Last month，as as Fedora Ambassador, I participated the 10th COSCUP (Conference for Open Source Coder, User & Promoter), from 1996 to 2015, the COSCUP has made significant contribution for promoting free and open source in Taiwan. This TEN years or FOSS promoting made Taiwan as much as contributor grows faster than any other Asia country, so I would like to learn what make Taiwan FOSS career successfully.
This is my second time participated COSCUP as a speaker, last year I also made a speech too.
Overview
There were thousands participants join COSCUP 2015, and more than 80 talks and workshop by hundreds of free and open source communities contributors and promoters.
As a Fedora Ambassador, together with another ambassador Alick Zhao, we have a task to promote Fedora and collaborate with Local Fedora community in this COSCUP.
My Speeches
As a speaker there were two speeches this time. One is a workshop for promoting XMPP as Community communication too. During this speech, I showed what is XMPP protocol, introduced clients which adopts XMPP protocol and privacy protecting, demonstrated how to chat with others using XMPP and OTR encryption.
Another talk was telling people what I learned as a community leader, and what I learned community governance combined with Chinese transitional culture and philosophy.
China-Taiwan Ambassadors Meet-up
At BoF (Birds of Feather) session in this COSCUP, Alick Zhao and me from mainland of China, together with zerng07 and freedomknight from Taiwan, we had a local mini-ambassador meet-up.
Firstly we reviewed what we done past years, and tell what difficulties we met and how we solved. And then we chat what we should do and need to do to promoting Fedora in China and Taiwan.
By chat with Taiwan ambassadors I learned so many experience, so it could help us to do more than before.
Tour at Aletheia University
Tomorrow of COSCUP event, I visited to Aletheia University where is several local Fedora and other open source projects’ contributor coming from.
By visiting Aletheia University, I interviewed with Professor John Chan who working in Information Engineering Institute. He introduced how they use Fedora and other GNU/Linux distribution for education, and show me how they raise students by encourage them contribute to FOSS projects.
Other Events in Taiwan
- Visit Taipei Open Source User Group
I also visited to Taipei Open Source User Group, chat with them and telling what we learned in China Fedora community.
- Visit WoFOSS
WoFOSS, which is focusing on promoting FOSS and calling out contribute for women in Taiwan. By visiting them, I gave a lightning talk for introducing Fedora community and how to involve.
Finally, Thanks all hundreds of volunteers who working in COSCUP, make this event wonderful and awesome!
