This page lists the best of the pictures that I and my author/friend Bruno Gomes Pessanha took during my trip to Brazil in April 2006 for the Fórum Internacional Software Livre (international free software forum).

All 12 pictures.

Exotic bird in botanical gardens in Rio de Janeiro.

Crowded conference bookstore with a shelf of books, some familiar to me and some not.

Manager André Wolff at Tempo Real bookstore at FISL 2006 conference.

My author and friend, Bruno Gomes Pessanha, with me at FISL conference.

Costumed dancers reproducing local chorinho folk tradition in performance setting.

Bruno and I before pond in botanical gardens in Rio de Janeiro.

Mango trees in botanical gardens in Rio de Janeiro.

My generous hosts, Bruno and Pillar Gomes Pessanha (seven months pregnant), taken on Sugarloaf.

On the famous beach at Ipanema, the most chic and exclusive part of Rio de Janeiro.

The FISL 2006 conference floor was a typical melange of vendors and visitors, quite lively and convivial despite the warehouse setting.

Cesar Brod, a manager at the Solis free software cooperative, with organizers of FISL 2006 conference.

My presentation, viewed from the audience.

My blogs on this conference: