These are exciting times here in Rosario, Argentina at the 5tas Jornadas Regionales de Software Libre. Despite (or because of?) the very typical Latin American experience in getting to the event, my keynote on Sunday was a lot of fun. The best part was when I mentioned the soon-to-be-officially-founded Free Software Foundation Latin America and the audience broke out in cheers.
So the last days were spent with many discussions on the organisational and legal issues. Because finding the right approach for themselves will be an issue for the people here, I only informed about FSFE design decisions when asked specific questions — and kept working on email the rest of the day.
But still, it is exciting to witness how people are getting together to build something that everyone feels about strongly. So I thought I should share two pictures with you. This is the roundtable where people spent all morning working on the bylaws:
And this is the public review session of the legal details in the afternoon, to which all conference participants were invited, and many people did participate and give feedback:
So tomorrow is going to be the big day.
I’m almost as excited for my friends here as I was when we started the Free Software Foundation Europe.
