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                <title>Petter Reinholdtsen</title>
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                <title>Debian Edu interview: Ralf Gesellensetter</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 27 May 2012 17:15:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;In 2003, a German teacher showed up on the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;
mailing list with interesting problems and reports proving he setting
up Linux for a (for us at the time) lot of pupiles.  His name was Ralf
Gesellensetter, and he have been an important tester and contributor
since then, helping to make sure the
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.debian.org/News/2012/20120311.html&quot;&gt;Debian Edu
Squeeze&lt;/a&gt; release became as good as it is..&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 am a teacher from Germany, and my subjects are Geography,
Mathematics, and Computer Science (&quot;Informatik&quot;). During the past 12
years (since 2000), I have been working for a comprehensive (and soon,
also inclusive) school leading to all kind of general levels, such as
O- or A-level (&quot;Abitur&quot;).  For quite as long, I&#39;ve been taking care of
our computer network.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Now, in my early 40s, I enjoy the privilege of spending a lot of my
spare time together with my wife, our son (3 years) and our daughter
(4 months).&lt;/p&gt;

&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;We had tried different Linux based school servers, when members of
my local Linux User Group (LUG OWL) detected Skolelinux. I remember
very well, being part of a party celebrating the Linux New Media Award
(&quot;Best Newcomer Distribution&quot;, also nominated: Ubuntu) that was given
to Skolelinux at Linux World Exposition in Frankfurt, 2005 (IIRC). Few
months later, I had the chance to join a developer meeting in Ulsrud
(Oslo) and to hand out the award to Knut Yrvin and others.  For more
than 7 years, Skolelinux is part of our schools infrastructure, namely
our main server (tjener), one LTSP (today without thin clients), and
approximately 50 work stations. Most of these have the option to boot a
locally installed Skolelinux image.  As a consequence, I joined quite
a few events dealing with free software or Linux, and met many Debian
(Edu) developers. All of them seemed quite nice and competent to me,
one more reason to stick to Skolelinux.&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;Debian driven, you are given all the advantages of a community
project including well maintained updates. Once, you are familiar with
the network layout, you can easily roll out an entire educational
computer infrastructure, from just one installation media. As only
free software (FOSS) is used, that supports even elderly hardware,
up-sizing your IT equipment is only limited by space (i.e. available
labs).  Especially if you run a LTSP thin client server, your
administration costs tend towards zero.&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;While Debian&#39;s stability has loads of advantages for servers, this
might be different in some cases for clients: Schools with unlimited
budget might buy new hardware with components that are not yet
supported by Debian stable, or wish to use more recent versions of
office packages or desktop environments.  These schools have the
option to run Debian testing or other distributions - if they have the
capacity to do so.  Another issue is that Debian release cycles
include a wide range of changes; therefor a high percentage of human
power seems to be absorbed by just keeping the features of Skolelinux
within the new setting of the version to come. During this process,
the cogs of Debian Edu are getting more and more professional,
i.e. harder to understand for novices.&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;LibreOffice, Wikipedia, Openstreetmap, Iceweasel (Mozilla Firefox),
KMail, Gimp, Inkscape - and of course the Linux Kernel (not only on
PC, Laptop, Mobile, but also our SAT receiver)&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;&lt;ol&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Support computer science as regular subject in schools to make
people really &quot;own&quot; their hardware, to make them understand the
difference between proprietary software products, and free software
developing.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Make budget baskets corresponding: In Germany&#39;s public schools
there are more or less fixed budgets for IT equipment (including
licenses), so schools won&#39;t benefit from any savings here. This
privilege is left to private schools which have consequently a large
share among German Skolelinux schools.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Get free software in the seminars where would-be teachers are
trained. In many cases, teachers&#39; software customs are respected by
decision makers rather than the expertise of any IT experts.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Don&#39;t stick to free software as to be run natively. Everybody uses
free software or free licenses (for instance Wikipedia), and this
general concept should get expanded to free educational content to be
shared world wide (school books e.g.).&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Make clear where ever you can that the market share of free (libre)
office suites is much above 20 p.c. today, and that you pupils don&#39;t
