On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Jomar Silva <homem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all, > > Last week during the FISL (International Free Software Forum) in Porto > Alegre, the Brazilian Government's Free Software Implementation > Committee decided to contribute with developers to the projects Apache > OpenOffice.org and TDF's LibreOffice. > > The official press release and the signed 'Letter of Intent' can be > found here - > http://www.softwarelivre.gov.br/news/cisl-and-communities-strengthen-floss-office-suites > . > > I hope that this is a solid first step for us in Brazil, and I also > hope that it shows the need of a FLOSS Office Suite that we have here. > > I'll be working to get the developers on this mail list as soon as > they' re appointed by their employers. > > I also did a presentation about Apache OpenOffice.org with Simon > Phipps, inviting all Brazilian community to join us on the project. I > plan to do a blog post on the next days talking about this > governmental commitment, inviting other governments and individual > contribution to work with us all. > > Best Regards, > > Jomar Silva > Great news Jomar, I would have loved to be there. But I am glad that the commitment for FLOSS office suites is still strong. I know Brazil has a large investment in the suite and is the countries interest that development keeps growing. -- *Alexandro Colorado* *OpenOffice.org* Español http://es.openoffice.org
