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North-by-South also maintains a news site: Free Software in Latin America. We keep this news site updated with all the latest that's happening within the open source software world in Latin America.

06.20.2008 You can help out the open source census: Open source programmers from the NXS Developers Network are going to be working on building fingerprints for Discovery, an open source tool that inventories open source applications running on any given machine and then reports back to a central server. This project is also looking for volunteers to help out! ...
06.18.2008 Glyn Moody interview with NorthxSouth: Glyn Moody, one of open source's most famous and meticulous historians, conducted an extensive interview with NorthxSouth that goes into a lot of detail about our company, our background, how we do things and where we're going. Glyn Moody runs a blog called open-dot-dot-dot and he's also a columnist for ...
05.19.2008 Upside Down World Picks Up Marcos Mazoni Interview: We're very honored that Upside Down World contacted us and asked us if they could reprint our interview with Marcos Mazoni. Upside Down World is an interesting web magazine that covers Latin American news and politics (in English) with a perspective that is rarely seen in the corporate press in ...
05.15.2008 North-by-South Announces Close of Investment Round: We are happy to have released the announcement about the close of our round of funding with our investment partner, Launch Capital LLC. From the press release:Backed by government support of open source software in Latin American countries like Brazil, Argentina, Ecuador and others, a wave of free software enthusiasm ...
05.15.2008 Marcos Mazoni Interview Translations and Media Round Up: The power of the distributed commons! Our interview with Marcos Mazoni, new head of the technical committee to implement free software in Brazil, which we published in English and Portuguese, has been independently translated by people we don't know into Spanish and Vietnamese. Independent of that interview, Linux Magazine Online in ...
05.09.2008 North-by-South featured on open source business analysis website: Roberto Galoppini maintains a website described as "where business meets open source". He recently e-mailed us with some questions and then featured some info about North-by-South on his site. He articulates our model with some technical economic terms:Brazil and South America as a whole have an absolute advantage over USA ...
05.05.2008 Interview with Marcos Mazoni, new head of free software implementation in Brazil: North-by-South is proud to announce the first in a series of articles that will document the Latin American free software movement in detail. We recently spoke with Marcos Mazoni, who made news last month when he was appointed as the new head of the federal Technical Committee for the Implementation ...
05.05.2008 Near-shoring development to Latin America with North-by-South: There was a very nice write up about North-by-South today on Matt Asay's Open Road column at CNet. From the article: As the rates for Indian and Eastern European developers continues to climb, it may be wise to look south to Latin America. There are some exceptional open-source developers in or ...
04.13.2008 Digital inclusion is an imperative in San Francisco and Sao Paulo: This is an interesting story because it provides a direct link between San Francisco and Sao Paulo. For North-by-South, our two main hubs are in SF and SP. In Brazil, Inclusao Digital is a project initiated by the administration of President "Lula" da Silva in 2005. Its intended goal is ...
04.13.2008 LugRadioLive USA: LugRadio is a fortnightly British radio show with a very humorous vision of free software/open source. You can get the show's podcast at their site. The radio show became such a cult that an event was created, LugRadioLive. The event is done by the community for the community, with ...

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»	You can help out the open source census: Open source programmers from the NXS Developers Network are going to be working [...] (06.20.08 3:20pm)
»	Glyn Moody interview with NorthxSouth: Glyn Moody, one of open source’s most famous and meticulous historians, [...] (06.18.08 9:01am)
»	More tech creativity from Brazil is revealed at South Africa conference: Brazil is continuing to solidify its role as the leader of technology innovations [...] (06.14.08 9:55pm)