blog/data/2022-06-20-free-software-summary.txt

   1 Title: My free software activity of late (2022)
   2 Tags: english
   3 Date: 2022-06-20 14:30
   4
   5 <p>I guess it is time to bring some light on the various free software
   6 and open culture activities and projects I have worked on or been
   7 involved in the last year and a half.</p>
   8
   9 <p>First, lets mention the book
  10 <a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/">releases I managed to
  11 publish</a>.  The Cory Doctorow book "Hvordan knuse
  12 overvåkningskapitalismen" argue that it is not the magic machine
  13 learning of the big technology companies that causes the surveillance
  14 capitalism to thrive, it is the lack of trust busting to enforce
  15 existing anti-monopoly laws.  I also published a family of
  16 dictionaries for machinists, one sorted on the English words, one
  17 sorted on the Norwegian and the last sorted on the North Sámi words.
  18 A bit on the back burner but not forgotten is the Debian
  19 Administrators Handbook, where a new edition is being worked on.  I
  20 have not spent as much time as I want to help bring it to completion,
  21 but hope I will get more spare time to look at it before the end of
  22 the year.</p>
  23
  24 <p>With my Debian had I have spent time on several projects, both
  25 updating existing packages, helping to bring in new packages and
  26 working with upstream projects to try to get them ready to go into
  27 Debian.  The list is rather long, and I will only mention my own
  28 isenkram, openmotor, vlc bittorrent plugin, xprintidle, norwegian
  29 letter style for latex, bs1770gain, and recordmydesktop.  In addition
  30 to these I have sponsored several packages into Debian, like audmes.</p>
  31
  32 <p>The last year I have looked at several infrastructure projects for
  33 collecting meter data and video surveillance recordings.  This include
  34 several ONVIF related tools like onvifviewer and zoneminder as well as
  35 rtl-433, wmbusmeters and rtl-wmbus.</p>
  36
  37 <p>In parallel with this I have looked at fabrication related free
  38 software solutions like pycam and LinuxCNC.  The latter recently
  39 gained improved translation support using po4a and weblate, which was
  40 a harder nut to crack that I had anticipated when I started.</p>
  41
  42 <p>Several hours have been spent translating free software to
  43 Norwegian Bokmål on the Weblate hosted service.  Do not have a
  44 complete list, but you will find my contributions in at least gnucash,
  45 minetest and po4a.</p>
  46
  47 <p>I also spent quite some time on the Norwegian archiving specification
  48 Noark 5, and its companion project Nikita implementing the API
  49 specification for Noark 5.</p>
  50
  51 <p>Recently I have been looking into free software tools to do company
  52 accounting here in Norway., which present an interesting mix between
  53 law, rules, regulations, format specifications and API interfaces.</p>
  54
  55 <p>I guess I should also mention the Norwegian community driven
  56 government interfacing projects Mimes Brønn and Fiksgatami, which have
  57 ended up in a kind of limbo while the future of the projects is being
  58 worked out.</p>
  59
  60 <p>These are just a few of the projects I have been involved it, and
  61 would like to give more visibility.  I'll stop here to avoid delaying
  62 this post.</p>
  63
  64 <p>As usual, if you use Bitcoin and want to show your support of my
  65 activities, please send Bitcoin donations to my address
  66 <b><a href="bitcoin:15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b">15oWEoG9dUPovwmUL9KWAnYRtNJEkP1u1b</a></b>.</p>