Free Software Foundation Latin America

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Free Software Foundation Latin America (FSFLA) is the Latin American sister organisation of Free Software Foundation. It is the forth sister organisation of FSF, after Free Software Foundation Europe and Free Software Foundation India. It was launched on November 23rd, 2005 in Rosario, Argentina.[1]

The founding general assembly of FSFLA elected Federico Heinz as President, Alexandre Oliva as Secretary and Beatriz Busaniche as Treasurer. The Administrative Council consisted of them as well as Enrique A. Chaparro, Mario M. Bonilla, Fernanda G. Weiden and Juan José Ciarlante.

In 2006, Beatriz Busaniche, Enrique A. Chaparro, Federico Heinz, Juan José Ciarlante and Mario M. Bonilla went off from FSFLA's Council. After that the original directives were modified to the actual. A new position of "Observer of the Council" was created in the organisation to allow other free software important persons participate, observe and advise the Council.

The actual members of the Council are Alexandre Oliva, Andres Ricardo Castelblanco, Exal de Jesus Garcia Carrillo, Octavio Rossell and Oscar Valenzuela.[2]

The actual Observers of the Council group is formed by Richard Stallman, Georg Greve, Adriano Rafael Gomes, Franco Iacomella, Alejandro Forero Cuervo, Alvaro Fuentes, Anahuac de Paula Gil, Christiano Anderson, Eder L. Marques, Elkin Botero, J. Esteban Saavedra L., Fabianne Balvedi, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel, G. Nagarjuna, Glauber de Oliveira Costa, Gustavo Sverzut Barbieri, Henrique de Andrade, Harold Rivas, Jansen Sena, Marcelo Zunino, Mario Bonilla, Daniel Yucra, NIIBE Yutaka, Beatriz Busaniche, Octavio RuizCervera, Omar Kaminski, Rafael Bonifaz, and Roberto Salomon.

[edit] References

  1. ^ "[en FSFLA News Issue #4]". FSFLA-Anuncio mailing list. Retrieved on 2008-05-13.
  2. ^ "What is the Free Software Foundation Latin America? (FSFLA)". Retrieved on 2008-05-13.

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