Month: August 2017
The countdown begins, it’s time to submit the topic of your talk at GNOME.Asia 2017
Dear Developers,
GNOME.Asia 2017 organizing committee sincerely invites everyone to apply to be the speaker of a talk during the summit. Since GNOME came into the world 20 years ago, GNOME.Asia has been held in Beijing of China (twice), Ho-Chi-Minh of Vietnam, Taipei, Bangalore of India, Hong Kong, Seoul of Korea, Depok of Indonesia and Delhi of India. Every time the summit spreads the spark of open source across many corners of Asia. Now GNOME.Asia of this year comes to the city of Chongqing, China. Being like Silicon Valley, Chongqing is a leading city for high-tech Starups and Innovation in Western China.The venue for the conference locates at a prestigious university of China, Chongqing University, which has cultivated and trained tens of thousands of leading minds in the technology field. The 20th anniversary of GNOME is of great importance, here we are honored to invite you to join us for it. Over 600 people are expected to get together at the summit, including developers from Asia, the leading experts of open source and industry elites all over the world. The summit will certainly gain great global media exposure all over the Asia. We cordially invite everyone to apply to be the speaker of talks, share your insight of open source, and exchange experiences of each other. And hopefully, we also provide a platform on which your contribution in open source will be spread all over the Asia.
To apply, welcome to click: http://cn.mikecrm.com/nhrytIP
Please submit the topic of your talk before 2017-8-15
For detailed keynote and types of talk, welcome to visit the official website of the summit: https://2017.gnome.asia/papers.html
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