need to know the &quot;ribbon menu&quot; in order to get employed.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Talk about the difference between freeware and free software.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Spread free software, or even collections of portable free apps
for USB pen drives. Endorse students to get a legal copy of
Libreoffice rather than accepting them to use illegal serials.  And
keep sending documents in ODF formats.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>The cost of ODF and OOXML</title>
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                <pubDate>Sat, 26 May 2012 18:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I just come across a blog post from Glyn Moody reporting the
claimed cost from Microsoft on requiring ODF to be used by the UK
government.  I just sent him an email to let him know that his
assumption are most likely wrong.  Sharing it here in case some of my
blog readers have seem the same numbers float around in the UK.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt; &lt;p&gt;Hi.  I just noted your
&lt;a href=&quot;http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/does-microsoft-office-lock-in-cost-the-uk-government-500-million/index.htm&quot;&gt;http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2012/04/does-microsoft-office-lock-in-cost-the-uk-government-500-million/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;
comment:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&quot;They&#39;re all in Danish, not unreasonably, but even
with the help of Google Translate I can&#39;t find any figures about the
savings of &quot;moving to a flexible two standard&quot; as claimed by the
Microsoft email. But I assume it is backed up somewhere, so let&#39;s take
it, and the £500 million figure for the UK, on trust.&quot;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I can tell you that the Danish reports are inflated.  I believe it is
the same reports that were used in the Norwegian debate around 2007,
and Gisle Hannemyr (a well known IT commentator in Norway) had a look
at the content.  In short, the reason it is claimed that using ODF
will be so costly, is based on the assumption that this mean every
existing document need to be converted from one of the MS Office
formats to ODF, transferred to the receiver, and converted back from
ODF to one of the MS Office formats, and that the conversion will cost
10 minutes of work time for both the sender and the receiver.  In
reality the sender would have a tool capable of saving to ODF, and the
receiver would have a tool capable of reading it, and the time spent
would at most be a few seconds for saving and loading, not 20 minutes
of wasted effort.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Microsoft claimed all these costs were saved by allowing people to
transfer the original files from MS Office instead of spending 10
minutes converting to ODF. :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;See
&lt;a href=&quot;http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12_vl02.php&quot;&gt;http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12_vl02.php&lt;/a&gt;
and
&lt;a href=&quot;http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12.php&quot;&gt;http://hannemyr.com/no/ms12.php&lt;/a&gt;
for background information.  Norwegian only, sorry. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>OpenOffice.org fungerer da fint for blinde?</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2012 23:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;De siste dagene har høringsuttalelsene om DIFIs forslag til
standardkatalog v3.1 blitt
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.standard.difi.no/hoyring/hoyring-om-nye-anbefalte-it-standarder?tab=comments&quot;&gt;publisert
på DIFIs nettside&lt;/a&gt;, og jeg kunne der glede meg over at
&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/201204-standardkatalog-v3.1&quot;&gt;NUUGs&lt;/a&gt;
uttalelse er kommet med.  En uttalelse som overrasker og forvirrer meg
er
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.standard.difi.no/filearchive/norges-blindeforbund.pdf&quot;&gt;den
fra Norges Blindeforbund&lt;/a&gt;, som 5 år etter at Klaus Knopper sammen
med sin blinde kone blant annet
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/aktiviteter/20071211-accessibility/&quot;&gt;demonstrerte
høyttalende OpenOffice.org på nynorsk for blinde&lt;/a&gt; på et NUUG-møte.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.blindeforbundet.no/&quot;&gt;Norges Blindeforbund&lt;/a&gt;
skriver følgende, som for meg virker å være formulert på sviktende
grunnlag:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Bruk av fri programvare

&lt;p&gt;I FRIPROGSENTERET, RAPPORT 2009-02: Universell utforming
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kunnskapsbazaren.no/filer/Friprogsenteret-Rapport-Universell_utforming.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.kunnskapsbazaren.no/filer/Friprogsenteret-Rapport-Universell_utforming.pdf&lt;/a&gt;
sies det &quot;Det finnes i dag ikke mange fri programvare-rammeverk eller
generelle løsninger som støtter tilgjengelighet eller som er
universelt utformet.&quot;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Til tross for at det gjennom prinsippene i fri programvare åpnes
for større frihet til selv å påvirke programvareløsninger i retning av
universell utforming viser praksis at virkeligheten er en annen.
