Community driven events

Published: November 14, 2007, 10:19 pm

In my previous post I wrote about the Latin America Tour I have done these days and I said that I would talk about F/OSS and communities, and why I understand it is so important to allow the community to drive the organization of the events, whatever it could mean.During the tour we have been giving a number of talks on Free Software, community work, OpenSolaris, Java - OpenJDK and NetBeans. But, besides that teaching I have learned a few things (which is something great). The most important of them is how important is to get the community involved in this sort of events and the huge difference that it makes. Bruno and me were who had more experience working with open communities (Bruno is well known as the "Brazil's JavaMan"), so - even if the communities we have worked with have been different for quite a while - both of us understand its huge value and importance, and therefore we try to create a healthy community around the technologies we develop. The Tour has

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