<p><strong>Fórum Internacional do Software Livre</strong> (<strong>FISL</strong>) (<strong>International Free Software Forum</strong>) is an event sponsored by <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Associa%C3%A7%C3%A3o_Software_Livre.Org&action=edit&redlink=1"title="Associação Software Livre.Org (page does not exist)"class="new">Associação Software Livre.Org</a> (Free Software Association), a Brazilian <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGO"title="NGO"class="mw-redirect">NGO</a> that, among other goals, seeks the promotion and adoption of <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software"title="Free software">free software</a>. It takes place every year in <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto_Alegre"title="Porto Alegre">Porto Alegre</a>, the capital of <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Grande_Do_Sul"title="Rio Grande Do Sul"class="mw-redirect">Rio Grande Do Sul</a>, the southernmost state of <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazil"title="Brazil">Brazil</a>.</p><p>The event is meant as a "get-together" of <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Student"title="Student">students</a>, <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Researcher"title="Researcher"class="mw-redirect">researchers</a>, <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_movements"title="Social movements"class="mw-redirect">social movements</a> for <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_information"title="Freedom of information">freedom of information</a>, <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entrepreneur"title="Entrepreneur"class="mw-redirect">entrepreneurs</a>, <ahref="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Technology"title="Information Technology"class="mw-redirect">Information Technology</a> (IT) enterprises, governments, and other interested people. It is considered one of the world´s largest free software events, harboring technical, political and social debates in an integrated way. It gathers discussions, speeches, personalities and novelties both national and international in the free software world.</p><p>(citado da wikipedia)</p>