Updates from the I Free Software Forum
Post by
Fernanda Weiden, Systems Administration TeamI recently
traveled to the
I Free Software
Forum in Lisbon, Portugal, where I gave two talks. The first was on load balancing
and the second focused on "Google e o Software Livre" (Google and Free Software). The main
organizer of the conference was Ralf Braga, an old friend of mine from Brazil, who moved to
Lisbon few months ago.
Both of the talks were well attended, which was
great. During my load balancing talk, I covered things I found out while testing
Linux Virtual Server and
HAProxy, two open source software load balancing
solutions. I explained a bit about the basics of load balancing, and then the pros and cons of
each approach.
Lisbon is a very beautiful city. Everyone was chatting
about the amazing growth of conferences about "Software Livre" in that country. There will be
a total of 6 conferences about open source software around Portugal in just the next few
months.
There were around of 200 people attending two simultaneous
rooms of talks over two days, and most attendees were university students. One of the sponsors
prepared the table for their booth in the same shape as the
Ubuntu logo. Really cool. They also had Ubuntu
pillows. Do we have
Google Code pillows? We
should. :)
The organizers are planning the second edition of the
conference for next year already. I proposed to the participants that each one of them brings
at least one friend who has never been to an free software conference before with them when
they return. I know I'm already looking forward to going in 2008!
(The I Free Software Forum site is in Portugese.
You can read an English
translation.)
