Bruno Souza is a Brazilian

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and

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software advocate. He was President of SouJava, a

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ian Java User Group he helped establish which became the world's largest. He was one of the initiators of the

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project to create a non-proprietary

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. He's known as the "''Brazilian JavaMan''" Bruno is a member of the board of directors at the

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representing Affiliate members. This is his second term on the OSI Board. He is also a member of the executive committee of the

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. In 2010, he co-founded ToolsCloud, a developer tools provider.

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Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Java (programming language) Brazilian computer specialists Members of the Open Source Initiative board of directors {{compu-bio-stub