Re: Introducing GNOME in Brazil

["Sylvia Sánchez" <lailahfsf gmail com>]

Is very interesting what you tell us.  I live in Montevideo, Uruguay, and I see some changes toward free software but they are very slowly.


Sylvia

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El lun, 21-06-2010 a las 15:41 -0300, Jonh Wendell escribió:
> Hello all!
>
> I'm Jonh Wendell, from Brazil, GNOME developer taking care of the Remote
> Access in the GNOME desktop.
>
> Brazil is a big country, with more than 180M inhabitants. It's also a
> big FLOSS consumer, here we have lots of communities around almost all
> FLOSS projects.
>
> Our GNOME community is mostly made of translators, but still we have
> some developers, artists and promoters of GNOME.
>
> Right now I'm working on increasing the amount of Donations. As a 3rd
> world, most people do not own an international credit card, thus making
> donations directly to the Foundation a bit harder. I've made a survey
> [1] that proves that people would donate if they could to that in a more
> "Brazilian" way.
>
> Also we're working with some online stores whom sell GNOME stuff. They
> are going to transfer a percentage to GNOME [Brazil]. This is still in
> negotiation, so, news on that soon.
>
> Last year, Aparecido Quesada gave a talk [2] at GUADEC about the use of
> GNOME in Brazilian "Telecentros". Telecentro is a place where poor
> people can use and learn how to use the computer for free, all costs are
> paid by the government. All those places have computers running GNOME.
>
> I tried (actually I'm still trying) to contact Quesada so that he could
> talk here his experience in those Telecentros, but I didn't manage to
> talk to him.
>
> We have here many FLOSS events annually. We try to be present at the
> most important ones. Always giving talks showing what GNOME is, how it's
> organized and how to contribute. Also, often we have talks showing those
> use cases, of environments which run GNOME in their machines.
>
> So, I see GNOME usage and contributions can increase a lot here in
> Brazil. It's up to us to encourage people and make our man power to
> increase.
>
> Let's share some experience here so that GNOME usage can only improve in
> our countries!
>
> [1]-http://bit.ly/bv73hS
> [2]-http://www.grancanariadesktopsummit.org/node/216