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Open Source Gaining Ground in Asia!

  • Subject: Open Source Gaining Ground in Asia!
  • From: High Plains Thumper <highplainsthumper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:17:46 +0900
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http://www.beijinglug.org/en/index.php

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OS Summit Asia 2007
Monday, 26 November 2007

Two leading organizations in the Open Source community, The Apache Software Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation, have announced plans for Asia’s largest Open Source community conference - the first of its kind in Hong Kong and China. The inaugural OS Summit Asia will be held at the Le Meridian hotel in Hong Kong’s leading edge Cyberport IT development zone on November 26th - 30th 2007.

OS Summit combines 2 days of in-depth hands on trainings followed by a 3 day conference featuring over 60 presentations, "Birds of a Feather" gatherings for group networking, interactive keynote panel, and Li Gong Chairman and CEO of Mozilla Online Ltd doing the featured keynote. Speakers include open source leaders such as Brian Behlendorf, Mike Milinkovich, and Karl Fogel, with talks focusing on cutting edge technology, open source business practices, and building a health and active community.

Date: Monday November 26th to Friday 30th, 2007
Location: Le Meridien Cyberport, Hong Kong
Official website and registration: http://www.ossummit.com/


Beijing Open Source International Convention
Wednesday, 28 November 2007

Open standards have become a source of technological innovation and cornerstone of information construction. They provide open interface and achieve interface-based interoperation. Different manufacturers could achieve it differently based on interface standards and different users could make different choices, thus reasonability and sustainability of information construction could be guaranteed to the largest extent. Open standards provide opportunities for more manufacturers to participate in competition and lay the foundation for innovation. They have become powerful weapons of anti monopoly and provided a shortcut for development of China’s software industry. As the pioneer team to advocating open standards in China, Changfeng Open Standards Platform Software Alliance(COSPSA)makes open standards strategy basis for COSPSA development, links of COSPSA members cooperation and methods of COSPSA in market competition. For in-depth study based on how open standards to promote technological innovation and the application of innovation, we have organized this special "2007 open standards International Conference"

Date: Wednesday November 28th and Thursday November 29th, 2007
Location: Kempinski Hotel, Beijing
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