Here is a lengthy and detailed description of the Third International Forum on Free Knowledge, a conference held in Maracaibo, Venezuela and focusing on open source software, worker co-operatives, intellectual property and more. From this person’s description, it seems like it was an exciting event. Venezuela passed a law in 2006 mandating that all government systems migrate to open source software and the government there has been one of the leading voices in the open source phenomenon happening throughout Latin America.