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                <title>Petter Reinholdtsen</title>
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                <title>NUUGs spørreundersøkelse for 2012 endelig åpnet</title>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 10 Oct 2012 23:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Etter flere års pause fikk vi i NUUG endelig i dag
&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/interesserte/2012-October/000505.html&quot;&gt;annonsert
spørreundersøkelse&lt;/a&gt; for medlemmer og likesinnede personer.  Siste
undersøkelse var i 2009, så det blir interessant å se hvordan svarene
har endret seg siden da.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Alle kan delta.
&lt;a href=&quot;https://nettskjema.uio.no/answer/45826.html&quot;&gt;Skjemaet&lt;/a&gt; har
har 27 spørsmål og vil ta om lag fem minutt å fylle ut.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Må kommuner journalføre og svare på henvendelser fra innbyggerne?</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 8 Oct 2012 20:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Et av grunnlagene for
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fiksgatami.no/&quot;&gt;FiksGataMi&lt;/a&gt; er at det offentlige
er underlagt forvaltningsloven og må følge god forvaltningsskikk,
hvilket for FiksGataMi betyr at de må ta imot henvendelser fra
innbyggerne og svare på dem innen 30 dager eller sende den videre og
orientere innbyggeren om dette hvis de mener henvendelsen er
feilsendt.  Det har vist seg at dette er ukjent for endel offentlige
etater, og det var derfor interessant å se en artikkel i Bladet
Vesterålen om at
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.blv.no/lokalsider/lodingen/article6165681.ece&quot;&gt;Lødingen
kommune tiltrekker seg oppmerksomheten fra sivilombudsmannen for å ha
nektet å svare på en skriftlig henvendelse (epost) fra en
innbygger&lt;/a&gt;.  Ikke bare det, kommunen har latt være å journalføre
henvendelsen.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Slo opp saken i postjournalen til Sivilombudsmannen, og den har
fått saksnummer 2012/1638 der.  Så langt er det journalført fem brev i
saken hos Sivilombudsmannen (dokumentdato, inn/ut, dokumenttittel og
journal-ID):

&lt;table&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-07-05&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Inn&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Sak om manglende svar fra Lødingen kmmune (2012/13059)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-07-25&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Ut&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Foreleggelse - manglende svar fra Lødingen kommune (2012/13052)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-07-27&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Inn&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Foreleggelse - Manglende svar fra Lødningen kommune - Foreløpig svar (2012/14432)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-07-30&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Ut&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Vedrørnede utsatt frist - Manglende svar fra Lødingen kommune (2012/14445)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;2012-09-24&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Ut&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td&gt;Påminnelse - Manglende svar fra Lødingen kommune (2012/17986)&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
&lt;/table&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Det blir interessant å følge denne saken videre.  Jeg har ikke
rukket be om innsyn, men regner med at jeg tar opp tråden når den
nærmer seg en konklusjon.  Jeg håper konklusjonen blir at kommunen
også må svare på henvendelser fra folk de ikke ønsker å ha kontakt
med.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Why is your local library collecting the &quot;wrong&quot; computer books?</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Why_is_your_local_library_collecting_the__wrong__computer_books_.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Wed, 3 Oct 2012 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I just read the blog post from Tim Retout
&lt;a href=&quot;http://retout.co.uk/blog/2012/10/02/the-library-challenge&quot;&gt;about
the computer science book collection available in his local
library&lt;/a&gt;, and just wanted to share my comment on his theory about
computer books becoming obsolete so soon.  That is part of the reason
why the selection is so sad in almost any local library (it is in mine
too), but I believe the major contributing factor is that the people
buying books to the library have no way to know a good and future
computer classic from trash.  And they need to know which one will
become a classic in the future, as they would normally buy one of the
recently published books.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;During my university years, I worked for a while at the university
library, and even there the person in charge of buying computer
related books (and in fact any natural science related book), did not
know enough about computers to make a good educated guess.  Once, just
before Christmas, they had some leftover money on the book budget and
I was asked if I could pick out a lot of computer books in the
university book store, for the library to buy for their collection.  I
had a great time picking all the books I dreamt of buying and reading,
and the books I knew were classics (like most of the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Richard_Stevens&quot;&gt;Stevens
collection&lt;/a&gt;).  I picked several of the generic O&#39;Reilly books (ie
documenting protocols, formats and systems, not specific versions of
products) and stayed away from the &#39;teach yourself X in N days&#39; class.
