Date: 29 March, 2008 (Saturday)

Time: 2:00pm to 3:30pm

Venue: Lecture Theatre 14, Academic Building, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong.

Speaker: Lucifer Chu (朱學恆), Founder of the OOPS

Language: Mandarin

Notes: A casual gathering will be organized after the seminar at Cyberport.

日期︰2008年3 月29日 (星期六)

時間︰下午二時至三時半

地點︰香港城市大學教學樓 LT 14

講者︰朱學恆先生，「開放原始碼理念開放式課程原型計劃 OOPS」創辦人

語言︰國語

附註︰會後將於數碼港舉行聚會

About Mr. Chu's talk:

Web 2.0 enables people from different countries, languages, and cultures to collaborate. Successful Web 2.0 media projects include Wikipedia (Encyclopedia) and Global Voices Online (Citizen journalism). For instance, Wikipedia is an encyclopedia written by millions of Internet users all over the world.

OOPS (Opensource Opencourse Prototype System), is another successful project under the Web 2.0 era. OOPS translates the vast library of resources from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) on-line Open Courseware into Chinese. From just two persons the foundation has now grown to 2,300 volunteers from 16 countries around the world.

Besides technology infrastructure, flexible copyright licenses such as Creative Commons are a key factor enabling such collaborative projects. Flexible licenses based on "Some Rights Reserved" free the creations of individual contributors from a "All Rights Reserved" copyright regime, so that works can be shared and mixed together without any potential copyright hassle.

Lucifer Chu is the founder of OOPS. He will talk about the trend of Web 2.0,  its implications, why Creative Commons is important and how he applied it to the OOPS project.