Stephen Walli. I have worked in the IT industry since 1980 as both customer and vendor. I am currently the technical director for the Outercurve Foundation . (The Codeplex Foundation rebranded as the Outercurve Foundation in September, 2010.) Intel, Chinese orgs set up China Open Source Cloud League. Intel and several Chinese organizations have set up a technical community which will focus on the development and support of open-source cloudplatform OpenStack, and hopes to increase China's contribution to the OpenStack global community.
According to a report Thursday by Sina Tech, Intel Asia-Pacific Research and Development, Chinese Internet company Sina, China Standard Software, and Shanghai Jiaotong University signed an agreement to set up the China Open Source Cloud League. The alliance will focus on the development, support, performance optimization and large-scale development of the OpenStack platform. It will also work to drive the adoption of OpenStack among enterprises in the country and to increase China's contribution to the OpenStack global community, the report said. Ivali Makes Simple Linux-Based OSes for the Chinese Market. I’m not a big Linux user, so I was surprised and impressed when I stumbled across StartOS today, the first Linux-based operating system from Chinese startup Ivali.
StartOS is a Linux-based system that’s targeted at Chinese users and boasts simplicity and stability as its primary advantages. The OS — available as a free download — can apparently be installed from a Windows machine with extreme ease and remarkable speed. From there, the experience is all about safety, stability, and simplicity. Obviously Linux machines are less vulnerable to infection in general than Windows ones, and StartOS claims its build is remarkably stable, though we haven’t actually gotten the chance to test that.
Based on the screenshots, it looks fairly slick, and its most useful feature might be a built-in app-store-like interface that allows users to easily find and download Linux applications. Until then, though, you can check out StartOS for yourself if you’re interested in Chinese Linux distributions. Open%20Source%20in%20China%20Presentation%201. China Open Source Week. Www.ow2.org/xwiki/bin/download/Events/China_Open_Source_Week_2012/COSW12Prospectusv3.5.pdf. Xwiki/bin/download/Press_Releases/China_Open_Source_Week_Final_Program/COSW2011-FinalProgram-PR.pdf. Consortium - OW2 Programming Contest 2011. Once again in 2011, OW2 and Scilab are organizing a joint open source programming contest .
This is the third edition of the OW2 Programming Contest, following the 2009 edition and the 2010 edition . The award ceremony for the 2011 edition of the Programming Contest will take place on October 13-14 at the University of Science and Technology Beijing (USTB). The program of the award ceremony and details of the presentations are available here .
The purpose of the competition is to develop awareness for the OW2 code base among students and technicians, and to provide an opportunity for contestants to demonstrate their talent in computer programming. OW2 Announces China Open Source Week 2012 (COSW'12), an Event Like No Other to Promote Open Source Communities, Projects and Business Practices in China. Porto Alegre, Brazil (PRWEB) July 27, 2012.
Open Source in China: OSCON 2008 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 21 - 25, 2008, Portland, Oregon. Just what is the state of open source software in China?
And why does this matter to the larger world-wide open source community? We’ll answer these questions as we explore the nature of the Chinese culture and economy and how open source has faired in the Far East. 10 Entrepreneurs x 10 Minutes: Beijing, August 18th. Here’s a groovy startup event.
Event details straight from the organizers: iWeekend and Chinaaccelerator jointly present 10 x 10 (Ten by Ten) – a unique event for entrepreneurs and the start up community in Beijing. 10 x 10 Beijing is a great opportunity to learn more about tech start ups in China and meet industry players. Governance/Foundation/Funding - Wiki. Other relevant documents: Mission Governance Structure Proposed Budget.
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You are here: Home › Patrons Patron organizations affiliate themselves with the FSF through financial support. The FSF does not endorse the activities of its patrons. You can read about the benefits of the patronage program, and then find out how your organization can support our work, by contacting us at patron@fsf.org. Patrons can also donate on our contribution page. How to Sponsor an Open Source Sprint. June 10, 2009, 1:59 PM — Your company's IT department probably depends on at least one open source application.
The software does the job, is budget-friendly, and it has an active open source community which is constantly upgrading the application. But few applications are perfect, whether proprietary or open source. While the software may do most of what your business needs, you may consider having a few in-house developers add customizations. That's a perfectly reasonable idea. But there may be a better way that benefits the community, is dirt cheap, and oh yeah - is also fun. In short: In an open source sprint, you can add new functionality to your most important application for less money than your marketing department spent last month on a single fancy client dinner.
A sprint (sometimes called a Code Jam or hack-a-thon) is a short time period (three to five days) during which software developers work on a particular chunk of functionality. It cost how little?! GREE Launches Youth Programming Contest - Tech in Asia. Here’s something interesting for young devs, from GREE: Information Processing Society of Japan (“IPSJ”) and GREE announced that they will hold the IPSJ International AI Programming Contest SamurAI Coding, a programming contest for young engineers.
(Details and sign up, click here).With the hope of cultivating the younger generation toward becoming leading researchers and developers, this contest aims at revitalizing the entire software industry by encouraging young software engineers to take on new challenges in the global arena.Engineers from around the globe aged 25 and below are eligible to apply for this contest. Contestants will pit their game engineering skills against each other, with the remaining teams moving on to the finals, giving these young engineers a chance to measure their skills at a global level.
The contest will be a tournament involving multiple matches, where each subset will be played by four teams, each consisting of three to five members. Testimony of Rebecca MacKinnon to the U.S.- China Economic and Security Review Commission.