I had a great time, and probably picked out more than a hundred books
for the library that evening.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The sad fact is that there is no way a overworked librarian is
going to know that for example
&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Programming&quot;&gt;The
Practice of Programming&lt;/a&gt; is a must-have in any computer library,
and they will most of the time end up picking the wrong books to buy.
Perhaps you can help your local library make better choices by giving
the suggestions for books to get?  I know they would love to hear from
you, even if their budget might block them from getting your favourite
book right away.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Ny utgave (v2.1) av den frie norske stavekontrollen gitt ut</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 2 Oct 2012 09:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I helga fikk jeg endelig pakket sammen en ny versjon av den norske
stavekontrollen, og gikk ut versjon 2.1 etter at det var gått fire og
et halvt år siden sist.  I dag fikk vi sendt ut annonseringen.  Her er
det vi sendte ut:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Oslo, 2012-10-02&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pressemelding: Ny utgave av norsk stavekontroll med
synonymordliste&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Mer enn fire år etter at forrige utgave av den frie norske
stavekontrollen ble utgitt, er en ny og forbedret versjon klar. Dette er
noe utviklerne er veldig glade for.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Den største endringen er at byggesystemet for stavekontrollen er
skrevet om til å akseptere ord med bindestrek (f.eks. «e-post»). Litt
over 10.000 slike ordformer er lagt til i orddatabasen. I tillegg er
det kommet en del nye ord og rettelser rapportert inn av de frivillige
som gjennomfører korrektur av orddatabasen i prosjektet. For å få
fortgang i dette korrekturarbeidet er det fint med flere frivillige
som kan bidra i prosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
 - En god og fritt tilgjengelig stavekontroll er en viktig byggestein
   for å fremme bruken av korrekt norsk språk, sier prosjektdeltager
   Petter Reinholdtsen.
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Takket være samarbeidet med synonymordlisteprosjektet er
synonymordlista for bokmål tilgjengelig sammen med ordlista for bokmål
og nynorsk. En synonymordliste for nynorsk er også med, men den er på
prøvestadiet og meget liten.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Stavekontrollpakken og synonymordlistene brukes i
LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org, Koffice, Mozilla Thunderbird, Firefox og
en rekke andre programmer, og på både Windows, Mac OS X, Linux og
BSD.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Det hele utgis under den frie lisensen GPL og kan fritt lastes ned
fra prosjektsidene på
&lt;a href=&quot;http://no.speling.org&quot;&gt;no.speling.org&lt;/a&gt;. Ferdige pakker for
LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org er også tilgjengelige fra samme sted.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Det norske stavekontrollprosjektet er i kontakt med lignende
prosjekter for blant annet å forbedre stavekontrollteknologien, å
utveksle verktøy for vedlikehold av orddatabasen og å få tilgang til
relevante datasett. Et av disse prosjektene er et separat prosjekt ved
Sametinget som er i gang med å utvikle samisk stavekontroll for blant
annet Microsoft Word og OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Et søsterprosjekt for å lage grammatikk-kontroll for
LibreOffice/OpenOffice.org er igangsatt, men har ennå ikke kommet
langt nok til å brukes. Frivillige til å bidra i dette prosjektet er
også svært velkomne.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Kontaktperson&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
Axel Bojer, prosjektdeltager
&lt;br&gt;E-post: fri_programvare (at) bojer.no
&lt;br&gt;Tlf: +47 954 32 417
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Referanser&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Det frie norske stavekontrollprosjektet for bokmål og nynorsk:
    &lt;a href=&quot;http://no.speling.org&quot;&gt;http://no.speling.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Samiske korrekturverktøy:
    &lt;a href=&quot;http://divvun.no/&quot;&gt;http://divvun.no/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Ordlistene fra Norsk ordbank:
    &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edd.uio.no/prosjekt/ordbanken/&quot;&gt;http://www.edd.uio.no/prosjekt/ordbanken/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Last ned ordlistene:
    &lt;a href=&quot;http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30577&quot;&gt;http://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30577&lt;/a&gt;
    (PS: no_NO-pack2 for OOo 2.x))&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Fra NEWS-fila i kildekodepakken&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Release 2.1 (2012-09-30)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Switch to new version scheme. Make new version 2.1, not 2.0.11. We do not
