gEDA-user: Showcasing gEDA on Wikinews?

[Karel Kulhavy <clock@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello

I got an idea how to showcase gEDA with Ronja on Wikinews.

I got an idea to write a reportage about how hardware based solely on the
idea of open source is getting into usage by substantial amount of people.

There are 128 installations of Ronja worldwide, most of them in Czech
Republic and anout 24 in Prague. The news could explain that the toolchain
(gEDA among others) is free software, that the project is using the same philosophy,
and a resulting product, which can be built yourself or commercially, is getting
into a little bit widespread use. Some
people are allegedly already building Ronja's for money for other people.
The main area where they are used is a network where people can communicate
for free, get cheap Internet connection and use the technology to raise their
qualification in the IT area, most importantly.

I think the fact a technology of a substantially complicated usable product is
completely transparent for the end user is something new
- do you think it's so important that it makes sense to pester the readers of
wikinews with it?

Anyway if you say yes I think it would be better if someone else wrote it
to prevent a heavy bias I would probably put inadvertently into the text.

CL<


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