Update courtesy of Ronaldo Lemos: 7,400 people attended FISL!
Mitchell Baker, Chris Hofmann, Chris Blizzard, Taras Glek, Marcio Galli and myself just wrapped up an amazing visit to Porto Alegre for FISL, Brazil’s largest open source conference. The conference drew over 6,000 people from Brazil, Argentina, Portugal, Angola and more! I wanted to extend a huge thank you to Bruno Magrani, Ronaldo Lemos, Mario Rinaldi, Clauber Stipkovic Halic, Giullermo Movia of Argentina, Felipe Gomes, Antonio Gomes, Andre Pedralho, Fernando Silveira, Marcelo Terres, Juliano Bittencourt and everyone else who helped make our experience so great!
Some of the highlights:
- We met many, many, many passionate Firefox users. In fact, 6,000 of them and not nearly enough Firefox t-shirts to go around. You can imagine the stampede!
- Our Brazilian contributors helped conduct a workshop on the various ways to get involved with Firefox and Mozilla. Despite the heat and far off location we had a great showing of people. Stay tuned for video!
- In line with the Brazilian culture, we had a great community party to thank our Brazilian contributors and get to know some new people.
- Juliano Bittencourt of the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project took us to a local deployment where we met students who’ve been enjoying, customizing and learning with the computers. It was pretty amazing to see OLPC project coming to life.
It was great to see all the contribution that is going on in Brazil and to meet new volunteers. Thanks for the hard work!
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