    release often enough to justify three digits.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Switch build rules to build OOo v2 thesaurus files, as the v1 build rules
    no longer work. This require the libmythes-dev package on Debian.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Introduce new Makefile variables hyphendir and thesdir to make it easier to
    control where to install these.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Change script used to import from no.speling.org, to load new word
    boundaries if at least two people believed the boundaries was correct.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Added word boundaries for several words (around 500 words) using the
    updated script.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Imported thesarus for bokmål from synonymer.merg.net.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Rewrote build rules to use = instead of - as combined word marker, thus
    allowing words like e-post.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;li&gt;Imported a lot (around 10k words) of new words with dash (-) in them from
    no.speling.org now that it is handled by the build system.&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
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                <title>NUUGs høringsuttalelse til DIFIs forslag om å kaste ut ODF fra statens standardkatalog</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUGs_h_ringsuttalelse_til_DIFIs_forslag_om___kaste_ut_ODF_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 1 Oct 2012 08:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Som jeg
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/DIFI_foresl_r___kaste_ut_ODF_og_ta_inn_OOXML_fra_statens_standardkatalog.html&quot;&gt;skrev
i juni&lt;/a&gt; har DIFI foreslått å fjerne krav om å bruke ODF til
utveksling av redigerbare dokumenter med det offentlige, og
derigjennom tvinge innbyggerne til å forholde seg til formatene til MS
Office når en kommuniserer med det offentlige.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I går kveld fikk vi i &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt;
fullført vår høringsuttalelse og sendt den inn til DIFI.  Du finner
&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/201209-forskrift-standardkatalog&quot;&gt;uttalelsen
på wikien&lt;/a&gt;.  Ta en titt.  Fristen for å sende inn uttalelse var i
går søndag, men en får kanskje sitt innspill med hvis en sender i
dag.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Etterprøvbar kunnskap under press, alle mann til pumpene!</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Etterpr_vbar_kunnskap_under_press__alle_mann_til_pumpene_.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 21:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg har sterk tro på vitenskap, som er et annet navn på
etterprøvbar kunnskap, som metode for å sikre et velfungerende
samfunn.  Eller som en fantastisk reklamekampanje i England formulerte
det, &lt;a href=&quot;http://old.richarddawkins.net/articles/3567&quot;&gt;vitenskap
flyr deg til månen, religion flyr deg inn i bygninger&lt;/a&gt;.  Men den
vitenskapelige metode trenger folk med kunnskap, evne og vilje til å
gjøre sitt beste, og settes under press av et samfunn som ikke akkurat
belønner slike egenskaper.  Her er noen skremmende og oppmuntrende
lenker relatert jeg anbefaler alle å lese:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;ul&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/sep/21/drugs-industry-scandal-ben-goldacre&quot;&gt;The
drugs don&#39;t work: a modern medical scandal&lt;/a&gt; - Ben Goldacre i The Guardian
2012-09-21&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dagbladet.no/2012/09/22/kultur/debatt/debattinnlegg/utdanning/realfag/23535203/&quot;&gt;Norsk
skole har ikke realfag&lt;/a&gt; - kronikk av Hege Tunstad i Dagbladet
2012-09-22, basert på
&lt;a href=&quot;http://hegetunstad.wordpress.com/2012/09/19/norsk-skole-har-ikke-realfag/&quot;&gt;en bloggpost 2012-09-19&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tjomlid.com/2012/09/22/folkeopplysningen-alt-du-trenger-a-vite-om-homeopati/&quot;&gt;Folkeopplysningen:
  Alt du trenger å vite om homeopati!&lt;/a&gt; - bloggpost av Gunnar R. Tjomlid
  2012-09-22.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Ingen tvil om at alle gode krefter må jobbe sammen for å sikre at
vi vet hvor vi skal fly.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Seventy percent done with Norwegian docbook version of Free Culture</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2012 09:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Since this summer, I have worked in my spare time on a Norwegian &lt;a
href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; version of the 2004 book &lt;a
href=&quot;http://free-culture.cc/&quot;&gt;Free Culture&lt;/a&gt; by Lawrence Lessig.
