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Wednesday June 17, 2009

FISL stands for "Forum Internacional Software Livre" in the Portuguese language and means "International Free Software Forum" in the English language. The punch line is "A technologia que liberta" and means "The technology that liberates".

This is the biggest event about free software in America and was attended by 7417 participants in 2008.

Just like "Freedom of Speech" is a basic human right, "Freedom of Software" is a basic right for the technology evolution. GlassFish gives you the freedom:

To Pick your own framework: Java EE, Ruby-on-Rails, Python/Django, Groovy/Grails, or any other
Choose your IDE: NetBeans, Eclipse, IntelliJ and others.
Over properietary Application Servers by providing highly reliable and production quality features like

Clustering/Load balancing
Secure, Reliable, and Transactional, and .NET-interoperable Web services stack (Metro)
Easy-to-use web-based administration console along with a powerful CLI

Offers dual open-source license (CDDL or GPL v2 w/ CPE)

Similarly NetBeans allows you to create Java, Ruby, Python, Groovy, PHP, C/C++, JavaScript, Java EE, Mobile, REST/SOAP, and a variety of applications. Eclipse also provides an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. MySQL is the world's most popular open source database.

Together, GlassFish, NetBeans/Eclipse, and MySQL liberates you from the vendor lock-in by offering you a compelling choice.

At FISL 10, learn how GlassFish, NetBeans/Eclipse, and MySQL provide a powerful feature-rich yet easy to use platform for developing/deploying your web applications. The complete details about the session are available here. I plan to show multiple demos during the talk that you may find useful in your regular work.

Where ? Porto Alegre, Brazil
When ? Jun 24-27, 2009

Click on the map below for coordinates of the venue:

Join the Facebook Group or follow on Twitter @fisl10.

Close to 6000 attendees have registered for FISL so far and am definitely looking forward to feel/enjoy the Brazilian spirit.

To Brazil, Capirinhas, Guaranas, Churascarias, Beaches ... La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La

Drop a comment if you are interested in a meal or run together :)

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Posted by Arun Gupta in General | Comments[10]

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Comments:

Arun,

Porto Alegre, the city from FISL doesn't have nice beaches and belive me, is very cold in this season.

But, if you like we can eat a very nice barbecue in a churrascaria. They make the best!

Regards and have a nice trip

Posted by Paulino Michelazzo on June 17, 2009 at 05:17 AM PDT #

Thanks Paulino!

I realize Brazil is in the southern hemisphere and so while we are enjoying late Spring here, it must be getting cold there. However I do hope to live some Brazilian culture there :)

Barbecue at a churrascaria sounds fun. Are you attending FISL ?

Posted by Arun Gupta on June 17, 2009 at 10:29 AM PDT #

Hi,

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Posted by Sierra on June 19, 2009 at 01:00 AM PDT #

Hi Arun,

Yes, sure, you can live a lot of our culture there, including the traditional culture of the south, called "gaúcho" and their derivatives.

I'm attending there for many years and in this time I'm doing a lecture about How to create and sustain a free software company. Also, close friend of Jon maddog Hall and Ryan Ozimek from Joomla, including many many others.

We're meet in the next week.
Best

Posted by Paulino Michelazzo on June 19, 2009 at 02:20 AM PDT #

[Trackback] I, along with several other speakers, presented at Javali (an ancillary event of FISL) earlier today. The event was sponsored by Sun Microsystems. Many thanks to Sou Java and RS JUG for organizing the event and thanks to Serpro...

Posted by Arun Gupta's Blog on June 23, 2009 at 06:47 PM PDT #

[Trackback] I presented on "Creating powerful web applications using GlassFish, MySQL and NetBeans/Eclipse" as the first talk of FISL 10 yesterday. The room was only partial full being the first talk of FISL but got packed towards the middle so...

Posted by Arun Gupta's Blog on June 24, 2009 at 08:56 PM PDT #

Posted by Arun Gupta's Blog on June 24, 2009 at 09:00 PM PDT #

Posted by Arun Gupta's Blog on June 25, 2009 at 09:34 PM PDT #

[Trackback] Continuing from Day 1 and 2 ... I participated in Simon Phipps Talk Show on GlassFish and that was fun :) The usual points: ~50% of the projects currently target GlassFish and that the number jumps to 73% when...

Posted by Arun Gupta's Blog on June 27, 2009 at 02:08 AM PDT #

[Trackback] FISL 2009 wrapped up over the weekend. Even though the conference officially ended on Saturday but the connections made there will certainly allow us to continue all the great momentum. The conference celebrates open source and it was certainly...

Posted by Arun Gupta's Blog on June 30, 2009 at 10:55 AM PDT #