A new Free Software Competence Center opened in Brazil. Inpired by CCSL-USP, in the last April, 25th the CCSL of the Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Norte (IFRN) was officially born. The CCSL-USP congratulates the initiative and wish success for the Rio Grande do Norte "brother".

CCSL promotes the presentation “Economic perspective to online privacy” by  Vijay Erramilli, a research at Telefonica Research.

Date: 10/05 (sexta-feira)
Time: às 10hs
Where: Sala B-05 IME-USP

The 1st Hackathon of Educational Data promoted by INEP and the Lemann Foundation was held at Brasília, the capital of Brazil, from April 12nd to 14th. The team, with students from IME - USP, formed by Carlos Eduardo Moreira dos Santos, Fabrício de Sousa Nascimento, Marcelo Granja, Pedro Luis Furio Raphael e Thiago Oliveira de Paiva won the third place.

The USP FLOSS Competence Center with the help of the PoliGNU group invite everyone to the II FLOSS Week at USP (SSL-USP)

From April 22rd to 27th, the week will feature several lectures and workshops in multiple campus of the University of São Paulo to promote and discuss about FLOSS and related topics.

On March 26 and 27 we will have the pleasure of attending the lectures on Using Qualitative Methods in Empirical Studies of Software Engineering and on Measuring and Monitoring Technical Debt by Carolyn Seaman, Associate Professor of Information Systems at the University of Maryland  and research Fellow at the Fraunhofer Center for Experimental Software Engineering.

Date: March 26th and 27th
Time: 14:00h
Where: Room 144, B building, IME-USP

The CCSL invites everyone to attend a sandwich-lunch+lecture on Dropbox with Dan Wheeler, one of the developers of the system.

Date: 13/03/2013
Time: das 12 hs às 14hs – lunch will be served during the meeting
Where: Auditório Antonio Gilioli – Bloco A - IME-USP

On Wednesday, March 06, 2013, a master's degree defense titled "Improving Grammar CoGrOO Broker" will be held at IME/USP. CoGrOO is a project of the FLOSS Competence Center at USP (CCSL).

Date: Wednesday, March 06, 2013.
Place: Sala 7, Bloco B do IME
Time: 14h00

Linux-savvy IT pros are in high demand, low supply
Hiring managers are paying top dollar for open source smarts, but struggle to find IT workers with sufficient skills.

Read more in: http://www.infoworld.com/t/linux/linux-savvy-it-pros-are-in-high-demand-...

The city council of the Swiss city of Bern has voted for a switch to free software IT solutions.
Contrary to many similar cases, this isn't a experiment, it's a political decision to rid the city of vendor lock-in.

Read more in http://www.muktware.com/4955/swiss-city-bern-switch-free-and-open-source... (in English)

The CCSL invites you to attend the first meeting of users in Brazil Jenkins will happen in the IME/USP, with the presence of Kohsuke Kawaguchi creator tool.
Date: 01/12/2012
Time: das 13hs às 18hs
Where: Bloco B (IME/USP)