On April 16, 2010, William Colen, a member of the CCSL (FLOSS Competence Center) at IME/USP, was awarded the Voo Livre (Free Flight)
Award, Development category, sponsored by the Brazilian National BrOffice.org Meeting, where BrOffice.org is the Brazilian OpenOffice.org community. The award is offered biannually to those who contribute in making an increasingly free society, allowing the BrOffice.org project to "fly" higher.
The OSOR (Open Source Observatory and Repository), maintained by the European Commission, has recently published the Procurement and Open Source Software Guideline document, which describes motivations for the adoption of FLOSS for governmental entities as well as practical aspects to consider during the procurement process for FLOSS-based solutions.
It has been a while since the portal for the White House (www.whitehouse.gov) has migrated their infrastructure to Drupal, a well known FLOSS CMS. Now, the site has announced, on April 21st, that it has made available, as free software, some new drupal modules developed in-house by them.
One of these interesting modules is "Node Embed", which eases the management of photos and videos within drupal.
Local: Auditório Jacy Monteiro - IME/USP
Date/Time: Apr 19 2010 at 4pm
Juergen Schmidt
Sun Microsystems - Hamburgo, Alemanha
A palestra irá explicar o conceito UNO (Universal Network Objects) e as vastas possibilidades de programação do OpenOffice.org. Ele mostrará o poderoso sistema de extensões e a possibilidade de se trabalhar no núcleo também.
Palestra: Busca na Web: problemas, soluções e desafios
Palestante: Dr. Berthier Ribeiro-Neto
Data: 28/abril/2010, quarta-feira, das 13:00 às 15:00
Banco do Brasil (Bank of Brazil), one of the largest corporate FLOSS users in the world, has started deployment of the same kind of solution on the Nossa Caixa Bank (recently acquired by BB). The first software to power the NCB shall be the BrOffice.org office suite (the localized version of the OpenOffice.org suite), which offers features similar to those of MS-Office. The suite has already been installed on 16 thousand BNC workstations, making it possible to work with the open standard ODF format.
Thanks to the support from the QualiPSo project and from Locaweb, the CCSL-USP was strongly represented at Campus Party Brasil in São Paulo/SP, from January 25th to 31st.
The FLOSS Competence Center CCSL supported the first Workshop on Computational Linguistics at USP-SP. The event, held on November 10, 2009, brought together professors, researchers and students from different units of the São Paulo campus of University of São Paulo, especially FFLCH, Poli and IME, for a course of lectures and discussions on the subject. A consensus among participants was the need to promote better interaction and collaboration between researchers from the different institutes, as well as providing a shared repository of resources and free tools.
Title: Communion Knowledge vs Intellectual Property: legal dilemmas
Speaker: Prof. Dr. Juliano Maranhão
Time: 14:00
Place: IME-USP Auditorium Antonio Gilioli
Date: Thursday, 10/29/09
CCSL invites to the lecture of Prof.. Dr. Juliano Maranhão, Faculty of Law of USP, with the title: Knowledge vs. Communion. Intellectual Property: legal dilemmas.
The Open World Forum brought together all the key players from the world of Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). The main theme of the forum was to ensure that open software plays an active role in the digital recovery.
Paris, October 2nd - As part of the Open World Forum, France hosted the first International FLOSS Competence Centres Summit.
