Eco Rama

Free software is a possibility that those kids will reinvent things that need to be reinvented. Lula da Silva Speech at 10.FISL, POA, Jun/2009 Lawrence Lessig ...

Ive been away from this blog, and from about everything else, because of the huge effort to put up the Brazilian Digital Culture Forum culturadigital.br. I will come back later to better explain whats going on, but for now I will reblog a nice description of what we are doing by Gilberto Jr., a ...

Gilberto Gil has left the Brazilian Ministry of Culture. He says that music has called him back. A quick look at reactions surfacing this week in the headlines of the Brazilian mainstream media tell of a singer-minister who did a passable job in using his social capital to boost the ministrys actions into international channels. ...

April fools day this year has brought a bitter taste to the Brazilian open source community. The announcement of the approval of Microsofts Open XML Format (OOXML) as an ISO/IEC International Standard was, at first, seen as some kind of joke. After all, OOXML had lost a vote on its adoption at ISO in September ...

A new arena is gathering steam and significance in the Brazilian Internet space: the football blogs. It should be no surprise given how natives are impassioned for the game, and how the latest results of the many championships become part of the casual chit-chat everywhere. Day by day, fervent fans are finding out that blogs ...

There is no clear consensus about the specific reasons that occasionally boost Brazil to the cutting edge of the open source revolution. For us here in the field, facing so many difficulties, ranging from simple misunderstandings to big resource constraints, the international acclaim sounds a bit exaggerated, and at times misinformed. Ever since the ...