Comes the 5th edition of the International Conference of Free Software – Telam

specialists, entrepreneurs, government officials, academics, technicians and “hacktivists” quoted in the Buenos Aires Borges Cultural Centre will share experiences, “update knowledge and discuss industry trends,” according to the organizers.

From 9.00hs The Conference will begin with a large panel by representatives from universities, national government officials, provincial administrations, the cooperative sector and business chambers.

Exhibitors Highlights of the day will be the Executive Director of Linux International, Jon “Maddog” Hall, a computer pioneer in the late 60s who, from 10am. will review the evolution of the GNU project, which aims to promote the collaborative development of software and knowledge through the use of free licenses.

Hall also participate Saturday 11 in the Santa Cruz city of Rio Gallegos, a previous event in the framework of the Conference, whose content will be regional in scope.

The General Coordinator CISL Argentina, Jorge Cabezas, to Telam explained that this year the theme of the CISL will be the hardware Free or open.

“I do not argue that free software is central to achieving technological sovereignty. falls That mature and continue to move forward. The next step is to build our own hardware,” said Cabezas .

“As we made satellites, we have to build computers and super national computers,” he said.

“As we made satellites, we have to build computers and super national computer”
Jorge Cabezas

In this regard, Cabezas said Ariel exposures Lutenberg, General coordinator of the CIAA (Open Computer Industrial Argentina) project and the Swedish specialist Andreas Olaffson, CEO Adapteva signature, developed a low-power supercomputer and “open hardware”, whose source code and prototype models are freely available.

also participate Mexican Paul Estrella, service leader IP Telephony (VOIP) Elastix, whose intervention is scheduled for 12am.

In parallel to the free talks whose schedule is available at this link-there will be a series of practical workshops that will a fee of 100 pesos, for which there will be scholarships for students and teachers.

In addition to emphasizing the debate on sovereignty, CISL is designed as an area for discussion of various public policies incidence in the field of technology.