Nicht lange suchen: Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation: Gutachten

Pressemitteilung 036/2008 vom 27.02.2008: Expertenkommission Forschung und Innovation legt ihr erstes Gutachten vor

[ Datum/Zeit: ] Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:59:26 +0100
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Brima ;-)

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat heute dem nordrheinwestfälischen Verfassungsschutzgesetz, das die sog. Online-Durchsuchung von Computern und anderen informationstechnischen Systeme erlauben sollte, eine deutliche Absage erteilt. Zugleich definierten die Richter ein neues Grundrecht, das den Bürger in seinem digitalen Leben weitgehend vor dem Zugriff des Staats schützt.

2008-02-27

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Bier ausgeben [lassen] und andere notwendige Bestandteile, um Projekte voranzubringen.

Interview with Tristan Nitot, President, Mozilla Europe,
by Sean Daly [Ogg]
Q: This is Sean Daly reporting for Groklaw. I'm at FOSDEM in Brussels, and I'm seated here with Tristan Nitot who is president of Mozilla Europe. Thank you very much for being with us today.
Tristan Nitot: Oh, it's a pleasure.
Q: I would like to ask you a few questions. First of all, could you tell me how many Mozilla developers are here in Brussels this weekend?
Tristan Nitot: It depends what you call a developer. I would rather say contributor. We're, I think, pretty close to a hundred.
Q: A hundred? Now, let me ask you another question: What do 100 Mozilla contributors do together in a room?
Tristan Nitot: Well, we communicate. We socialize. You know, we collaborate on a daily basis using electronic means; we use Bugzilla, we use IRC, we use e-mail. But nothing replaces the bandwidth of, you know, human interaction and face-to-face. And nothing replaces the fact that you share a beer with someone you've been maybe fighting a bit over time on such-and-such feature that was not included or was, you know -- you don't always agree when you work together, and especially it's easy to fight on e-mail or stuff like that, but when you're facing the person and you say, 'OK, let me buy you a beer', and suddenly things go smoother again. So it's very important to meet in person.

Sun, 24 Feb 2008 11:11:34 -0500
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Bitte zunächst lesen und erst eine Testinstallation vornehmen!

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Till Tantau submitted version 2.0 of the TikZ/pgf 
package to CTAN. PGF is a macro package for creating graphics. 
It is platform- and format-independent and works together with the most 
important TeX backend drivers, including pdftex and dvips. 
It comes with a user-friedly syntax layer called TikZ. 
Location on CTAN: /graphics/pgf/base 
License: lppl 
Release notes: 
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> This new version of the TikZ and pgf graphic packages comes with a 
> large number of new features, too numerous to list them all. Hilights 
> are Mark Wibrow's decoration library, Mark's new shapes, the improved 
> notations for doing geometric drawings, fadings (the transparency 
> version of shadings), easy shadows, improved support for systems like 
> xetex, as well as countless bugfixes. 
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> This version *may break existing code* (hence the big version step). 
> We tried to make sure that 99% of all code will still work exactl...

2008-02-22T20:22:17

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On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 Till Tantau submitted the new translator 
package to CTAN. 
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/translator 
License: lppl 
Announcement for the package: 
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> The translator package is intended to provide an open platform for 
> packages that need to be localized. Unlike the babel package (which 
> can and typically will be used together with translator), the set of 
> words that can be translated is not fixed and new words and 
> translations can be added in a simple manner. New translations can be 
> added in a decentralized manner. 
> 
> The package is written in completely LaTeX and it is quite 
> lightweight. It could very easily be ported to plain-TeX or ConTeXt, 
> provided there is a 'public demand' for this. 
> 
> A typical application of this package is the beamer class, which 
> already uses it, if it present. Then words like 'Theorem' will be 
> translated to 'Satz' if the document la...

2008-02-22T20:24:08

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In der kommenden If Fase werden wir über das Buch (in der Rubrik Lesen) berichten.

Unter CC-Lizenz hat Rainer Kuhlen sein Buch 'Erfolgreiches Scheitern - eine Götterdämmerung des...

[ Datum/Zeit: ] Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:15:19 +0100

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Er hätte ja auch einen Didaktiker fragen können ;-)

Which is the must-have skill required to become a software developer? Good question, I seem to be getting a lot of questions nowadays for which I have only personal answers. Anyway, I personally think it is a problem solving approach. In fact, just skill might not be enough, it might also require a lot of will. The next important skill is to acknowledge that there can be multiple solutions out there, possibly better ones than you have already thought of. Building a software that is beneficial includes working with the constraints and restrictions under which it has to operate. And to achieve a balance of various parameters requires you to have multiple solutions with you. If you are wondering why the skills do not include anything about the code, I believe that writing good code also requires the problem solving approach. Almost everything that we do in software development is about solving problems.

