From 25th till the 31st january, the 3rd. edition of Campus Party Brazil took place in São Paulo. The event, that is said to be the biggest one in technologic innovation, internet and eletronic entertainment, has been held since 1997 and happens in four different countries annually: Brazil, Spain, Mexico and Colombia.
In Brazil, it started in 2008, after 12 editions in Spain, and it was the second country to host it. It receives about 6000 participants every year, most of them camping in the event and participating in talks and debates that happen 24 hour a day. It is divided in 12 areas of interest, including development, robotics and security.
It has had speakers such as Tim Berners-Lee and Steven Johnson. This year, there were 3 big international names: Kevin Mitnick, Scott Goodstein and Lawrence Lessig.
The first to speak was Kevin Mitnick on the second day of the event. Mitnick was a famous cracker that was arrested in 1995. At that time he was the most wanted computer criminal in the U.S. Today he has a security company, Mitnick Security, of course. His talk, entitled The art of Deception, was mostly about social engineering and how people should learn to say no.
The next day, it was Scott Goodstein’s turn. He was responsile for Barack Obama’s online campaign in 2008. He talked about the importance of cellphones in the campaign and defended the mobilization of small and specific groups so they can call friends and create something bigger.
Lawrence Lessig did the last presentation, Friday afternoon. The Stanford Law School professor founded Creative Commons, an alternative license to copyright. He talked about intellectual property, how the internet changed access to culture and how current copyright law harnesses creativity.
Swat member, Rafael Dohms also gave a talk in the event, Awakening to PHP, an introduction to PHP.
Most videos of the event are available in their Youtube channel : http://www.youtube.com/campusparty (most of them in Portuguese).
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