Open Source is everywhere. Every day we see news of it entering new verticals from hardware to software. It feels like a movement that can’t be stopped. The Open Source development model is now adopted at large by the industry with GitHub and Gitlab being great facilitators in this process. The transformation is also happening in the business model level. From the mega IBM + Red Hat deal to small startups going to the market releasing their software as Open Source.
If you live in the so-called first world a lot of what was said above is nothing new, but the world is much larger than that and such message didn’t arrive everywhere yet. …
Some time ago I wrote about the journey of the Linux graphics community and Google that enabled Android to finally use the upstream kernel for their display support. This is huge win for both sides and something no one would thought possible 5 years ago. You can read the full story in Collabora’s blog:
On August 25th and 26th, 2018, the second edition of the Linux Developer Conference Brazil took place in the city of Campinas (Sao Paulo state) in Brazil. The first edition, in 2017, attracted 100 attendees with presentations from 8 speakers. This year the conference has grown bigger with 200 attendees and more than 30 talks in the schedule plus panel and lightning talks while at the same time doing the first step to become international. The first international speakers showed up and half of the content of the conference was delivered in English.
Be international is one of the main goals of the linuxdev-br, it wants to attract the Linux community from all over the world to integrate with the Brazilian community to share their experiences about many different subjects with the goal to promote more engagement from the Brazilian community to the Open Source world. In this second year of the event, Jon ‘maddog’ Hall, Ezequiel Garcia, Alvaro Soliverez and Erick Cafferata were the first international speakers of the history of the conference. …
Last Saturday we had the first edition of the Linux Developer Conference Brazil. A conference born from the need of a meeting point, in Brazil, for the developers, enthusiasts and companies of FOSS projects that forms the Core of modern Linux systems, either it be in smartphones, cloud, cars or TVs.
After a few years traveling to conferences around the world I felt that we didn’t have in Brazil any forum like the ones outside of Brazil, so I came up with the idea of building one myself. So I invited two friends of mine to take on the challenge, Bruno Dilly and João Moreira. …
