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23 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/_Free_Culture__by__lessig___The_background_story_for_Creative_Commons___new_edition_available.html">"Free Culture" by @lessig - The background story for Creative Commons - new edition available
</a></div>
24 <div class=
"date">23rd October
2015</div>
25 <div class=
"body"><p><a href=
"http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html">Click
26 here to buy the book
</a>.
</p>
28 <p>In
2004, as the
<a href=
"https://creativecommons.org/">Creative Commons
29 movement
</a> gained momentum, its creator Lawrence Lessig wrote the
30 book
<a href=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Culture_(book)">Free
31 Culture
</a> to explain the problems with increasing copyright
32 regulation and suggest some solutions. I read the book back then and
33 was moved very by it. Reading the book inspired me and changed the
34 way I looked on copyright law, and I would love it if more people
35 would read it too.
</p>
37 <p>Because of this, I decided in the summer of
2012 to translate it to
38 Norwegian Bokmål and publish it for those of my friends and family
39 that prefer to read books in Norwegian. I translated the book using
40 docbook and a gettext PO file, and a byproduct of this process is a
41 new edition of the English original. I've been in touch with the
42 author during by work, and he said it was fine with him if I also
43 published an English version. So I decided to do so. Today, I made
45 <a href=
"http://www.lulu.com/shop/lawrence-lessig/free-culture/paperback/product-22402863.html">available
46 for sale on Lulu.com
</a>, for those interested in a paper book. This
49 <p align=
"center"><img align=
"center" src=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-10-23-free-culture-english-published-cover.png"/></p>
51 <p>The Norwegian Bokmål version will be available for purchase in a
52 few days. I also plan to publish a French version in a few weeks or
53 months, depending on the amount of people with knowledge of French to
54 join the translation project. So far there is only one active
55 person, but the French book is almost completely translated but
56 need some proof reading.
</p>
58 <p>The book is also available in PDF, ePub and MOBI formats from
59 <a href=
"https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">my
60 github project page
</a>. Note the ePub and MOBI versions have some
61 formatting problems I believe is due to bugs in the docbook tool
62 dbtoepub (Debian BTS issues
63 <a href=
"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795842">#
795842</a>
65 <a href=
"https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=796871">#
796871</a>),
66 but I have not taken the time to investigate. I recommend the PDF and
67 ePub version for now, as they seem to show up fine in the viewers I
70 <p>After the translation to Norwegian Bokmål was complete, I was able
71 to secure some sponsoring from
72 <a href=
"http://www.nuugfoundation.no/">the NUUG Foundation
</a> to
73 print the book. This is the reason their logo is located on the back
74 cover. I am very grateful for their contribution, and will use it to
75 give a copy of the Norwegian edition to members of the Norwegian
76 Parliament and other decision makers here in Norway.
</p>
81 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>.
86 <div class=
"padding"></div>
89 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/EU_domstolen_konkluderer_motsatt_av_Skatteetaten_n_r_det_gjelder_Bitcoin.html">EU-domstolen konkluderer motsatt av Skatteetaten når det gjelder Bitcoin
</a></div>
90 <div class=
"date">22nd October
2015</div>
91 <div class=
"body"><p>Bitcoin er i litt vinden i Norge for tiden, med
92 <a href=
"http://www.nrk.no/ytring/en-digital-robin-hood-1.12604681">kronikk
93 om bitcoin-overføringer på tvers av landegrensene
</A> hos NRK Ytring
95 <a href=
"https://tv.nrk.no/program/KOID25009815/kapital-bitcoin-en-digital-pengebinge">dokumentar
96 om bitcoin
</a> på NRK
2 i forgårs og i går. I den sammenhengen er det
97 spesielt hyggelig med en gladnyhet fra EU om Bitcoin.
