15+ years of Open Source Movements in Hong Kong Sammy Fung Keynote #1 Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2013
15+ years of open source movements in Hong Kong
Sep 14, 2014
Keynote speech at Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2013
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15+ years ofOpen Source Movements
in Hong Kong
Sammy Fung
Keynote #1Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2013
Sammy Fung
Sammy Fung
● Software Developer– Python, Django, Drupal, Scrapy......
● Startup● System Engineer
– Linux, OpenStack, Internet.
● Basketball, Football, Rock & Roll, Jazz.......
15+ years of Open Source Movements in Hong Kong
● Start of Communities● Go into Business World● Start of Contributions● Explore Asia and Global● Development of Local Communities
15+ years of Open Source Movements in Hong Kong
● Start to use Linux.● Use open source software
– in personal and work.
● Attend events and participate in communities.
Participates in Open Source Communities
● Who ?– Newbies, Users, Developers, Promoters......
● Participation– Share
– Learn
– Contribute
Share
Learn
Contribute
源開於始 / Starting from 1997
1997Hong Kong Handover
Common Passports in Hong Kong
And few HK people are holding other passports issued from United Kingdom and other countries.
HKSAR Passport British National (Oversea)
Advantages of Hong Kong Open Source Communities
● Understand both Western and Chinese culture.● Freedom of Speech.
HKLUG
Hong Kong Linux User Group
● Newsgroup– Begin: Hong Kong StarForum UNIX Newsgroup.
– Call for HKLUG re-formation.
– Running own HKLUG newsgroup.
Hong Kong Linux User Group
● Internet Relay Chat– Freenode IRC Channel #linux-hk
– Vote for first HKLUG committee.
Hong Kong Linux User Group
● Web Sites– First domain name but Lost
● hklug.org
– Current domain names● linux.org.hk● linux.hk
Hong Kong Linux User Group
● Events– Linux Talks, Workshops, Seminiars.
– Linux Cafe, Meetups.
– Schools.
– Business Exhibitions.
– International VIP Guests.
Linux Talks
Linux Seminiars
Linux Workshops
Linux Cafe
Linux Meetups
Schools
Business Exhibitions
International VIP Guests
Hong Kong Linux User Group
● Events– Linux Talks, Workshops, Seminiars.
– Linux Cafe, Meetups.
– Schools.
– Business Exhibitions.
– International VIP Guests.
OAKA
Chinese FreeFonts Projectfreefonts.oaka.org
4,900 Hong Kong Chinese Characters
Firefox 1.0 Launch Party
Opensource Application Knowledge Association
● Projects– Chinese FreeFonts
– Trainings:● Secondary Schools
– OSFarm and OSLeaders● Government and Commercials
– OpenOffice
OpenSource.HK
Open Source Hong Kong
Firefox 3 / 4 Parties
Open Source Hong Kong
● Starting from web portal– Organizing open source events
– Monthly Open Source Workshop
– Support to re-form HKLUG
Re-formation / Take-over of
HKLUG
Hong Kong Linux User Group
Key Members at HKLUG
● Executive Committee (2011-):– Chairman: Dr. Haggen So
– Vice-Chairman: Mr. Wan Leung, Wong.
– EXCO Member: Mr. Roger So (spacehunt).
● Non Executive Committee:– Founding Chairman (1997-): Mr. Sammy Fung.
HKLUG● Raspberry Pi● Hacking Thursday● IT Fest● ibus-cangjie, stroke5● RepRap● Wan Leung will share his
experiences in community with us
Localization
Localization
● Localization (l10n) for Hong Kong Chinese– Chinese FreeFonts by OAKA
– Chinese Input Methods● Hong Kong Cantonese 港式廣東話● Stroke 5 筆順五碼● Changjie on iBus input framework
Asia & Global
Hong Kong Going to Asia & Global
● Start to attend COSCUP in Taipei from 2011 each years.
● Host GNOME Asia Summit 2012 in Hong Kong.
GNOME Asia Summit 2012(Hong Kong)
Hong Kong Going to Asia & Global
● Start to attend COSCUP in Taipei from 2011 each years.
● Host GNOME Asia Summit 2012 in Hong Kong.
Hong Kong Going to Asia & Global
● Participate Asia / Global communities– One Laptop Per Child Asia Pacific (OLPC APAC)
– GNOME Asia committee
– COSCUP
– Mozilla
One Laptop Per Child (Asia Pacific)
OLPC APAC
● APAC Headquater at Hong Kong.● Deployments:
– Bhutan.
– Sichuan.
– Hong Kong.
OLPC BaseCamp
GNOME Asia Summit 2013(Seoul, Korea)
MozCamp Asia 2012 (Singapore)
Hong Kong Going to Asia & Global
● Participate Asia / Global communities– One Laptop Per Child Asia Pacific (OLPC APAC)
– GNOME Asia committee
– COSCUP
– Mozilla
Hong Kong Going to Asia & Global
● Attend oversea conferences.– Drupal
– Javascript
– Ruby
– Python
– Open Source Developer Conference (OSDC) Taiwan
Local User Groups
Increasing of open source related local user groups in Hong Kong
● Hong Kong Drupal.● Hong Kong Node of Javascripters.● Hong Kong Python User Group.● Hong Kong R User Group.● Ubuntu Hong Kong LocoTeam● Debian Hong Kong● Fedora, Open Data,.............................
I am participating in...
Although we host a international event in Hong Kong in 2012, but we hopes we bring annual
international event to Hong Kong.
Finally, we started to organize Hong Kong Open Source Conference this year.
Future of Open Source Movements in Hong Kong
● Increase of demostration of Open Source.● Increase of Open Source developers and
projects started from / based in Hong Kong.● Local User Groups / Communities going to
Global.● And Haggen will tell us some ideas as well.
Thank you.
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