“The Third Worldwide Free Knowledge Forum was held last week in
Maracaibo, Venezuela bringing together about 500 Venezuelan
developers and advocates of ‘Software Libre’ (Free-as-in-Speech
Software) as well as speakers from FLOSS projects in Spain, Brazil,
Columbia, the U.S. and Mexico. Many of the sessions were similar to
what we expect at OSCON—issues like open science, IP;
languages like Python, Perl; apps and projects like OpenOffice,
Bayonne. But there was also much activity around issues of specific
interest to Venezuela including local projects to use FLOSS in
social service programs and local efforts to prepare for the
upcoming massive migration of public agencies to open
source…”
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