Mange av de mest alminnelige frie programvarepakkene mangler delvis
eller fullstendig tilgjengelighet for mennesker med nedsatt
syn. Eksempler på dette er OpenOffice og LibreOffice m.fl.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;En annen utfordring ved bruk av fri programvare kan være manglende
kundestøtte og muligheter til opplæring i bruk av løsningen. Svaksynte
og blinde har et høyere behov for denne typen støtte enn andre brukere
ettersom mange av dem har behov for tilleggsprogramvare som skal
fungere sammen med den opprinnelige programvaren, og ettersom man ikke
har de samme muligheter for overblikk over grensesnittet som en seende
bruker. I tillegg til dette kommer de mer tilgjengelighetstekniske
utfordringene som ofte må løses i samarbeid med
programvareleverandør/produsent.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Fri programvare er ikke på samme måte underlagt lovgivning gjennom
for eksempel diskriminerings og tilgjengelighetsloven ettersom det
ikke alltid finnes en produsent/tilbyder av tjenesten eller produktet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Norges Blindeforbund krever at universell utforming og
brukskvalitet tas med som viktige hensyn i utredninger som ligger til
grunn for valg av standarder som primært leder brukeren mot fri
programvare. Et eksempel på dette er bruk av dokumentformatet ODF som
leder brukeren i retning av OpenOffice, som er helt eller delvis
utilgjengelig for svaksynte og blinde – noe avhengig av plattform og
hjelpemiddelprogramvare.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jeg håper noen involvert i OpenOffice.org og/eller LibreOffice tar
kontakt med Norges Blindeforbund og oppklarer det som for meg virker å
være en misforståelse, i og med at OpenOffice.org så vidt jeg vet
fungerer fint også for blinde.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jeg ble minnet på problemstillingen da jeg leste Slashdot-saken om
&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/05/21/1417221/the-state-of-linux-accessibility&quot;&gt;The
State of Linux Accessibility&lt;/a&gt;&quot;, som også hevder at Linux fungerer
utmerket for blinde.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Skolelinux-intervju: Alf Tonny Bätz</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 20 May 2012 11:50:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux-prosjektets&lt;/a&gt;
musiker og mannen bak
&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Manuals/Rosegarden/&quot;&gt;opplæringsdokumentene
i Rosegarden&lt;/a&gt;
(&lt;a href=&quot;http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/nb/rosegarden-manual.html&quot;&gt;norsk
utgave&lt;/a&gt;) for musikklærere, Alf Tonny Bätz, er neste mann ut i min
intervjurunde av folkene bak Skolelinux-løsningen.  Jeg har kjent Alf
Tonny siden vi møttes som barn på påskefjellet i Ofoten, og ble
gledelig overrasket da han dukket opp i Skolelinux-prosjektet etter å
ikke ha sett noe til ham på mange år.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvem er du, og hva driver du med til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Jeg er utdannet kokk av yrke, og har utøvet yrket i 12 år.  Men
etter at ryggen sa takk før seg, studerte jeg nettverksadministrasjon
ved Næringsakademiet i Bergen årene 2008-2009 slik at jeg kunne
forfølge en av mine største interesser - data.  Til daglig jobber jeg
ved &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.narvikskolen.no/parken/&quot;&gt;Parken
ungdomsskole&lt;/a&gt; med å drifte skolens PC-er. Har også litt
musikkundervisning.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Mitt mål er å bevisstgjøre musikklærene mulighetene med de frie
programmene som finnes i Skolelinux, blant annet Rosegarden.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Har i mange år drevet med musikk og en av grunnen til at Rosegarden
falt i smak for min del, var fordi denne fungere og ligner mest på
Windows-programmet (cubase) jeg jobbet mye med da jeg i mine yngre
dager var «Windows fanatiker».  Ble introdusert til Linux av en kompis
av meg for omtrent 14 år siden, og har bare blitt mer og mer glad i
dette operativsystemet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvordan kom du i kontakt med Skolelinux-prosjektet?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Da jeg ble sykemeldt fra min gamle jobb, og måtte omskoleres,
