Weekly report week 3 and 4, and next step
* Meetings
- 17. January. Meeting about centralised operation with the ICT-staff
at The Municipality of Hurum.
- 19. January. Meeting about using free software (with FreeNX,
OpenOffice etc.) in a centralised operation. The meeting was
initiated by the politicians in The Municipality in Nittedal.
- 25. January. Experiences with centralised operating
Skolelinux. Meeting with Telecomputing that does this in large
installations.
- 26. January. Meeting with LinuxLabs about an ITIL-guide for they who
operate Skolelinux in centralised operations.
- 28-30. January. Developer gathering.
* Work
- Translated the article about thin client tradeoffs to Norwegian:
[nb]
http://developer.skolelinux.no/driftskonsepter/2004-12-23_tynnklient-avveining.html
[en]
http://developer.skolelinux.no/driftskonsepter/2004-12-23_thin-client-trade-offs.html
- Helping with gathering 85 participants at the Conference about free
software with Halden ICT-forum.
- Wrote 5 summaries after meetings with people that operate an
centralised operation with (enterprise) Skolelinux
- Wrote a whole lot about Learning Management Systems. The Ministry
of Education and Research want an discussion about the relevance.
- Gave some feedback on the PhD work from Martin Michlmayr.
- Did some motivation work to get the OpenOffice-translators to get
the job done.
- Wrote an article, and sent it to LINUXMagasinet
- Some communication with journalists. Especially the consumer
inspectors at the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
- Gave feedback on the "Ulsrud-report" to Markus Gamenius
- Wrote some letters to some Municipalities and private companies
about why free software is better than proprietary. I also sent
unbiased research that supports and explains how proprietary
software gives no guaranties what so ever in the purpose to not be
held accountable.
- Mailing about the new information folder
- Mentoring some of the student groups, and also some of their
mentors.
- I probably forgot something
* Next step
- Keep up the good work with centralised operations with enterprise
Skolelinux
- 2. February Wednesday. Conference about free software with Halden
ICT-forum. It's over 85 person that is invited.
- 7. February Monday. UNESCO conference. How to promote freedom of
speech and information? Clarion Hotel Royal Christiania,
Biskop Gunnerusgt. 3 Auditoriet
http://www.unesco.no/kommunikasjon/wsis1.html
- 8. February Tuesday 2005. Workshop about making the
ITIL-documentation.
- 15. February. EFN gonna have an lunch speech at The Ministry of
modernisation 11:00. Theme: «Intellectual property in the
information society», and probably something about patents.
- 15-16. ICT-forum at Lillehammer with Gyldendal
- Making a leadership guide for how to facilitate open source projects
- Following up the question about making Debian Edu weekly news (VB)
- Postponed until further notice () at ITU about IKT-ABC (www.iktabc.no)
with Ingunn Stubdal <ingunn.stubdal@itu.uio.no>
http://www.itu.no/Personer/ingunn
IKT-ABC is a practical pedagogic instruction program for the
schools management who wish an whole approach for use of ICT at
the school.
http://www.iktabc.no/Topics/default.aspx
By Knut Yrvin February the 1th 2005
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