Every month the GruPy-SP members get together to discuss, chat and/or code.
This month we will meet to watch/present some lightning talks and to talk about our participation at the Fórum Internacional de Software Livre (FISL 10).
The meeting will be hold at the SP HackLab, May 23. More details (in pt-br): GruPy-SP wiki.
See you there 
At FISL 9.0 occurred the second OLPC GameJam Brasil (if you don’t know what is GameJam, take a quick look here). The difference from the GameJam occurred in São Carlos is this time we were inside FISL, an event with more than 7,000 people attending and not in a nice and peaceful laboratory
Together with all this people there were lots of interesting talks going on simultaneously and a lot of nice people to talk to. Because of this “details” we started coding whit only 6 hours left for the deadline
This GameJam with me were Andrews Medina and Luciano Pacheco, I met both from Python Brasil community (on PyConBrasil last year). We decided to develop a “Genius” clone for the XO, using it’s special “game-keys” and the “tablet position”. With only 6 hours to develop a game you can imagine that we were not even thinking about the graphics at all, but, suddenly a nice guy named came and offered himself to make pictures for our game. It happens that the guy was Valéssio Brito and he is an “Inkscape genius” (sorry… 
), in less than one hour he made some cool graphics. That re-excited us and we went on with our code (less than one hour left for the deadline).
At 20h05, five minutes after the deadline, we finished the game, installed it in XO and send to the organization. It was very nice and as Pacheco said, it was one of the best experiences I could do in FISL for me 
I must say that Andrews was shaking (like a “vara verde” as Luciano said) at the time we delivered our game…
From left to right: Valéssio, me (with the XO), Andrews and Pacheco
Thanks Pacheco, Andrews and Valéssio, it was very nice to participate
Thanks to the LEC/UFRGS people that organized the GameJam and thanks to the PyGame folks becuase they’ve developed this wonderful library
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!
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
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!
Free Software enthusiast, music lover, bike commuter and eventually geocache hunter :)
Python programmer and GNU/Linux user
To reach me: brunogola@gmail.com or #python-br @ irc.freenode.org :-)
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