Eduardo Silva Pereira

Between Nov 21th to 23th, the Open Source 2007event took place in
Chile, it was organized by Inacap Valparaiso.
The audience was from students to business people, a lot of speeches
were made and practical classes about different pieces of software,
every event is a good opportunity to meet new people and enjoy to talk
about open source softwares and related projects. Lot of speakers were
invited to talk about something interesting, I gave a speech about the
OLPC project and I decide to give a second speech about the Summer Of
Code program in order to promote and motivate to the students and let
them know about the program and how to get involved in the open source
world.

A lot of people attend the speech, at the beginning nobody knows what
it’s exactly ‘Summer of code’, they all just know that it’s something
related to Google, I talked about the ‘Hacker culture’, some history
about the open source software and Google.
They started to feel so exciting with the idea to get involved in a OS
project and much more if is through Google.
A lot of directors of the university agree that if someone of their
students become a GSoC student, they can accept that job as a
practical required in they program career. They asked me a lot of
interesting questions, so I hope that next year more Chileans can send
their applications and get a good opportunity to learn and
contribute…