BrOffice, the Brazilian OpenOffice, with a life of its own
Continuing our series of bringing information about the free software movement in Latin America to English readers, North by South interviewed Cláudio Filho (original in Portuguese), one of the people...
View ArticleInterview with Daniel Oliveira from the UTUTO project in Argentina
The UTUTO Project is a non-profit volunteer organization that incubates other free software/knowledge projects from Argentina. They maintain a GNU/Linux distribution all translated to Spanish, they...
View ArticleBrazil begins using the Open Document Format
The Brasília Protocol (now translated to English) started the process of implementation of the Open Document Format (ODF) within the Brazilian Government.read more
View ArticleImproving the democratic process with free software e-voting
As countries around the world modernize their public elections process, the big problem with electronic voting machines is that the market is moving slow to provide equipment which fulfills all of the...
View ArticleSERPRO chooses Debian GNU/Linux
Brazilian state IT company SERPRO (US$ 1 billion annual revenue) has selected Debian GNU/Linux as their preferred distribution for its thousands of GNU/Linux development and production servers. The...
View ArticleVenezuela adopts ODF as a national standard
"Speaking at the Second ODF Workshop in Pretoria, South Africa, yesterday, Carlos Gonzalez of the National Center of Information Technologies, announced that the Venezuelan government had formally...
View ArticleOpen Sustainability Network Event in San Francisco, this weekend
North by South will be participating in the Open Sustainability Network camp in San Francisco this weekend. OSNCamp is “a BarCamp style conference about free content and knowledge sharing in...
View ArticleSoftware libre conquista América Latina!
If you can read Spanish, the Madrid-based newspaper Público has come out with a nice article which surveys the Latin American open source movement: Linux conquista América Latina.read more
View ArticleExpresso Livre: an example of community/government free software...
The adoption of free software by governments, especially in Brazil, is starting to show us the trajectory of a migration that is not only about changing from one software to another or just saving...
View ArticleProtecting sovereignty with free software is a good idea and the duty of...
When journalists and FOSS advocates explain why governments and corporations in the developing world are rapidly migrating to free software, a lot of focus is put on cost savings from licensing and...
View ArticleTake Back the Tech Campaign in Central America
Today more than ever, it is important for women and girls to use technologies to improve their lives, especially in Central America.. In spite of this, there are amazing women from all the region, who...
View ArticleA look at free software in Ecuador
Marco Fioretti recently published an article (A look at free software in Ecuador) about his experiences at the Congress on Free Software and Democratization of Knowledge hosted in Quito, Ecuador....
View ArticleInterview with Anahuac from KyaPanel
KyaPanel is a panel to provide easy management in Gnu/Linux servers. Developed to increase the network administration, it supports mail management, samba management and many other features. The...
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