I am from Brasil, too. I just recently discovered Blender while on my winter vacation but I had know idea how to use it, thanks to Bart tutorials I am already doing lots of cools stuff. Thanks so much all Blender team for the tutorials and all the support.

@Bart: Our public institutions are waking up for Blender recently. Iam tring to get in touch with facilityes that are able to offer studies for "free" (i mean, the word "public" means that people already paid for that in their taxes and don't need to pay it again ;).
Most 3D workshops that is being offered now to students needs to be paid (again) over here. This is quite complicated in a country with concetrated amounts of money and very low tech activities like Brasil. Thats why Blender comes in handle. It is able to work quite good in low plataforms, so it is very important to get people included.

I think iam not the right person to give you a nice feedback about all that is being made inside Brasil to decrease our diferences. In fact iam not able to give just a feedback about what Brasilians are making with Blender. I can give just small and unadorned tips about my neighbourhood. :( ;)

About the event: It is really important that we have this kind of meetings here in Brasil, even more that is dealing with opensource software, this incentives the young guys to look for alternatives to make their projects, just for fun or for culture.

Thankx