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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/Norsk_utgave_av_Alaveteli___WhatDoTheyKnow_p__trappene.html">Norsk utgave av Alaveteli / WhatDoTheyKnow på trappene</a></div>
  24       <div class="date">16th March 2014</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Det offentlige Norge har mye kunnskap og informasjon.  Men hvordan
  26 kan en få tilgang til den på en enkel måte?  Takket være et lite
  27 knippe lover og tilhørende forskrifter, blant annet
  28 <a href="http://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2006-05-19-16">offentlighetsloven</a>,
  29 <a href="http://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/2003-05-09-31">miljøinformasjonsloven</a>
  30 og
  31 <a href="http://lovdata.no/dokument/NL/lov/1967-02-10/">forvaltningsloven</a>
  32 har en rett til å spørre det offentlige og få svar.  Men det finnes
  33 intet offentlig arkiv over hva andre har spurt om, og dermed risikerer en
  34 å måtte forstyrre myndighetene gang på gang for å få tak i samme
  35 informasjonen på nytt.  <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/">Britiske
  36 mySociety</a> har laget tjenesten
  37 <a href="http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/">WhatDoTheyKnow</a> som gjør
  38 noe med dette.  I Storbritannia blir WhatdoTheyKnow brukt i
  39 <a href="http://www.mysociety.org/2011/07/01/whatdotheyknows-share-of-central-government-foi-requests-q2-2011/">ca
  40 15% av alle innsynsforespørsler mot sentraladministrasjonen</a>.
  41 Prosjektet heter <a href="http://www.alaveteli.org/">Alaveteli</A>, og
  42 er takk i bruk en rekke steder etter at løsningen ble generalisert og
  43 gjort mulig å oversette.  Den hjelper borgerne med å be om innsyn,
  44 rådgir ved purringer og klager og lar alle se hvilke henvendelser som
  45 er sendt til det offentlige og hvilke svar som er kommet inn, i et
  46 søkpart arkiv.  Her i Norge holder vi i foreningen NUUG på å få opp en
  47 norsk utgave av Alaveteli, og her trenger vi din hjelp med
  48 oversettelsen.</p>
  49
  50 <p>Så langt er 76 % av Alaveteli oversatt til norsk bokmål, men vi
  51 skulle gjerne vært oppe i 100 % før lansering.  Oversettelsen gjøres
  52 på <a href="https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/alaveteli/">Transifex,
  53 der enhver som registrerer seg</a> og ber om tilgang til
  54 bokmålsoversettelsen får bidra.  Vi har satt opp en test av tjenesten
  55 (som ikke sender epost til det offentlige, kun til oss som holder på å
  56 sette opp tjenesten) på maskinen
  57 <a href="http://alaveteli-dev.nuug.no/">alaveteli-dev.nuug.no</a>, der
  58 en kan se hvordan de oversatte meldingen blir seende ut på nettsiden.
  59 Når tjenesten lanseres vil den hete
  60 <a href="http://www.mimesbrønn.no/">Mimes brønn</a>, etter
  61 visdomskilden som Odin måtte gi øyet sitt for å få drikke i.  Den
  62 nettsiden er er ennå ikke klar til bruk.</p>
  63
  64 <p>Hvis noen vil oversette til nynorsk også, så skal vi finne ut
  65 hvordan vi lager en flerspråklig tjeneste.  Men i første omgang er
  66 fokus på bokmålsoversettelsen, der vi selv har nok peiling til å ha
  67 fått oversatt 76%, men trenger hjelp for å komme helt i mål. :)</p>
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  72         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/offentlig innsyn">offentlig innsyn</a>.
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  80       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Freedombox_on_Dreamplug__Raspberry_Pi_and_virtual_x86_machine.html">Freedombox on Dreamplug, Raspberry Pi and virtual x86 machine</a></div>
  81       <div class="date">14th March 2014</div>
  82       <div class="body"><p>The <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox">Freedombox
  83 project</a> is working on providing the software and hardware for
  84 making it easy for non-technical people to host their data and
  85 communication at home, and being able to communicate with their
  86 friends and family encrypted and away from prying eyes.  It has been
  87 going on for a while, and is slowly progressing towards a new test
  88 release (0.2).</p>
  89
  90 <p>And what day could be better than the Pi day to announce that the
  91 new version will provide "hard drive" / SD card / USB stick images for
  92 Dreamplug, Raspberry Pi and VirtualBox (or any other virtualization
  93 system), and can also be installed using a Debian installer preseed
  94 file.  The Debian based Freedombox is now based on Debian Jessie,
  95 where most of the needed packages used are already present.  Only one,
  96 the freedombox-setup package, is missing.  To try to build your own
  97 boot image to test the current status, fetch the freedom-maker scripts
  98 and build using
  99 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/vmdebootstrap">vmdebootstrap</a>
 100 with a user with sudo access to become root:
 101
 102 <pre>
 103 git clone http://anonscm.debian.org/git/freedombox/freedom-maker.git \
 104   freedom-maker
 105 sudo apt-get install git vmdebootstrap mercurial python-docutils \
 106   mktorrent extlinux virtualbox qemu-user-static binfmt-support \
 107   u-boot-tools
 108 make -C freedom-maker dreamplug-image raspberry-image virtualbox-image
 109 </pre>
 110
 111 <p>Root access is needed to run debootstrap and mount loopback
 112 devices.  See the README for more details on the build. If you do not
 113 want all three images, trim the make line.  But note that thanks to <a
 114 href="https://bugs.debian.org/741407">a race condition in
 115 vmdebootstrap</a>, the build might fail without the patch to the
 116 kpartx call.</p>
 117
 118 <p>If you instead want to install using a Debian CD and the preseed
 119 method, boot a Debian Wheezy ISO and use this boot argument to load
 120 the preseed values:</p>
 121
 122 <pre>
 123 url=<a href="http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat">http://www.reinholdtsen.name/freedombox/preseed-jessie.dat</a>
 124 </pre>
 125
 126 <p>But note that due to <a href="https://bugs.debian.org/740673">a
 127 recently introduced bug in apt in Jessie</a>, the installer will
 128 currently hang while setting up APT sources.  Killing the
 129 '<tt>apt-cdrom ident</tt>' process when it hang a few times during the
 130 installation will get the installation going.  This affect all
 131 installations in Jessie, and I expect it will be fixed soon.</p>
 132
 133 Give it a go and let us know how it goes on the mailing list, and help
 134 us get the new release published. :) Please join us on
 135 <a href="irc://irc.debian.org:6667/%23freedombox">IRC (#freedombox on
 136 irc.debian.org)</a> and
 137 <a href="http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss">the
 138 mailing list</a> if you want to help make this vision come true.</p>
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 143         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>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/freedombox">freedombox</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>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/web">web</a>.
