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Free Software in … Latin America

Posted by: fredericknoronha on: October 5, 2008

Ryan Bagueros http://news.northxsouth.com/ | ryan@northxsouth.com | 76.210.162.198 commented this on the blog:
Wow, your blog definitely has an interesting premise. We run a blog which contains as much news about the Latin [...]

Free software solutions… from the sun!

Posted by: fredericknoronha on: October 5, 2008

Júnior Mulinari is the current president of Solis. Used Bablefish  to translate their home-page. Interesting… you can understand quite a bit in that way.
Some of the products they have listed include:

Solutions for the Educational Management
Fred – Manager of Web Contents
Gnuteca – System of Management of Quantity, Loan [...]

About Giovanni Maruzzelli, Asterisk, and celliax.org

Posted by: fredericknoronha on: October 5, 2008

Vickram Crishna recently announced on the India-GII mailing list about Giovanni Maruzzelli visit to India.
Vickram wrote:
Giovanni Maruzzelli will be spending some time around Chennai, Bengaluru and Hyderabad between 8 and 30 October, 2008. A terrific opportunity for lucky people in those cities to meet him.
I suggested to him to meet up with the techie [...]

Tania Pérez Bustos … Free Software, Colombia, India

Posted by: fredericknoronha on: September 22, 2008

Tania Pérez Bustos is a PhD student from Colombia doing fieldwork in India. Her research is on the educational and gender dimension of experiences like FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) that aim to popularize technology. She says, “I really liked the statement in the (BytesForAll) website in which you assume a critical position towards [...]

Brazil, and Brod

Posted by: fredericknoronha on: September 21, 2008

It was some time back — nearly five years ago — that work was being done to put together a report on FLOSS (Free/Libre and Open Source Software) in the “developing” countries. Cesar Brod was part of the team, and he focussed on Latin America. While searching for his section of the report (which I [...]