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@@ -3,13 +3,13 @@ [[!meta date="2011-03-08"]] [[!tag project debian]] -[FreedomBox] is a project to develop a tiny box usable by ordinary +[FreedomBox][] is a project to develop a tiny box usable by ordinary humans without special computer knowledge, to help gain independence from the disturbing centralization of internet services. -I am [[involved|year]] in the project, seeing it as a [Debian Pure Blend]. +I am [[involved|year]] in the project, seeing it as a [Debian Pure Blend][]. -January 2011 I gave an [interview] about my involvement. +January 2011 I gave an [interview][] about my involvement. [FreedomBox]: http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox diff --git a/fb/year.mdwn b/fb/year.mdwn index dac42c8..4a5ac48 100644 --- a/fb/year.mdwn +++ b/fb/year.mdwn @@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ [[!meta date="2011-03-08"]] [[!tag debian blog editorial]] -I am involved in developing something coined as the [FreedomBox]. +I am involved in developing something coined as the [FreedomBox][]. -Explaining it to my [mum] the other day, she wisely asks if, albeit +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? @@ -13,19 +13,19 @@ 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]. +[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 +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 +[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. +[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 @@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ 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 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. |