Software Freedom and Community

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1. Free Software and Community Sammy Fung Software Freedom Day 2014, Hong Kong.
2. Sammy Fung • Software Developer – Perl → PHP → Python • President at OpenSource.HK • Community Volunteer in HK & Asia – GNOME.Asia, Mozilla......
4. Software Freedom Day 2014 • Software Freedom Days: – 3rd Saturdays of September. – Digitial Freedom Foundation. • Venue Sponsor: – Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong. • Co-Organizers: – Open Source Hong Kong – Hong Kong Creative Open Technology Association – Hong Kong Linux User Group – Mozilla Hong Kong
5. Software Freedom Day 2014 • 3 parts of talks this year with 2 breaks. • Part 1 – Freedom and Community. – Opening: Free Software and Community. – Dr. Haggen So - The Boring Licences (Take 2) – Mr. Sammy Fung - Open Source Job Board.
6. Software Freedom Day 2014 • Part 2 after the 1st break. • Technology Use: – Mr. HIlary Cheng - Looking for C10K Solution - Elixir and Erlang – Mr. Brendan Tang (sorpa'as) - A Case Study: How Does Open Source Drive Up The Development of a Constructed Language. – Mr. Triton Ho - Using Redis in game system.
7. Software Freedom Day 2014 • Part 3 after the 2nd break. • Contributions: – Mr. Mike Yeung – 自由軟體用家經驗分享 . – Mr. Kingman Leung ( 梁敬文 ) - 自由香港字型 Free Hong Kong Fonts. – Mr. Chung-hong Chan ( 電鋸 ) - Monitoring censorship with open source software
8. 自由 FREEDOM
9. “ Free software means software that respects users' freedom and community. ” http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
10. 4 Essential Freedoms • Freedom 0: Run the program. • Freedom 1: Open Source to study and change it. • Freedom 2: Re-distribute the program. • Freedom 3: Distribute your modified versions as free software.
11. Ecosystem in Technology Innovation
12. Ecosystem in Technology Innovation • Operating System • Web Server • Web Browser • Applications
13. Operating System • Linux – Server, Desktop, Embedded System. – Mobile (Android). • 1983: GNU projects developed many free software programs replacing proprietary programs on UNIX platforms. • 1991: Linus Torvalds released first Linux kernel on internet, then developers integrate with GNU softwares (GNU/Linux) and distribute a new OS. • Documentary Movie: Revolution OS (2001).
14. Web Server • Apache Software Foundation. • Apache HTTP Server (Web Server). • Most popular HTTP server since April 1996. • 1995: First release • 2009: 1st web server serving 100 million websites. • August 2014: 47.92% market share (1st) – http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2014/08/27/august-2014- web-server-survey.html • Documentary Movie: Revolution OS (2001).
15. Web Browser • Mozilla Foundation (Found in 2003). • Firefox Web Browser. • Market Share: 15-20% (2014), 25-30% (2011). • 1998: Netscape Communications Corp (creator of Netscape Navigator web browser) created Mozilla project to coordinate open source version of internet suite. – Internet Suite: Web + Mail / Newsgroup + Web Composer + IRC. • 2002: 1st release Firefox web browser (experimental branch of Mozilla project). • Sept 2014: Firefox 32. • Documentary Movie: Code Rush
16. Applications • Developing Web Applications and Mobile Applications running on OS platforms. • Huge amount of free software (open source software) are esstential and used to develop, manage and operate web & mobile apps and their platforms. • Programming Languages: – PHP, Python, Ruby...... • Web Frameworks, CMS, Blog......: – Wordpress, Drupal, Django, Joomla......
17. 社群 Community
19. Hong Kong Linux User Group • http://www.linux.org.hk/ • Re-established in 1997. • Linux Talks, Seminiars and Workshops. • Linux Cafe meetups. • Linux Exhibitions and Demostrations.
21. Open Source Hong Kong • http://www.opensource.hk • Established in 2008. • Events: Workshops, Hackathons, Conferences.
22. Monthly Events - Open Source Workshops
23. OpenSource.HK Hackathons
24. Hong Kong Open Source Conferences
25. Hong Kong Creative Open Technology Association • http://www.cota.hk • Established in 2014. • HK registered limited company in guarantee. • Non-profit organization. (in final process) • Promoting Open Standards, Free and Open Source Software, Open Hardware, Free Culture Works, Open Content and Creative Commons. • Work on projects and events. – eg. Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2014.
26. 自由 FREEDOM
27. “ Free software means software that respects users' freedom and community. ” http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html