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 151       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/How_to_add_extra_storage_servers_in_Debian_Edu___Skolelinux.html">How to add extra storage servers in Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a></div>
 152       <div class="date">12th March 2014</div>
 153       <div class="body"><p>On larger sites, it is useful to use a dedicated storage server for
 154 storing user home directories and data.  The design for handling this
 155 in <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux</a>, is
 156 to update the automount rules in LDAP and let the automount daemon on
 157 the clients take care of the rest.  I was reminded about the need to
 158 document this better when one of the customers of
 159 <a href="http://www.slxdrift.no/">Skolelinux Drift AS</a>, where I am
 160 on the board of directors, asked about how to do this.  The steps to
 161 get this working are the following:</p>
 162
 163 <p><ol>
 164
 165 <li>Add new storage server in DNS.  I use nas-server.intern as the
 166 example host here.</li>
 167
 168 <li>Add automoun LDAP information about this server in LDAP, to allow
 169 all clients to automatically mount it on reqeust.</li>
 170
 171 <li>Add the relevant entries in tjener.intern:/etc/fstab, because
 172 tjener.intern do not use automount to avoid mounting loops.</li>
 173
 174 </ol></p>
 175
 176 <p>DNS entries are added in GOsa², and not described here.  Follow the
 177 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Wheezy/GettingStarted">instructions
 178 in the manual</a> (Machine Management with GOsa² in section Getting
 179 started).</p>
 180
 181 <p>Ensure that the NFS export points on the server are exported to the
 182 relevant subnets or machines:</p>
 183
 184 <p><blockquote><pre>
 185 root@tjener:~# showmount -e nas-server
 186 Export list for nas-server:
 187 /storage         10.0.0.0/8
 188 root@tjener:~#
 189 </pre></blockquote></p>
 190
 191 <p>Here everything on the backbone network is granted access to the
 192 /storage export.  With NFSv3 it is slightly better to limit it to
 193 netgroup membership or single IP addresses to have some limits on the
 194 NFS access.</p>
 195
 196 <p>The next step is to update LDAP.  This can not be done using GOsa²,
 197 because it lack a module for automount.  Instead, use ldapvi and add
 198 the required LDAP objects using an editor.</p>
 199
 200 <p><blockquote><pre>
 201 ldapvi --ldap-conf -ZD '(cn=admin)' -b ou=automount,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
 202 </pre></blockquote></p>
 203
 204 <p>When the editor show up, add the following LDAP objects at the
 205 bottom of the document.  The "/&" part in the last LDAP object is a
 206 wild card matching everything the nas-server exports, removing the
 207 need to list individual mount points in LDAP.</p>
 208
 209 <p><blockquote><pre>
 210 add cn=nas-server,ou=auto.skole,ou=automount,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
 211 objectClass: automount
 212 cn: nas-server
 213 automountInformation: -fstype=autofs --timeout=60 ldap:ou=auto.nas-server,ou=automount,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
 214
 215 add ou=auto.nas-server,ou=automount,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
 216 objectClass: top
 217 objectClass: automountMap
 218 ou: auto.nas-server
 219
 220 add cn=/,ou=auto.nas-server,ou=automount,dc=skole,dc=skolelinux,dc=no
 221 objectClass: automount
 222 cn: /
 223 automountInformation: -fstype=nfs,tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768,rw,intr,hard,nodev,nosuid,noatime nas-server.intern:/&
 224 </pre></blockquote></p>
 225
 226 <p>The last step to remember is to mount the relevant mount points in
 227 tjener.intern by adding them to /etc/fstab, creating the mount
 228 directories using mkdir and running "mount -a" to mount them.</p>
 229
 230 <p>When this is done, your users should be able to access the files on
 231 the storage server directly by just visiting the
 232 /tjener/nas-server/storage/ directory using any application on any
 233 workstation, LTSP client or LTSP server.</p>
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 238         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/ldap">ldap</a>.
