A brief history of the evolution of Free Software in Brazil under a personal view. This presentation was an introduction to Corinto Meffe´s presentation at iweee.org in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in Spain, February 12. Basic script in http://dicas-l.com.br/brod/brod_20100208.php - Use Google Translate if you wish to translate it from Portuguese into English.

1. Software Libre en Brazil International Workshop on e-Health in Emerging Economies Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, España Feb 10-12 2010

3. In the IT market since 1981

4. Got to know Linux in 1993

5. Founded BrodTec in 1998

6. Created Solis Coop in 2003

7. Managed MS Open Source Interop development from 2006 – 2009

8. Alliance with Interact in 2010

9. A Journey through time...

10. 1993: Boss, can I buy a Unix for my Laptop?

11. 1997: My first ISP!

12. 1999: LinuxWorld Conference San Jose, California

13. 1999: Let's write Free Software!

14. 2000: First FISL

15. 2000: PSL-RS and Gnurias

16. 2000: What about a Brazilian SourceForge? codigolivre.org.br

17. 2003: What about a Free Software Co-operative? solis.coop.br

18. 2006 – 2009: Microsoft – Why not? www.codeplex.com/ndos

19. 2007: Safe Surfing with Ricky Martin navegueprotegido.org

20. 2010 #FAIL: No more Safe Surfing with Ricky Martin navegueprotegido.org

21. 2009: MapZoom WebMapping for the rest of us – by Joice Käfer www.mapzoom.com.br

22. 2010: Interact! Know your business.

24. i-scrum.ning.com

25. www.dicas-l.com.br/brod

26. twitter.com/cesarbrod #iweee #hijosdelosfalcones

27. Let me introduce to you, the one and only...