Some numbers of the event on this year: - 6,914 participants, from 12 countries
- 480 activities - 44 convoys - 161 people in the organizing committee, among ASL members, volunteers, hired consultancies and services. More can be found here - http://softwarelivre.org/fisl12/fisl12/noticias/closure-ceremony-in-casual-mood Best, Jomar On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@openoffice.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Jomar Silva <homem...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Last week during the FISL (International Free Software Forum) in Porto >> Alegre, the Brazilian Government's Free Software Implementation >> Committee decided to contribute with developers to the projects Apache >> OpenOffice.org and TDF's LibreOffice. >> >> The official press release and the signed 'Letter of Intent' can be >> found here - >> http://www.softwarelivre.gov.br/news/cisl-and-communities-strengthen-floss-office-suites >> . >> >> I hope that this is a solid first step for us in Brazil, and I also >> hope that it shows the need of a FLOSS Office Suite that we have here. >> >> I'll be working to get the developers on this mail list as soon as >> they' re appointed by their employers. >> >> I also did a presentation about Apache OpenOffice.org with Simon >> Phipps, inviting all Brazilian community to join us on the project. I >> plan to do a blog post on the next days talking about this >> governmental commitment, inviting other governments and individual >> contribution to work with us all. >> >> Best Regards, >> >> Jomar Silva >> > > Great news Jomar, I would have loved to be there. But I am glad that the > commitment for FLOSS office suites is still strong. > I know Brazil has a large investment in the suite and is the countries > interest that development keeps growing. > > -- > *Alexandro Colorado* > *OpenOffice.org* Español > http://es.openoffice.org >
