# SOME DESCRIPTIVE TITLE # Copyright (C) YEAR Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This file is distributed under the same license as the PACKAGE package. # FIRST AUTHOR , YEAR. # #, fuzzy msgid "" msgstr "" "Project-Id-Version: PACKAGE VERSION\n" "POT-Creation-Date: 2011-03-08 17:16+0100\n" "PO-Revision-Date: YEAR-MO-DA HO:MI+ZONE\n" "Last-Translator: FULL NAME \n" "Language-Team: LANGUAGE \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 "The year of the FreedomBox" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #, no-wrap msgid "[[!meta date=\"2011-03-08\"]]\n" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #, no-wrap msgid "[[!tag debian blog editorial]]\n" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "I am involved in developing something coined as the [FreedomBox][]." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "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?" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "Annoying question! And clever :-)" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "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)." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "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\"." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "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:" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "" "I work on Freedom-enabling technologies and ways to frame them for the World " "at large to move itself." msgstr "" #. type: Plain text msgid "I sure hope you take the results for granted. That's true success!" msgstr "" #. type: Plain text #, no-wrap msgid "" "[FreedomBox]: http://wiki.debian.org/FreedomBox\n" "[mum]: http://ingersblog-inger.blogspot.com/\n" " \"Inger Smedegaard\"\n" "[the Year of the Linux Desktop]: http://lwn.net/Articles/258874/\n" "[OLPC]: http://one.laptop.org/\n" " \"One Laptop Per Child\"\n" "[Prophet]: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/about/team/#eben\n" " \"Eben Moglen\"\n" "[before]: http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Interview-Eben-Moglen-Freedom-vs-the-Cloud-Log-955421.html\n" "[initially]: http://penta.debconf.org/dc10_schedule/events/641.en.html\n" "[repeatedly]: http://www.softwarefreedom.org/events/2011/fosdem/moglen-fosdem-keynote-highlights.html\n" "[since]: http://mediasd.cbsnews.com/media/2011/03/06/eve_sieberg_306_1100.m4v\n" "[Sugar]: http://sugarlabs.org/\n" " \"Sugarlabs - powerful software invented for OLPC\"\n" "[Debian]: http://www.debian.org/\n" " \"Debian - the Universal Operating System\"\n" msgstr ""