Yesterday, Marcelo Branco closed CONEIS with an excelent talk about Free Software and his experiences in Brazil. It is amazing how everything is going in Brazil, I hope someday we can do the same in Peru. I think this was the best talk of the entire event and the students loved it, EVERYBODY wanted a pic with Marcelo.
After that, we went to the backstage and we had a nice conversation with Marcelo and Enrique Chaparro about free software and its use in the government and in the military, and of course about debian :-). Marcelo was quite impressed by the amount of people in CONEIS, he said that it was the second biggest free software event he has ever seen. Note that CONEIS wasn’t officially a free software event, but we turned it into one ;-)
Then we moved back to the auditorium for the final ceremony and the election of the university that will host the next Coneis. The next Coneis will be in the city of Tarapoto, in the middle of the peruvian jungle. I said to Marcelo that next year we’ll meet again in the jungle, and he said “I hope they call me”. What a great guy :-)
Overall it was a very good congress. It had some disorganization but mainly because the students of San Marcos were completly alone in the organization of this BIG event. I would like to thank Jorge and Katia for their great support, and for working so hard.
Se you at the next Coneis :-)