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Lessig on the World Social Forum
Raindance writes "Lawrence Lessig has a great article up on Technology Review about the World Social Forum held this past January in Brazil. In addition to telling an engaging story, it covers topics ranging from GNU and DRM to Brazil's interesting stance on the rights of foreign copyright holders, and is a good introduction to the permission culture/remix culture debate. It also makes me want to live in Brazil." -
Open-Source Streaming Translations in Porto Alegre
Roland Piquepaille writes "The World Social Forum (WSF) (choose your language on the site), which ends today in Porto Alegre, Brazil, has less money to spend on computing than the World Economic Forum (WEF) held in Davos, Switzerland. But at both events, many different languages were spoken, meaning that simultaneous translations were an absolute necessity. If the WEF can afford professional translators and costly computers, in Porto Alegre, translators are volunteers, and the software to distribute the translations is open-source. The NIFT (Nomad Interpretation Free Tool) was already used for the 4th WSF held last year in Mumbai, India. The free software, which runs on a simple PC, collects and digitizes the translations from the interpreters before broadcasting them to a variety of devices. In fact, the technically-advanced NIFT allows for real-time streaming over the Internet of speeches in several different languages. This overview contains many links, references and illustrations about the NIFT project." -
International Free Software Forum Call For Papers
Pablo Lorenzzoni writes "On January 10th, the 6th International Free Software Forum - fisl6.0 [more info] issued a public call for papers. The conference will be held from June 1st to June 4th in Porto Alegre, a southern Brazilian capital already known by the World Social Forum. Proposals due on February 28th." -
International Free Software Forum Call For Papers
Anonymous Coward writes "On February 2nd, the 5th International Free Software Forum [more info] issued a Call For Papers to the public. Proposals due on March 7th, and no marketing lectures are allowed. The conference will be held from June 2nd to June 5th in Porto Alegre, a southern Brazilian capital already known by the World Social Forum."