Presentation of a lighten talk given at Technology and Research Seminiar Series of CS Department in City University of Hong Kong.

1. Open Source Activities
In
Hong Kong
28 October 2010 at City University of Hong Kong.

2. Sammy Fung

3. Python
Rock & Roll
Basketball

4. Why am I interested to
Open Source Software ?

5. Why do I participate &
organise
Open Source activities ?

6. Computing is my interest.

7. 1991
Computers are not that common
In Hong Kong.

8. 4
2nd-hand computers
Are Installed in School library

9. Students could free to use it.
I started to use it.

10. 1st
Month
1st
GWBASIC program

11. NOT “Hello World” !!!

12. DOS commands
UNIX commands

13. Who did provide and
install DOS, anti-virus,
GWBASIC on
computers ?

14. I dunno. XD

15. 1997

17. I heard a UNIX software
which
can run on PC computers!

18. Not only on mainframes
and mini-computers

19. That's Linux.

20. Free of charge

21. Source Code are all
open.

22. More application
software are included.

23. Apache web server
(1997!!!)

24. C complier

25. Enlightment on X-Windows (1998!)
Linux Historical Screenshot Gallery (1998-2001) - http://titaniclinux.net/FC?cmsPage=true&link=96

26. My journey

27. 1997
linux.org.hk / linux.hk
Hong Kong Linux User Group
(HKLUG)

28. 2002
hklia.org
Hong Kong Linux Industry Association

29. 2006
oaka.org
Open-source Application Knowledge Association

30. 2007
opensource.hk
Open Source Hong Kong

31. Activities
5 types

32. 1. Cafe Meetups

34. 2. Seminiars

35. Software Freedom Day 2008, Hong Kong

36. 3. Workshops

38. 4. Exhibitions

41. 5. Projects

42. Chinese FreeFonts Project 開源香港常用中文字體計劃

43. 4 reasons
To participate in community

44. 1. Develop personal global social network.

48. 2. Fun!

50. 3. Learning

52. 4. Sharing.

54. Upcoming events

55. 6 Nov 2010
Mobile The Gathering
Android, iOS, Meego, WebOS

56. Mameo/Meego Talk, July 2010

57. Early of 2011
Firefox 4 Party

59. Dec 2010 / Jan 2011
Education and Open Source

60. Kid kissing a XO computer in Hong Kong. - One Laptop Per Child (OLPC)
Licensed in Creative Commons BY-CC by @laihiu – flickr.com/photos/laihiu

61. Feb 2011
Causal Meetup

63. Check it out at
opensource.hk

64. 2011

65. I want to visit.......

66. DrupalCon 2010, US

67. FOSDEM 2010, Europe. (Brussels, Belgium)

68. COSCUP 2010, Taipei, Taiwan.

69. Do you want too ?

70. How about...... ?

71. Linus Torvalds @ LinuxCon Brazil

72. GNOME.Asia Summit 2009
Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

73. OK! A Question!

74. Not Hong Kong ?
an international city.

75. Yes, we don't have any big gig in the past.

76. Will we have..... ?

77. http://live.gnome.org/GnomeAsia/2011Summit/PotentialVenues/HK
GNOME.Asia 2011 Summit & Hackfest in Hong Kong ???
(on candidate list)
(Final decision will be made by GNOME Asia.)

78. We dunno yet.

79. But surely we need more
resources....
People, Venues, Projects

80. Finally......

81. Purpose of this lighten talk

82. Invite you to try to use open source
software & participate in the community.

83. Hopes students can form
Their user/technology/interests groups
Related to open source.

84. For questions of open source
sammy@opensource.hk
Thank you.