havnet jeg i 2007 sammen med Viggo Fedreheim på IKT-avdelingen i
Narvik kommune, der ble jeg for første gang introdusert til
Skolelinuxprosjektet.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er fordelene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Skolelinux er enkelt å holde i drift og masse flotte programmer som
geogebra, ktouch og kgeografi følger med pakken.  Man kan ta i bruk
gamle PC-er igjen, slik at skoler med dårlig råd får opp en brukbar
PC-park.  PC-er som er ca 6-9 år gamle fungere tilfredstillende, bare
de har 512 MB RAM eller mer.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hva er ulempene med Skolelinux slik du ser det?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Ulempene er at noen av de pedagogiske programmene som lærene ønsker
å bruke fungere dårlig med Linux.  Mye pga. av at disse programmene
blir ikke laget til Linuxbaserte operativsystemer.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Video- og bilde-redigering har dessverre en del mangler, mange av
programmene har en tendens til og krasje.  Det gjelder blant annet
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kdenlive.org/&quot;&gt;kdenlive&lt;/a&gt; og
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.openshotvideo.com/&quot;&gt;openshot&lt;/a&gt;, for å nevne
noen.  De er ikke stabile nok.  Når elevene kommer med filmsnutter de
ønsker og jobbe med, så godtar ikke programmene filene, og når elevene
jobber med redigering bare krasjer programmene uten forvarsel.  Det er
for vanskelig å få noe som bare fungerer ut av boksen her. Når en elev
plugger inn et videokamera eller fotoapparat så er det alltid noe som
ikke vil fungere.  Programmene godtar ikke format, godtar ikke
kameraet, osv., osv. Det er dessverre med på og dra ned en positiv
opplevelse av bruk av fri programvare.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Man må ofte bruke flere en et video redigerings program før og få
fullført en ønsket oppgave.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Eksempel:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Hvis det ene programmet ikke vil ta i mot videofilen klarer et
annet det, men det programmet som klarer det kan ikke gjøre de samme
oppgavene som det programmet som ikke ville ta i mot filen,
Tilsvarende er det med foto, man må bruke flere programmer for å få
et ferdig resultat. Til dags dato har jeg enda ikke funnet et video-
og fotoprogram som kan tilfredstillende fullføre en oppgave.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Så man kan klare og fullføre en oppgave, men i verste fall må man
innom 3-4 programmer for å få det til.  Så jeg har enda ikke til dags
dato sett at et program fungere 100% til alt.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Det programmet jeg har best erfaring til er
&lt;a href=&quot;http://cinelerra.org/&quot;&gt;cinelerra&lt;/a&gt;, men dessverre har det
også tendenser og krasje av og til uten grunn.&lt;/p&gt;

Lydsystemet kan også være et mareritt.  Konkret snakker jeg om når du
bruker for eksempel et smartboard, så følger det med USB-lydkort på
disse.  Problemet ligger her i at systemet ikke vil velge rett
lydkort, så man må inn med padevchooser for å sette opp PulseAudio
til og velge at USB-lydkortet skal brukes.  Det blir for tungvindt for
lærene, de ønsker at ting skal fungere med en gang. (min løsning på
det problemet ble at jeg måtte deaktivere lydkortet som fantes på
maskinen) men da må man bestandig slå på smartboard-tavla.

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken fri programvare bruker du til daglig?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Programmene jeg bruker mest av er: Rosegarden, jack, qsynth, audacity,
k3b, openttd og libreoffice.

&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hvilken strategi tror du er den rette å bruke for å få
skoler til å ta i bruk fri programvare?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

Jeg tror det må bevisstgjøring av Skolene til, dvs. reklamere høylytt
og fortelle og vise de andre skolene at frie programvarer faktisk
fungere.  Jeg trur faktisk mange ikke vet at det finnes frie
alternativer.
