ConFLOSS 2022

Thu 18 Aug

Cerimônia de abertura

• Latinoware (2 – 4 Nov), and apparently there’s one in Porto Alegre at the same time
• FISL – Forum Internacional de Software Livre
• TDC – The Developer’s Conference

Sponsors:

• LPI
• ASL – Associação de Software Livre

Someone heard about this from:

• Dicas-L
• Julio Neves (“Papai do Shell”)

Jon “maddog” Hall – What Next?

Board Chair, Linux Professional Instituve

• ‘76/77 copyright started to be applied to software

Solutions (what people want):

• ERP/POS: ODOO.com
• Kodi.tv: Smart TV
• Freedombox.org: a personal / community server, e.g. NAS, Fediverse party. Created by Ebden Moglen (wrote GPL)
• home-assistant.io: home / office / business automation (local control)

Could set these up as businesses to make money

RISC-V architecture (from Berkeley)

My question: might there be a day when any software developer who wishes to do so could make a living developing FOSS?

His answer: businesses have moulded their processes to meet the abilities of software. 80% of needs for 80% of people. Need OSS so you can change software.

Some OSS companies he knows in Brazil:

• Open S – telecoms
• iSolv (now Weon?) – OSS apps for iOS / Android

Cesar Brod & Galvão Abbott

Marcus Vinicus Manzona – longtime friend of Maddog and supporter

There’s also Latino TALKS, every Thurs 20h.

Dá para viver sem Photoshop? – Elias Silveira Arte

• Designer in UNESP. YT: eliassilveiraMAD
• At night he does stuff in magazines, e.g. Mundo Estranho, MAM
• Does his work just with FOSS
• Inkscape, GIMP, Krita (pintura digital), used a bit of Blender, MyPaint
• Did KDE 20^th illustrations
• Lots of stuff for Danilo Gentili (was a guest on his show)

Look at sponsors of ConFLOSS

e.g. https://www.ambientelivre.com.br/ is an open source consultancy in SP!