Re: FISL 2010
Call for Papers is Open!!! http://verdi.softwarelivre.org/papers_ng/public/welcome Fórum Internacional do Software Livre (FISL) (International Free Software Forum) is an event that seeks the promotion and adoption of free software. It is one of the largest free/open source software events in the world. Last year, FISL received more than 8200 people, and had the presence of Brazilian president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, whose government officially supports Free/Open Source Software. Brazil is the world's eighth largest economy by nominal GDP, is a founding member of the United Nations, the G20, Mercosul and the Union of South American Nations, and is one of the BRIC Countries. Do you have interesting projects to show? Let's meet in Brazil!
Re: FISL 2010
Hi Nelson, sorry for the slow reply. > What are the best ways to promote Perl to an open audience? What > business cases we could possibly show? (Enterprise and Government?) For this you will probably have to ask the general Perl community or the TPF-Marketing mailing list. The events group is mainly focusing in helping you setup a stand on an event. While FISL is still 5 months away we now (after FOSDEM and just ahead of CeBIT) know we should have started to organize ourself earlier. We are still learning. Specifically in order to have a nice stand and goodies to give away you will need a budget. For a budget you better have some plans. I moved the content you added to the events page to a page specific to this event: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?events_2010_fisl just as we did that for FOSDEM and CeBIT. I'd suggest you look at the other two and start to fill the page of FISL improving the whole layout and the content. That would help you form the requirements and based on that you'll be able to either fund the expenses by sponsor you find or ask TPF if they are willing to finance some of your expenses. regards Gabor
FISL 2010
Fórum Internacional do Software Livre (FISL) (International Free Software Forum) is an event that seeks the promotion and adoption of free software. The event is meant as a "get-together" of students, researchers, social movements for freedom of information, entrepreneurs, Information Technology (IT) enterprises, governments, and it takes place every year in Brazil. Last year, FISL received more than 8200 people, and had the presence of Brazilian president, Luis Inacio Lula da Silva, whose government officially supports Free/Open Source Software. Last year we had 5 technical talks about Perl; 3 about Ruby; 6 about Python; and 7 about Java. However I really missed introductory talks like "Why Perl?" and business cases. What are the best ways to promote Perl to an open audience? What business cases we could possibly show? (Enterprise and Government?) Nelson -- Nelson Ferraz