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                <title>ColorHug - USB and free software based screen color calibration</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 18 May 2012 10:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;In january, I
&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.cihar.com/archives/2012/01/17/colorhug-has-arrived/&quot;&gt;discovered
the ColorHug&lt;/a&gt;, a USB dongle from
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hughski.com/index.html&quot;&gt;Hughski&lt;/a&gt; to calibrate
the color on a computer screen.  The software required is
&lt;a href=&quot;http://packages.qa.debian.org/c/colorhug-client.html&quot;&gt;included
in Debian&lt;/a&gt;, and I decided back then to preorder from the next
batch.  Yesterday I finally heard back from them, and got the
opportunity to order.  Today I ordered mine, and eagerly await the
delivery.  I hope it arrive next week, as I got a confirmation that it
should go in the mail on monday. :)&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;If you want to ensure the colors on the screen match the intended
colors, I suggest you check out this cheap tool with free software
drivers. :)&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Dør Unix, eller lever den videre som Linux?</title>
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                <pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;Peter Hidas fra Gartner melder i Computerworld at
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.idg.no/computerworld/article245011.ece&quot;&gt;Unix
nedkjempes av Linux og Windows&lt;/a&gt;.  For meg er påstanden meningsløs,
da Linux er en variant av Unix, og hele diskusjonen om Linux er Unix
eller ikke er utdatert og uinteressant.  Jeg ser at Helge Skrivervik
deler mitt syn på saken i sin kommentar fra i går om at
&quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mymayday.com/blogs/2012/unix-linux&quot;&gt;Unix vs. Linux
= uinteressant&quot;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt;-sammenheng møter jeg av og
til folk som tror NUUG er for avdankede folk som driver med den samme
Unix-varianten som Peter Hidas skriver om i sin kommentar, og dermed
er en foreningen for avdankede teknologer interessert i døende
teknologi.  Intet kunne være lengre fra sannheten.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;NUUG er en forening for oss som har sans for fri programvare, åpne
standarder og Unix-lignende operativsystemer, som Ubuntu, FreeBSD,
Debian, Mint, Gentoo, Android, Gnome, KDE, LXDE, Firefox, LibreOffice,
ODF, HTML, C++, ECMA-Script, etc.  Kort sagt der nyskapning skjer på
IT-fronten i dag.  Det innebærer selvfølgelig også de som er
interessert i de &quot;gamle&quot; Unix-ene som Solaris og HP-UX, men de er bare
et lite mindretall blant NUUGs medlemmer.  De aller fleste medlemmene
har i dag fokus på Linux.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Debian Edu interview: Jürgen Leibner</title>
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                <pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 20:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;It has been a few busy weeks for me, but I am finally back to
publish another interview with the people behind
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Debian Edu and Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt;.
This time it is one of our German developers, who have helped out over the
years to make sure both a lot of major but also a lot of the minor
details get right before release.

&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;My name is Jürgen Leibner, I&#39;m 49 years old and living in
Bielefeld, a town in northern Germany.  I worked nearly 20 years as
certified engineer in the department for plant design and layout of an
international company for machinery and equipment.  Since 2011 I&#39;m a
certified technical writer (tekom e.V.) and doing technical
documentations for a steam turbine manufacturer.  From April this year
I will manage the department of technical documentation at a
manufacturer of automation and assembly line engineering.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;My first contact with linux was around 1993. Since that time I used
it at work and at home repeatedly but not exclusively as I do now at
home since 2006.&lt;/p&gt;

&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;Once a day in the early year of 2001 when I wanted to fetch my
daughter from primary school, there was a teacher sitting in the
middle of 20 old computers trying to boot them and he failed. I helped
him to get them booting. That was seen by the school director and she
asked me if I would like to manage that the school gets all that old
computers in use. I answered: &quot;Yes&quot;.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Some weeks later every of the 10 classrooms had one computer
running Windows98. I began to collect old computers and equipment as
gifts and installed the first computer room with a peer-to-peer
network. I did my work at school without being payed in my spare time
and with a lot of fun.  About one year later the school was connected
to Internet and a local area network was installed in the school
building.  That was the time to have a server and I knew it must be a
Linux server to be able to fulfil all the wishes of the teachers and
being able to do this in a transparent and economic way, without extra
costs for things like licence and software.  So I searched for a
school server system running under Linux and I found a couple of
people nearby who founded &#39;skolelinux.de&#39;. It was the Skolelinux
prerelease 32 I first tried out for being used at the school.  I
managed the IT of that school until the municipal authority took over
the IT management and centralised the services for all schools in
