April Fools' Day - 5 years of http://www.it46.se
Alberto Escudero-Pascual
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2004 - 2009
Published: 30 Mar 2009
We started IT46 five years ago with the aim to bring new
technologies to the developing world. Making the world a
better place has been an engaging activity so far and
there is still lots of work to do. We had been traveling
to enough dusty places to understand that the world is
really broken and needs lots of patch work. Starting from
the scratch does not seem an option!
Back in 2004, we were not sure how long this company was
going to stay alive. We were not sure if it was going to
be possible to keep our visions and still make a living.
After five years of work, we are happy to say that we
still love our work and specially the people we have met.
Our vision has not changed: knowledge transfer, technology
for change.
During the last weeks in the cold Sweden, we have worked
in our new website. Rearranging the site has been a task
that took more time than expected, it has been a bit of
house and mental cleaning (rounding corners and organizing
material)... trying to merge together the 2GB of content
that we have produced in five years has not been a simple
task! The site contains 6000 files and 640 pdf documents!
In this new release of the website you can find an
integrated training curricula under Our Work nowledge
Transfer. There, you can find over 700+ pages of content
in seven thematic areas licensed under Creative Commons.
Copy them and let us know!
We have also compiled some of our software in an unified
SVN server and integrated our news section under one
single RSS
If you want to have a quick look to our work in the last
years, check the About us >> Reference Projects section or
our About us >> Annual Reports. The search option in the
website should help you find all the content. You can
search using our selected keywords and the search engine
will provide you also a simple link that you can share
with others or add to your website. Give it a try!
We hope to be around for another five years! Until then,
copy, adapt and improve. Gracias, Tack, Asante, Thanks!
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In many pre-Christian cultures May Day was celebrated as the first day
of summer, and signaled the start of the spring planting season. An
April Fool was someone who did this prematurely.
We obviously live in Sweden :)