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Abhijit Nadgouda
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Mich würde mal interessieren, wer wo in Deutschland überhaupt solche Daten (für das ganze Land!) sammelt und aufbereitet. Ich habe nämlich den Verdacht, dass dies nicht geschieht -- mir ist jedenfalls nichts bekannt -- dies ist eine Fleissarbeit, die regelmäßig erledigt werden muss. Wir brauchen eine Übersicht, wie ich sie 2001 für die gymnasiale Oberstufe für den Informatiktag NW in Paderborn zusammengestellt habe, aus der hervorgeht, wieviel Schülerinnen und Schüler in Deutschland Prüfungen im Schulfach Informatik machen:

• Informatik - Bestandteil des Abschlusszeugnisses für den mittleren Bildungsabschluss
• Informatikgrund- und -leistungskurse -- dabei ist bei den Grundkursen die Nicht-/Teilnahme am Zentralabitur anzugeben
• die Anteile von Mädchen/jungen Frauen sind an allen Stellen auszuweisen
• Über Migranten können offenbar keine vernünftigen Angaben gemacht werden, da die Schuldaten dies zur Zeit nicht hergeben; es wird die Staatsbügerschaft der Eltern erhoben und damit ist ein Migrationshintergrund nicht dokumentiert.

Nur mit detaillierten Zahlen kann eine politische Diskussion verbunden mit dem Aufruf, gelungene und misslungene Beispiele zu sammeln, geführt werden.

The College Board released its 4th Annual Report to the Nation for 2007 yesterday and the there are some very positive signs, but I am not sure they are positive enough.
After significant declines in the number of students writing the computer science A and AB exams in 2003, 2004, and 2005, it is good to see that the upward trend that began in 2006 is continued in 2007, with the number of CS text-takers increasing from 19,601 last year to 20,113 this year.
Even more importantly, AP CS has made some positive gains in the representation of both young women and minority students among the 2007 test-takers. Many of us in the computer science field have been profoundly concerned about the under-representation of young women and minority students in our discipline and we are thrilled to see an improvement in both these areas. The increases are not large, but they do indicate that organizations such as CSTA are making progress with their equity outreach efforts.

The number of females taking the computer science A and AB exams jumped 2% from 15% in 2006 to 17% in 2007. The percentage of Latino and Hispanic students (among the worst represented considering the overall size of this population in the U.S.) increased from 6.2% to 6.5% and the percentage of Black and African American students show a similar improvement from 3.4% to 3.7%. Unfortunately, however, even these gains represent less than an average of one additional student per group in each state.
While these increases in no way indicate that the challenge of making the discipline and the industry more representative have been won, they are an sign of progress. So many of us have been working to find ways to better engage underrepresented student populations: by providing better information about careers, providing more equitable access to AP courses for students, and by finding ways to teach that better engage all students. We have a long, long way to go, but it is so good to see that our efforts are beginning to have a concrete, measurable impact, even if it is not enough.
Are there things happening in your school or district to support the improved participation of young women and minority students? Please share your successes and failures with us. This is one challenge we are all going to have to face together if we are really going to make computer science more equitable.
Chris Stephenson
CSTA Executive Director

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 18:22:23 -0500
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Bereits in der achten Ausgabe der Fachseminarzeitung If Fase haben wir darüber berichtet, wie auf einfachste Weise mit pdflatex 2-D-Barcodes für bekannte Anwendungsfälle erzeugt werden können. Seit diesem Bericht werden Barcodes zunehmend auch in anderen Bereichen eingesetzt -- der wichtigste Bereich ist m.E. die Möglichkeit, damit die Eingabe von langen URLs für Mobiltelefone zu vereinfachen. Allerdings fehlen bislang effiziente und freie Möglichkeiten, um Barcodes zu lesen und die Daten daraus zu extrahieren. Vor allem eine Anbindung an S60 Python würde mich sehr interessieren. Dann könnte ich das auch im Unterricht einsetzen, um damit Datenerfassung (und mehr) mit dem Mobiltelefon zu thematisieren. Unter unixoiden Systemen stellt zumindest die Erstellung kein Problem dar.

You've probably seen them: black and white checkerboard-patterned matrices printed on labels and other real-world objects that you can optically scan with a cameraphone or other handheld device to extract an encoded message. But although 2-D barcodes (as they are known) are getting more common, working with them is still a bumpy road for the Linux and free software crowd. Fortunately, several options exist for reading and generating them with open source software.

Fri, 15 Feb 2008 21:00:00 GMT
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