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   4                 <title>Petter Reinholdtsen - Entries from August 2012</title>
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  10                 <title>Gladoppslag om Skolelinux i avisen Fremover</title>
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  13                 <pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 10:20:00 +0200</pubDate>
  14                 <description>&lt;p&gt;I sommer hadde avisen &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fremover.no/&quot;&gt;Fremover&lt;/a&gt;
  15 et flott oppslag om bruken av
  16 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.skolelinux.org/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux&lt;/a&gt; på alle skolene
  17 der.  Artikkelen var på trykk på side 4 og 5 i papirutgaven
  18 2012-07-23, men mangler dessverre i nettutgaven av avisen.  Mine
  19 henvendelser til avisen for å få artikkelen på nett har så langt ikke
  20 vært vellykket.&lt;/p&gt;
  21
  22 &lt;p&gt;Artikkelen med tittelen &quot;Narvik kommune bruker gratisprogram i
  23 skolen - Har spart millioner&quot;, forteller om hvordan bruken av
  24 Skolelinux er en stor suksess i Narvik siden det ble tatt i bruk i
  25 2004.  Her er noen fine sitater:&lt;/p&gt;
  26
  27 &lt;blockquote&gt;
  28 &quot;- Skolelinux har spart kommunen for store pengesummer, millionbeløp,
  29   som de heller kan bruke på andre ting, sier IKT-konsulent Viggo
  30   Fedreheim.&quot;
  31 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  32
  33 &lt;p&gt;Avisen forteller at de har fått tilgang til beregninger som viser
  34 at Narvik kommune har spart noe mellom 10 og 20 millioner kroner de
  35 siste 8 årene på å bruke Skolelinux, og fortsetter:&lt;/p&gt;
  36
  37 &lt;blockquote&gt;
  38
  39 &quot;Regnestykket tar høyde for sparte kostnader til lisenser som medfølger
  40 de alternative operativsystemene, lavere driftskostnader og lengre
  41 levetid på datautstyret.  Totalt har Narvikskolen en maskinpark på
  42 1600 maskiner fordelt på de 11 skolene fra Skjomen i sør til Bjerkvik
  43 i nord.&quot;
  44
  45 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  46
  47 &lt;p&gt;Viggo Fedreheim sier dette om hvor noe av gevinsten kommer fra:&lt;/p&gt;
  48
  49 &lt;blockquote&gt;
  50 &quot;- Vi kan gjenbruke gamle maskiner i skolen som er for dårlig andre
  51   steder i kommunen der de ikke bruker Skolelinux.  Levetiden på en
  52   datamaskin blir 3-5 år lenger med Skolelinux.  Vi kaller det for
  53   grønn IT, miljøvennlig IT.&quot;
  54 &lt;/blockquote&gt;
  55
  56 &lt;p&gt;Her er det mulighet for flere kommuner å få et godt IT-system på
  57 skolene, hvis de er villige til å forsøke.  De som ikke har kompetanse
  58 innomhus kan kjøpe det fra en av de kommersielle leverandørene av
  59 Skolelinux-tjenester, som &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slxdrift.no/&quot;&gt;Skolelinux
  60 Drift AS&lt;/a&gt; (der jeg er styremedlem).  Komplett liste er tilgjengelig
  61 via
  62 &lt;a href=&quot;http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Help/ProfessionalHelp&quot;&gt;wikien&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;
  63
  64 &lt;p&gt;Update 2012-08-16: Today I was allowed by Fremover to put the PDF I
  65 received from them with a copy of the article on the Internet.  It is
  66 &lt;a href=&quot;http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux/press/2012-07-23-fremover-narvik.pdf&quot;&gt;now
  67 available&lt;/a&gt; in the &lt;Skolelinux press archive.&lt;/p&gt;
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  72                 <title>Notes on language codes for Norwegian docbook processing...</title>
  73                 <link>http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Notes_on_language_codes_for_Norwegian_docbook_processing___.html</link>
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  75                 <pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2012 21:00:00 +0200</pubDate>
  76                 <description>&lt;p&gt;In &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.docbook.org/&quot;&gt;docbook&lt;/a&gt; one can specify
  77 the language used at the top, and the processing pipeline will use
  78 this information to pick the correct translations for &#39;chapter&#39;, &#39;see
  79 also&#39;, &#39;index&#39; etc.  And for most languages used with docbook, I guess
  80 this work just fine.  For example a German user can start the document
  81 with &amp;lt;book lang=&quot;de&quot;&amp;gt;, and the document will show up with the
  82 correct content with any of the docbook processors.  This is not the
  83 case for the language
  84 &lt;a href=&quot;http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Free_Culture_in_Norwegian___5_chapters_done__74_percent_left_to_do.html&quot;&gt;I
  85 am working with at the moment&lt;/a&gt;, Norwegian Bokmål.&lt;/p&gt;
  86
  87 &lt;p&gt;For a while, I was confused about which language code to use,
  88 because I was unable to find any language code that would work across
  89 all tools.  I am currently testing dblatex, xmlto, docbook-xsl, and
  90 dbtoepub, and they do not handle Norwegian Bokmål the same way.  Some
  91 of them do not handle it at all.&lt;/p&gt;
  92
  93 &lt;p&gt;A bit of background information is probably needed to understand
  94 this mess.  Norwegian is not one, but two written variants.  The
  95 variants are Norwegian Nynorsk and Norwegian Bokmål.  There are three
  96 two letter language codes associated with these languages, Norwegian
  97 is &#39;no&#39;, Norwegian Nynorsk is &#39;nn&#39; and Norwegian Bokmål is &#39;nb&#39;.
  98 Historically the &#39;no&#39; language code was used for Norwegian Bokmål, but
  99 many years ago this was found to be å bad idea, and the recommendation
 100 is to use the most specific language code instead, to avoid confusion.
 101 In the transition period it is a good idea to make sure &#39;no&#39; was an
 102 alias for &#39;nb&#39;.&lt;/p&gt;
 103
 104 &lt;p&gt;Back to docbook processing tools in Debian.  The dblatex tool only
 105 understand &#39;nn&#39;.  There are translations for &#39;no&#39;, but not &#39;nb&#39; (BTS
 106 &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/684391&quot;&gt;#684391&lt;/a&gt;), but due to a bug
 107 (BTS &lt;a href=&quot;http://bugs.debian.org/682936&quot;&gt;#682936&lt;/a&gt;) the &#39;no&#39;
 108 language code is not recognised.  The docbook-xsl tool chain only
 109 recognise &#39;nn&#39; and &#39;nb&#39;, but not &#39;no&#39;.  The xmlto tool only recognise
 110 &#39;nn&#39; and &#39;nb&#39;, but not &#39;no&#39;.  The end result that there is no language
 111 code I can use to get the docbook file working with all of these tools
 112 at the same time. :(&lt;/p&gt;
 113
 114 &lt;p&gt;The correct solution is to use &amp;lt;book lang=&quot;nb&quot;&amp;gt;, but it will
 115 take time before that will work with all the free software docbook
 116 processors. :(&lt;/p&gt;
 117
 118 &lt;p&gt;Oh, the joy of well integrated tools. :/&lt;/p&gt;
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