City Hall of Porto Alegre is getting ready for Fisl11
July 5, 2010 
Mayor Jose Fortunati, of Porto Alegre, got together with different representatives of several prominant businesses to define the sponsorship of the 11th International Free Software Forum. The Forum will run on July 21st through July 24th 2010 in the Center of Events of PUCRS in Porto Alegre.
Keynote Speakers Confirmed to fisl11
July 5, 2010Some of the main keynote speakers for the 11th International Free Software Forum have been confirmed. Here is just a few confirmations. Scott Chacon from GitHub, Wietse Venema, the creator of Postfix and tcp-wrappers softwares, Michael Hanselmann, system administrador for Google in Switzerland, who also works on developing the Ganeti project.
Check the following list below for ALL keynote speakers confirmations:
Scott Chacon
GIT e GitHub
Wietse Venema
Postfix
John Maddog Hall
International President of Linux
Ole Peter Smith
Teory of Science: One more argument for the Free Software
Hector Colina
Canaima, distribution to venezuelan GNU acting as a social articulator
Rafael Vanoni Polanczyk
Performance, pararellism and scalability in kernel OpenSolaris
Tiago Vignatti
Linux Graphics for Small Devices
Roger Brinkley
It's All About Me (Mobile and Embedded)
Mauro Risonho de Paula Assumpção A.K.A firebits
Backtrack Brasil A distro Open source the number one Pentest (invasion test)
Anahuac de Paula Gil
Nokia N900 - Jealousy Maker
Carlos Donizete (Coringao)
Ubuntu Games – Free Games
Reinaldo Gil Lima de Carvalho
Korreio: an electronic mailing administrador software
Fernando H. F. Botelho
Project F123.org: Education and jobs in big scale for deficients.
Alexis Menard
Plasma sneaks into your pocket
Fabricio Campos Zuardi
What to do when the sistem is frozen?
Arun Gupta
Java EE 6 Toolshow
Sergio A. Pohlmann
Free Solutions for Cloud Computing with different companies
Michael Hanselmann
The evolution of Ganeti, an Open Source manager for clusterized virtual
machines
Nate Aune
Designing open source software for the cloud
Jon Phillips
Building an Autonomous Federated Social Web: OStatus, Status.Net, and
Identi.ca
Published the results of evaluations lectures
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The 153 lectures selected for fisl11 can already be checked. The published results show the efficiency of the new system used, based on the algorithm of the Swiss league.
The evaluation process of the talks this year has gain agility with the participation of registered assessors and gave the free software community involvement in the construction of the program.
In early June, subscribers received a "token" and instructions on how to assess the talks. The new system has been tested and approved in March 2010.
From this moment the speakers are being contacted and confirmed after beginning to be structured program schedule.
The lectures were divided into 17 tracks.
Great Deal for Tickets, Transportation, and Accommodations Available for the fisl11
June 10, 2010The International Free Software Forum – fisl11 – has a great package that includes Hotel accommodation, transportation and ticket application. You can guarantee your spot for this event by registering early and saving money.