There was a very nice write up about North-by-South today on Matt Asay’s Open Road column at CNet. From the article:

As the rates for Indian and Eastern European developers continues to climb, it may be wise to look south to Latin America. There are some exceptional open-source developers in or from Mexico and Latin America (Miguel de Icaza being the most famous of them), and Latin American governments’ adoption of open-source software is only going to increase this. […] Perhaps most importantly, this is a team that groks the spirit and code of open source. I may just be optimistic on North-by-South because of my family’s affection for Latin America, but whatever the reason, I’d encourage you to take a look.

Matt “gets” the reason we’ve seen an opportunity here: the Latin American free software movement is creating experienced talent in near-by Latin America who can provide the services needed in the San Francisco Bay Area with a lower cost but increased return.