[en] FSFLA news

[Beatriz Busaniche]

This is FSFLA's number zero newsletter

This is our firt monthly newsletter to keep you informed on our work and
activities in FSFLA. Every 1st day of each month, we'll be sending this
newsletter to our announcement mailing list with a resume of our
activities, decisions, and deliberations in the last 30 days.  

New members of FSFLA's working team

The brazilians Luiz Fuzaro and Alexandre Oliva joined FSFLA's working
team.

Luiz have been working in the last 20 years on IT as consultant,
programmer, IT solution developer for critic business mission. He has
technical skills on business administration, system analisys, databases
and operational systems. He has been active in projects related to
GNU/Linux since 1997, when he decided to dedicate his professional work
entirely to Free Software solutions.

Alexandre is a Computer Engineer (1995) and master in Computer Science
(1998). He works with free Software since the beginning of the 90s. Also
he has been developing and promoting Free Software philosophy since the
middle of 90s. He has contributed to GNU project since then, in projects
like Amanda, Kaffee, GNU Libtool, GNU Automake, GNU Autoconf, Gnu
Compiler Collection, GNU binutils, GNU libc, GNU debugger and some
patches to the Linux Kernel.

Events

FSFLA made its first oficial presentation during International Free
Software Forum (Fisl6.0), the biggest Free Software event in Latin
America, in Porto Alegre, Brazil. Fernanda Weiden, Mario Bonilla, Luiz
Fuzaro and Alexandre Oliva have been there, together with Janet Casey
and David Turner from FSF (United States).

During the 2nd Congreso Nacional de Software Libre de Argentina, Usuaria
2005, members of FSFLA's team gave speeches on licensing, software
patents and free software sustainability. Enrique Chaparro, Beatriz
Busaniche and Federico Heinz were there, and Federico Heinz gave a
keynote presentation about the GNU GPL license.

Also, FSFLA participated in the GNU/LinuxTag 2005, the biggest Free
Software event in Europe, from 22nd to 25th of June in Karlsruhe,
Germany. Fernanda Weiden, Beatriz Busaniche and Federico Heinz were in
this meeting together with Free Software Foundation Europe team in one
of their booths. Georg Greve and Federico Heinz gave a speech on Free
Software philosophy and the FSF's network, specially the activities of
FSFE and FSFLA First steps.

Work in progress

The FSFLA's team is working today on the legal and formal structure for
FSFLA. Soon, we'll publish the internal organisation in which we are
working these days.


FSFLA Team 

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