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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/ |