Software Freedom Day 2009, Hong Kong


19 Sep is Software Freedom Day for this year. Creative Commons Hong Kong is one of the co-organisers and will be presentation on the latest development in the local CC movement.

Date:   19th September 2009, Saturday.
Time:   2 - 7pm
Venue:  LT-3, Y4701 & Y4702, 4/F. City University of Hong Kong
Fee:    Free of charge.
Language: Cantonese or English, with English slides.
Registration: http://bit.ly/registersfd09hk
Official Wiki Page: http://wiki.opensource.hk/index.php/Software_Freedom_Day_2009%2C_Hong_Kong
Official SFD web site: http://www.softwarefreedomday.org/teams/hongkong

Please register at http://bit.ly/registersfd09hk and share Software Freedom Day on facebook.

Agenda:

A. Technology Track (Lecture Theatre LT-3):

- Enterprise-class open source virtualization from the server to the desktop.
- Development with Android.
- JavaFX - Free and Open Source RIA for Mobile, TV and Desktop.
- The Apache Way.
- GGG Project.

B. Community Track (Classroom Y4701):
- Open source developers from Hong Kong.
- Incubating Open Source Communities.
- Free HK Bloggers with Wordpress.

C. Application Track (Classroom Y4702):
- A Startup Case Study of Open Source Software.
- Uses of OSS in Internet Radio.
- Free/Open Source in Education.

Organisor: Opensource Application Knowledge Association (OAKA)
Gold Sponsor: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Sponsors: CWLinux Limited, HKDay Limited.
Wifi Sponsor: FON Hong Kong.

Co-Organisors:
Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong
Creative Commons Hong Kong
Debian HK
Embedded Linux Interest Group
MobileRadio.HK
Software Freedom International (SFI)

Supporting Organisations:
Internet Society Hong Kong (ISOC HK)
Hong Kong Linux Industry Association (HKLIA)

Aims of Software Freedom Day 2009, Hong Kong are:

  1. Introduction and promotion of local open-source software projects and developers in Hong Kong. (介紹及推廣香港本地開源軟件開發計劃與開發者)
  2. Communication with end-users, and promotion of OSS to end-users. (接觸普羅大眾, 推廣免費或開源軟件應用)
  3. Promotion of Software Freedom and Open Source culture, and difference. (推廣軟件自由與開源文化, 解釋兩者分別)
  4. Introduction of free-of-charge or open-source software in different category. (介紹不同常用類別的免費或開源軟件)