Vicente Aguiar: Presidência da República adota plataforma livre Noosfero para construção da Política Nacional de Participação Social
20 de Julho de 2013, 0:00 - sem comentários aindaA Secretaria-Geral da Presidência da República (SG/PR) promoveu, nesta quinta-feira (18/07), no Salão Leste do Palácio do Planalto, o evento “Diálogos Governo e Sociedade: Novas Formas de Participação Social na Política”, no qual representantes de diferentes segmentos da sociedade debateram as recentes manifestações populares e sua relação com as demandas por novos mecanismos de exercício da democracia.
O evento serviu também para o lançamento de duas Consultas Públicas sobre os textos-base da "Política Nacional de Participação Social" e do "Compromisso Nacional pela Participação Social". O processo de construção desses dois textos está aberto a toda sociedade e poderão ser feito por qualquer cidadão, via internet, por meio de uma ambiente digital de participação social, desenvolvido por meio da plataforma livre Noosfero: http://psocial.sg.gov.br
Oficialmente, o desenvolvimento desse projeto da Presidência se deu por meio do SERPRO, contudo a Colivre (Cooperativa de Teconologias Livres da Bahia), criadora dessa plataforma livre, ofereceu todo apoio técnico para que essa implantação acontecesse. Para isso, além de consultoria técnica, foram incluídas e lançadas novas funcionalidades na versão 0.44.0 do Noosfero que possibilitarão a construção colaborativa dos decretos que visam o fortalecimento do diálogo entre o Estado e a Sociedade Civil.
Segundo o site da Presidência da República, o diálogo com os atores sociais para a construção dos dois documentos será o primeiro teste para a nova ferramenta utilizada pelo Governo Federal e aponta para a importância do papel das novas mídias no aprofundamento da participação social.
Representante da Rede Social Livre Blogoosfero, Fred Vasquez defendeu ainda no evento que o uso de tecnologia nacional por todo o governo federal e que os vídeos institucionais sejam hospedados no Serpro e nos sites das universidades brasileiras. O professor da PUC, Ladislau Dowbor, autor do livro Democracia Econômica: Alternativas de Gestão Social, disse que “é importante que a gente se una para que as coisas tenham prosseguimento”.
O ministro Gilberto Carvalho ressaltou que o encontro e plataforma foram elaborados para o governo “mais ouvir as considerações do que falar”. Carvalho considerou o encontro extremamente saudável e afirmou que “ é momento de abrir novos caminhos para o diálogo e a participação”. Pedro Abramovay, da Avaaz (maior comunidade de campanhas e petições online para a mudança social) defendeu que as manifestações de junho de 2013 apontaram um novo caminho para o Brasil.
Fonte: Site da Presidência da República.
Vicente Aguiar: Colivre em pauta: cooperativa baiana é citada em duas reportagens do Estadão, em São Paulo.
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Fonte do Foto: http://instagram.com/p/byl91hGTak
Segundo a reportagem publicada no Estadão, no dia 14 de Julho de 2013, "uma nova geração de programadores e ativistas está convencida de que o Brasil pode dar origem a um novo expoente mundial na área e buscam inspiração nos casos de sucesso de companhias como Mozilla (responsável pelo navegador Firefox), a plataforma de publicação WordPress e a RedHat, grande empresa de software da área. O desafio é lidar com a falta de conhecimento e a insegurança do setor privado, habituado a programas proprietários, já que hoje a maioria dos negócios ainda envolve o setor público."
"Para ganhar espaço, as novas empresas da área precisam se profissionalizar, já que hoje o mercado é muito fragmentado e a maioria ainda atende a setores do governo. “Infelizmente o software livre está associado ao ambiente acadêmico. Há muito preconceito”, diz Vicente Aguiar, sócio-fundador da Colivre, cooperativa de tecnologias livres nascida na Bahia e criadora da plataforma Noosfero, usada na rede social colaborativa Stoa, da Universidade de São Paulo (USP).
Outro ponto é conquistar a confiança das empresas, que temem utilizar uma plataforma cujo código é modificado colaborativamente. “Esse princípio impulsiona o negócio”, diz Aguiar. “O Noosfero foi traduzido para o japonês, russo e alemão. Em qual outro contexto um sistema criado no Nordeste chegaria a esses lugares?”
Na segunda reportagem, "ativistas defendem o ensino de programação nas escolas para reduzir déficit de profissionais de TI e estimular inovação. A disputa por mão de obra no mercado de tecnologia é um dos fatores que atrapalha o desenvolvimento de novos negócios com software livre. 'A maioria dos programadores é cooptada por grandes corporações e abandonam os sonhos para ganhar milhões em outros lugares', diz Vicente Aguiar, da cooperativa Colivre. 'Muitos só precisavam de um empurrãozinho para empreender'.”
