Free Software Festival this Saturday in Costa Rica
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| This Saturday, April 26th the Latin American Free Software Festival (FLISoL
| in Spanish) will be in full swing and everyone is invited to attend and
| receive free software for their computers. In this case “free” means exactly
| what we all know it to be and there’s no trick to it. The software being
| provided is created using open source code. Free open source software (OSS)
| is usually built and maintained by a network of volunteer programmers. OSS
| software is a great solution if you don’t want to pay a lot of money for
| software or don’t support illegal pirated programs.
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http://www.costaricapages.com/blog/technology/free-software-festival-this-saturday-in-costa-rica/872
Yesterday:
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.
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| 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
Recent:
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
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.
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| 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
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