Federico Heinz is a Latin-American programmer and Free Software advocate living in Argentina. He is a co-founder of Fundación Vía Libre, a non-profit organization that promotes the free flow of knowledge as a motor for social progress, and the use and development of Free Software as a powerful tool towards that goal. He has helped legislators such a Argentina's Ing. Dragan, Dr. Conde, and Peru's Dr. Villanueva draft and defend legislation demanding the use of Free Software in all areas of public administration. Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... A programmer or software developer is someone who programs computers, that is, one who writes computer software. ... This article is about free software as defined by the sociopolitical free software movement; for information on software distributed without charge, see freeware. ... A nonprofit organization (abbreviated NPO, or non-profit or not-for-profit) is an organization whose primary objective is to support some issue or matter of private interest or public concern for non-commercial purposes. ... It has been suggested that public management be merged into this article or section. ...

He is the president of Free Software Foundation Latin America. Free Software Foundation Latin America (FSFLA) is the Latin American sister organisation of Free Software Foundation. ...

He speaks fluent Spanish, English, and German. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

External links

• A video of Heinz on a panel about public administration
• Recordings of two talks by Heinz from a Dublin event, April 29th 2006