</p>
99 <p>I dag konkluderte EU-domstolen at
100 <a href=
"http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?text=&docid=170305&pageIndex=0&doclang=en&mode=req&dir=&occ=first&part=1&cid=604079">Bitcoin-kjøp
101 fra Bitcoin-børser ikke er MVA-pliktig
</a> (sak C‑
264/
14). Fant
102 <a href=
"http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/22/us-bitcoin-tax-eu-idUSKCN0SG0X920151022">nyheten
103 først hos Reuters
</a>, etter tips fra innehaveren av
104 <a href=
"http://www.bitmynt.no/">Bitmynt
</a>. EU-domstolens avgjørelse
106 <a href=
"http://www.skatteetaten.no/no/Radgiver/Rettskilder/Uttalelser/Prinsipputtalelser/Bruk-av-bitcoins--skatte--og-avgiftsmessige-konsekvenser/">annonseringen
107 fra Skatteetaten i
2013</a>, der de konkluderte med at bitcoin er et
108 «formuesobjekter» som det skulle betales mva på ved kjøp og salg.
109 Dermed la Skatteetaten opp til dobbel MVA-betaling hvis en kjøpte noe
110 med Bitcoin fra Norge (først mva på kjøp av Bitcoin, deretter mva på
111 det en kjøper med Bitcoin). Jeg lurer på om denne avgjørelsen får
112 Skatteetaten til å bytte mening. Gleder meg til fortsettelsen.
</p>
117 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk
</a>.
122 <div class=
"padding"></div>
125 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lawrence_Lessig_interviewed_Edward_Snowden_a_year_ago.html">Lawrence Lessig interviewed Edward Snowden a year ago
</a></div>
126 <div class=
"date">19th October
2015</div>
127 <div class=
"body"><p>Last year,
<a href=
"https://lessig2016.us/">US president candidate
128 in the Democratic Party
</a> Lawrence interviewed Edward Snowden. The
129 one hour interview was
130 <a href=
"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_Sr96TFQQE">published by
131 Harvard Law School
2014-
10-
23 on Youtube
</a>, and the meeting took
132 place
2014-
10-
20.
</p>
134 <p>The questions are very good, and there is lots of useful
135 information to be learned and very interesting issues to think about
136 being raised. Please check it out.
</p>
138 <iframe width=
"560" height=
"315" src=
"https://www.youtube.com/embed/o_Sr96TFQQE" frameborder=
"0" allowfullscreen
></iframe>
140 <p>I find it especially interesting to hear again that Snowden did try
141 to bring up his reservations through the official channels without any
142 luck. It is in sharp contrast to the answers made
2013-
11-
06 by the
143 Norwegian prime minister Erna Solberg to the Norwegian Parliament,
144 <a href=
"https://tale.holderdeord.no/speeches/s131106/68">claiming
145 Snowden is no Whistle-Blower
</a> because he should have taken up his
146 concerns internally and using official channels. It make me sad
147 that this is the political leadership we have here in Norway.
</p>
152 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance
</a>.
157 <div class=
"padding"></div>
160 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_Story_of_Aaron_Swartz___Let_us_all_weep_.html">The Story of Aaron Swartz - Let us all weep!
</a></div>
161 <div class=
"date"> 8th October
2015</div>
162 <div class=
"body"><p>The movie "
<a href=
"http://www.takepart.com/internets-own-boy">The
163 Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz
</a>" is both inspiring
164 and depressing at the same time. The work of Aaron Swartz has
165 inspired me in my work, and I am grateful of all the improvements he
166 was able to initiate or complete. I wish I am able to do as much good
167 in my life as he did in his. Every minute of this 1:45 long movie is
168 inspiring in documenting how much impact a single person can have on
169 improving the society and this world. And it is depressing in
170 documenting how the law enforcement of USA (and other countries) is
171 corrupted to a point where they can push a bright kid to his death for
172 downloading too many scientific articles. Aaron is dead. Let us all
175 <p>The movie is also available on
176 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXr-
2hwTk58
">Youtube</a>. I
177 wish there were Norwegian subtitles available, so I could show it to
183 Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english
">english</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/opphavsrett
">opphavsrett</a>.