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 246       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Hvordan_b_r_RFC_822_formattert_epost_lagres_i_en_NOARK5_database_.html">Hvordan bør RFC 822-formattert epost lagres i en NOARK5-database?</a></div>
 247       <div class="date"> 7th March 2014</div>
 248       <div class="body"><p>For noen uker siden ble NXCs fri programvarelisenserte
 249 NOARK5-løsning
 250 <a href="http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20140211-noark/">presentert hos
 251 NUUG</a> (video
 252 <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCb_dNS3MHQ">på youtube
 253 foreløbig</a>), og det fikk meg til å titte litt mer på NOARK5,
 254 standarden for arkivhåndtering i det offentlige Norge.  Jeg lurer på
 255 om denne kjernen kan være nyttig i et par av mine prosjekter, og for ett
 256 av dem er det mest aktuelt å lagre epost.  Jeg klarte ikke finne noen
 257 anbefaling om hvordan RFC 822-formattert epost (aka Internett-epost)
 258 burde lagres i NOARK5, selv om jeg vet at noen arkiver tar
 259 PDF-utskrift av eposten med sitt epostprogram og så arkiverer PDF-en
 260 (eller enda værre, tar papirutskrift og lagrer bildet av eposten som
 261 PDF i arkivet).</p>
 262
 263 <p>Det er ikke så mange formater som er akseptert av riksarkivet til
 264 langtidsoppbevaring av offentlige arkiver, og PDF og XML er de mest
 265 aktuelle i så måte.  Det slo meg at det måtte da finnes en eller annen
 266 egnet XML-representasjon og at det kanskje var enighet om hvilken som
 267 burde brukes, så jeg tok mot til meg og spurte
 268 <a href="http://samdok.com/">SAMDOK</a>, en gruppe tilknyttet
 269 arkivverket som ser ut til å jobbe med NOARK-samhandling, om de hadde
 270 noen anbefalinger:
 271
 272 <p><blockquote>
 273 <p>Hei.</p>
 274
 275 <p>Usikker på om dette er riktig forum å ta opp mitt spørsmål, men jeg
 276 lurer på om det er definert en anbefaling om hvordan RFC
 277 822-formatterte epost (aka vanlig Internet-epost) bør lages håndteres
 278 i NOARK5, slik at en bevarer all informasjon i eposten
 279 (f.eks. Received-linjer).  Finnes det en anbefalt XML-mapping ala den
 280 som beskrives på
 281 &lt;URL: <a href="https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=32074">https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=32074</a> &gt;?  Mitt
 282 mål er at det skal være mulig å lagre eposten i en NOARK5-kjerne og
 283 kunne få ut en identisk formattert kopi av opprinnelig epost ved
 284 behov.</p>
 285 </blockquote></p>
 286
 287 <p>Postmottaker hos SAMDOK mente spørsmålet heller burde stilles
 288 direkte til riksarkivet, og jeg fikk i dag svar derfra formulert av
 289 seniorrådgiver Geir Ivar Tungesvik:</p>
 290
 291 <p><blockquote>
 292 <p>Riksarkivet har ingen anbefalinger når det gjelder konvertering fra
 293 e-post til XML.  Det står arkivskaper fritt å eventuelt definere/bruke
 294 eget format.  Inklusive da - som det spørres om - et format der det er
 295 mulig å re-etablere e-post format ut fra XML-en.  XML (e-post)
 296 dokumenter må være referert i arkivstrukturen, og det må vedlegges et
 297 gyldig XML skjema (.xsd) for XML-filene. Arkivskaper står altså fritt
 298 til å gjøre hva de vil, bare det dokumenteres og det kan dannes et
 299 utrekk ved avlevering til depot.</p>
 300
 301 <p>De obligatoriske kravene i Noark 5 standarden må altså oppfylles -
 302 etter dialog med Riksarkivet i forbindelse med godkjenning. For
 303 offentlige arkiv er det særlig viktig med filene loependeJournal.xml
 304 og offentligJournal.xml. Private arkiv som vil forholde seg til Noark
 305 5 standarden er selvsagt frie til å bruke det som er relevant for dem
 306 av obligatoriske krav.</p>
 307 </blockquote></p>
 308
 309 <p>Det ser dermed ut for meg som om det er et lite behov for å
 310 standardisere XML-lagring av RFC-822-formatterte meldinger.  Noen som
 311 vet om god spesifikasjon i så måte?  I tillegg til den omtalt over,
 312 har jeg kommet over flere aktuelle beskrivelser (søk på "rfc 822
 313 xml", så finner du aktuelle alternativer).</p>
 314
 315 <ul>
 316
 317 <li><a href="http://www.openhealth.org/xmtp/">XML MIME Transformation
 318 protocol (XMTP)</a> fra OpenHealth, sist oppdatert 2001.</li>
 319
 320 <li><a href="https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-klyne-message-rfc822-xml-03">An
 321 XML format for mail and other messages</a> utkast fra IETF datert
 322 2001.</li>
 323
 324 <li><a href="http://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=32074">xMail:
 325 E-mail as XML</a> en artikkel fra 2003 som beskriver python-modulen
 326 rfc822 som gir ut XML-representasjon av en RFC 822-formattert epost.</li>
 327
 328 </ul>
 329
 330 <p>Finnes det andre og bedre spesifikasjoner for slik lagring?  Send
 331 meg en epost hvis du har innspill.</p>
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 335
 336         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>.
