International Free Software Forum - Call for Papers
"Fernanda G. Weiden" <[email protected]>
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Hello Mako, Micah, Michelle, others... International Free Software Forum - Call For Papers One of the largest Free Software event in the world, the 5th edition of the International Free Software Forum called for <a href="http://papers.softwarelivre.org/">papers</a> on February 5th. Proposals due on March 7th. Pushing the Free Software ahead in the emerging economy countries like Brazil, the <i>Projeto Software Livre Brasil</i> (Brazilian Free Software Project) is pleased to announce the <a href="http://papers.softwarelivre.org/">call for papers</a> for the 5th edition of its <a href="http://www.softwarelivre.org/forum2004/">International Forum</a>. Past events already gathered around 4 thousand people, and had 236 talks given by Free/Libre and Open Source Software developers and advocates. Past speakers include HP's Bdale Garbee, Ximian's Miguel de Icaza, Linux International's Jon 'maddog' Hall, MySQL's David Axmark, FSF's Richard Stallman and Timoty Ney, LTSP's Jim McQuillan, just to mention the most prominent ones. The 4th edition (2003) had participants from Brazil, Germany, Argentina, Spain, USA, France, Netherlands, Paraguay, Peru, Russia, Uruguay, Costa Rica, Mexico and Sweden. More countries are expected this year.