188 <div class="padding
"></div>
191 <div class="title
"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Alle_Stortingets_mobiltelefoner_kontrolleres_fra_USA___.html
">Alle Stortingets mobiltelefoner kontrolleres fra USA...</a></div>
192 <div class="date
"> 7th October 2015</div>
193 <div class="body
"><p>Jeg lot meg fascinere av
194 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/politikk/Stortinget-har-tilgang-til-a-fjernstyre-
600-mobiler-
8192692.html
">en
195 artikkel i Aftenposten</a> der det fortelles at «over 600 telefoner som
196 benyttes av stortingsrepresentanter, rådgivere og ansatte på
197 Stortinget, kan «fjernstyres» ved hjelp av
198 <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airwatch.androidagent
">programvaren
199 Airwatch</a>, et såkalte MDM-program (Mobile Device Managment)». Det
200 hele bagatelliseres av Stortingets IT-stab, men det er i hovedsak på
201 grunn av at journalisten ikke stiller de relevante spørsmålene. For
202 meg er det relevante spørsmålet hvem som har lovlig tilgang (i henhold
203 til lokal lovgiving, dvs. i hvert fall i Norge, Sverige, UK og USA)
204 til informasjon om og på telefonene, og hvor enkelt det er å skaffe
205 seg tilgang til hvor mobilene befinner seg og informasjon som befinner
206 seg på telefonene ved hjelp av utro tjenere, trusler, innbrudd og
207 andre ulovlige metoder.</p>
209 <p>Bruken av AirWatch betyr i realiteten at USAs etteretning og
210 politimyndigheter har full tilgang til stortingets mobiltelefoner,
211 inkludert posisjon og innhold, takket være
212 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act_of_1978_Amendments_Act_of_2008
">FISAAA-loven</a>
214 "<a href=
"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter">National
215 Security Letters
</a>" og det enkle faktum at selskapet
216 <a href="http://www.airwatch.com/
">AirWatch</a> er kontrollert av et
217 selskap i USA. I tillegg er det kjent at flere lands
218 etterretningstjenester kan lytte på trafikken når den passerer
221 <p>Jeg har bedt om mer informasjon
222 <a href="https://www.mimesbronn.no/request/saksnummer_for_saker_anganede_br
">fra
223 Stortinget om bruken av AirWatch</a> via Mimes brønn så får vi se hva
224 de har å fortelle om saken. Fant ingenting om 'airwatch' i
225 postjournalen til Stortinget, så jeg trenger hjelp før jeg kan be om
226 innsyn i konkrete dokumenter.</p>
228 <p>Oppdatering 2015-10-07: Jeg er blitt spurt hvorfor jeg antar at
229 AirWatch-agenten rapporterer til USA og ikke direkte til Stortingets
230 egen infrastruktur. Det stemmer at det er teknisk mulig å sette
231 opp mobiltelefonene til å rapportere til datamaskiner som eies av
232 Stortinget. Jeg antar det rapporteres til AirWatch sine sentrale
233 tjenester basert på det jeg leste fra beskrivelsen av
234 <a href="http://www.airwatch.com/solutions/mobile-device-management/
">Mobile
235 Device Management</A> på AirWatch sine egne nettsider, koblet med at
236 det brukes en standard app som kan hentes fra "app-butikkene" for å få
237 tilgang. Enten må app-en settes opp individuelt hos Stortinget, eller
238 så får den beskjed fra AirWatch i USA om hvor den skal koble seg opp.
239 I det første tilfellet vil den ikke rapportere direkte til USA, men
240 til programvare utviklet av AirWatch som kjører på en maskin under
241 Stortingets kontroll. Det er litt bedre, men fortsatt vil det være
242 umulig for Stortinget å være sikker på hva programvaren som tar imot
243 forbindelser gjør. Jeg ser fra beskrivelsen av
244 <a href=
"http://www.airwatch.com/differentiators/enterprise-integration/">Enterprice
245 Integration
</a> hos AirWatch at det er mulig å ha lokal installasjon,
246 og håper innsynsforespørsler mot Stortinget kan fortelle mer om
247 hvordan ting konkret fungerer der.
