Debian Day 30 years in São Carlos - Brazil

20/08/2023 por Carlos Henrique Lima Melara (Charles)

This year's Debian day was a pretty special one, we are celebrating 30 years! Giving the importance of this event, the Brazilian community planned a very special week. Instead of only local gatherings, we had a week of online talks streamed via Debian Brazil's youtube channel (soon the recordings will be uploaded to Debian's peertube instance). Nonetheless the local celebrations happened around the country and I've organized one in São Carlos with the help of GELOS, the FLOSS group at University of São Paulo.

The event happened on August 19th and went on the whole afternoon. We had some talks about Debian and free software (see table below), a coffee break where we had the chance to talk, and finished with a group photo (check this one and many others below). Actually, it wasn't the end, we carried on the conversation about Debian and free software in a local bar :-)

We had around 30 people in the event and reached a greater audience via the announcements across the university's press releases and emails sent to our Brazilian mailing lists. You can check some of them below.

Below you can check the list of talks.

Time	Author	Title
14:10	GELOS	Intro to GELOS
14:30	Carlos Melara (Charles)	A ~~not so~~ Brief Introdution to the Debian Project
15:15	Guilherme Paixão	Debian and the Free Culture
15:45	zé	Free Software: the paths to a free life
16:15	--	Coffee Break
17:15	Prof. Dr. Francisco José Monaco	The FOSS Ecosystem and You