Sulamita Garcia

É meio um tapa na cara da gente que ainda acha que pelo menos tem o direito de dizer o que pensa. Ou que é um país democrático. Um país de ditadura democraticamente consentida pela maioria, deixa de ser uma ditadura?

Versão em português

That’s kind of a slap on our face, those who think at least we have the right to say what we think. Or that this is a democratic country. A ditactorship, democratically consented by the majority, is not a ditactorship anymore?

For english video

Based on the encouragement and inclusion of women in the Free and Open Source Software movement, but united by the ideology, Linuxchix Brazil is a large and highly active chapter of Linuxchix.

This year it is the turn of Brazilia, the capital of Brazil, to host the 5th Linuxchix Brazilian Conference. The conference runs from the 7th to the 8th of September, and once again open source professionals and enthusiasts will convene for two days of talks, tutorials and debates.

The conference will be held at the IESB University, where the attendees will be able to freely choose among dozens of talks and mini courses. The talks themselves covering subjects such as High Availability in PostgreSQL, Wireless USB, KDE4, Slackware on ClassmatePC and many others. Whilst hands-on mini courses include tutorials covering The Gimp, Shell Scripting, Introduction to Programming and Making Packages for Debian. The conference is itinerant, and each year we look for new chix and new communities in different cities around the country. Look no further for an event that has educated and entertained hundreds of people.

Research done here in Brazil indicates that 64% of companies who use open source solutions have turnovers in excess of R$ 1 million per year. Research carried out by IDC estimates that the market created by such solutions will be around 35 billion dollars in 2008. So what are you
waiting for?

Our conference caters for students, IT professionals and Linux enthusiasts alike. The conference is in Portuguese, but this year we have two talks provided in English: Reinette Chatre presenting “My bandwidth is wider than yours: Ultra Wideband, Wireless USB, and WLP in Linux“; and Georgy Berdyshev presenting “System Hardening“. Subscriptions are now open, and more information is available at http://www.linuxchix.org.br/.