Para conferir as reportagem completas, acesse os dois link abaixo:
Felipe Borges: Going to GUADEC 2013!
16 de Julho de 2013, 0:00 - sem comentários aindaHooray!
Thanks to the GNOME Foundation, I will be attending this years’ GUADEC. Once again I’m having the terrifc opportunity of meeting my fellow GNOMErs in-real-life, meet new ones, and help this community be as awesome as it already is.
I’ve never been to East Europe, so any tips from people who’ve been to Czech Republic would be welcome!
I’m also a volunteer, so you can count me in to help in anyway I can.
See you all in August 1st at Brno, Czech Republic!
Lucas Rocha: FISL 14
9 de Julho de 2013, 0:00 - sem comentários aindaFISL has always been a special conference to me. I attended it for the first time about 9 years ago while I was still a grad student. And I continued to attend it until I moved abroad in 2006. It was a period when the Free Software movement was starting to take shape in Brazil and it was definitely one of the first conferences that gave me a clearer sense of what it means to be part of a community.
For this reason, I was thrilled to be invited to speak at FISL this year. I gave two talks—both in Portuguese. The first one was called Reflections on a Career in Open Source (video, 83.3MB, CC-BY-SA) and the second one was called Firefox for Android: Past, Present, and Future (video, 69.5MB, CC-BY-SA).
This was also a great opportunity to meet a lot of people from the Mozilla community in Brazil. Mozilla had a solid presence at the conference because of their hard work. Besides all the talks covering different Mozilla initiatives, there was a Firefox OS apps hackathon and a few SUMO sprints—both had pretty good attendance.
Attending FISL this year has been a rather nostalgic experience. Just crossing the main entrance brought up some vivid memories from my first FISLs. A lot has changed in the conference: new faces, new projects, larger audience, etc. But the atmosphere is still the same: thousands of people sharing their passion for software freedom.
I really hope I can attend FISL next year.
Felipe Borges: Bye FISL 14! See you all next year!
8 de Julho de 2013, 0:00 - sem comentários aindaLast week I attended the 14th edition of the Free Software International Forum (FISL) in Porto Alegre, Brazil. It was a great opportunity to see in real life people I see daily on IRC/mail-lists/social networks.
I live in Pelotas, which is located 270 km far from my state’s capital, Porto Alegre, so I couldn’t miss this rare chance of meeting my fellow gnomers. We had a community meeting where we’ve discussed GNOME activities in Brazil and some directions GNOME has taken over the past few releases. We have also heard a lot of feedback from GNOME users at the community meeting (some related to design decisions, other to distros delivering GNOME software, and etc). It was pretty exciting!
Besides the GNOME related activities, I’ve attended some really nice presentations and discussions on free software and specific technologies. I’d highlight these in particular:
- “Copyfight: muito além do download grátis” [portuguese]: which was a discussion about internet freedom focusing on the book Copyfight (portuguese only). This discussion featured Tobias Anderson (The Pirate Bay co-founder) and the Copyfight book writers.
- “Why conferences matter: Lessons learned from Linux file systems development” by Valerie Aurora.
- “GStreamer SDK” [portuguese] presented by our fellow gnomer Luciana Fujii Pontello.
- “Firefox para Android: Passado, Presente e Futuro” [portuguese]: which was presented by Lucas Rocha (old school gnomer and mozillian).
- “Hacking the academic experience” by Emily Stolfo.
- “A Internet sob ataque… a batalha final é agora” [portuguese]: This discussion was about internet freedom and the current NSA scandals.
- “O primeiro mártir da ciberguerra” [portuguese] (It was a discussion about Aaron Swartz).
See you in FISL 15!
Jorge Pereira: 10° Encontro de Programadores de C & C++
3 de Junho de 2013, 0:00 - sem comentários aindaAconteceu no último dia 25 de maio o 10° Encontro de Programadores de C & C++, o evento foi muito bacana e contou com uma grade de palestras bem diversificada. abaixo segue lista completa de todas as palestras e os devidos artigos e materiais utilizados pelos palestrantes!
Lucas Rocha: Introducing The Layout
17 de Maio de 2013, 0:00 - sem comentários aindaAs engineers, I believe the way we approach a problem is as important as the code we write. This is especially relevant in the context of UI engineering where design is such a vital element.
Unfortunately, it seems quite hard to find good content about everything that happens around us and inside our heads when we are building user interfaces. This is what The Layout is about.
My intent is to create a space for high quality content discussing the principles, mindset, and practices that I believe shape the craft of UI engineering. It is meant to be a shared space with many voices—so, expect some awesome guest authors.
I’ve just posted the very first article, Mind the Gap. My plan is to publish a new article every other week-ish. For now, subscribe to the RSS feed or simply follow The Layout on Twitter or Google+ to get future updates.
