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diff --git a/blends/asia2011/khammam.da.po b/blends/asia2011/khammam.da.po new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a89f46b --- /dev/null +++ b/blends/asia2011/khammam.da.po @@ -0,0 +1,157 @@ +# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE +# Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc. +# This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package. +# FIRST AUTHOR <EMAIL@ADDRESS>, YEAR. +# +#, fuzzy +msgid "" +msgstr "" +"Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n" +"POT-Creation-Date: 2011-11-22 04:18+0100\n" +"PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" +"Last-Translator: FULL NAME <EMAIL@ADDRESS>\n" +"Language-Team: LANGUAGE <LL@li.org>\n" +"Language: \n" +"MIME-Version: 1.0\n" +"Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\n" +"Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\n" + +#. type: Title # +#, no-wrap +msgid "Asia 2011 - Khammam" +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +#, no-wrap +msgid "[[!meta date=\"2011-10-19\"]]\n" +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +#, no-wrap +msgid "[[!tag debian blog]]\n" +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +msgid "" +"My first morning in India I woke up very late in [the house of Pavithrans " +"parents][]. Pavithran was out organizing events for us, his father was at " +"work, leaving me with his mother. She spoke little english - unsure if it " +"was lack of skills or she was humble, or perhaps she just felt as shy as me " +"in the situation." +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +#, no-wrap +msgid "" +"[the house of Pavithrans parents]: " +"http://www.openstreetmap.org/?way=61899027\n" +" \"House of Pavithrans parents on OpenStreetMap\"\n" +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +msgid "" +"How to, ahem, do your thing at a restroom when there is no toilet paper but " +"instead a bucket of water? I decided to not yell for help but use my " +"imagination." +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +msgid "" +"How to eat breakfast local style? I knew from dinner previous night with " +"Pavithran that local custom was to eat with my hands and that it (lucky for " +"me) was tolerated in India to use left hand, so turned down the kind offer " +"for a spoon. But were I supposed to mix rice with all the curries? Or one " +"at a time? In which order? What if a curry was too hot to dip my fingers " +"into? Was the liquid stuff to drink or to mix with the rice or eat " +"afterwards?" +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +msgid "" +"I asked for help, and first she just smiled at my alien useless language and " +"then when I persisted, she patiently demonstrated with her hands in my food " +"how to do. The only natural thing to do, really, and I dearly appreciate " +"her help and patiency. But wauw, it was mind-blowing to me! Since early " +"childhood, fingers in food is a forbidden thing: \"Don't play with the " +"food!\". On top of that, having someone else handle my dish while at the " +"table is something I associate with being very old and needing to be " +"spoon-fed." +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +msgid "" +"In the afternoon we went for a small hike to an old stone fortress in the " +"middle of Khammam - with a great view of the sun setting." +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +msgid "" +"Next day we went to Sarada Institute of Technology & Science where I gave my " +"first [talk][] to about 100 students. I had intended to provide concrete " +"facts on Debian generally and on my pet project, Debian Pure Blends, but " +"then the night before decided to radically shift focus to their situation in " +"the early twenties - as best as I could imagine it. Pavithran had clearly " +"expected a different style talk, but I liked it and believe it was received " +"well by the audience as well." +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +#, no-wrap +msgid "" +"[talk]: http://dr.jones.dk/blends/talk/khammam/\n" +" \"Talk slides: Debian Pure Blends\"\n" +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +msgid "" +"The teacher responsible for the event, Bhukya Jabber, afterwards asked for " +"hints on running Debian at their computer lab. I suggested to not lock down " +"access but instead make it easy to reinstall, and he explained how he was " +"quite interested in a larger degree of learning-by-doing (which I had also " +"promoted in my talk) but was constrained by curriculum dictated higher up " +"in the educational system." +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +msgid "" +"Late that day Pavithrans father introduced me to [CPM Khammam][] - the local " +"offices and community center of the [Communist Party][] - and a colleague of " +"his at the place, N. N. Rao. I instantly fell in love with the place and " +"its atmosphere, and now have an open invitation to come back to spend 1-2 " +"months to study and to collaborate with other users of the place (including " +"some kids hosted there) on Free Software." +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +#, no-wrap +msgid "" +"[CPM Khammam]: http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/node/630425208\n" +" \"CPM Khammam on OpenStreetMap\"\n" +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +msgid "[Communist Party]: http://cpim.org/" +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +msgid "Next morning we headed back by train to Hyderabad..." +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +#, no-wrap +msgid "" +"I am still amazed how radical it feels sticking my fingers into food.\n" +"Not the physical feeling (I am not _that_ disconnected from my body) but\n" +"similar to a discovery I had as a teenager: After 7 years of\n" +"piano lessons (and numerous other instruments less patiently) I gave up\n" +"because I felt it was too hard expressing personality through the\n" +"instrument. I then sang - as I had always done, just not treating the\n" +"voice as the serious muical instrument it then became to me.\n" +"Similarly I now learned that eating with the fingers is not just\n" +"yet another eating style like fork+knife or sticks\n" +" - it is the *natural* one. Obviously, in hinsight.\n" +msgstr "" + +#. type: Plain text +msgid "This text is part of my [[Asia 2011|asia2011]] scriblings." +msgstr "" |