BrazilianEvents:2010/LatinoWare

Introduction to LatinoWare

This wiki post was a lot based on resources provided by Rodrigo Padula, which is a long time contributor to many open source projects and activitist and organizer of many efforts in LatinoWare ( Ask Rodrigo about his past 4 years in LatinoWare ). LatinoWare is a major open-source event that happens at the border of Brazil, Paraguay, and Argentina.

LatinoWare is a bit different than FISL in Brazil. This event provides a framework more focused towards talks than in the booth fair area. The assumption and understanding ( Rodrigo and Eduardo Urculu comments ) is that LatinoWare is more a place for focused talks. There is also an understanding that any sort of place of meetup is important so that would be like a HeadQuarters so that contributors and new folks can meet up to get answers to their questions, to meet each other, learn more about the project, get involved, and so on.

This event is focused in Latin America so it is interesting to have folks from Chile, Paraguay, Argentina ( the folks that are interacting more so far ) and other countries in Latin America too. This is a great chance to straighten the relation between the countries in south america and to focus meetups for contributors and developers within the project. These exercises of interaction among countries is key to develop the ideas of openess in the latin america.

LatinoWare General Organization and Support

Itaipu is the organizer of the event. They always support FLOSS comunities to get to LatinoWare. Each south american Mozilla community is recommended to talk with their grade organizer, Mr. Cesar Brod, so check how Itaipu can provide support to bring keynote speakers.

In general, and based on Rodrigo's past experience with LatinoWare, their organizing comittee provides about 8 slots to sessions to each community/topic area. They usually organize all the topics in the same room so this aligns a bit with the model that Mozilla used in the past where you can have a bunch of folks interested in a project in the same area. Sometimes the talks can be in a row and in other cases can be arranged in the grade - again Mr. Cesar Brod is the grade lead for LatinoWare.

The Venue: Itaipu and Foz do Iguaçu

Itaipu is a government organization and facility - they are also a major hidro electrical powerplant and reach out to major efforts such as LatinoWare but not limited too.

The city of Foz do Iguaçú has many attractions such as the cataratas which is a key turistic spot in Brazil featuring a complex of waterfalls one can see only in dreams. The city has a good infra-structure featuring pubs, restaurants, and the famous shopping in the paraguay side ( this is only important for Brazilians as we have huge taxes in Brazil and Brazilians are allowed to come back from Paraguay with about U$200 dollars without paying taxes .)

Please add links here to the venue etc.

Brazil: Contribution to LatinoWare

Rodrigo Padula ( attended and organized many FLOSS communities in past LatinoWare ) and Andrea Balle ( champion to marketing and community in Brazil ) are working with LatinoWare organizers, Mr Cesar Brod, to have the speakers from Brazil in their agenda. Rodrigo spoke with Mr. Cesar to enphasize the importance of this year's Mozilla contributions to have strong technical and engaging talks to cover the important areas in the Mozilla project, such as Jetpack and Core development. Andrea plans to cover the commmunity and marketing side. The plan of coverage for Brazil, so far, seems to be for 4 key note speakers to have full costs depending on proposals. If you have a proposal please work with Andrea and Rodrigo on that.

Mozilla Corporation/Foundation and Support from Others

Perhaps Mozilla peers model can be used to provide support to the speakers from many countries. The following is a list of people that can provide peer review to talks, not exactly folks that are intended to talk at LatinoWare, but folks that are involved in projects - list name and area.

• Marcio Galli - Jetpack SDK - can provide reviews to Brazilians that wants to speak in LatinoWare to talk about Jetpack;
• ____ add your name here, ____ area ___

Other needed things

Feel free to edit this document ( ie add a new section ) to bring up topics that can help all the countries to organize ideas and interactions towards the ideals of the Mozilla project.

Reviews and Notes about Changes in this Document

• Marcio Galli, Brazil, mostly *typed* original content based from a huge, technical and insightful e-mail, with lots of focused and precise information about LatinoWare, that was provided by champion and catalyst Mr. Rodrigo Padula in Brazil. Rodrigo is a long time contributor to the Mzoilla project, brought presentations from USA to Rio at UFRJ, organized parties in Rio and has extensive FLOSS community organization work done for open-based FLOSS projects such as the Fedora project.