The reason is that this book is a great primer on what problems exist
in the current copyright laws, and I want it to be available also for
those that are reluctant do read an English book.

When I started, I 
&lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Dugnad_for___sende_norsk_versjon_av_Free_Culture_til_stortingets_representanter_.html&quot;&gt;called
for volunteers&lt;/a&gt; to help me, but too few have volunteered so far,
and progress is a bit slow.  Anyway, today I broken the 70 percent
mark for the first rough translation.  At the moment, less than 700
strings (paragraphs, index terms, titles) are left to translate.  With
my current progress of 10-20 strings per day, it will take a while to
complete the translation.  This graph show the updated progress:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;img width=&quot;80%&quot; align=&quot;center&quot; src=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/raw/master/progress.png&quot;&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Progress have slowed down lately due to family and work
commitments.  If you want to help, please get in touch, and check out
the project files currently available from
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig&quot;&gt;github&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you are curious what the translated book currently look like,
the updated
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.pdf?raw=true&quot;&gt;PDF&lt;/a&gt;
and
&lt;a href=&quot;https://github.com/petterreinholdtsen/free-culture-lessig/blob/master/archive/freeculture.nb.epub?raw=true&quot;&gt;EPUB&lt;/a&gt;
are published on github.  The HTML version is published as well, but
github hand it out with MIME type text/plain, confusing browsers, so I
saw no point in linking to that version.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Vitenskaplig metode i politikken?</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Vitenskaplig_metode_i_politikken_.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 20:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Jeg ble for noen dager siden tipset om en rapport utarbeidet av
Cabinet Office i England ved navn
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/test-learn-adapt-developing-public-policy-randomised-controlled-trials&quot;&gt;Test,
Learn, Adapt: Developing Public Policy with Randomised Controlled
Trials&lt;/a&gt;, skrevet av blant annet Ben Goldacre (som jeg først ble
klar over da han holdt et veldig interessant TED-foredrag med tittel
&lt;a href=&quot;http://archive.org/details/BenGoldacre_2011G&quot;&gt;Battling bad
science&lt;/a&gt;).  Rapporten handler om hvordan det offentlige burde bruke
vitenskaplige metoder i større grad for å finne ut hvilke virkemidler
som er mest effektive når en skal regulere samfunnet.  Her er et sitat
fra starten av rapporten:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are the best way to determine
  wheather a policy is working.  They are now used extensively in
  international development, medicine, and business to identify which
  policy, drug or sales method is most effective.  They are also at
  the heart of the Behavioural Insights Team&#39;s methodology.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;However, RCTs are not rutinely used to test the effectiveness of
  public policy interventions in the UK.  We think they should be.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Her tror jeg også Norge har noe å lære.  Det offentlige bruker mye
penger på aktiviteter der det ikke er åpenbart (og heller ikke blir
målt) at den reelle effekten er det en ønsker å oppnå.  Ruters
elektroniske billettsystem, NAV-reformen, økt bruk av penger på
politiet og sykehussammenslåinger kommer meg i hug.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Debian Edu interview: Giorgio Pioda</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:10:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;After a long break in my row of interviews with people in the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
community, I finally found time to wrap up another.  This time it is
Giorgio Pioda, which showed up on the mailing list at the start of
this year, asking questions and inspiring us to improve the first time
administrators experience with Skolelinux. :) The interview was
conduced in May, but I only found time to publish it now.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Who are you, and how do you spend your days?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have a PhD in chemistry but since several years I work as teacher
in secondary (15-18 year old students) and tertiary (a kind of &quot;light&quot;
university) schools. Five years ago I started to manage a Learning
Management Service server and slowly I got more and more involved with
IT. 3 years ago the graduating schools moved completely to Linux and I
got the head of the IT for this. The experience collected in chemistry
labs computers (for example NMR analysis of protein folding) and in
the IT-courses during university where sufficient to start. Self
training is anyway very important&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I live in the Italian speaking part of Switzerland, and the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spse.ch/&quot;&gt;SPSE school&lt;/a&gt; (secondary) is a very
special sport school for young people who try to became sport pro (for
all sports, we have dozens of disciplines represented) and we are
recognised by the Olympic Swiss Organisation.