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 343     <div class="entry">
 344       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Lenker_for_2014_02_28.html">Lenker for 2014-02-28</a></div>
 345       <div class="date">28th February 2014</div>
 346       <div class="body"><p>Her er noen lenker til tekster jeg har satt pris på å lese de siste
 347 månedene.  Det er mye om varsleren Edward Snowden, som burde få all
 348 hjelp, støtte og beskyttelse Norge kan stille opp med for å ha satt
 349 totalitær overvåkning på sakskartet, men også endel annet
 350 tankevekkende og interessant.</p>
 351
 352 <ul>
 353
 354 <li>2013-12-21
 355 <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/12/21/nyheter/thomas_drake/nsa/overvakning/snowden/30925886/">-
 356 NSA tenker som Stasi</a> - Dagbladet.no</li>
 357
 358 <li>2013-12-19 <a href="http://www.dagensit.no/article2732734.ece">-
 359 Staten har ikke rett til å vite alt om deg</a> - DN.no</li>
 360
 361 <li>2013-12-21
 362 <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/12/21/nyheter/krig_og_konflikter/politikk/utenriks/30961126/">Nye
 363 mål for NSAs spionasje avslørt</a> - Dagbladet.no</li>
 364
 365 <li>2013-12-19
 366 <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/12/19/nyheter/nsa/usa/politikk/barack_obama/30918684/">«NSA
 367 bør fjernes fra sin makt til å samle inn metadata fra amerikanske
 368 telefonsamtaler»</a> - Dagbladet.no</li>
 369
 370 <li>2013-12-18
 371 <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/12/18/kultur/meninger/hovedkronikk/debatt/snowden/30901089/">Etterretning,
 372 overvåking, frihet og sikkerhet</a> - Dagbladet.no</li>
 373
 374 <li>2013-12-17
 375 <a href="http://www.nrk.no/verden/snowden-vil-ha-asyl-i-brasil-1.11423444">Snowden
 376 angriper USA i åpent brev</a> - nrk.no</li>
 377
 378 <li>2013-12-17
 379 <a href="http://www.digi.no/925820/rettslig-nederlag-for-etterretning">Rettslig
 380 nederlag for etterretning</a> - digi.no</li>
 381
 382 <li>2013-12-21
 383 <a href="http://www.dagbladet.no/2013/12/21/kultur/meninger/hovedkommentar/kommentar/etterretning/30963284/">Truende
 384 nedkjøling</a> - dagbladet.no</li>
 385
 386 <li>2013-12-20
 387 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/Matematikk-og-forstaelse-7411849.html">Matematikk
 388 og forståelse</a> - aftenposten.no</li>
 389
 390 <li>2013-10-20
 391 <a href="http://www.nrk.no/viten/ny-studie_sovn-reinser-hjernen-var-1.11306106">Vi
 392 søv for å reinse hjernen vår, ifølgje ny studie</a> - nrk.no</li>
 393
 394 <li>2013-12-11
 395 <a href="http://www.nrk.no/buskerud/julebaksten-i-vasken-1.11410033">Rotterace
 396 i kloakken</a> - nrk.no</li>
 397
 398 <li>2013-12-30
 399 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/Apne-brev-og-frie-tanker-7413734.html">Åpne
 400 brev og frie tanker</a> - aftenposten.no</li>
 401
 402 <li>2014-01-12
 403 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/Stopp-kunnskapsapartheidet-7428229.html">Stopp dagens kunnskapsapartheid!</a> - aftenposten.no</li>
 404
 405 <li>2014-01-09
 406 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/EU-rapport-Britisk-og-amerikansk-overvaking-ser-ut-til-a-vare-ulovlig-7428933.html">EU-rapport:
 407 Britisk og amerikansk overvåking ser ut til å være ulovlig</a> -
 408 aftenposten.no</li>
 409
 410 <li>2013-10-23 Professor Jan Arild Audestad
 411 <a href="http://www.digi.no/924008/advarer-mot-konspirasjonsteori">Advarer
 412 mot konspirasjonsteori</a> i digi.no og sier han ikke tror NSA kan
 413 avlytte mobiltelefoner, mens han noen måneder senere forteller:</li>
 414
 415 <li>2014-01-09
 416 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/--Vi-ble-presset-til-a-svekke-mobilsikkerheten-pa-80-tallet-7410467.html">-
 417 Vi ble presset til å svekke mobilsikkerheten på 80-tallet</a> -
 418 aftenposten.no</li>
 419
 420 <li>2014-02-12
 421 <a href="http://tv.nrk.no/program/koid20005814/et-moete-med-edward-snowden">Et
 422 møte med Edward Snowden</a> - intervju sendt av nrk, tilgjengelig til
 423 2015-01-31</li>
 424
 425 <li>2014-02-17
 426 <a href="http://politiken.dk/debat/profiler/jessteinpedersen/ECE2210356/litteraturredaktoeren-helle-thornings-tavshed-om-snowden-er-en-skandale/">Litteraturredaktøren:
 427 Helle Thornings tavshed om Snowden er en skandale</a> -
 428 politiken.dk</li>
 429
 430 <li>2014-02-21
 431 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/kronikker/Bra-a-ha-en-Storebror-7476734.html">Bra å ha en «Storebror»</a> - aftenposten.no</li>
 432
 433 <li>2014-02-28
 434 <a href="http://johnchristianelden.blogg.no/1393536806_narkotikasiktet_stort.html">"Narkotikasiktet
 435 Stortingsmann" - Spillet bak kulissene</a> - John Christian Eldens
 436 blogg</li>
 437
 438 <li>2014-02-28
 439 <a href="http://www.aftenposten.no/meninger/Heksejakt-pa-hasjbrukere-7486283.html">Heksejakt
 440 på hasjbrukere</a> - aftenposten.no</li>
 441
 442 </ul>
 443 </div>
 444       <div class="tags">
 445
 446
 447         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/lenker">lenker</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/norsk">norsk</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/personvern">personvern</a>.
 448
 449
 450       </div>
 451     </div>
 452     <div class="padding"></div>
 453
 454     <div class="entry">
 455       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_home_and_release_1_0_for_netgroup_and_innetgr__aka_ng_utils_.html">New home and release 1.0 for netgroup and innetgr (aka ng-utils)</a></div>
 456       <div class="date">22nd February 2014</div>
 457       <div class="body"><p>Many years ago, I wrote a GPL licensed version of the netgroup and
 458 innetgr tools, because I needed them in
 459 <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Skolelinux</a>.  I called the project
 460 ng-utils, and it has served me well.  I placed the project under the
 461 <a href="http://www.hungry.com/">Hungry Programmer</a> umbrella, and it was maintained in our CVS
 462 repository.  But many years ago, the CVS repository was dropped (lost,
 463 not migrated to new hardware, not sure), and the project have lacked a
 464 proper home since then.</p>
 465
 466 <p>Last summer, I had a look at the package and made a new release
 467 fixing a irritating crash bug, but was unable to store the changes in
 468 a proper source control system.  I applied for a project on
 469 <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/">Alioth</a>, but did not have time
 470 to follow up on it.  Until today. :)</p>
 471
 472 <p>After many hours of cleaning and migration, the ng-utils project
 473 now have a new home, and a git repository with the highlight of the
 474 history of the project.  I published all release tarballs and imported
 475 them into the git repository.  As the project is really stable and not
 476 expected to gain new features any time soon, I decided to make a new
 477 release and call it 1.0.  Visit the new project home on
 478 <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/projects/ng-utils/">https://alioth.debian.org/projects/ng-utils/</a>
 479 if you want to check it out.  The new version is also uploaded into
 480 <a href="http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/ng-utils.html">Debian Unstable</a>.</p>
 481 </div>
 482       <div class="tags">
 483
 484
 485         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>.
