Free Software Foundation Latin America (FSFLA) is the Latin American sister organisation of the Free Software Foundation. It is the fourth sister organisation of FSF, after Free Software Foundation Europe and

Free Software Foundation India The Free Software Foundation of India (FSFI) is the Indian sister organisation to the US-based Free Software Foundation. It was founded in Thiruvananthapuram (Trivandrum) (the capital of Kerala) in 2001 as a non-profit Company. The FSFI advoc ...

. It was launched on November 23, 2005 in

Rosario Rosario () is the largest city in the central provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. The city is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third-most populous ci ...

, Argentina. The founding general assembly of FSFLA elected

Federico Heinz Federico Heinz is an Argentinian programmer and Free Software advocate living in London. He is a co-founder and former president of Fundación Vía Libre, a non-profit organization that promotes the free flow of knowledge as a motor for social p ...

as President,

Alexandre Oliva Alexandre "Alex" Oliva, is a Brazilian free software activist, developer, former vice president of the board of directors of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and founding member of Free Software Foundation Latin America (FSFLA). He is currently ...

as Secretary and Beatriz Busaniche as Treasurer. The Administrative Council consisted of them as well as

Enrique A. Chaparro Enrique () is the Spanish variant of the given name Heinrich of Germanic origin. Equivalents in other languages are Henry (English), Enric (Catalan), Enrico (Italian), Henrik (Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian), Heinrich (German), Hendrik, Henk ...

Mario M. Bonilla is a character created by Japanese video game designer Shigeru Miyamoto. He is the title character of the ''Mario'' franchise and the mascot of Japanese video game company Nintendo. Mario has appeared in over 200 video games since his creat ...

Fernanda G. Weiden Fernanda G. Weiden is a free software advocate and CTO at the brazilian multinationaVTEX She has worked for Debian, Google and Facebook. Personal life Fernanda Weiden was raised in Porto Alegre, Brazil. She is married with one child. She moved ...

and

Juan José Ciarlante ''Juan'' is a given name, the Spanish and Manx versions of ''John''. It is very common in Spain and in other Spanish-speaking communities around the world and in the Philippines, and also (pronounced differently) in the Isle of Man. In Spanish, t ...

. In 2006, Beatriz Busaniche, Enrique A. Chaparro,

and Mario M. Bonilla left the FSFLA's Council. After that the original directives were modified to the current ones. A new position of “Observer of the Council” was created in the organisation to allow other important people in the free software community to participate, observe and advise the Council. The current members of the Council are

, Andres Ricardo Castelblanco,

Exal Garcia-Carrillo In algebra, Exalcomm is a functor classifying the extensions of a commutative algebra by a module. More precisely, the elements of Exalcomm''k''(''R'',''M'') are isomorphism classes of commutative ''k''-algebras ''E'' with a homomorphism onto the '' ...

, Octavio Rossell, Oscar Valenzuela, J. Esteban Saavedra L., Luis Alberto Guzmán García, Quiliro Ordóñez and Tomás Solar Castro. The actual Observers of the Council group is formed by Richard Stallman,

Georg Greve Georg C. F. Greve (born 10 March 1973 in Helgoland, Germany) is a software developer, physicist, author and currently co-founder and president at Vereign. He has been working on technology politics since he founded the Free Software Foundation ...

, Adriano Rafael Gomes,

Franco Iacomella Franco may refer to: Name * Franco (name) * Francisco Franco (1892–1975), Spanish general and dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975 * Franco Luambo (1938–1989), Congolese musician, the "Grand Maître" Prefix * Franco, a prefix used when ...

, Alejandro Forero Cuervo, Alvaro Fuentes, Anahuac de Paula Gil,

Christiano Anderson Christian originated as a baptismal name used by persons of the Christian religion. It is now a given name borne by males, and by females as Christiana and other feminized variants. A historically commonly used abbreviation (used for example on E ...

, Eder L. Marques, Elkin Botero, J. Esteban Saavedra L., Fabianne Balvedi, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel,

Nagarjuna G. Nagarjuna G. (Nagarjuna Gadiraju) works in the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai, India. His major research interests include Science Education, Cognitive Science, History and Philosophy ...

, 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 H. Ruiz Cervera, Omar Kaminski, and Roberto Salomon.

Projects

* Linux-libre

References

External links

* Free Software Foundation History of computing in South America {{SouthAm-org-stub