Brazil

Interview at FISL

September 9, 2009

A conversation on Radio Software Livre (FISL) about using video to communicate about open software. Bruno Souza interviews (and translates for) me and Aaron Newcomb. We later gave a more formal talk on the topic, but I don’t have video of that (yet).

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Brique da Redençao

July 14, 2009

Our last day in Porto Alegre, a bunch of us went to the open-air market at Brique da Redençao, which runs every Sunday from 9 or 10 am. The official booths even take Visa, though you have to go to one of a handful of special stands to use it, and ONLY Visa is accepted [...]

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O Teatro Mágico

July 13, 2009

The night of June 25th, Bruno took Teresa, Lynn and me to see O Teatro Mágico, a cross between a band and Cirque du Soleil. They were one of many groups in town for FISL because they release their music under a creative commons license – you can download it here. As you can see [...]

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Cachaça Tasting

July 9, 2009

^ this photo by Ludovic Poitou reminds me of Manet’s A Bar at the Folies-Bergère. Another group activity in Porto Alegre was an evening of cachaça tasting at Água Doce. Brazil’s national drink is made from distilled sugar cane juice, but beyond that there’s plenty of scope for variety in distilling and aging methods and [...]

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Churrascaria

July 7, 2009

Of course while we were in Porto Alegre we had to go to a churrascaria. This method of cooking  originated with the gauchos of southern Brazil and is mostly about all kinds of very good meat, though there’s also a buffet of salads and vegetables, and you can get grilled cheese (in large, melty chunks, [...]

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OpenSolaris Installers at FISL 10

July 6, 2009

We decided at some point to document all the people who installed OpenSolaris at the Sun booth at FISL, but we did it with several different cameras. Here’s my collection of happy customers!

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President Lula of Brazil Meets OpenSolaris

July 5, 2009

Some of our OpenSolaris user group leaders in Brazil got to meet their president. I was privileged to get up close to film.

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The Twitter Diaries: 2009-06-28: Brazil

June 28, 2009

Lynn & I are in Montevideo, transiting to Porto Alegre. Guy took our passports to print boarding passes, hopefully will return with them! # in Montevideo airport, soon to board for Porto Alegre. We already know that our luggage is not with us. Slim chance it got there before us. # @debworks yup, had a [...]

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Best Souvenir EVAH

June 27, 2009

I’m very proud of this: palestrante means speaker. FISL (this is the 10th edition) is one of the world’s largest open source conferences. The little orange button is important: PR stands for PRESIDENT. Which means I got to be one of the 300 people on the show floor when Brazil’s President Lula came to call, [...]

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Hurry Up!

June 23, 2009

Yesterday we were in Santa Cruz do Sul, RS, Brazil, for a student conference on OpenSolaris. We had some time in the afternoon to sight-see (then were working again from 6-10 pm), including a walk to the cathedral. Along the way we were highly amused by this animated crossing signal, which Jogo told us was [...]

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