 486
 487
 488       </div>
 489     </div>
 490     <div class="padding"></div>
 491
 492     <div class="entry">
 493       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Testing_sysvinit_from_experimental_in_Debian_Hurd.html">Testing sysvinit from experimental in Debian Hurd</a></div>
 494       <div class="date"> 3rd February 2014</div>
 495       <div class="body"><p>A few days ago I decided to try to help the Hurd people to get
 496 their changes into sysvinit, to allow them to use the normal sysvinit
 497 boot system instead of their old one.  This follow up on the
 498 <a href="https://teythoon.cryptobitch.de//categories/gsoc.html">great
 499 Google Summer of Code work</a> done last summer by Justus Winter to
 500 get Debian on Hurd working more like Debian on Linux.  To get started,
 501 I downloaded a prebuilt hard disk image from
 502 <a href="http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz">http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian-cd/hurd-i386/current/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz</a>,
 503 and started it using virt-manager.</p>
 504
 505 <p>The first think I had to do after logging in (root without any
 506 password) was to get the network operational.  I followed
 507 <a href="https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install">the
 508 instructions on the Debian GNU/Hurd ports page</a> and ran these
 509 commands as root to get the machine to accept a IP address from the
 510 kvm internal DHCP server:</p>
 511
 512 <p><blockquote><pre>
 513 settrans -fgap /dev/netdde /hurd/netdde
 514 kill $(ps -ef|awk '/[p]finet/ { print $2}')
 515 kill $(ps -ef|awk '/[d]evnode/ { print $2}')
 516 dhclient /dev/eth0
 517 </pre></blockquote></p>
 518
 519 <p>After this, the machine had internet connectivity, and I could
 520 upgrade it and install the sysvinit packages from experimental and
 521 enable it as the default boot system in Hurd.</p>
 522
 523 <p>But before I did that, I set a password on the root user, as ssh is
 524 running on the machine it for ssh login to work a password need to be
 525 set.  Also, note that a bug somewhere in openssh on Hurd block
 526 compression from working.  Remember to turn that off on the client
 527 side.</p>
 528
 529 <p>Run these commands as root to upgrade and test the new sysvinit
 530 stuff:</p>
 531
 532 <p><blockquote><pre>
 533 cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/experimental.list &lt;&lt;EOF
 534 deb http://http.debian.net/debian/ experimental main
 535 EOF
 536 apt-get update
 537 apt-get dist-upgrade
 538 apt-get install -t experimental initscripts sysv-rc sysvinit \
 539     sysvinit-core sysvinit-utils
 540 update-alternatives --config runsystem
 541 </pre></blockquote></p>
 542
 543 <p>To reboot after switching boot system, you have to use
 544 <tt>reboot-hurd</tt> instead of just <tt>reboot</tt>, as there is not
 545 yet a sysvinit process able to receive the signals from the normal
 546 'reboot' command.  After switching to sysvinit as the boot system,
 547 upgrading every package and rebooting, the network come up with DHCP
 548 after boot as it should, and the settrans/pkill hack mentioned at the
 549 start is no longer needed.  But for some strange reason, there are no
 550 longer any login prompt in the virtual console, so I logged in using
 551 ssh instead.
 552
 553 <p>Note that there are some race conditions in Hurd making the boot
 554 fail some times.  No idea what the cause is, but hope the Hurd porters
 555 figure it out.  At least Justus said on IRC (#debian-hurd on
 556 irc.debian.org) that they are aware of the problem.  A way to reduce
 557 the impact is to upgrade to the Hurd packages built by Justus by
 558 adding this repository to the machine:</p>
 559
 560 <p><blockquote><pre>
 561 cat > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/hurd-ci.list &lt;&lt;EOF
 562 deb http://darnassus.sceen.net/~teythoon/hurd-ci/ sid main
 563 EOF
 564 </pre></blockquote></p>
 565
 566 <p>At the moment the prebuilt virtual machine get some packages from
 567 http://ftp.debian-ports.org/debian, because some of the packages in
 568 unstable do not yet include the required patches that are lingering in
 569 BTS.  This is the completely list of "unofficial" packages installed:</p>
 570
 571 <p><blockquote><pre>
 572 # aptitude search '?narrow(?version(CURRENT),?origin(Debian Ports))'
 573 i   emacs                   - GNU Emacs editor (metapackage)
 574 i   gdb                     - GNU Debugger
 575 i   hurd-recommended        - Miscellaneous translators
 576 i   isc-dhcp-client         - ISC DHCP client
 577 i   isc-dhcp-common         - common files used by all the isc-dhcp* packages
 578 i   libc-bin                - Embedded GNU C Library: Binaries
 579 i   libc-dev-bin            - Embedded GNU C Library: Development binaries
 580 i   libc0.3                 - Embedded GNU C Library: Shared libraries
 581 i A libc0.3-dbg             - Embedded GNU C Library: detached debugging symbols
 582 i   libc0.3-dev             - Embedded GNU C Library: Development Libraries and Hea
 583 i   multiarch-support       - Transitional package to ensure multiarch compatibilit
 584 i A x11-common              - X Window System (X.Org) infrastructure
 585 i   xorg                    - X.Org X Window System
 586 i A xserver-xorg            - X.Org X server
 587 i A xserver-xorg-input-all  - X.Org X server -- input driver metapackage
 588 #
 589 </pre></blockquote></p>
 590
 591 <p>All in all, testing hurd has been an interesting experience. :)
 592 X.org did not work out of the box and I never took the time to follow
