March 2009 – Søren C's blog

Ubuntu 9.04 nedtælling

Nu er der snart ikke længe til Ubuntu 9.04 bliver udgivet. Hvis man har lyst til at hjælpe med at skabe lidt opmærksomhed om udgivelsen så er der nu mulighed for (ligesom ved de sidste udgivelser) at få en countdown banner på sin hjemmeside. Der er følgende fire valgmuligheder:

Det kan nævnes at danske Mads Rosendahl står bag kalender banneret.

Hvis du vil have en (eller flere) af ovenstående bannere på din hjemmeside skal du bare indsætte et stykke kode, som du kan finde her: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/countdown.

Nixon for president!

I went to see The Watchmen yesterday. I have never read the original comics and I more or less expected something similar to X-Men. However I was in for a pleasant surprise. The characters and their internal relations were described in much detail, giving life and substance (beyond the good/evil label) to the humans behind the masks.

The Watchmen is properly the first film that several times while watching has made me think that sure is a cool soundtrack. It consists of famous tunes from the last century underlining the story being told in an elegant way.

If the film is as pleasant an experience for the true fans as it was for me I will let others judge, but it was great entertainment for me on a Tuesday night.

Open Source Software conference

Thursday Michael, Niels and myself represented the Danish Ubuntu community at a conference about open source software in the public sector.
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From left to right: Me, Michael, Louis and Niels.

We shared a community booth with the nice people from the Danish OpenOffice.org and Mozilla communities.

The conference took place at the historic Børsen.
We handed out all our remaining 8.10 desktop cd’s, got to talk with a lot of people and I believe we managed to convince a few people that Ubuntu (and Linux) has come a long way the last couple of years. Unfortunately I wasn’t quick enough to get a picture when one of the speakers, Christian Lanng, booted his laptop while it was plugged into the projector and revealed that he is in fact running Ubuntu.

You can find resources (presentations etc.) from the conference and discussions of the conference at Digitalisér.dk (in Danish).

Fredagsrock kalender

På opfordring følger her en kalender med Fredagsrock 2009 programmet.

Du kan også hente .ics (ical) eller en .xml fil, til at importerer i dit favorit kalender program.

Hvis du finder fejl i kalenderen så kontakt mig endelig – og husk nu på at det ikke er mig der styrer Fredagsrock. Hvis jeg har skrevet forkert eller koncerter bliver aflyst så er det altså ikke noget jeg tager ansvar for.

Vi ses i Tivoli.

Wikimedia Danmark

Ved en tilfældighed bemærkede jeg at der på lørdag d. 14. marts er stiftende generalforsamling i Wikimedia Danmark. Se forslag til vedtægter.

Jeg er selv aktiv og begejstret bruger af mange af Wikimedias projekter, specielt Wikipedia, men har aldrig rigtig involveret mig i arbejdet der ligger bag. Men jeg har stor respekt for dem der gør og jeg nyder til daglig godt af deres store arbejde.

Hvis du har lyst til at involverer dig i det danske arbejde med Wikimedia er det måske en ide at møde op på i København på Dag Hammarskjölds Allé 30 kl. 14 på lørdag d. 14. marts 2009.

Ubuntu vs. Vista… vs. Xenu vs. Colbert

Bryan Quigley gjorde via Planet Ubuntu opmærksom på at det er muligt at komme med bud på hvad det 3. modul på den internationale rumstation, ISS, skal hedde.

Opfordringen i Bryans blogpost var selvfølgelig at stemme på Ubuntu som navn, og som god loyal Ubuntu bruger begav jeg mig straks til siden, men stoppede så op. Det var klart at Ubuntu er at foretrække som navn frem for Vista (som også er på top ti listen i skrivende stund), men Colbert og Xenu er altså også ret gode navne. Mere humoristiske end Unity og Harmony men måske ikke helt så ærværdige – men stadig pokkers sjove!

Jeg skal ikke afsløre hvad jeg endte med at stemme på, men hvis du har lyst til at påvirke hvilket navn det 3. modul på den internationale rumstation får, så er det nu du skal hoppe over til:
http://www.nasa.gov/externalflash/name_ISS/index.html

Tivoli fredagsrock

Så er det vist på tide at få fornyet mit årskort til Tivoli for jeg har netop set deres Fredagsrock program.

Det ser godt ud! …eller, der er i hvert fald nok navne jeg gerne vil se til at det kan betale sig at købe et årskort.

Læserne af politikens IBYEN er lidt mere bitre, men bare fordi det appellerer bredt behøver det jo ikke være dårligt.

Conference about Open Source Software

As part of the Danish LoCo Team I have been invited to attend the conference Open source-software i det offentlige (Open Source Software in the public sector) on March 19 in Copenhagen.
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The conference is a part of the governments software strategy (as formulated here in Danish) and is hosted by the Videnscenter for Software (the people who run The Software Exchange).

Hopefully we (along with the other open source projects and companies present at the conference) can convince some of the decision-makers and IT professionals in the Danish public sector that Open Source Software is a useful alternative to the current closed source solutions being used throughout the public sector.
In the Danish Team we have been discussing what arguments are best used to convince this audience. Our experience when it comes to advocacy has been mostly with individuals who need an alternative for their machine with Windows and MS Office at home. But what arguments will work best at this conference?
Some of the top selling points we came up with on our mail list seem to be:

No malvare (viruses etc.)
Low TCO
Easy to administrate

There are of course many other advantages of Ubuntu and open source software, but what would be your top three selling points to this audience?

(Links to the conference on Facebook and LinkedIn.)

FysikRevyTM

So Esben, how did you enjoy the FysikRevy^TM?

I found it very entertaining. It lasted for more than three hours, and was packed with different skits, ranging from the more political with critique of the leadership of the faculty and the minister of science to the more absurd where a scientist presents his theory that everything consists of bananas.

As is tradition with the student revues at the faculty of science at KU the audience participated in the show to a great extend, with shouts, cheers and lots of Skål.

All in all a fun evening.

This is Sparta!

I sidste uge, på vej til uni, fangede mit blik Leonidas fra 300 i et kældervindue. I går fik jeg så taget mit kamera med, så jeg kunne dele med dig, kære læser af min blog.

Kældervinduet tilhører KBH Kunst, der ligger på Øster Søgade – lige ved Fredensbro. 300 er i øvrigt filmen som Gabe fra Penny Arcade mener at alle mænd bør sværge til – og dem der ikke gør… tjah