</p>
252 Tags:
<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>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance
</a>.
257 <div class=
"padding"></div>
260 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/French_Docbook_PDF_EPUB_MOBI_edition_of_the_Free_Culture_book.html">French Docbook/PDF/EPUB/MOBI edition of the Free Culture book
</a></div>
261 <div class=
"date"> 1st October
2015</div>
262 <div class=
"body"><p>As I wrap up the Norwegian version of
263 <a href=
"https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">Free
264 Culture
</a> book by Lawrence Lessig (still waiting for my final proof
265 reading copy to arrive in the mail), my great
266 <a href=
"http://dblatex.sourceforge.net/">dblatex
</a> helper and
267 developer of the dblatex docbook processor, Benoît Guillon, decided a
268 to try to create a French version of the book. He started with the
269 French translation available from the
270 <a href=
"http://www.wikilivres.ca/wiki/Culture_libre">Wikilivres wiki
271 pages
</a>, and wrote a program to convert it into a PO file, allowing
272 the translation to be integrated into the po4a based framework I use
273 to create the Norwegian translation from the English edition. We meet
274 on the
<a href=
"irc://irc.freenode.net/%23dblatex">#dblatex IRC
275 channel
</a> to discuss the work. If you want to help create a French
277 <a href=
"https://github.com/marsgui/free-culture-lessig">his git
278 repository
</a> and join us on IRC. If the French edition look good,
279 we might publish it as a paper book on lulu.com. A French version of
280 the drawings and the cover need to be provided for this to happen.
</p>
285 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>.
290 <div class=
"padding"></div>
293 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/The_life_and_death_of_a_laptop_battery.html">The life and death of a laptop battery
</a></div>
294 <div class=
"date">24th September
2015</div>
295 <div class=
"body"><p>When I get a new laptop, the battery life time at the start is OK.
296 But this do not last. The last few laptops gave me a feeling that
297 within a year, the life time is just a fraction of what it used to be,
298 and it slowly become painful to use the laptop without power connected
299 all the time. Because of this, when I got a new Thinkpad X230 laptop
300 about two years ago, I decided to monitor its battery state to have
301 more hard facts when the battery started to fail.
</p>
303 <img src=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-09-24-laptop-battery-graph.png"/>
305 <p>First I tried to find a sensible Debian package to record the
306 battery status, assuming that this must be a problem already handled
307 by someone else. I found
308 <a href=
"https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/battery-stats">battery-stats
</a>,
309 which collects statistics from the battery, but it was completely
310 broken. I sent a few suggestions to the maintainer, but decided to
311 write my own collector as a shell script while I waited for feedback
313 <a href=
"http://www.ifweassume.com/2013/08/the-de-evolution-of-my-laptop-battery.html">a
314 blog post about the battery development on a MacBook Air
</a> I also
316 <a href=
"https://github.com/jradavenport/batlog.git">batlog
</a>, not
317 available in Debian.
</p>
319 <p>I started my collector
2013-
07-
15, and it has been collecting
320 battery stats ever since. Now my
321 /var/log/hjemmenett-battery-status.log file contain around
115,
000
322 measurements, from the time the battery was working great until now,
323 when it is unable to charge above
7% of original capacity. My
324 collector shell script is quite simple and look like this:
</p>
329 # http://www.ifweassume.com/
2013/
08/the-de-evolution-of-my-laptop-battery.html
331 # http://blog.sleeplessbeastie.eu/
2013/
01/
02/debian-how-to-monitor-battery-capacity/
332 logfile=/var/log/hjemmenett-battery-status.log
334 files="manufacturer model_name technology serial_number \
335 energy_full energy_full_design energy_now cycle_count status"
337 if [ ! -e "$logfile" ] ; then
348 # Print complete message in one echo call, to avoid race condition
349 # when several log processes run in parallel.