Bielefeld in December of 2006.&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;When I&#39;m looking back to the beginning, there were other advantages
for me as today.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In the past there were advantages like:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;

&lt;li&gt;I don&#39;t need to buy it so it generates no costs to the school as
they had little money to spent for computers and software.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;It has a licence which grands all rights to use it without
cost.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;It was more able to fit all requirements of a server system for
schools than a Microsoft server system, even if there are only Windows
clients because of it&#39;s preconfigured overall concept of being a
infrastructure solution and community for schools, not only a
server&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;I was able to configure the server to the needs of the
school.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Today some of the advantages has been lost, changed or new ones
came up in this way:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Most schools here do have money to buy hardware and software
now.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;They are today mostly managed from central IT departments which
have own concepts which often do not fit to Debian Edu concepts
because they are to close to Microsoft ideology.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;With the Squeeze version of Debian Edu which now uses GOsa² for
management I feel more able to manage the daily tasks than with the
interfaces used in the past.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;It is more modular than in the past and fits even better to the
different needs.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;The documentation is usable and gets better every day.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;More people than ever before are using Debian Edu all over the
world and so the community, which is an very important part I think,
is sharing knowledge and minds.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Most, maybe all, of the technical requirements for schools are
solved today by Debian Edu. &lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;&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;&lt;ul&gt;

&lt;li&gt;There are too few IT companies able to integrate Debian Edu into
their product portfolio for serving schools with concepts or even
whole municipality areas.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Debian Edu has beside other free and open software projects not
enough lobbyists which promote free and open software to
politicians.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;li&gt;Technically there are no disadvantages I&#39;m aware of.&lt;/li&gt;

&lt;/ul&gt;&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 use Debian stable on my home server and on my little desktop
computer. On my laptop I use Debian testing/sid. The applications I
use on my laptop and my desktop are Open/Libre-office, Iceweasel,
KMail, DigiKam, Amarok, Dolphin, okular and all the other programs I
need from the KDE environment.  On console I use newsbeuter, mutt,
screen, irssi and all the other famous and useful tools.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;My home server provides mail services with exim, dovecot, roundcube
and mutt over ssh on the console, file services with samba, NFS,
rsync, web services with apache, moinmoin-wiki, multimedia services
with gallery2 and mediatomb and database services with MySQL for me
and the whole family.  I probably forgot something.&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 believe, we should provide concepts for IT companies to integrate
Debian Edu into their product portfolio with use cases for different
countries and areas all over the world.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Intervju med digi.no om Norge Digitalt og Openstreetmap</title>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 23:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;I går ble jeg kontaktet på epost av
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no&quot;&gt;digi.no&lt;/a&gt;s Eirik Rossen som lurte på om
jeg hadde noen kommentarer til
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.statkart.no/statkart.ny.no/nor/Statens_kartverk/Om_Statens_kartverk/Pressesenter/Nyhetsarkiv/Nyheter_2012/mai/Norge+i+tet+på+digitale+kartdata.d25-SwZLMWg.ips&quot;&gt;kartverkets
pressemelding&lt;/a&gt; om Norges tetplassering når det gjelder
kart-tilgjengelighet.  Jeg svarte følgende, som resulterte i noen
sitater i
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digi.no/895420/norge-i-tet-paa-digitale-kartdata#debatt&quot;&gt;Digis
dekning&lt;/a&gt; av kartverkets pressemelding.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Takk for muligheten til å kommentere.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Pressemeldingen omhandler tilgjengeligheten av kart for aktører som er
medlem i kartellet Norge Digitalt.  Det er ingen overraskelse for meg
at tilgjengeligheten til kart hos disse medlemmene er god.  Men for
oss på utsiden av kartellet er tilgjengelighet av det som burde være
felleskapets og innbyggernes kart dårlig.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Bruksvilkårene til kartene fra medlemmene i Norge Digital hindrer
nyskapning og selv om en er villig til å betale den ublu prisen som
forlanges får en fortsatt ikke tilgang til kartdata uten
bruksbegresninger.  Derfor bruker jeg heller tid på å gjøre
fribrukskartet OpenStreetmap bedre.  Der fremmer bruksvilkårene
nyskapning og lar meg skape nye tjenester uten å måtte søke om
tillatelse fra det offentlige.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;En annen problemstilling er jo sikkerhet til fjells og til sjøs.
