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The Eclipse Foundation performed, in April 2010, a survey among the Eclipse community to learn about the relationship between its members and FLOSS. This survey highlighted several relevant aspects that point to a growth in the adoption of FLOSS among developers in general. The main aspects identified were:

The Wall Street Journal published an article on how the open source development model adopted by Linux influenced the decision by GlaxoSmithKline to publish their data on malaria research. According to the paper, the company published scientifica data about 13,500 chemical compounds being studied for their possible uses against the disease.

O evento - pela primeira vez em São Paulo - visa apresentar experiências práticas de introdução de reúso em empresas por especialistas nacionais e internacionais e permitir a troca de experiências entre as empresas participantes do evento. Para isso o formato do evento conta com apresentações, tutoriais, sessão de trabalhos e um painel industrial, no qual empresas convidadas irão debater juntamente com o público e os especialistas convidados a prática de reúso no Brasil e no mundo.

Os keynote speakers do evento serão:

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On October 10th and 11th, the University of São Paulo will host the  Agile Meeting, one of the largest agile methods events in Brazil. This year, hundreds of professionals and students will attend the meeting, who will be in touch with some of the main brazilian figures in agile software development as well as with international guests of worldwide recognition in the agile community.

Joining the Software Freedom Day, an international event by the free software community, the CCSL, together with Sun Microsystems and Locaweb, will host an afternoon on free operating systems this friday, with two very interesting presentations: on Linux-Libre and on OpenSolaris.

Where: IME-USP Sala B-144
Date: sexta-feira, 25/09/09

CCSL invited to  Roger Brinkley' talk  (from Sun Microsystems), leader of the Community JME (Java Mobile and Embedded) on next Thursday at 14:00 in the auditorium Jacy Monteiro.

"The future of mobile development in JavaME"