On my first trip to Brazil...

• A startling thing happened when I walked onto the vendor floor at the Forum International Software Livre...

• A representative of the city government handed me a CD, the label of which said “Porto Alegre GNU/Linux”, with four interesting logos on it:

  • Debian-RS
  • The City of Porto Alegre
  • The State of Rio Grande do Sul
  • The Country of Brazil

• Several thousand copies have been distributed to citizens of the region (3000 at FISL 2003 alone!).

• The former governor of this state is now the president...