This is a collection of web pages and web sites of Jan Frick. Some of this will be located with this home page, and some will physical be at other locations. The picture above is not from our Skeie hut, but it could hve been as this kind of sight is common there.
Stavanger Macintosh User Group, SMUG, is a nice place for exchangig ideas and helping each other on issues regarding use of Macintosh computers. Three friends and I started the group in 1985, and even if some people leave and some new arrive, we have run the group with 8-9 meetings a year since then. See www.ismug.no for mode information. We all miss Steve; a memory
IMIbrass is a weekly place for playing trombone with friends and take part in competitions.
Ancestor research: MyHeritage-Frick & Relatives. Some time in the early 80-ties I started to write down facts about ancestors and relatives. Even if the close family is small, the number of people increases really fast when going back some steps and then forward again. First much came from "Bygdebok for Nes" and "Bygdebok for Sirdal" (and I am not through these yet), and then I came across ancestor books for the families Schanke and Frick. Both are from 1890 so many newer relatives are missing. After that advances goes slower as search in church books and people countings at internet takes time. New last year was the MyHeritage publishing at the web which enabled cross-checking with other people searching for ancestors, and also giving my own relatives a chance of providing feedback and updates. Almost 100% of ancestors in Norway is on the coast and in mountains between Risør and Bergen, but many ancestors came from abroad, most Sweden, Denmark and Germany. Oldest ancestors found so far (with an acceptable certainty) is a guy called Bugge who was ordered killed by king Valdemar Hvide in the danish civil war in the 1250 or so. Another is a guy called "Trond i Hundvåg" mentioned in 1300, and a german family from before 1100 that was one of the electors of the German-Roman emperor.
I also appreciate the books from Justøy by Ellen Govartsen Tørgersen. She covers much of my grandmas relatives and writes much about the context of Justøy.
A new good book is the 2011 book from Øyvind Foss who covers many of our common relatives from 2nd world war in Kristiansand.
A main issue whn doing ancestor research is the large number of people and families involved when one gets to more than 10 ancestors backwards.
Entrepreneurship week: E-clic project. This was a conference week we set up in 2009 as part of the e-clic project. I keep it since it has intresting topics and is really first time we managed to coordinate sound and two videostreams with a good quality.
APMS 2011 conference. This is a conference organized each year by the IFIP wg 5.7 IFIP is the International Federation for Information Processing. IFIP have several international technical groups, and these have each a number of workuong groups. So Technical Group 5 have working group number 7 which was established in 1978. I have been a member since early 90-ties. I was i charge of the APMS2011 conference. It was a lot of work but great fun and much dialogue with colleagues and friend´s from many countries. The afterwork is to edit the papers to a published conference proceeding.
iTract: A new InterReg NorthSea project starting 2012 on combining WiFi communication and public trafic control.
Min Novation: A project seeking new methods and equipment for cleaning waste from mines and petroleum drilling. It is an InterReg BalticSea project.
Coll Living Lab: A Nordic project designed to investigate and test how development projects can benefit from involving users/ clients and international collaboration into the development process.
