10th International FLOSS Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil

in
Jun-24-2009 - Jun-27-2009

Qualipso was present in the 10th International FLOSS Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, one of the largest free and open source event in the world with the presence of almost 10 thousand people. The event was held from June 24 to 27, 2009 and was visited by important members from the international FLOSS community, coming from governments, corporations, and FLOSS projects; this included Brazilian president, Lula, who visited the event and gave a speech.
Besides a Qualipso Competence Centre booth, a Qualipso track was held with 10 lectures related to the Qualipso Project and to the activities of the Qualipso Brazilian Competence Centre at USP.
During the event, hundreds of visitors came to the Qualipso Competence Centre booth and talked to the Competence Centre members to learn more about their work, discuss the associated projects, and discuss various collaboration opportunities. More information can be found at Centro de Competência em Software Livre website.

QualiPSo Newsletter May 2009

in

Qualipso co-organizes the Open Word Forum 2009: Where Open Source Leaders Meet

Free Libre and Open Source Software: at the heart of the Digital Recovery
Paris, October 1-2, 2009 – in partnership with the Open Source Think Tank. In 2009 again, Qualipso will co-organize the second edition of a new international event on Open Source, the Open World Forum. After the success of its first edition in 2008, the Open World Forum 2009 ambitions to create the leading global summit bringing together decision-makers from across the world to discuss the technological, financial and social impact of open source technologies.
Founded by a group of Open Source communities - including Qualipso - and heavyweight players from the IT industry, the Open World Forum has already brought together many of the main international IT players, most of the main FLOSS consortia, and a large network of research centers, innovation clusters and SMEs from five continents.
Within the Forum, Qualipso will organize an Open Source Competence Center Summit, bringing together the main international competence centers and promotional centers from the field of Open Source software. More information.