The Brazilian government has recently announced changes in the technological leadership of the country and observers expect that the appointment of Marcos Mazoni to lead the Technical Committee for the Implementation of Free Software will accelerate this process during the last two years of Lula’s presidency. Mazoni has been the President of SERPRO, Brazil’s federally-owned data processing company, where he effectively managed a transition to open source software in most cases, and felt the heat in cases where he thought open source wasn’t appropriate.