I really hope you enjoy it!
Jonh Wendell: Joining Intel
10 de Maio de 2013, 0:00 - sem comentários aindaToday is my last day at Oi WiFi.
It has been 1 year and a half since I moved from my small city (Maceió) to the biggest, craziest Brazilian city, São Paulo. I don’t regret!
I’m lucky to have joined a great company (Vex at the time. Oi WiFi nowadays), with great people where I learnt a lot. I’m glad for the things I helped to improve, I’m sure we have better products than before and I’m proud to be part of that progress. I leave as legacy the spirit of the Free Software, where we can (and should) contribute back to projects we use and improve internally. Every improvement we made here we submitted back to projects like Openwrt, busybox, glib, etc.
However things and priorities in the company have changed a bit in the last few months. Time to look for a new challenge in my career.
What a challenge!
At Intel I’ll join the OTC – Intel Open Source Technology Center, and will work on Open Source projects such as Tizen, EFL, Webkit and hopefully GTK+
The team I’ll work with is formed by the former Profusion company, acquired by Intel in the beginning of the year. Profusion was a company that I admired even before it was acquired by Intel
I’m very excited to join Intel. It’s a great opportunity in a great company and I don’t want to disappoint them!
I hope to publish here very soon the things I’m working on under the Intel umbrella. See you!
Lucas Rocha: UI polishing in Firefox for Android
29 de Abril de 2013, 0:00 - sem comentários aindaLast week, we did our very first topic-oriented hackathon focused on UI polishing bugs. The UI changes we’ve done will make a substantial difference in the experience of using Firefox on Android. Here are some of my favourite fixes and improvements.
Tabs
Details in the tabs UI can make a big difference UX-wise. We changed the tabs button icon (see image) to provide better affordance. The new icon also features a much cooler animation when tabs are added or removed.
Last but not least, we added a subtle parallax effect when you the open/close the tabs panel giving it a more fluid feel.
Address bar
As Wes has already reported, you now have the option to show URLs instead of page titles in the address bar. The domain highlight (see image) is a nice touch and gives us feature parity with Firefox on desktop.
The reader and stop buttons now have properly sized hit areas to avoid tapping other parts of the toolbar by mistake—a long overdue issue.
That’s not all
Reader Mode will get some nice style updates for serif fonts, doorhanger notifications now have a more polished animation, text selection handles have a more consistent style, favicons in the awesomescreen will look fancier, some visual glitches in the awesomescreen and toolbar were fixed, and more.
Not all these changes are in Nightly just yet but they will show up in the next days. Firefox 23 has everything to be my favourite release ever. Download and install our Nightly build on your Android and let us know what you think.
Lucas Rocha: Multi-part items in Smoothie
22 de Abril de 2013, 0:00 - sem comentários aindaSmoothie makes it really easy to load ListView/GridView items asynchronously, off the UI thread. It handles all the complexity from gestures, threads, scrolling state, preloading, and view recycling behind a simple API.
Up until now, one of the biggest limitations of the Smoothie API has been the lack of proper support for multi-part items. What is a multi-part item? It’s a ListView/GridView item composed by multiple parts that have to be loaded asynchronously with different priorities as you scroll.
Classic example: a list of photos with items composed by the photo image and the author’s avatar—both loaded from the cloud. With the existing API, Smoothie would force you to load the whole content of each item in one go. This means you were forced to load both the main photo image and the avatar image for each item before loading the next item in the list.
What if you wanted to start loading the main photo image of all visible items before loading their respective avatars? The photos are probably the content your users are actually interested in after all. That’s what the multi-part item support is about. It allows you to split the loading of each item into multiple asynchronous operations with different global priorities.
So, how would you implement the above example assigning higher priority to the main photo image over the avatar using Smoothie? Assuming you’re already familiar with Smoothie’s API, just follow these steps:
- Override the getItemPartCount() method from ItemLoader. Return the number of parts the item in the given Adapter position has.
- Handle the new itemPart argument accordingly in loadItemPartFromMemory(), loadItemPart(), and displayItemPart(). These methods will be called once for each item part.
The item parts will have indexes starting from zero. e.g. for items with 2 parts, the part indexes will be 0 and 1. The indexes also define the relative priority between parts. Smoothie will load the part with index 0 for all visible items before loading part with index 1.
Important note: I had to break API backwards compatibility. If you don’t really need multi-part items, the only change you’ll have to make in your code is to subclass from SimpleItemLoader instead of ItemLoader. SimpleItemLoader is an ItemLoader specialized in single-part items that hides all the part-related bits from the API.
The updated documentation contains code samples and a more detailed overview of the new API. Grab the latest code while it’s hot. Feedback, bug reports, and patches are all very welcome as usual.