 593 the porters instructions to fix it.  This time I was interested in the
 594 command line stuff.<p>
 595 </div>
 596       <div class="tags">
 597
 598
 599         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bootsystem">bootsystem</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
 600
 601
 602       </div>
 603     </div>
 604     <div class="padding"></div>
 605
 606     <div class="entry">
 607       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/A_fist_full_of_non_anonymous_Bitcoins.html">A fist full of non-anonymous Bitcoins</a></div>
 608       <div class="date">29th January 2014</div>
 609       <div class="body"><p>Bitcoin is a incredible use of peer to peer communication and
 610 encryption, allowing direct and immediate money transfer without any
 611 central control.  It is sometimes claimed to be ideal for illegal
 612 activity, which I believe is quite a long way from the truth.  At least
 613 I would not conduct illegal money transfers using a system where the
 614 details of every transaction are kept forever.  This point is
 615 investigated in
 616 <a href="https://www.usenix.org/publications/login">USENIX ;login:</a>
 617 from December 2013, in the article
 618 "<a href="https://www.usenix.org/system/files/login/articles/03_meiklejohn-online.pdf">A
 619 Fistful of Bitcoins - Characterizing Payments Among Men with No
 620 Names</a>" by Sarah Meiklejohn, Marjori Pomarole,Grant Jordan, Kirill
 621 Levchenko, Damon McCoy, Geoffrey M. Voelker, and Stefan Savage.  They
 622 analyse the transaction log in the Bitcoin system, using it to find
 623 addresses belong to individuals and organisations and follow the flow
 624 of money from both Bitcoin theft and trades on Silk Road to where the
 625 money end up.  This is how they wrap up their article:</p>
 626
 627 <p><blockquote>
 628 <p>"To demonstrate the usefulness of this type of analysis, we turned
 629 our attention to criminal activity. In the Bitcoin economy, criminal
 630 activity can appear in a number of forms, such as dealing drugs on
 631 Silk Road or simply stealing someone else’s bitcoins. We followed the
 632 flow of bitcoins out of Silk Road (in particular, from one notorious
 633 address) and from a number of highly publicized thefts to see whether
 634 we could track the bitcoins to known services. Although some of the
 635 thieves attempted to use sophisticated mixing techniques (or possibly
 636 mix services) to obscure the flow of bitcoins, for the most part
 637 tracking the bitcoins was quite straightforward, and we ultimately saw
 638 large quantities of bitcoins flow to a variety of exchanges directly
 639 from the point of theft (or the withdrawal from Silk Road).</p>
 640
 641 <p>As acknowledged above, following stolen bitcoins to the point at
 642 which they are deposited into an exchange does not in itself identify
 643 the thief; however, it does enable further de-anonymization in the
 644 case in which certain agencies can determine (through, for example,
 645 subpoena power) the real-world owner of the account into which the
 646 stolen bitcoins were deposited.  Because such exchanges seem to serve
 647 as chokepoints into and out of the Bitcoin economy (i.e., there are
 648 few alternative ways to cash out), we conclude that using Bitcoin for
 649 money laundering or other illicit purposes does not (at least at
 650 present) seem to be particularly attractive."</p>
 651 </blockquote><p>
 652
 653 <p>These researches are not the first to analyse the Bitcoin
 654 transaction log.  The 2011 paper
 655 "<a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/1107.4524">An Analysis of Anonymity in
 656 the Bitcoin System</A>" by Fergal Reid and Martin Harrigan is
 657 summarized like this:</p>
 658
 659 <p><blockquote>
 660 "Anonymity in Bitcoin, a peer-to-peer electronic currency system, is a
 661 complicated issue. Within the system, users are identified by
 662 public-keys only. An attacker wishing to de-anonymize its users will
 663 attempt to construct the one-to-many mapping between users and
 664 public-keys and associate information external to the system with the
 665 users. Bitcoin tries to prevent this attack by storing the mapping of
 666 a user to his or her public-keys on that user's node only and by
 667 allowing each user to generate as many public-keys as required. In
 668 this chapter we consider the topological structure of two networks
 669 derived from Bitcoin's public transaction history. We show that the
 670 two networks have a non-trivial topological structure, provide
 671 complementary views of the Bitcoin system and have implications for
 672 anonymity. We combine these structures with external information and
 673 techniques such as context discovery and flow analysis to investigate
 674 an alleged theft of Bitcoins, which, at the time of the theft, had a
 675 market value of approximately half a million U.S. dollars."
 676 </blockquote></p>
 677
 678 <p>I hope these references can help kill the urban myth that Bitcoin
 679 is anonymous.  It isn't really a good fit for illegal activites.  Use
 680 cash if you need to stay anonymous, at least until regular DNA
 681 sampling of notes and coins become the norm. :)</p>
 682
 683 <p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
 684 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
 685 <b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b&label=PetterReinholdtsenBlog">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>
 686 </div>
 687       <div class="tags">
 688
 689
 690         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/bitcoin">bitcoin</a>, <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>.