Mon tro hvor mange ulykker på sjøen som kunne vært unngått hvis
sjøkartdata var tilgjengelig uten bruksbegrensninger, slik at enhver
med GPS eller kartplotter tilnærmet kostnadsfritt kunne sikre seg mest
mulig oppdaterte sjøkart?  Det hjelper jo ikke at offentlige etater
har enkel tilgang til sjøkartene når det samme ikke gjelder hver
båtkaptein og småbåtfører.  Jeg tror samfunnet som helhet hadde tjent
på å unngå kostnadene ved disse ulykkene ved å tvinge sjøkartverket
til å publisere sine kartdata på Internet uten bruksbegresninger.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>Cutting it short - and picking the right tool for the job</title>
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                <pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 23:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;!-- IMG_5869.JPG --&gt;
&lt;img src=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/images/panasonic-er-1611.jpeg&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;I normally cut my hair short, and my tool of choice has been a
common hair/beard cutter, bought in a electrical shop here in Norway.
But the last ones have not really been up to the task.  My last
cutter, some model from Braun, could only cut a few of my hairs at the
time, and cutting my head took forever.  And the one before that did
not work very well either.  We have looked for something better for a
while, but it was not until I ended up visiting a hairdresser that we
discovered that there are indeed better tools available.  But these
are not marketed and sold to &quot;regular consumers&quot;.  The hair saloons
can get them through their suppliers, but their suppliers only sell
companies.  The models they sell, are very different from the ones
available from Elkjøp and Lefdal.  The main difference is their
efficiency.  It would cut my hair in 5 minutes, instead of the 30-40
minutes required by my impotent Braun.  The hairdresser I visited had
a Panasonic ER160, which unfortunately is no longer available from the
producer.  But I found it had a successor, the Panasonic ER1611.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The next step was to find somewhere to buy it.  This was not
straight forward.  The list of suppliers I got from the hairdresser
did not want to sell anything to me.  But searching for the model on
the web we found a supplier in Norway willing to sell it to us for
around NOK 4000,-.  This was a bit much.  We kept searching and
finally found a Danish supplier
&lt;a href=&quot;http://nicehair.dk/panasonic-er-1611-professionel-hartrimmer.html&quot;&gt;selling
it for around NOK 1800,-&lt;/a&gt;.  We ordered one, and it arrived a few
days ago.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The instructions said it had to charge for 8 hours when we started
to use it, so we left it charging over night.  Normally it will only
need one hour to charge.  The following evening we successfully tested
it, and I can warmly recommend it to anyone looking for a real hair
cutter.  The ones we have used until now have been hair cutter
toys.&lt;/p&gt;
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                <title>NUUGs leverer høringsuttalelse om v3.1 av statens referansekatalog</title>
                <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/NUUGs_leverer_h_ringsuttalelse_om_v3_1_av_statens_referansekatalog.html</link>
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                <pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:30:00 +0200</pubDate>
                <description>&lt;p&gt;NUUG-styremedlem Hans-Petter Fjeld
&lt;a href=&quot;https://plus.google.com/u/0/110394259537201279374/posts/AGzRmAuFdW1&quot;&gt;meldte
nettopp&lt;/a&gt; at han har sendt inn &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nuug.no/&quot;&gt;NUUG&lt;/a&gt;s
høringsuttalelse angående Difi sin standardkatalog v3.1.  Jeg er veldig
glad for at så mange bidro og sikret at vår stemme blir hørt i denne
høringen.  Anbefaler alle å lese våre
&lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.nuug.no/uttalelser/201204-standardkatalog-v3.1&quot;&gt;to
sider med innspill&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
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