350 msg=$(printf
"%s," $(date +%s); \
351 for f in $files; do \
352 printf
"%s," $(cat $f); \
357 cd /sys/class/power_supply
360 (cd $bat && log_battery
>> "$logfile")
364 <p>The script is called when the power management system detect a
365 change in the power status (power plug in or out), and when going into
366 and out of hibernation and suspend. In addition, it collect a value
367 every
10 minutes. This make it possible for me know when the battery
368 is discharging, charging and how the maximum charge change over time.
369 The code for the Debian package
370 <a href=
"https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/battery-status">is now
371 available on github
</a>.
</p>
373 <p>The collected log file look like this:
</p>
376 timestamp,manufacturer,model_name,technology,serial_number,energy_full,energy_full_design,energy_now,cycle_count,status,
377 1376591133,LGC,
45N1025,Li-ion,
974,
62800000,
62160000,
39050000,
0,Discharging,
379 1443090528,LGC,
45N1025,Li-ion,
974,
4900000,
62160000,
4900000,
0,Full,
380 1443090601,LGC,
45N1025,Li-ion,
974,
4900000,
62160000,
4900000,
0,Full,
383 <p>I wrote a small script to create a graph of the charge development
384 over time. This graph depicted above show the slow death of my laptop
387 <p>But why is this happening? Why are my laptop batteries always
388 dying in a year or two, while the batteries of space probes and
389 satellites keep working year after year. If we are to believe
390 <a href=
"http://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_lithium_based_batteries">Battery
391 University
</a>, the cause is me charging the battery whenever I have a
392 chance, and the fix is to not charge the Lithium-ion batteries to
100%
393 all the time, but to stay below
90% of full charge most of the time.
394 I've been told that the Tesla electric cars
395 <a href=
"http://my.teslamotors.com/de_CH/forum/forums/battery-charge-limit">limit
396 the charge of their batteries to
80%
</a>, with the option to charge to
397 100% when preparing for a longer trip (not that I would want a car
398 like Tesla where rights to privacy is abandoned, but that is another
399 story), which I guess is the option we should have for laptops on
402 <p>Is there a good and generic way with Linux to tell the battery to
403 stop charging at
80%, unless requested to charge to
100% once in
404 preparation for a longer trip? I found
405 <a href=
"http://askubuntu.com/questions/34452/how-can-i-limit-battery-charging-to-80-capacity">one
406 recipe on askubuntu for Ubuntu to limit charging on Thinkpad to
407 80%
</a>, but could not get it to work (kernel module refused to
410 <p>I wonder why the battery capacity was reported to be more than
100%
411 at the start. I also wonder why the "full capacity" increases some
412 times, and if it is possible to repeat the process to get the battery
413 back to design capacity. And I wonder if the discharge and charge
414 speed change over time, or if this stay the same. I did not yet try
415 to write a tool to calculate the derivative values of the battery
416 level, but suspect some interesting insights might be learned from
419 <p>Update
2015-
09-
24: I got a tip to install the packages
420 acpi-call-dkms and tlp (unfortunately missing in Debian stable)
421 packages instead of the tp-smapi-dkms package I had tried to use
422 initially, and use 'tlp setcharge
40 80' to change when charging start
423 and stop. I've done so now, but expect my existing battery is toast
424 and need to be replaced. The proposal is unfortunately Thinkpad
430 Tags:
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian
</a>,
<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>.
435 <div class=
"padding"></div>
438 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Book_cover_for_the_Free_Culture_book_finally_done.html">Book cover for the Free Culture book finally done
</a></div>
439 <div class=
"date"> 3rd September
2015</div>
440 <div class=
"body"><p>Creating a good looking book cover proved harder than I expected.
441 I wanted to create a cover looking similar to the original cover of
443 <a href=
"https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">Free
444 Culture
</a> book we are translating to Norwegian, and I wanted it in
445 vector format for high resolution printing. But my inkscape knowledge
446 were not nearly good enough to pull that off.