 691
 692
 693       </div>
 694     </div>
 695     <div class="padding"></div>
 696
 697     <div class="entry">
 698       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/New_chrpath_release_0_16.html">New chrpath release 0.16</a></div>
 699       <div class="date">14th January 2014</div>
 700       <div class="body"><p><a href="http://www.coverity.com/">Coverity</a> is a nice tool to
 701 find problems in C, C++ and Java code using static source code
 702 analysis.  It can detect a lot of different problems, and is very
 703 useful to find memory and locking bugs in the error handling part of
 704 the source.  The company behind it provide
 705 <a href="https://scan.coverity.com/">check of free software projects as
 706 a community service</a>, and many hundred free software projects are
 707 already checked.  A few days ago I decided to have a closer look at
 708 the Coverity system, and discovered that the
 709 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnash/">gnash</a> and
 710 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/ipmitool/">ipmitool</a>
 711 projects I am involved with was already registered.  But these are
 712 fairly big, and I would also like to have a small and easy project to
 713 check, and decided to <a href="http://scan.coverity.com/projects/1179">request
 714 checking of the chrpath project</a>.  It was
 715 added to the checker and discovered seven potential defects.  Six of
 716 these were real, mostly resource "leak" when the program detected an
 717 error.  Nothing serious, as the resources would be released a fraction
 718 of a second later when the program exited because of the error, but it
 719 is nice to do it right in case the source of the program some time in
 720 the future end up in a library.  Having fixed all defects and added
 721 <a href="https://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/chrpath-devel">a
 722 mailing list for the chrpath developers</a>, I decided it was time to
 723 publish a new release.  These are the release notes:</p>
 724
 725 <p>New in 0.16 released 2014-01-14:</p>
 726
 727 <ul>
 728
 729   <li>Fixed all minor bugs discovered by Coverity.</li>
 730   <li>Updated config.sub and config.guess from the GNU project.</li>
 731   <li>Mention new project mailing list in the documentation.</li>
 732
 733 </ul>
 734
 735 <p>You can
 736 <a href="https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=31052">download the
 737 new version 0.16 from alioth</a>.  Please let us know via the Alioth
 738 project if something is wrong with the new release.  The test suite
 739 did not discover any old errors, so if you find a new one, please also
 740 include a test suite check.</p>
 741 </div>
 742       <div class="tags">
 743
 744
 745         Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/chrpath">chrpath</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.
 746
 747
 748       </div>
 749     </div>
 750     <div class="padding"></div>
 751
 752     <div class="entry">
 753       <div class="title"><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Debian_Edu_interview__Dominik_George.html">Debian Edu interview: Dominik George</a></div>
 754       <div class="date">25th December 2013</div>
 755       <div class="body"><p>The <a href="http://www.skolelinux.org/">Debian Edu / Skolelinux
 756 project</a> consist of both newcomers and old timers, and this time I
 757 was able to get an interview with a newcomer in the project who showed
 758 up on the IRC channel a few weeks ago to let us know about his
 759 successful installation of Debian Edu Wheezy in his School.  Say hello
 760 to <a href="https://www.ohloh.net/accounts/Natureshadow">Dominik
 761 George</a>.</p>
 762
 763 <!-- http://www.dominik-george.de/images/foto.jpg -->
 764
 765 <p><strong>Who are you, and how do you spend your days?</strong></p>
 766
 767 <p>I am a 23 year-old student from Germany who has spent half of his
 768 life with open source. In "real life", I am, as already mentioned, a
 769 student in the fields of Computer Science, Electrical Engineering,
 770 Information Technologies and Anglistics. Due to my (only partially
 771 voluntary) huge engagement in the open source world, these things are
 772 a bit vacant right now however.</p>
 773
 774 <p>I also have been working as a project teacher at a Gymasnium
 775 (public school) for various years now. I took up that work some time
 776 around 2005 when still attending that school myself and have continued
 777 it until today. I also had been running the (kind of very advanced)
 778 network of that school together with a team of very interested and
 779 talented students in the age of 11 to 15 years, who took the chance to
 780 learn a lot about open source and networking before I left the school
 781 to help building another school's informational education concept from
 782 scratch.</p>
 783
 784 <p>That said, one might see me as a kind of "glue" between school kids
 785 and the elderly of teachers as well as between the open source
 786 ecosystem and the (even more complex) educational ecosystem.</p>
 787
 788 <p>When I am not busy with open source or education, I like Geocaching
 789 and cycling.</p>
 790
 791 <p><strong>How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux / Debian Edu
 792 project?</strong></p>
 793
 794 <p>I think that happened some time around 2009 when I first attended
 795 <a href="http://www.froscon.org">FrOSCon</a> and visited the project
 796 booth. I think I wasn't too interested back then because I used to
 797 have an attitude of disliking software that does too much stuff on its
 798 own. Maybe I was too inexperienced to realise the upsides of an
 799 "out-of-the-box" solution ;).</p>
 800
 801 <p>The first time I actively talked to Skolelinux people was at
 802 <a href="http://www.openrheinruhr.de">OpenRheinRuhr</a> 2011 when the
 803 BiscuIT project, a home-grewn software used by my school for various
 804 really cool things from timetables and class contact lists to lunch
 805 ordering, student ID card printing and project elections first got to
 806 a stage where it could have been published. I asked the Skolelinux
 807 guys running the booth if the project were interested in it and gave a
 808 small demonstration, but there wasn't any real feedback and the guys
 809 seemed rather uninterested.</p>
 810
 811 <p>After I left the school where I developed the software, it got
 812 mostly lost, but I am now reimplementing it for my new school. I have
 813 reusability and compatibility in mind, and I hop there will be a new
 814 basis for contributing it to the Skolelinux project ;)!</p>
 815
 816 <p><strong>What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 817 Edu?</strong></p>
 818
 819 <p>The most important advantage seems to be that it "just
 820 works". After overcoming some minor (but still very annoying) glitches
 821 in the installer, I got a fully functional, working school network,
 822 without the month-long hassle I experienced when setting all that up
 823 from scratch in earlier years. And above that, it rocked - I didn't
 824 have any real hardware at hand, because the school was just founded
 825 and has no money whatsoever, so I installed a combined server (main
 826 server, terminal services and workstation) in a VM on my personal
 827 notebook, bridging the LTSP network interface to the ethernet port,
 828 and then PXE-booted the Windows notebooks that were lying around from
 829 it. I could use 8 clients without any performance issues, by using a
