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11 - People and Companies from FLOSS

Free and Open Source Software history is full of personalities that have contributed to shape the world we live in. In this activity a group of students (3 students) select a company or person with a strong history in FOSS and detail their contributions in a 20 minutes presentation followed by a 10 minutes guided discussion.

All presentations will be open to the general public. After presenting students can create a PR with the skill FLOSS research and upload a PDF of their presentations to the apresentacoes/2024/ folder.

Register your choice of personality/company and time slot for the presentation at the Github Discussions thread. You can accept one of the suggestions below or propose a different one.

  • RedHat
  • Canonical and Ubuntu
  • The Debian project
  • Richard Stallman and the FSF (Free Software Foundation)
  • Linus Torvalds and Linux
  • Eric Raymond (Cathedral and Bazaar)
  • Larry Wall and Perl
  • Mozilla

The following presentation slots are available on a first-come first-served queue.

  • 11/11: 3 slots available
  • 13/11: 3 slots available
  • 18/11: 3 slots available

Agenda

Date Group Presentation
11/11 Fernando Alzueta, João Antonio Gomes, Luis Antonio Santana Linus Torvalds and Linux
11/11 André Santos, Rafael Lima, Rafael Leventhal Richard Stallman and the FSF
11/11 Felipe Catapano, Arthur Barreto, Lucas Hix The Debian project
11/11 Guilherme Rameh, Ilana Finger, Ananda Campelo RedHat
13/11 Ricardo R. R., Guilherme Fontana, Thiago Rocha Canonical and Ubuntu
13/11 Enricco Gemha, André Brito, Antonio Martins Problemas de licenças Open Source
13/11 Lidia Alves, Lincoln Rodrigo Mozilla
18/11 Eric Possato, Pedro Barão, Rodrigo Anciães KDE Community
18/11 Leonardo Scarlato, Paulo Falcão e Rodrigo Mattar Eric Raymond (Cathedral and Bazaar)
18/11 Yuri Tabacof, Rafael Paves, André Melo Larry Wall and Perl