Debian Brasil: Debian Day 30 years in Brazil
This year's Debian day was a pretty special one, we are celebrating 30 years!
Giving the importance of this event, the Brazilian community planned a very
special week. Instead of only local gatherings, we had a week of online talks
streamed via Debian Brazil's youtube channel (soon the recordings will be
uploaded to Debian's peertube instance). Nonetheless the local celebrations
happened around the country and I've organized one in S o Carlos with the help
of GELOS, the FLOSS group at University of S o Paulo.
The event happened on August 19th and went on the whole afternoon. We had some
talks about Debian and free software (see table below), a coffee break where we
had the chance to talk, and finished with a group photo (check this one and
many others below). Actually, it wasn't the end, we carried on the conversation
about Debian and free software in a local bar :-)
We had around 30 people in the event and reached a greater audience via the
announcements across the university's press releases and emails sent to our
Brazilian mailing lists. You can check some of them below.
- Local campus press release
- Computing institute press release
- Engineering institute press release
- Federal institute press release
- Debian-br-eventos email
| Time | Author | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 14:10 | GELOS | Intro to GELOS |
| 14:30 | Carlos Melara (Charles) | A |
| 15:15 | Guilherme Paix o | Debian and the Free Culture |
| 15:45 | z | Free Software: the paths to a free life |
| 16:15 | -- | Coffee Break |
| 17:15 | Prof. Dr. Francisco Jos Monaco | The FOSS Ecosystem and You |
Getting things ready for the event.
Intro to GELOS talk.
A
Everyone already knew Debian!
Debian and the Free Culture talk
People in the auditorium space.
Free Software: the paths to a free life talk
Coffee Break.
The FOSS Ecosystem and You talk.
Group photo.
Celebration goes on in the bar.
A huge number of people visited the booth, and the beginners (mainly students)
who didn't know Debian, asked what our group was about and we explained various
concepts such as what Free Software is, GNU/Linux distribution and Debian
itself. We also received people from the Brazilian Free Software community and
from other Latin American countries who were already using a GNU/Linux
distribution and, of course, many people who were already using Debian. We had
some special visitors as Jon maddog Hall, Debian Developer Emeritus Ot vio
Salvador, Debian Developer Eriberto Mota, and Debian Maintainers Guilherme de
Paula Segundo and Paulo Kretcheu.
Photo from left to right: Leonardo, Paulo, Eriberto and Ot vio.
Photo from left to right: Paulo, Fabian (Argentina) and Leonardo.
In addition to talking a lot, we distributed Debian stickers that were produced
a few months ago with Debian's sponsorship to be distributed at DebConf22
(and that were left over), and we sold several Debian
We also had 3 talks included in Latinoware official schedule.
Photo Paulo in his talk.
Many thanks to Latinoware organization for once again welcoming the Debian
community and kindly providing spaces for our participation, and we
congratulate all the people involved in the organization for the success of
this important event for our community. We hope to be present again in 2023.
We also thank Jonathan Carter for approving financial support from Debian for
our participation at Latinoware.
V rias pessoas visitaram o estande e aquelas mais iniciantes (principalmente
estudantes) que n o conheciam o Debian, perguntavam do que se tratava o nosso
grupo e a gente explicava v rios conceitos como o que Software Livre,
distribui o GNU/Linux e o Debian propriamente dito. Tamb m recebemos pessoas
da comunidade de Software Livre brasileira e de outros pa ses da Am rica Latina
que j utilizavam uma distribui o GNU/Linux e claro, muitas pessoas que j
utilizavam Debian. Tivemos algumas visitas especiais como do Jon maddog Hall,
do Desenvolvedor Debian Emeritus Ot vio Salvador, do Desenvolvedor Debian
Foto da esquerda pra direita: Leonardo, Paulo, Eriberto e Ot vio.
Foto da esquerda pra direita: Paulo, Fabian (Argentina) e Leonardo.
Al m de conversarmos bastante, distribu mos adesivos do Debian que foram
produzidos alguns meses atr s com o patroc nio do Debian para serem distribu dos
na DebConf22(e que haviam sobrado), e vendemos v rias
Tamb m tivemos 3 palestras inseridas na programa o oficial do Latinoware.
Foto Paulo na palestra.
Agradecemos a organiza o do Latinoware por receber mais uma vez a comunidade
Debian e gentilmente ceder os espa os para a nossa participa o, e parabenizamos
a todas as pessoas envolvidas na organiza o pelo sucesso desse importante
evento para a nossa comunidade. Esperamos estar presentes novamente em 2023.
Agracemos tamb m ao Jonathan Carter por aprovar o suporte financeiro do Debian
para a nossa participa o no Latinoware.
The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: