The Public Software is an initiative from Brazil’s government to provide free software as a public service to the society. It is a portal for communities of free softwares developed by the government and the private sector. All of the solutions are used in production sites inside of the major public institutions of Brazil and in the private sector.
In February 2009, at Havana, Cuba, was launched the project to internationalize the Free Software Portal, an initiative to help other count... Read Full Story
The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, confirmed that he will participate at the open ceremony of CONSEGI (Free Software and Electronic Government International Conference), which will take place at Brasília, August 26 to 28. This will be the second free software event in Brazil that the president participates. In June, Lula visit the International Free Software Forum (FISL) in Porto Alegre, where he met with John “Maddog” Hall, Richard Stallman and other members of t... Read Full Story
FSFLA (Free Software Foundation Latin America) was created in 2005 and on July 14/20 they had their first meeting during the 5th Free Software National Congress in Caracas, Venezuela. This meeting brought together the board members, Adres Castelblanco (Colombia), Octavio Rossell (Venezuela), Alexandre Oliva (Brasil), Quiliro Ordóñez (Ecuador) and Oscar Valenzuela (chile), as well as the president of FSF Richard Stallman and the observers Esteban Saavedra (Bolivia) and Daniel Yucra(Perú).
Dur... Read Full Story
Mercosur is the South American largest trad bloc, the full members are Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay (Venezuela application for full membership is still under process) with the associate members: Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. The 37th summit of Mercosur took place in Paraguay during July 23/24.
This was the ‘governments summit’ where the leaders from each country met to discuss trades and resolve conflicts while focusing on the welfare and development of th... Read Full Story
On June 28th,this website sadly reported that a military coup d’etat had deposed the democratically-elected head of state for Honduras, President Manuel Zelaya. This action sent shock waves through Latin America, which has been fighting for decades (and, arguably, centuries) against foreign-supported dictatorships. By the 1990s, most of these dictatorships had come to an end and were replaced by some of the most exciting and vibrant experiments in participatory democracy anywhere in the... Read Full Story
Three free softwares developed in Latin America are between the finalists of the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards. They are Elastix from Ecuador, Medical from Argentina and Process Maker from Bolivia. We already published about Elastix here at our blog and we will be publishing more information about Medical and Process Maker.
This Monday Atix Magazine would be publishing articles introducing this 3 projects. On August there would be an special about the Latin American finalists wit... Read Full Story
In many ways, the FISL Week represents the great achievements in Latin America over the last decade: countries that had spent decades under the repressive control of military dictatorships are now experiencing a historically unprecedented re-birth and the culture of information freedom that we write about on this news website is representative of what could be called the new “open source societies” all over Latin America. Since the end of the Cold War, only one military coup was a... Read Full Story
North by South has compiled this post which aggregates video, photos and articles about this year’s tenth anniversary of FISL, the Fórum Internacional Software Livre, held in Porto Alegre, Brazil. There were over 8,000 participants this year, including Brazilian President Lula da Silva! This page will continue to be updated as we find more links, so check back here or send us relevant links to include. Here is the Official NXS FISL10 Summary:
President Lula da Silva and the next presid... Read Full Story
North by South’s presentation at FISL10 is happening TODAY, Saturday, June 27, 2009 between 7pm - 8pm in 41F. Please join us to find out more about our unique, free software-based business model. Read Full Story
With a soaring popularity rating, President Luiz Inacio “Lula” da Silva is the most popular head of state in the entire world. A founding member of his party, the Brazilian Worker’s Party, and a former union leader who helped overthrow the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for decades, Lula has been instrumental in the historic shift within Latin America to progressive governments within a coalition that includes Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Cuba, Ecuador and about ... Read Full Story
