Published on 2005-12-12 05:15:56
Jeff Zucker, software developer and anthropologist specializing in online education, databases, and issues of technology and society in Venezuela, have posted at the O'Reilly's Radar about Open Source in Venezuela. Jeff is also the co-author of the second edition of O'Reilly's Programming the Perl DBI, the standard reference work on accessing databases through the Perl language.
The Third Worldwide Free Knowledge Forum was held last week in Maracaibo, Venezuela bringing together about 500 Venezuelan developers and advocates of "Software Libre" (Free-as-in-Speech Software) as well as speakers from FLOSS projects in Spain, Brazil, Columbia, the U.S. and Mexico. Many of the sessions were similar to what we expect at OSCON—issues like open science, IP; languages like Python, Perl; apps and projects like OpenOffice, Bayonne. But there was also much activity around issues of specific interest to Venezuela including local projects to use FLOSS in social service programs and local efforts to prepare for the upcoming massive migration of public agencies to open source.
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