When the Brazilian govt. adopted open-source software in 2005 - they instantly joined the global train backed by India, Brazilian diplomats did a hell of a job backing this transition. 5 years later in Sao Paulo at the campus party, they had 6,800 participants registered for the event with prominent figures like Al Gore, Steve Wozniak and Tim Berners-Lee attending the event. At the party, Brazilian techies were engaged with : 10 Gig network speed and a busy schedule with 400 activities, 400 hours of content and 317 projects. On 2/5/11, David Njuguna <dnjuguna@gmail.com> wrote:

David Njuguna saw this story on the BBC News website and thought you should see it.

** Campus Party - Las Vegas for techies ** Gareth Mitchell reports from one of the biggest synapse-popping events for technology addicts - the annual Campus Party, held this year in Brazil. < http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/programmes/click_online/9386666.stm

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