Ok, the FISL 9.0 energy is too contagious! Here is a collection of some FISL videos for your enjoyment:

• The Day Before! - a look at the setup happening at FISL, a day before it begins.
• Adoption-Led Markets, a talk that would have happened at FISL 9.0 by Simon Phipps if a dental emergency hadn’t occurred.
• Semana de Mobilização - a mobilization effort to get people out to FISL 9.0! An example of the kind of voluntarism that moves free software through Latin America — not sure about the music, though
• Don’t miss out on Part 2 of Semana de Mobilização :)
• And a gem from FISL 7.0 - Richard Stallman getting into the spirit
• There will certainly be even more FISL 9.0 videos posted on YouTube, just keep reloading!

Well, one of the biggest events related to the free software phenomenon in Latin America, FISL 9.0, is starting to get underway in Brazil, our second home. All over the world, bloggers are wearing their keyboards thin writing volumes about what is sure to be one of the biggest years ever for FISL. We simply cannot keep up with all the hype about this year’s FISL. So, here’s a laundry list of some interesting stuff related to FISL:

• Lula at FISL ?!?
• Stranger still, Java at FISL ?! :O
• FISL on Flickr
• A rundown of Mozilla at FISL
• A rundown of Postgres at FISL
• Oh, heck. FISL is just too big to fit into one blog post. The sheer enormity of FISL is continued evidence of open source, free software’s gigantic popularity in Latin America and, particularly, in Brazil. It just keeps getting bigger and more exciting. And we’re so proud to be a part of all of it! SEE YOU AT FISL!

As news continues to trickle out about Microsoft’s potential buy-out of Yahoo, lots of speculation is being written about what will happen with Yahoo’s open source culture, as just one of many cultural differences between Microsoft and Yahoo. For instance, Yahoo is a big supporter of PHP and Rasmus Lerdorf (credited as being PHP’s inventor) works there. Yahoo is also probably the most famous company that uses FreeBSD (our open source OS of choice, also). But if Microsoft buys out Yahoo, what’s going to happen to that open source culture? Some people are speculating that it will give Microsoft a convenient excuse to start being more accepting of the open source phenomenon. Other predictions are more downbeat and gloomy. Only time will tell.