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How did you get in contact with the Skolelinux/Debian Edu
project?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Looking for Linux / Primary Domain Controller (PDC) I found it
already several years ago. But since the system was still not
Kerberized and since our schools relies strongly on laptops I didn&#39;t
use it. I plan to introduce it in the next future, probably for the
next school year, since the squeeze release solved this security
hole.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the advantages of Skolelinux/Debian
Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Many. First of all there is a strong and living community that is
very generous for help and hints.  Chat help is crucial, together with
the mailing list.  Second. With Skolelinux you get an already well
engineered platform and you don&#39;t have to start to build up your PDC
and your clients from GNU/scratch; I&#39;ve already done this once and I
can tell it, it is hard. Third, since Skolelinux is a standard
platform, it is way easier to educate other IT people and even if the
head IT is sick another one could pick up the task without too much
hassle.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What do you see as the disadvantages of Skolelinux/Debian
Edu?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The only real problem I see is that it is a little too less
flexible at client level. Debian stable is rocky and desirable, but
there are many reasons that force for another choice. For example the
need of new drivers for new PC, or the need for a specific OS for some
devices that have specific software packages for another specific
distribution (I have such a case for whiteboards that have only
Ubuntu packages). Thus, I prepared compatibility packages educlient
and eduroaming, hoping not to use them ;-)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which free software do you use daily?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I have a Debian Stable PDC at school (Kerberos, NIS, NFS) with
mixed Debian and Ubuntu clients. If you think that this triad
combination is exotic... well I discovered right yesterday that
&lt;a href=&quot;http://moo.nac.uci.edu/~hjm/Perceus-Report.html&quot;&gt;Perceus&lt;/a&gt;
has the same...&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;For myself I run Debian wheezy/sid, but this combination is good
only I you have enough competence to fix stuff for yourself, if
something breaks.  Daily I use texmacs, gnumeric, a little bit of R
statistics, kmplot, and less frequently OpenOffice.org.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Which strategy do you believe is the right one to use to
get schools to use free software?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;P&gt;I think that the only real argument that school managers &quot;hear&quot; is
cost reduction. They don&#39;t give too much weight on quality, stability,
just because they are normally not open to change.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Students adapts very quickly to GNU/Linux (and for them being able
to switch between different OS is a plus value); teachers and managers
don&#39;t.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;We decided to move to Linux because students at our school have own
laptop and we have the responsibility to keep the laptop ready to use;
we were really unsatisfied with Microsoft since every Monday we had 20
machine to fix for viral infections... With Linux this has been
reduced to zero, since people installs almost only from official
repositories. I think that our special needs brought us to Linux.
Those who don&#39;t have such needs will hardly move to Linux.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Naturvernforbundet i Oslo bruker OpenStreetmap i sin kalender</title>
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                <description>&lt;p&gt;Veldig morsomt å se at
&lt;a href=&quot;http://naturvernforbundet.no/noa/&quot;&gt;Naturvernforbundet Oslo og
Akershus&lt;/a&gt; bruker kart fra
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openstreetmap.no/&quot;&gt;OpenStreetmap.org&lt;a/&gt; i
&lt;a href=&quot;http://naturvernforbundet.no/noa/bestill-markakalenderen-2013-article24039-1939.html&quot;&gt;sine
kalendere&lt;/a&gt;.  Vidar Gundersen i kartgruppa
&lt;a href=&quot;http://lists.nuug.no/pipermail/kart/2012-September/003696.html&quot;&gt;forteller
på den norske epostlisten&lt;/a&gt; til prosjektet at hvert blad i
kalenderen har et turforslag på baksiden, med kart fra OpenStreetmap.
Tidligere kjøpte de visst kart fra kartverket, men nå slipper de
det.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Denne nyheten synes jeg er fantastisk bra, og jeg håper de får
følge av flere, slik at det potensielle og fryktede inntektstapet for
kartverket ved frigjøring av kartdata blir mindre, og forhåpentligvis
til slutt så lite at frykten for å frigjøre data overvinnes.&lt;/p&gt;
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