 830 tiny little VM on a tiny little notebook. I think that's enough to say
 831 that it rocks!</p>
 832
 833 <p>Secondly, there are marketing reasons. Life's bad, and so no
 834 politician will ever permit a setup described as "Debian, an universal
 835 operating system, with some really cool educational tools" while they
 836 will be jsut fine with "Skolelinux, a single-purpose solution for your
 837 school network", even if both turn out to be the very same thing (yes,
 838 this is unfair towards the Skolelinux project, and must not be taken
 839 too seriously - you get the idea, anyway).</p>
 840
 841 <p><strong>What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux / Debian
 842 Edu?</strong></p>
 843
 844 <p>I have not been involved with Skolelinux long enough to really
 845 answer this question in a fair way. Thus, please allow me to put it in
 846 other words: "What do you expect from Skolelinux to keep liking it?" I
 847 can list a few points about that:</p>
 848
 849 <ul>
 850
 851  <li>always strive to get all things integrated into Debian upstream
 852  <li>be open to discussion about changes and the like, even with newcomers
 853  <li>be helpful at being helpful ;)
 854
 855 </ul>
 856
 857 <p>I'm really sorry I cannot say much more about that :(!</p>
 858
 859 <p><strong>Which free software do you use daily?</strong></p>
 860
 861 <p>First of all, all software I use is free and open. I have abandoned
 862 all non-free software (except for firmware on my darned phone) this
 863 year.</p>
 864
 865 <p>I run Debian GNU/Linux on all PC systems I use. On that, I mostly
 866 run text tools. I use
 867 <a href="https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm">mksh</a> as shell,
 868 <a href="https://www.mirbsd.org/jupp.htm">jupp</a> as very advanced
 869 text editor (I even got the developer to help me write a script/macro
 870 based full-featured student management software with the two),
 871 <a href="http://mcabber.com/">mcabber</a> for XMPP and
 872 <a href="http://www.irssi.org/">irssi</a> for IRC. For that overly
 873 coloured world called the WWW, I use
 874 <a href="https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/">Iceweasel
 875 (Firefox)</a>. Oh, and <a href="http://www.mutt.org/">mutt</a> for
 876 e-mail.</p>
 877
 878 <p>However, while I am personally aware of the fact that text tools
 879 are more efficient and powerful than anything else, I also use (or at
 880 least operate) some tools that are suitable to bring open source to
 881 kids. One of these things is <a href="http://jappix.org/">Jappix</a>,
 882 which I already introduced to some kids even before they got aware of
 883 Facebook, making them see for themselves that they do not need
 884 Facebook now ;).</p>
 885
 886 <p><strong>Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
 887 get schools to use free software?</strong></p>
 888
 889 <p>Well, that's a two-sided thing. One side is what I believe, and one
 890 side is what I have experienced.</p>
 891
 892 <p>I believe that the right strategy is showing them the benefits. But
 893 that won't work out as long as the acceptance of free alternatives
 894 grows globally. What I mean is that if all the kids are almost forced
 895 to use Windows, Facebook, Skype, you name it at home, they will not
 896 see why they would want to use alternatives at school. I have seen
 897 students take seat in front of a fully-functional, modern Debian
 898 desktop that could do anything their Windows at home could do, and
 899 they jsut refused to use it because "Linux sucks". It is something
 900 that makes the council of our city spend around 600000 € to buy
 901 software - not including hardware, mind you - for operating school
 902 networks, and for installing a system that, as has been proved, does
 903 not work. For those of you readers who are good at maths, have you
 904 already found out how many lives could have been saved with that money
 905 if we had instead used it to bring education to parts of the world
 906 that need it? I have, and found it to be nothing less dramatic than
 907 plain criminal.</p>
 908
 909 <p>That said, the only feasible way appears to be the bottom up
 910 method. We have to bring free software to kids and parents. I have
 911 founded an association named
 912 <a href="https://www.teckids.org">Teckids</a> here in Germany that does
 913 just that. We organise several events for kids and adolescents in the
 914 area of free and open source software, for example the
 915 <a href="http://kids.froscon.org">FrogLabs</a>, which share staff with
 916 Teckids and are the youth programme of
 917 <a href="http://www.froscon.org">the Free and Open Source Software
 918 Conference (FrOSCon)</a>. We do a lot more than most other conferences
 919 - this year, we first offered the FrogLabs as a holiday camp for kids
 920 aged 10 to 16. It was a huge success, with approx. 30 kids taking part
 921 and learning with and about free software through a whole weekend. All
 922 of us had a lot of fun, and the results were really exciting.</p>
 923
 924 <p>Apart from that, we are preparing a campaign that is supposed to bring
 925 the message of free alternatives to stuff kids use every day to them and
 926 their parents, e.g. the use of Jabber / Jappix instead of Facebook and
 927 Skype. To make that possible, we are planning to get together a team of
 928 clever kids who understand very well what their peers need and can bring
 929 it across to them. So we will have a peer-driven network of adolescents
 930 who teach each other and collect feedback from the community of minors.
 931 We then take that feedback and our own experience to work closely with
 932 open source projects, such as Skolelinux or Jappix, at improving their
 933 software in a way that makes it more and more attractive for the target
 934 group. At least I hope that we will have good cooperation with
 935 Skolelinux in the future ;)!</p>
 936
 937 <p>So in conclusion, what I believe is that, if it weren't for the world
 938 being so bad, it should be very clear to the political decision makers
 939 that the only way to go nowadays is free software for various reasons,
 940 but I have learnt that the only way that seems to work is bottom up.</p>
 941
 942 <!--
 943
 944 >  * Who should be interviewed with this questions in the future?
 945
 946 That's probably the hardest question of them all, as I do not know the
 947 community. However, I would be willing to do the following:
 948
 949  <li>Run an interview with a German headteacher who is very open to
 950    free software, and also prefers it, but cannot really use it because
 951    of the decision makers above;
 952  <li>Run interviews with some kids, both with and without previous
 953    knowledge about free software
 954
 955 If that is wanted, just let me know ;).
 956
 957 -->
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 980 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2014/01/">January (2)</a></li>
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 987
 988 <li>2013
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1017 <li>2012
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1131 </ul></li>
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1133 <li>2008
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1135
1136 <li><a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/archive/2008/11/">November (5)</a></li>
1137
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