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FISL 9.0 – 1. São Paulo -> Porto Alegre -> FISL!

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

There isn’t words to describe how I’m happy after this 3 days in Porto Alegre, attending to FISL. I’ll try to make a report of what happened, but it’s so much things that I’ll post it in parts.

So this is part one, and it starts at the São Paulo international airport (at Guarulhos-SP) on April 17th. Destination: Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul!

Airplane

With me were my two friends Marcelo Honório and David Kwast. Our flight was scheduled to leave at 4h30am. Well, it left exactly 4h25am, after one hour flying they announced that the Porto Alegre airport was closed due to bad weather conditions, and worse, all near airports were closed so went back to São Paulo international airport. We had to wait until 11am, when the Porto Alegre aiport opened again and all flights that were late started to leave.

After that we finally did it and went to PUC (the university where FISL happened) but what happened there is history for the next post, the first day report :-)

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FISL 9.0 – here we go again!

Tuesday, April 15th, 2008

I’m attending to FISL 9.0, the Fórum Internacional Software Livre (or Free Software International Forum) that happens every year in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul – Brazil, organized by the Brazilian Free Software Association (Associação Software Livre – ASL) and Projeto Software Livre – PSL-BR. I think FISL doesn’t need any introduction at all, it’s a well known and recognized event around the world.

This is the second time I’m going, the first was last year and I was very impressed about the organization, people and talks. It’s a very good chance to meet people that I talk only through mailing lists :-)

This FISL (9.0) is very special for the Brazilian Python community, it’s our first FISL as an association (APyB, Associação Python Brasil/Python Brazil Association) and we already have an exclusive track (called APyB, see the FISL program). In the program you can see the APyB track and the “Development: Python” track, both are about Python talks, but the first was given to APyB by FISL organization, the APyB had 10 slots where it could choose the talks and this talks doesn’t need to pass through the FISL evaluation process.

Is there any reason to think that this isn’t the “Python @ FISL” year? :-)

I hope everybody have a nice FISL!

See you at Porto Alegre!

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