/01/">January (16)</a></li>
 589
 590 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/02/">February (6)</a></li>
 591
 592 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/03/">March (6)</a></li>
 593
 594 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/04/">April (7)</a></li>
 595
 596 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/05/">May (3)</a></li>
 597
 598 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/06/">June (2)</a></li>
 599
 600 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/07/">July (7)</a></li>
 601
 602 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/08/">August (6)</a></li>
 603
 604 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/09/">September (4)</a></li>
 605
 606 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 607
 608 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 609
 610 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2011/12/">December (1)</a></li>
 611
 612 </ul></li>
 613
 614 <li>2010
 615 <ul>
 616
 617 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/01/">January (2)</a></li>
 618
 619 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/02/">February (1)</a></li>
 620
 621 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/03/">March (3)</a></li>
 622
 623 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/04/">April (3)</a></li>
 624
 625 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/05/">May (9)</a></li>
 626
 627 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/06/">June (14)</a></li>
 628
 629 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/07/">July (12)</a></li>
 630
 631 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/08/">August (13)</a></li>
 632
 633 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/09/">September (7)</a></li>
 634
 635 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/10/">October (9)</a></li>
 636
 637 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/11/">November (13)</a></li>
 638
 639 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2010/12/">December (12)</a></li>
 640
 641 </ul></li>
 642
 643 <li>2009
 644 <ul>
 645
 646 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/01/">January (8)</a></li>
 647
 648 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/02/">February (8)</a></li>
 649
 650 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/03/">March (12)</a></li>
 651
 652 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/04/">April (10)</a></li>
 653
 654 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/05/">May (9)</a></li>
 655
 656 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/06/">June (3)</a></li>
 657
 658 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/07/">July (4)</a></li>
 659
 660 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/08/">August (3)</a></li>
 661
 662 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/09/">September (1)</a></li>
 663
 664 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/10/">October (2)</a></li>
 665
 666 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/11/">November (3)</a></li>
 667
 668 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2009/12/">December (3)</a></li>
 669
 670 </ul></li>
 671
 672 <li>2008
 673 <ul>
 674
 675 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
 676
 677 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/12/">December (7)</a></li>
 678
 679 </ul></li>
 680
 681 </ul>
 682
 683
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 690  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/amiga">amiga (1)</a></li>
 691
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 708  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/drivstoffpriser">drivstoffpriser (4)</a></li>
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 721
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 729
 730  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/multimedia">multimedia (25)</a></li>
 731
 732  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk (199)</a></li>
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 734  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/nuug">nuug (144)</a></li>
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 736  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn (4)</a></li>
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 738  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/open311">open311 (2)</a></li>
 739
 740  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett">opphavsrett (35)</a></li>
 741
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 743
 744  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/raid">raid (1)</a></li>
 745
 746  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/reprap">reprap (11)</a></li>
 747
 748  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rfid">rfid (2)</a></li>
 749
 750  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot (4)</a></li>
 751
 752  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rss">rss (1)</a></li>
 753
 754  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ruter">ruter (4)</a></li>
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 756  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/scraperwiki">scraperwiki (2)</a></li>
 757
 758  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (23)</a></li>
 759
 760  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (4)</a></li>
 761
 762  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (2)</a></li>
 763
 764  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (38)</a></li>
 765
 766  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (2)</a></li>
 767
 768  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (4)</a></li>
 769
 770  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (10)</a></li>
 771
 772  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (7)</a></li>
 773
 774  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (34)</a></li>
 775
 776  <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (3)</a></li>
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