From: Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 12:20:48 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: New post summarizing my free software activities.
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New post summarizing my free software activities.
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+Title: My free software activity of late (2022)
+Tags: english
+Date: 2022-06-20 14:30
+
+<p>I guess it is time to bring some light on the various free software
+and open culture activities and projects I have worked on or been
+involved in the last year and a half.</p>
+
+<p>First, lets mention the book
+<a href="http://www.hungry.com/~pere/publisher/">releases I managed to
+publish</a>.  The Cory Doctorow book "Hvordan knuse
+overvåkningskapitalismen" argue that it is not the magic machine
+learning of the big technology companies that causes the surveillance
+capitalism to thrive, it is the lack of trust busting to enforce
+existing anti-monopoly laws.  I also published a family of
+dictionaries for machinists, one sorted on the English words, one
+sorted on the Norwegian and the last sorted on the North Sámi words.
+A bit on the back burner but not forgotten is the Debian
+Administrators Handbook, where a new edition is being worked on.  I
+have not spent as much time as I want to help bring it to completion,
+but hope I will get more spare time to look at it before the end of
+the year.</p>
+
+<p>With my Debian had I have spent time on several projects, both
+updating existing packages, helping to bring in new packages and
+working with upstream projects to try to get them ready to go into
+Debian.  The list is rather long, and I will only mention my own
+isenkram, openmotor, vlc bittorrent plugin, xprintidle, norwegian
+letter style for latex, bs1770gain, and recordmydesktop.  In addition
+to these I have sponsored several packages into Debian, like audmes.</p>
+
+<p>The last year I have looked at several infrastructure projects for
+collecting meter data and video surveillance recordings.  This include
+several ONVIF related tools like onvifviewer and zoneminder as well as
+rtl-433, wmbusmeters and rtl-wmbus.</p>
+
+<p>In parallel with this I have looked at fabrication related free
+software solutions like pycam and LinuxCNC.  The latter recently
+gained improved translation support using po4a and weblate, which was
+a harder nut to crack that I had anticipated when I started.</p>
+
+<p>Several hours have been spent translating free software to
+Norwegian Bokmål on the Weblate hosted service.  Do not have a
+complete list, but you will find my contributions in at least gnucash,
+minetest and po4a.</p>
+
+<p>I also spent quite some time on the Norwegian archiving specification
+Noark 5, and its companion project Nikita implementing the API
+specification for Noark 5.</p>
+
+<p>Recently I have been looking into free software tools to do company
+accounting here in Norway., which present an interesting mix between
+law, rules, regulations, format specifications and API interfaces.</p>
+
+<p>I guess I should also mention the Norwegian community driven
+government interfacing projects Mimes Brønn and Fiksgatami, which have
+ended up in a kind of limbo while the future of the projects is being
+worked out.</p>
+
+<p>These are just a few of the projects I have been involved it, and
+would like to give more visibility.  I'll stop here to avoid delaying
+this post.</p>