448 <p>But thanks to the great inkscape community, I was able to wrap up
449 the cover yesterday evening. I asked on the
450 <a href=
"irc://irc.freenode.net/%23inkscape">#inkscape IRC channel
</a>
451 on Freenode for help and clues, and Marc Jeanmougin (Mc-) volunteered
452 to try to recreate it based on the PDF of the cover from the HTML
453 version. Not only did he create a
454 <a href=
"https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/copy1.svg ">SVG document with
455 the original and his vector version side by side
</a>, he even provided
456 an
<a href=
"https://marc.jeanmougin.fr/share/out-1.ogv">instruction
457 video
</a> explaining how he did it
</a>. But the instruction video is
458 not easy to follow for an untrained inkscape user. The video is a
459 recording on how he did it, and he is obviously very experienced as
460 the menu selections are very quick and he mentioned on IRC that he did
461 use some keyboard shortcuts that can't be seen on the video, but it
462 give a good idea about the inkscape operations to use to create the
463 stripes with the embossed copyright sign in the center.
</p>
465 <p>I took his SVG file, copied the vector image and re-sized it to fit
466 on the cover I was drawing. I am happy with the end result, and the
467 current english version look like this:
</p>
469 <img src=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/2015-09-03-free-culture-cover.png" width=
"70%" align=
"center"/>
471 <p>I am not quite sure about the text on the back, but guess it will
472 do. I picked three quotes from the official site for the book, and
473 hope it will work to trigger the interest of potential readers. The
474 Norwegian cover will look the same, but with the texts and bar code
475 replaced with the Norwegian version.
</p>
477 <p>The book is very close to being ready for publication, and I expect
478 to upload the final draft to Lulu in the next few days and order a
479 final proof reading copy to verify that everything look like it should
480 before allowing everyone to order their own copy of Free Culture, in
481 English or Norwegian Bokmål. I'm waiting to give the the productive
482 proof readers a chance to complete their work.
</p>
487 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>.
492 <div class=
"padding"></div>
495 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/In_my_hand__a_pocket_book_edition_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_.html">In my hand, a pocket book edition of the Norwegian Free Culture book!
</a></div>
496 <div class=
"date">19th August
2015</div>
497 <div class=
"body"><p>Today, finally, my first printed draft edition of the Norwegian
498 translation of Free Culture I have been working on for the last few
499 years arrived in the mail. I had to fake a cover to get the interior
500 printed, and the exterior of the book look awful, but that is
501 irrelevant at this point. I asked for a printed pocket book version
502 to get an idea about the font sizes and paper format as well as how
503 good the figures and images look in print, but also to test what the
504 pocket book version would look like. After receiving the
500 page
505 pocket book, it became obvious to me that that pocket book size is too
506 small for this book. I believe the book is too thick, and several
507 tables and figures do not look good in the size they get with that
508 small page sizes. I believe I will go with the
5.5x8.5 inch size
509 instead. A surprise discovery from the paper version was how bad the
510 URLs look in print. They are very hard to read in the colophon page.
511 The URLs are red in the PDF, but light gray on paper. I need to
512 change the color of links somehow to look better. But there is a
513 printed book in my hand, and it feels great. :)
</p>
515 <p>Now I only need to fix the cover, wrap up the postscript with the
516 store behind the book, and collect the last corrections from the proof
517 readers before the book is ready for proper printing. Cover artists
518 willing to work for free and create a Creative Commons licensed vector
519 file looking similar to the original is most welcome, as my skills as
520 a graphics designer are mostly missing.
</p>
525 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>.
