I'm a Teaching Assistent in University of Minho, in Portugal, where I teach Operating Systems, with an almost exclusive focus on Linux. I've been a Linux advocate for 7 year, and I regularly give advocacy talks in Linux and Open-source related events. I'm a contributor for GNU tar, having done the translation for Portuguese. I've also co-authored two papers,in portuguese, on the merits of linux. The first dealt with our groups experience in the University of Minho, the other was a more generic discussion fo the Open Source model.
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