Add pages on FreedomBox.

1 files changed, 57 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fb/year.mdwn b/fb/year.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dac42c8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fb/year.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+# The year of the FreedomBox
+
+[[!meta date="2011-03-08"]]
+[[!tag debian blog editorial]]
+
+I am involved in developing something coined as the [FreedomBox].
+
+Explaining it to my [mum] the other day, she wisely asks if, albeit
+clearly an exciting challenge we've picked, it really is doable?
+Agreed the World has gone sour, but is drastic change even possible?
+
+Annoying question! And clever :-)
+
+For some years, tech media has tried predict when Linux have reached
+momentum for ordinary users.  That current or next year was to become
+[the Year of the Linux Desktop].
+Funny thing, seen in restrospect, is how "the year" kept being postponed,
+and when finally [OLPC] paved the way for the boom of Netbooks and arguably we got
+there, the World had moved on: Now Free Sofware is as common and as
+usable on desktops as commercially driven systems. Is taken for granted,
+not praised, and we look forward for the
+Next Big Challenge (as geeks) or Next Big Excitement (as users).
+
+Perhaps a similar fate is to be expected for FreedomBox:
+[Initially] when sparking our interest, and [repeatedly] [since] while
+we still have nothing concrete to demonstrate at all - heck, even
+[before] we started haccking on it or knew the name of our dreams
+- our [Prophet] declared the Year of the FreedomBox.
+Not explicitly, but cleverly abstracted as "right now".
+
+I am excited and proud to be working on FreedomBox, and foolishly hope
+it will be ready for worldwide consumption in a very recent "right now"
+- well aware that most likely it won't happen like that.  Thing is,
+I don't care _how_ it happens, just that it does.  The trick is
+our way of working: Hacking might be expressed as larger projects,
+but really is juggling piles of smaller pieces of the puzzle,
+constantly ensuring that each piece is usable in more than one way
+and across more than one project.
+I do not _only_ work on [FreedomBox], just as I did not _only_ work on
+[Sugar] before that, or _only_ with [Debian] as my platform:
+
+I work on Freedom-enabling technologies
+and ways to frame them for the World at large to move itself.
+
+I sure hope you take the results for granted.  That's true success!
+
+[FreedomBox]: http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox
+[mum]: http://ingersblog-inger.blogspot.com/
+[the Year of the Linux Desktop]: http://lwn.net/Articles/258874/
+[OLPC]: http://one.laptop.org/
+[Prophet]: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/#eben
+[before]: http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Interview-Eben-Moglen-Freedom-vs-the-Cloud-Log-955421.html
+[initially]: http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/641.en.html
+[repeatedly]: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2011/fosdem/moglen-fosdem-keynote-highlights.html
+[since]: http://mediasd.cbsnews.com/media/2011/03/06/eve_sieberg_306_1100.m4v
+[Sugar]: http://sugarlabs.org/
+[Debian]: http://www.debian.org/