HKOSCon
| HKOSCon 香港開源年會 | |
|---|---|
| HKOSCon Logo (since 2015) HKOSCon Logo (since 2015) | |
| Status | active |
| Genre | conferences |
| Frequency | Annually |
| Location(s) | Hong Kong |
| Inaugurated | 2013 |
| Website | http://2016.opensource.hk |
The Hong Kong Open Source Conference (a.k.a. HKOSCon) is a yearly international event in Hong Kong focused on free and open source software. It is the largest open source annual event in Hong Kong. The event has been held since 2013. It is organized by an organizing committee formed by open source enthusiasts from key open source communities and organisations in Hong Kong – Open Source Hong Kong, Hong Kong Creative Open Technology Association and Hong Kong Linux User Group.
The conference is targeting developers, open source users, as well as IT managers in the business and community sectors. Participants come from various regions, including Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China, Japan, India, France, United States, Brazil, Canada, Australia, Bulgaria, Singapore, Malaysia, Israel, Finland, Peru, Argentina, Germany, Spain, and Russia. About half of the conference speakers are visiting from overseas each year, attracting 50+ overseas speakers and visitors in 2015.
Speakers include staff and community members of Mozilla, Red Hat, PostgreSQL, NewSQL, Oracle, and Haxe around the world. Topics include Linux, DevOps, cloud technology, and internet of things.[1][2][3]
History
In 2011, 10 open source professionals from Hong Kong attended one of the largest open source conferences in Asia – COSCUP in Taipei, and then they and their friends continued to attend COSCUP every year. After hosting a successful GNOME.Asia Summit for The GNOME Project in 2012 in Hong Kong,[4] organisers started to organise the first HKOSCon in 2013. HKOSCon is based on the conference model of COSCUP and FOSDEM.
Organisers have a close relationship with other regional open source conferences; for example, a past conference chair of COSCUP visited and spoke about COSCUP at HKOSCon 2015.
Notable Speakers
- 2014: Chia-liang Kao (clkao), Co-founder of g0v.tw.[5]
- 2015: Jonathan Corbet, Founder and Executive Editor of LWN.net.[6] [7]
- 2016: Jim Huang (jserv), a famous open source developer from Taiwan.[8]
Participating Open Source Communities and Organisations
- 2014-2016: Mozilla (including Mozilla Foundation, Mozilla Corp, MozTW Community, Mozilla HK Community).[9][10][11]
- 2014: One Laptop per Child Asia Pacific.
- 2014-2016: VideoLAN Foundation.[12]
References
- ↑ "Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2015, Linux Pilot". Retrieved June 28, 2016.
- ↑ "Topics, HKOSCon 2016". Retrieved May 17, 2016.
- ↑ "推廣本地開源文化 HKOSCon 2016 香港開源年會雲集技術精英交流 (Chinese only), Unwired". Retrieved May 17, 2016.
- ↑ "GNOME.Asia Summit 2012", GNOME Foundation, retrieved 2016-06-28
- ↑ "Open Source Beyond Developers – g0v.tw". Retrieved June 29, 2016.
- ↑ "Keynote Speech: The Kernel Report". Retrieved June 29, 2016.
- ↑ "HKOSCon 2015". Chiwang Chow's homepage. June 27, 2015.
- ↑ "Keynote: Free and Open Source Software Involvement in Taiwan". Retrieved June 29, 2016.
- ↑ "Mozillians in Hong Kong Open Source Conference". May 3, 2014.
- ↑ "Mozillians @ HKOSCon 2015". Mozilla Discourse. July 9, 2015.
- ↑ "Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2016, Mozillz Reps". Mozilla Reps. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
- ↑ "Francois @fcartegnie giving a short talk about VLC on #hkoscon Hong Kong opensource conference". @cryothresh, Twitter. June 24, 2016.
Official Websites
- HKOSCon 2016 at Hong Kong Cyberport.
- HKOSCon 2015 at Hong Kong Science Park.
- HKOSCon 2014 at Hong Kong Science Park.
- HKOSCon 2013 at City University of Hong Kong.
External links
- Showing off Firefox in HKOSCon 2015
- Mozillians @ HKOSCon 2015
- Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2015 by Tizen developer Leon Anavi
- 10 Reasons to Start Your Analytics Project with PostgreSQL
- Open Source Hong Kong 2015 by Tobias Mueller
- Webmaker + Workshop @HKOSCon 2015
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