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[News] Leadership Change in Brazil Great News for FOSS Amid GNU/Linux Migrations

  • Subject: [News] Leadership Change in Brazil Great News for FOSS Amid GNU/Linux Migrations
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 04:29:25 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
FOSS in Brazil: An important shift in leadership

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| This is big news for Brazil’s Free Software movement. One of the earliest 
| public officials to champion FOSS in the world, Mazoni has earned a 
| widespread reputation as an effective administrator and a skilled manager of 
| FOSS migrations.   
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http://fringethoughts.wordpress.com/2008/04/26/foss-in-brazil-an-important-shift/


Recent:

Deploying KDE to 52 million young people

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| By the end of this year 29,000 labs serving some 32,000,000 students will be 
| fully deployed and in active use. 
| 
| By the end of next year (2009) those numbers will have swelled to 53,000 labs 
| serving some 52,000,000 students. 
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/04/deploying-kde-to-52-million-young.html


The brazilian Election Supreme Court migrates 430 thousand voting machines to
GNU / Linux

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| The brazilian Election Supreme Court announced at April 4th 2008, that the 
| 2008 elections at Brazil will use GNU / Linux electronic voting machines with 
| software digital authentication.  
| 
| The Tribunal Superior Eleitoral (the brazilian Election Supreme Court), 
| officially announced on April 4th, 2008, that the brazilian 2008 elections 
| will use 430 thousand electronic voting machines migrated from VirtuOS and 
| Windows CE to GNU / Linux and open source softwares for security and auditing 
| defined by proper law.     
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http://techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/tse_migrates_to_linux


Linux Voting Machines Save US$ 8 Millions in Brazil

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| Brazilian Goverment will save US$ 8 Millions in election between 2008 and 
| 2018. The economy is due to the use of Linux in the eletronic voting 
| machines, made by Procomp-Diebold,   
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http://www.brnews.info/index.php/2008/04/06/linux-voting-machines-save-us-8-milions-in-brazil/


ODF is now a Brazilian Standard: NBR ISO/IEC 26300 !!!

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| On the afternoon of last Tuesday (08/04), the final translated version of the 
| ISO/IEC 26300 was approved by members of the ABNT’s committee responsible for 
| that activity.  
| 
| According to the Brazilian laws, a National Standard needs to be written on 
| our native language (Brazilian Portuguese) and this is why we need to 
| translate and approve the translated text of any International Standard that 
| is adopted as a Brazilian Standard (called here NBR). ABNT is the Brazilian 
| National Body (NB) and handles all standardization efforts in Brazil.    
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http://homembit.com/2008/04/odf-is-now-a-brazilian-standard-nbr-isoiec-26300.html


OOXML: Brazil Says NO. Again.

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| It is now official. Brazilian vote was decided by consensus of the entire 
| technical team, including Microsoft crew’s: OOXML does not deserve to be an 
| international ISO standard.  
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http://avi.alkalay.net/2008/03/ooxml-brazil-says-no-again.html


Brazilian Enterprises Embrace Open Source 

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| Linux and related open-source software has gained an increasingly important 
| role among large local corporations in Brazil, according to a recent study. 
| 
| The Instituto Sem Fronteiras, a Brazilan research firm, found that 73 percent 
| of companies with more than a thousand employees are open source users.  
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http://www.crn.com/software/206904491


South America warms to Open Source

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| In South American countries, as in most other areas of the world, the 
| government is by far the biggest purchaser of software. Thus the Open Source 
| trend that is now established in the government sector across the continent 
| will doubtless spur Open Source adoption in the private sector.   
| 
| There are a variety of motives for Open Source adoption in play in there, 
| from the reduction in software costs to the desire to provide a "leg-up" to 
| the local software industry. However, the motivation of the Peruvian 
| government is unique in that the Peruvian supporters of the bill see "Open 
| Source" as a citizen's right. The ownership and responsibility for the use of 
| data and software have become a political issue in Peru.     
| 
| This is an idea that is unlikely to go away.
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http://argentinadiscovery.page.tl/South-America-warms-to-Open-Source.htm

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