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Free and Open Source Software Involvement in Taiwan / 回顧台灣自由開源軟體發展

By Jim Huang (jserv)

A Brief History of Free Software and Open Source Involvement in Taiwan

簡介台灣二十餘年的自由軟體和開放原始碼生態變遷

Details

Date & Time
Day 2 (25th June) 02:10 - 02:50
Location
Function Room 1-3
Category
Community
Language
Mandarin (with Traditional Chinese Slides)
Target Audience
Developers, Users
Requirement
Any developers or software engineers with knowledge in open source technology
Beginners

Free software was first noticed in university campuses in Taiwan two decades ago when the GNU utilities started to spread out on the Unix-like workstations, and the community awareness of free software was gradually formed in early 1990s. The creation of the Chinese Linux Extension (CLE) project in 1997 is the most referenced Linux environment in Taiwan, and the industries start catching up OSS activities since 1998. As a long-time contributor of various open source project, I would like to share my understanding about Taiwanese OSS development in historical perspective.

Jim Huang jserv

Photo of Jim Huang
Origin
Taiwan
Affiliation
National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan / 台灣國立成功大學

Biography

Jim, as known as "jserv", is a university lecturer, teaching the course about system programming and building open source solutions for embedded devices and rockets. After involved in Android Open Source Project, Jim specialises in real-time and virtualization to bring Linux based industrial products. He is the co-founder of LXDE project, a lightweight desktop environment widely used in embedded devices such as Raspbery Pi.

網路暱稱 "jserv",在台灣的大學任教,探討系統軟體、開源生態,以及建構火箭控制系統。 過去參與 Android Open Source Project 開發,近期則專注於即時處理和虛擬化技術,導入 以 Linux 為基礎的工業控制產品。他也是 LXDE 計畫的共同發起人,這個輕量級的桌面系統 廣泛應用於 Raspberry Pi 一類的小型電腦,作為預設的桌面系統。