Travelogue available for Brazil's 6th International Free Software Conference (FISL 6.0)

Posted by dwheeler on Jun 23, 2005 12:20 PM EDT
www.dwheeler.com; By David A. Wheeler
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Travelogue describes conference from speaker's point of view, and discusses several issues raised by the conference

In June 2005 I went to the 6° Fórum Internacional Software Livre (FISL) -- the 6th International Free Software Conference -- in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Here’s a travelogue, which I hope you’ll enjoy. This should give you a glimpse of what these conferences look like from a speaker’s point-of-view, and it discusses topics such as Brazil’s relationship with open source software / Free software (OSS/FS), why OSS/FS is so strong in Brazil, how the word “free” in English is even more confusing than people first realize, and includes notes on OSS/FS Java implementations.

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