Cesar Brod's blog

While I pack my stuff in order to start my journey to Istanbul today, where I will be participating in the CoP2013 meeting (ICTs, Governance and Conflict), I am also downloading a good amount of collateral material and things I have written in the past, in order to better prepare myself for the event.

Just looking at the notes and pictures from IWEEE 2013 Canarias... I regret so much not being able to be there!!! This was the first IWEEE I missed and I do hope this was also the last one. I do believe Health and Knowledge go hand-in-hand and what makes this relationship work is Freedom.

[Em português]

Introduction

For quite a long time - more than ten years now! - I owed my good friend Jon "maddog" Hall an English translation of his famous "Chimarrão Lessons". Now that Latinoware 2012 is approaching and I will meet him in Foz do Iguaçu next week I decided to honor my promise!

Latinoware's participants cannot imagine having a Maddog-Free Latinoware. The godfather of free and open source software, the one responsible for sparking the first port of Linux outside the Intel's 386 processor family and one of the main visionaries in the IT industry is coming again to Latinoware where, again, he will be followed by a hurd of picture takers.

We all don't speak the same language. Technology however, has allowed us to communicate through several non-textual, non-verbal ways...

I have been working with ICT since the early 80s. At the time, we had a kind of hardware called PCM - Plug Compatible Machines. Compatible with what? The IBM Bus&Tag, SNA communications model. In the mid 80s, PCs started showing up in the banking industry (at least where I was working here in Brazil). Major need: IBM 3270 emulation.