In Foz do Iguacu, the first Forum GNOME was preceded by a huge tropical storm that overturned palm trees and tossed outdoor tables and chairs around like small lego pieces. The power of nature has no better demonstration than in the south of Brazil where Itaipú, the world's largest provider of hydroelectric power stands on the border with
Paraguay. Itaipú, incidentally, has 90% of its workers running the
GNOME desktop.
The Thursday morning opening of Forum GNOME brought a warm welcome by Rogério Santana, Secretary of the Ministry of Planning for Logistics
and Technology from Brasilia, Paulo Macdonald, Mayor of Foz do Iguacu,
Marcus Mazoni, President of CELEPAR, and Jon "Maddog" Hall. The Forum
participants, however, came to take care of their hunger for technical
talks and crowded around Federico Mena, Everaldo Canuto, Joao Bueno and Pablo Dall'Oglio for their first day talks. Behind the scenes of pulling
this landmark South American event together were Luciana Bastos de
Freitas from Porto Alegre and Izabel Valverde from Curitiba.
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Bad Poetry
The television has been draped in black.
Turned off, of course.
The home delivery introductory offer refused
No more newspapers, no more scoreboards
No more Joseph Campbell arguments
It's Saturday and the leaves are blowing away
Time to write bad poetry
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