Repeating what became a constant on last years, KDE project is bringing an eventful series of presentations and activities on community driven software to the FISL, the Fórum Internacional de Software LIvre, which will be realized at Porto Alegre, south of Brazil, starting July 7.

In these edition, Cornelius Schumacher, long time KDE contributor and previous president of KDE e.V., will talk how the open source software community contributed to the development of technical and professional skills of his collaborators and how this influence a new generation of developers and leaders that are proud about sharing, on tech excellence, common well being e a lot more.

One of the highlights of will be the community gathering. Join us and let's talk about the exciting world that is coming through KDE Frameworks and Plasma 5 and Applications.

As a plus, this year KDE will be present on the exposition area, with a beautiful and warm booth ready to receive everyone who wants to know about the project. Bring your questions, join our developers, artists, translators and collaborators, see how it happens in real life. We're expecting you.

Here's a list on the activities on FISL focusing Qt and KDE software demos and usage, talks and community gathering:

( Full FISL programming can be found here http://schedule.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/ )

July 8

Panel: How to contribute with open source projects, by Valéria Barros, Eliane Domingos de Souza, Daniela Feitosa, Aracele Torres e Luciana Fujii. Room 41C at 14:00

http://schedule.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/talk/576

http://schedule.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/talk/576 Okular, KBibTex and Kile - Writing Science with KDE, by Filipe Saraiva. Room 41C at 19:00.

http://schedule.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/talk/717

July 9

openBR: Open source face recognition, by Alessandro de Oliveira Faria (A.K.A. CABELO). Room 41A at 11:00.

http://schedule.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/talk/791

http://schedule.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/talk/791 Workshop: Logo language introduction using Klogo-Turtle-Mobile, by Marcus Vinicius Corrêa Barcelos and Danilo Rodrigues César. Laboratory Livre at 10:00

http://schedule.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/talk/913

http://schedule.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/talk/913 Open source videographism, by cadunico. Room 41E at 12:00.

http://schedule.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/talk/112

http://schedule.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/talk/112 Learning to Grow, by Cornelius Schumacher (keynote of WSL). Room 40T at 13:00.

http://softwarelivre.org/wsl/2015/keynote

http://softwarelivre.org/wsl/2015/keynote Workshop: Intro to Video Editing on KDEnlive, by Breno Dallas. Room 712 - OF1 at 13:00

http://schedule.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/talk/96

July 10

Workshop: Gcompris - Activities for children between 2 and 10 years old by Frederico Gonçalves Guimarães. Laboratory Livre at 09:00

http://schedule.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/talk/929

http://schedule.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/talk/929 KDE Community Gathering, with Aracele Torres, Filipe Saraiva, Helio Chissini de Castro and Sandro Andrade. Room 40A at 10:00.

http://schedule.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/talk/818

July 11

Talk: Audio Visual Production with Free Software by Breno Dallas. Room 41E, at 11:00.

http://schedule.fisl16.softwarelivre.org/#/talk/95

See you at FISL!