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I am really glad I skipped a bit of my a class to go to this.

There was a very cool presentation on at LabCMO this monday.
“LabCMO est un lieu d’exp&eacuterimentation socio-technique &agrave l’intersection des domaines de l’informatique libre et de la communication m&eacutediatis&eacutee par ordinateur (CMO).” It’s a communications research group at UQAM studying OSS and community informatics. Headed by Serge Proulx who is also an investigator with CRACIN.

It was on “Le logiciel libre en Am&eacuterique Latin” and it was given by Lena Zuniga. Omar recorded it, and I think it will make it’s way onto the web at some point - either via his blog, or via the LabCMO people.

Although there weren’t many people, it was a subset of local community/OSS scene. S. Proulx, Alain Ambrosi (from GlobalCN), Omar from Koumbit, Stephane Couture (masters -UQAM + Koumbit) and Anne Goldbenberg (Phd UQAM), and Hugo Gervais (Communautique + FACIL).

I really felt like I fit in, because it was an academic research group (im involved with gameCODE), it was on international dev sp. ICT (I spent 6 months doing ICT in west africa), and the subject matter was open-source groups (ISF). Oddly, I was actually at all the meetings in Burkina Faso when the first LUG was created. There’s a great picture of me being the only white dude with 30 burkinabes at the inaugural meeting.

I found an article about Lena’s research if any of you want to know more. And here’s her blog if you can read spanish.

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