530 <div class=
"padding"></div>
533 <div class=
"title"><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/First_paper_version_of_the_Norwegian_Free_Culture_book_heading_my_way.html">First paper version of the Norwegian Free Culture book heading my way
</a></div>
534 <div class=
"date"> 9th August
2015</div>
535 <div class=
"body"><p>Typesetting a book is harder than I hoped. As the translation is
536 mostly done, and a volunteer proof reader was going to check the text
537 on paper, it was time this summer to focus on formatting my translated
538 <a href=
"http://www.docbook.org/">docbook
</a> based version of the
539 <a href=
"http://free-culture.cc/">Free Culture
</a> book by Lawrence
540 Lessig. I've been trying to get both docboox-xsl+fop and dblatex to
541 give me a good looking PDF, but in the end I went with dblatex, because
542 its Debian maintainer and upstream developer were responsive and very
543 helpful in solving my formatting challenges.
</p>
545 <p>Last night, I finally managed to create a PDF that no longer made
546 <a href=
"http://www.lulu.com/">Lulu.com
</a> complain after uploading,
547 and I ordered a text version of the book on paper. It is lacking a
548 proper book cover and is not tagged with the correct ISBN number, but
549 should give me an idea what the finished book will look like.
</p>
551 <p>Instead of using Lulu, I did consider printing the book using
552 <a href=
"http://www.createspace.com/">CreateSpace
</a>, but ended up
553 using Lulu because it had smaller book size options (CreateSpace seem
554 to lack pocket book with extended distribution). I looked for a
555 similar service in Norway, but have not seen anything so far. Please
556 let me know if I am missing out on something here.
</p>
558 <p>But I still struggle to decide the book size. Should I go for
559 pocket book (
4.25x6.875 inches /
10.8x17.5 cm) with
556 pages, Digest
560 (
5.5x8.5 inches /
14x21.6 cm) with
323 pages or US Trade (
6x8 inches /
561 15.3x22.9 cm) with
280 pages? Fewer pager give a cheaper book, and a
562 smaller book is easier to carry around. The test book I ordered was
563 pocket book sized, to give me an idea how well that fit in my hand,
564 but I suspect I will end up using a digest sized book in the end to
565 bring the prize down further.
</p>
567 <p>My biggest challenge at the moment is making nice cover art. My
568 inkscape skills are not yet up to the task of replicating the original
569 cover in SVG format. I also need to figure out what to write about
570 the book on the back (will most likely use the same text as the
571 description on web based book stores). I would love help with this,
572 if you are willing to license the art source and final version using
573 the same CC license as the book. My artistic skills are not really up
576 <p>I plan to publish the book in both English and Norwegian and on
577 paper, in PDF form as well as EPUB and MOBI format. The current
578 status can as usual be found on
579 <a href=
"https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig">github
</a>
580 in the archive/ directory. So far I have spent all time on making the
581 PDF version look good. Someone should probably do the same with the
582 dbtoepub generated e-book. Help is definitely needed here, as I
583 expect to run out of steem before I find time to improve the epub
586 <p>Please let me know via github if you find typos in the book or
587 discover translations that should be improved. The final proof
588 reading is being done right now, and I expect to publish the finished
589 result in a few months.
</p>
594 Tags:
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"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/docbook">docbook
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<a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english
</a>,
<a href=
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11)
</a></li>
902 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rfid">rfid (
3)
</a></li>
904 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/robot">robot (
9)
</a></li>
906 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/rss">rss (
1)
</a></li>
908 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/ruter">ruter (
4)
</a></li>
910 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/scraperwiki">scraperwiki (
2)
</a></li>
912 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sikkerhet">sikkerhet (
43)
</a></li>
914 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sitesummary">sitesummary (
4)
</a></li>
916 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/skepsis">skepsis (
4)
</a></li>
918 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/standard">standard (
48)
</a></li>
920 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stavekontroll">stavekontroll (
3)
</a></li>
922 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/stortinget">stortinget (
10)
</a></li>
924 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/surveillance">surveillance (
35)
</a></li>
926 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/sysadmin">sysadmin (
2)
</a></li>
928 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/usenix">usenix (
2)
</a></li>
930 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/valg">valg (
8)
</a></li>
932 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/video">video (
54)
</a></li>
934 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/vitenskap">vitenskap (
4)
</a></li>
936 <li><a href=
"http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web (
37)
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