Open Source Communities in Hong Kong

Sammy Fung

COSCUP 2013, Taipei.

3rd yearattending COSCUP

1st yearbe a staff at COSCUP

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Sammy Fung

● Hong Kong Linux User Group– Founding Chairman

● Open Source Hong Kong– Founder and Community Manager

● GNOME Foundation– Member, Asia Committee.

● Mozilla Rep● COSCUP 2013: Program committee member

Sammy Fung

● Intenet Cloud Solution– Technical Manager at 43 Global, a licensed Internet

Service Provider in Hong Kong,

● Software Developer– Python, Django, Drupal, Scrapy......

– Startup

– Linux server installation, Networking / VPN setup.

1997Hong Kong Handover

Hong Kong Valid Passports

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.

I am participating in...

Our Story

● Start from Local.● Go Asia and Global.

START FROM LOCAL

源開於始 / Starting from 1997

源開於始 / Starting from 1997

● Starting from a local UNIX newsgroup in 1997.● Re-established HKLUG in 1997.● Manage own HKLUG Linux newsgroup server.● HKLUG: www.linux.org.hk / www.linux.hk ● Open Source Hong Kong: opensource.hk● Google Groups, Facebook, G+, Twitter, Plurk...

Exhibitions

Seminiars / Talks

Linux Cafe / Linux The Gathering

Linux Workshops

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

Debian Developers from Hong Kong

● foka: Anthony Fok● spacehunt: Roger So● ypwong: Anthony Wong

Open Source Hong Kong

Open Source Hong Kong

● Communication of Open Source communities in Hong Kong and Global.

● Work closely with HKLUG.● Assisting HKLUG to build up its community

again.

OAKA

● Opensource Application Knowledge Association● From 2004, project based.● Executive Committee:

– President: Zunix Ling

– Vice Presidents: Ben Lau, Dr Haggen So and others.

– EXCO Members: Wily Yuen, Lisa Soeng and others.

● Non Executive Committee:– Advisors: Sammy Fung and 2 others.

Chinese FreeFonts Projectfreefonts.oaka.org

4,900 Hong Kong Chinese Characters

Opensource Application Knowledge Association

● Chinese Freefont Project.● ITLeader, ITFarm:

– HK Middle Student training course.

● OpenOffice:– Training Lesson for HK Government.

GO ASIA AND GLOBAL

Firefox 1.0 Launch Party

Firefox 3 / 4 Parties

MozCamp Asia 2012 (Singapore)

Firefox and Mozilla HK Community

● Firefox 1.0 , 3.0, 4.0 Parties● MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.● 1st Mozilla Rep based in Hong Kong.● Mozillians at Wikimania 2013 in Hong Kong● Mozilla Summit 2013 in Santa Clara, USA.

– and Brussels, Belgium + Toronto, Canada.

GNOME 3 Party, Hong Kong

GNOME Asia Summit 2012(Hong Kong)

GNOME Asia Summit 2013(Seoul, Korea)

One Laptop Per Child (Asia Pacific)

OLPC APAC

● APAC Headquater at Hong Kong.● Deployments:

– Bhutan.

– Sichuan.

– Hong Kong.

Our Focus

● HKLUG● OpenSource.HK● Gnome Asia, Mozilla HK, OAKA● One Laptop Per Child (OLPC APAC)

We are also participating or reaching

● Drupal● Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora● Open Data● Python, R, Java, JavaScript and Ruby● Wikimedia and Creative Commons● Others.

Join us

Join us !!!

● Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2013– 2013 / 10 / 19, Saturday.

● OLPC BaseCamp (Malacca, Malaysia)– 2013 / 11 / 16 - 18.

Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2013

● 2013 / 10 / 19 Saturday.● 1 day 2 track.● Expect 200-300 participants.● Call For Proposals and Sponsors now!

OLPC BaseCamp

ONE MORE THING!

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Thank you.

● Question and Answer.– Mr Sammy Fung, Founding Chairman, HKLUG.

– Mr Wan-Leung Wong, Vice-Chairman, HKLUG.

– Don't worry, I believe we will have translators! XD