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It's interesting to be here in Casar de Caceres for the joined i18n+QA+FTPmasters Extremadura meeting.

Today, I've been sitting all day long in the biblioteca, which is used as hacklab, and just watched all great people around playing around with the concept of "tdebs".

That weird beast can be described in two words as a concept of deb packages that would be able to distribute translation data in a more independent way then "regular" deb packages.

Don't smash me as the concept is currently being twisted around in all directions by the nice folks here, to bring it to a great concept well suited for "side" material of our packages.

To get an idea, you can read the original concept that popped up during the 2006 i18n Extremadura meeting, but got transformed drastically by ideas exchanged at Debconf 8

All this is made possible because the concept is now a very important issue for Emdebian and is strongly pushed by Neil Williams, whose nickname shall now be "MisterT", by general agreement of the folks here.

What's really interesting right now is to see live discussions happening all the way round and see the concept slowly emerging from this. Something we could probably never do in regular mailing lists discussions or on IRC. We should really grant tons of rewards to the Extremadura region, and particularly out tireless César who again organised that meeting.

It's still hard to say what will emerge from this and we willprobably need some more such live meetings to have real implementations of these tdeb beasts, but this is really how I like to see free software development going on.

And now people begin to think about coding stuff and prepare patches, which is a good sign, in general.