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Globant is, strictly speaking, a competitor of North by South, but we believe there is enough space in this market that we view them as a potential partner. The reason to bring them up at all is that Globant’s CEO, Martin Migoya, recently wrote an article for IndustryWeek about the advantages of near-shoring technology development to Latin America and we agree with a lot of what he writes about.

Open source programmers from the NXS Developers Network are going to be working on building fingerprints for Discovery, an open source tool that inventories open source applications running on any given machine and then reports back to a central server. This project is also looking for volunteers to help out! If you are particularly experienced with any given open source application, please consider contributing a fingerprint so that the tool can more thoroughly investigate each server that it runs on.

Glyn Moody, one of open source’s most famous and meticulous historians, conducted an extensive interview with NorthxSouth that goes into a lot of detail about our company, our background, how we do things and where we’re going. Glyn Moody runs a blog called open-dot-dot-dot and he’s also a columnist for Computer World UK.

"Latin America is emerging as a real hotbed of not only free software coding, but free software uptake by governments - to an extent that puts the UK's pathetic bumblings in this area quite to shame." Glyn Moody interviews Ryan Bagueros of northxsouth.com about the Latin American free software revolution and North-by-South, a company that is giving US businesses access to this incredible phenomeno read more