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Friday April 13, 2007
Sun Free Software in Brazil
Sun's Open Source team is all over Brazil this week at
the FISL conference
and next week at TechDays.
In addition we are having several meetings with developers
from industry, academia and government.
The following Sun open source projects are represented:
On the way to meet Brazilian officials (Rich Sands, Bruno Souza, Sara Dornsife, Simon Phipps)
FISL Registration
FISL Opening (Bruno Souza and Javali)
FISL Opening (Simon Phipps)
Javali T-shirts (Bruno Souza -- one man force of Software Livre in Brazil!)
Community Voices: Fabio and Edgar with Simon Phipps
Sun Booth at FISL: Ray Gans and Rich Sands
There are about 5000 enthusiastic developers here as you see by the crush of people getting registered this morning...
Everyone we have met so far has been very friendly and quite curious about our plans for OpenJDK -- indeed all of Sun's Free Software portfolio. Last night we enjoyed a traditional south Brazilian dinner at a Churrascaria -- the local Brazilian BBQ specialty. Our dinner was accompanied by a Camparihnas: a local drink which resembles rum and is sweet with fresh pressed limes (delicious!).
FISL continues through this weekend and next week the Sun Team will go to Sao Paulo for TechDays (I'll be back in the USA). This is a great opportunity for us to learn from developers whose country is entirely committed to open source. It's very impressive when a developer of the tax return software (written in Java) tells us that this one application will be used by 23 million people in one state alone.
A big part of the opening ceremony was dedicated to the memory of Gilnei Marques who had written a journal which advanced the education of open source issues in Brazil. In Brazil open source isn't just about sharing code: it's about sharing information, ideas, ideals and helping the community of all citizens. Brazil is setting an example of empowering the community.
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Posted by tmarble ( Apr 13 2007, 12:45:38 AM CDT ) Permalink
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