Weekly repport from week 28
* Meetings
- With Stein Lier in Akershus County Council concerning the progress
of translating OpenOffice, testing, and financial issues.
- Telephone meeting with Martin Hauge at Møre og Romsdal County
Council about further actions with the OpenOffice work.
- Talk with Thomas Gramstad about applications to finance
developer-gatherings in Norway (and other Nordic countries).
http://www.norden.org/norden_i_veckan/2004/uk/040308.asp#over3
Background (A 1341):
http://www.norden.org/nr/2-6-5-rek/sk/2004/Fre_02_2004.pdf
http://www.norden.org/nr/2-6-4-betaenk/betaenk2004/sk/PDF_A-saker/Bet_A1341.pdf
* Work
- Weekly repports for the "work to death"-week at EU-commision,
LinuxTag, and GUADEC 2004.
- Writing the work specification for Knut Yrvin at SLX Debian Labs
- Writing and sending the letter about unfair competition from the
government when procuring software to the schools
- Handled a short answer from (ekspedisjonssjef) Eva Hildrum Director,
General at Ministry of Transport and Communications, Norway
- Changed office from third flore to fifth.
- Evaluation of the application from Donna Stevens
<trekkie(at)online.no> of translating the book "Driftbok - hvordan
sette opp og drifte et Skolelinux-nettverk". It's now in a Norwegian
version. We realy need it in english.
- Discussions about how to help Raymond Robertsen
<raymond.robertsen(at)stortinget.no> +47 908 37 137 in his effort to
make a Nordic Centre of Excellence. Nordic Council has a policy
decision to do this the same way as the Netherlands Open Source
Centre (ososs.nl) to provide advice on the purchase and/or use of
open source programmes and to develop best-practice models.
- Starting the application process to get some founding for the work
with translating useful documents, and participation in workshops to
share experiences with developing and use of free software in the
EU2FOSS-project.
* Next step
- Making a proposal for a job description to Andreas Schuldei
- Making a over all project outline (See weekly repport week 27)
- Continue pursuing the financing of the OpenOffice 2.0 translation
project
- Participate in the mini developer-gathering at Forsknigsparken
Tuesday july the 13'th.
- Deliver a application to EU2FOSS
- Take contact with the security and maintenance-team in Skolelinux to
get a proposoal in how we shuld flag the restart-issue when doing
security patches. A lot of security-fixes don't need restart, but
the kernel-updates does.
- Taking contact with In/Out and others to make a "save workhours"
when changing broken scsi-disks at schools.
- Make weekly rapport for week 29 monday july the 19'th 2004.
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