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Sosialantropologi.org

The page has been created for "Sosialantropologisk Forening", a society made up of the four hundred students at the Institute of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. The organization consists of a main board, with several subgroups. Every one of these must have the ability to update its pages on its own.

BlindernFred.org

The site is owned by Blindern Fred (Blindern is the suburb where the university of Olso is situated, "fred" means "peace" in Norwegian), an activist group at the University of Oslo. The group seldom consisted of more than a handful of activists during its life span 2004-2007, but has nevertheless been able to set the Norwegian political debate in regular intervals around such themes as Norwegian participation in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan connected with Norwegian oil interests, the handing out of Nobel Peace Prize, the presidential elections in the USA, etc. An important ingredient in the group's success has been a well working media and Internet strategy.

lm.rv.no

The Party Red (former Red Voting Alliance) is probably the only Norwegian party with a dedicated web based national convention administration system. The national convention has as its task to decide upon new programs and resolutions. Up until 2001, the delegates wrote all suggestions on changes to these by hand on paper forms, these were typed in by a group of youngsters and send to party headquarters by email (the practice of using disks to send them back and forth was the first thing I rationalized away). There they were sorted according to the order in which they had to be voted on, put into word document, printed out, distributed to the various committees. After the committees were done working through them, their opinions were typed in and added to the world files by hand. Everything was then printed out again and distributed to the convention for the final voting process. The entire process was extremely labor intensive.

This page has been created gradually since then, and in the latest version it manages to do most of the sorting, control of editing rights by giving every delegate and each committee their individual password, and to make it all easier also for those not so familiar with computers, it always only shows the links/options that user needs at any given time. Now delegates can type in their proposals themselves, they are then automatically sorted and can be printed when the committees need to work with them. The committees can then insert their suggestions by themselves and everything can be printed out for final voting process with just a few clicks.

The system builds upon a combination of MySQl-database and Zope/Python-scripting. This makes it extremely flexible and easy to enhance according to new needs that might arise in the future.

SendMegTilKrig.org (Send me to war)

The campaign "Send me to Afghanistan" in which Norwegian and others with legal resident status in Norway sign up voluntarily to be deported, was thought out in connection with a number of Afghani activists who went on a protest march from Trondheim to Oslo (around 650km) and wre arrested ont eh night to the 21st of June 2007 in front of the Nrwegian parliament in Oslo. A number of them had been arrested and were just waiting to be deported just a few days later.

The page had to be created fast, and the Zope/Python scripts that connect directly with a MySQL server I had lying around from similar projects such as Get the soldiers home! and Pensjonsomkamp.no (offline, campaign against the changes in the Norwegian pension system). A few hours of configuration and some help with the design, and the campaign was rolling. It was mentioned in the largest Norwegian daily newspaper VG and the national leftist Klassekampen amongst others.