Over 350 people of the main universities of Palmass participated to the keynote "The natural state of software" , organised by UNITINS, fundación de universidades de Tocantins - Brazil, on the 19th of August 2010.

The keynote speaker was none other than our development director  Yannick Warnier, also lead developer for the Open Source e-learning platform Chamilo and founding member of the Chamilo Association. Leonardo Maximiano mentioned in the Portal Vitrine review: "Chamilo is a system that adapts to whatever educational or corporate project type".

"To have access to a computer doesn't mean that you are in the information society and much less within the knowledge society. UNITINS works with a focus on creating learning communities with multi-referential access to information and Chamilo is an example of a new wave of educational applications which bridges content and the virtual teacher or student", indicated Geraldo Silva Gomes, Vice-Rector of the postgraduate school of UNITINS.

Yannick started the keynote with a short introduction to the concept of Free Software and its origins, focusing on the advantages of working with free software for the public and private sectors as well as personally.

He went on encouraging the students explaining his personal experience as the leader of several free software projects, and finalized focusing on his work on Chamilo, explaining its origins, philosophy and the work organized  by the Chamilo Association.

"Chamilo, is an LMS, Learning Management System, which manages courses, students, teachers, course cycles, carreers, social networks and interconnexion with other systems. In only 6 months, it has gathered more than 20 000 users on its free campus and people choose it because it is easy to use, lightweight, intuitive, organized and with a strong community presence", he added.

Yannick Warnier in Tocantins - Palmas, Brazil