15+ years of open source movements in Hong Kong
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Sammy Fung gave a keynote presentation on the 15+ year history of open source movements in Hong Kong. He discussed how communities started with a focus on Linux usage and contributions. Over time, these communities grew and expanded their involvement in Asia and globally through conferences and collaborations. Local user groups also increased around specific technologies like Drupal, JavaScript, Python and others. Fung highlighted Hong Kong's role in bridging Western and Chinese open source cultures and expressed optimism for the future growth of open source in the region.
15+ years of open source movements in Hong Kong
- 1. 15+ years of Open Source Movements in Hong Kong Sammy Fung Keynote #1 Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2013
- 2. Sammy Fung
- 3. Sammy Fung ● Software Developer – Python, Django, Drupal, Scrapy...... ● Startup ● System Engineer – ● Linux, OpenStack, Internet. Basketball, Football, Rock & Roll, Jazz.......
- 4. 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
- 5. 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.
- 6. Participates in Open Source Communities ● Who ? – ● Newbies, Users, Developers, Promoters...... Participation – Share – Learn – Contribute
- 8. 源開於始 / Starting from 1997
- 10. Common Passports in Hong Kong HKSAR Passport British National (Oversea) And few HK people are holding other passports issued from United Kingdom and other countries.
- 11. Advantages of Hong Kong Open Source Communities ● Understand both Western and Chinese culture. ● Freedom of Speech.
- 12. HKLUG
- 13. Hong Kong Linux User Group ● Newsgroup – Begin: Hong Kong StarForum UNIX Newsgroup. – Call for HKLUG re-formation. – Running own HKLUG newsgroup.
- 14. Hong Kong Linux User Group ● Internet Relay Chat – Freenode IRC Channel #linux-hk – Vote for first HKLUG committee.
- 15. Hong Kong Linux User Group ● Web Sites – First domain name but Lost ● – hklug.org Current domain names ● ● linux.org.hk linux.hk
- 16. Hong Kong Linux User Group ● Events – Linux Talks, Workshops, Seminiars. – Linux Cafe, Meetups. – Schools. – Business Exhibitions. – International VIP Guests.
- 17. Linux Talks
- 18. Linux Seminiars
- 19. Linux Workshops
- 20. Linux Cafe
- 21. Linux Meetups
- 22. Schools
- 25. Hong Kong Linux User Group ● Events – Linux Talks, Workshops, Seminiars. – Linux Cafe, Meetups. – Schools. – Business Exhibitions. – International VIP Guests.
- 26. OAKA
- 27. Chinese FreeFonts Project freefonts.oaka.org 4,900 Hong Kong Chinese Characters
- 28. Firefox 1.0 Launch Party
- 29. Opensource Application Knowledge Association ● Projects – Chinese FreeFonts – Trainings: ● Secondary Schools – ● OSFarm and OSLeaders Government and Commercials – OpenOffice
- 30. OpenSource.HK
- 31. Open Source Hong Kong
- 32. Firefox 3 / 4 Parties
- 33. Open Source Hong Kong ● Starting from web portal – Organizing open source events – Monthly Open Source Workshop – Support to re-form HKLUG
- 35. Hong Kong Linux User Group
- 36. Key Members at HKLUG ● Executive Committee (2011-): – – Vice-Chairman: Mr. Wan Leung, Wong. – ● Chairman: Dr. Haggen So EXCO Member: Mr. Roger So (spacehunt). Non Executive Committee: – Founding Chairman (1997-): Mr. Sammy Fung.
- 37. HKLUG ● Raspberry Pi ● Hacking Thursday ● IT Fest ● ibus-cangjie, stroke5 ● RepRap ● Wan Leung will share his experiences in community with us
- 38. Localization
- 39. 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
- 40. Asia & Global
- 41. Hong Kong Going to Asia & Global ● ● Start to attend COSCUP in Taipei from 2011 each years. Host GNOME Asia Summit 2012 in Hong Kong.
- 44. GNOME Asia Summit 2012 (Hong Kong)
- 45. Hong Kong Going to Asia & Global ● ● Start to attend COSCUP in Taipei from 2011 each years. Host GNOME Asia Summit 2012 in Hong Kong.
- 46. Hong Kong Going to Asia & Global ● Participate Asia / Global communities – One Laptop Per Child Asia Pacific (OLPC APAC) – GNOME Asia committee – COSCUP – Mozilla
- 47. One Laptop Per Child (Asia Pacific)
- 48. OLPC APAC ● APAC Headquater at Hong Kong. ● Deployments: – Bhutan. – Sichuan. – Hong Kong.
- 49. OLPC BaseCamp
- 50. GNOME Asia Summit 2013 (Seoul, Korea)
- 51. MozCamp Asia 2012 (Singapore)
- 52. Hong Kong Going to Asia & Global ● Participate Asia / Global communities – One Laptop Per Child Asia Pacific (OLPC APAC) – GNOME Asia committee – COSCUP – Mozilla
- 53. Hong Kong Going to Asia & Global ● Attend oversea conferences. – Drupal – Javascript – Ruby – Python – Open Source Developer Conference (OSDC) Taiwan
- 55. 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,.............................
- 56. I am participating in...
- 57. Although we host a international event in Hong Kong in 2012, but we hopes we bring annual international event to Hong Kong.
- 58. Finally, we started to organize Hong Kong Open Source Conference this year.
- 59. 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.
- 60. Thank you.