Asia’s largest FLOSS conference COSCUP 2017 kicks off this weekend

Taipei, TAIWAN – From ethereum (blockchain) protocols to Pokémon GO calculators, you could expect everything to happen in this annual open source fest, and meet with farmers, anthropologists, architects, and even cabinet members from all across Asia.

COSCUP – Conference for Open Source Coders, Users, and Promoters – now celebrates its 12th annual conference from August 5 to 6, taking place in Taipei at College of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University.

Deeply rooted in local communities, it has since attracted technophiles across Asia, hosting a wide range of 20+ different topics, including Open Farm Innovation, DevOps, Civil Tech, Open Web Technologies, and even a dedicated section on community building.

Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲), former Premier and acting Executive Director of Taiwan Mobile Foundation Simon Chang (張善政) are invited to share their visions on open source and collaboration on the opening ceremony. The Document Foundation Founder Italo Vignoli, Rust Core Team member Alex Crichton & Brian Anderson, Taipei Department of IT Commissioner Lee Wei-bin (李維斌) are one of the notable speakers this year.

The free-to-register event will bring nearly 2,000 attendees, speakers, and staffs from 16 countries. It is held by Open Culture Foundation (OCF), a supporting organization formed by volunteers across local communities. Several long-time supporters helped sponsored the event, including 17Media, Carousell, Rayark, KKBOX, Gandi, Yahoo (Oath), MySQL, and are reachable right at the booth.

Take a peek at conference schedule on COSCUP’s website, or join Telegram channel @coscupchat / Freenode IRC #coscup to be notified when live streaming is available.

Event information:

Conference for Open Source Coders, Users, and Promoters (COSCUP) 2017
Date: August 5 - 6
Time: 8:30am - 5pm
Venue: College of Social Sciences, National Taiwan University