Hong Kong Open Source Newsletter

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Upcoming Events

Open Source Workshop #5 (Apr 2011)
Apr 7 (Sat) 14:30-18:00 CityU Classroom Y5-204

A monthly regular open source / Linux meetup (1st Saturdays of each month)! co-hosted by Open Source HK and HK Linux User Group.

What will we do ?

• bring our open source / Linux questions and ideas to workshop to seek for answers, helps, ideas from others.
• in 5-min lightning talks / 25-min talk, present and share your experience, knowledge to us.
• assist newbies to install Linux on their own laptops, tell and discuss why and how to use open source / Linux to/with newbies
• meet with old friends, making new friends, building your own social network.
• having informal dinner together after workshops and chit-chat!

Suggested topics of the month by participants:

• F/OSS Community Updates (Sammy Fung)
• Mesh networks using commodity WiFi routers and OpenWRT (Alexander List) (E)
• IA32 architecture and use of bochs (Peter Cheung). (CC)
• Lightning Talk: Platform Agnostic Engineering Education (Ma Xiaojun) (E)
• Open Discussion - bring our open source / Linux questions and ideas to workshop to seek for answers, helps, ideas from others.

Registration: https://www.facebook.com/events/319903998054295/ or email to webmaster@opensource.hk

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Upcoming Events

Open Source Workshop #3 (Feb 2012)
Feb 4 (Sat) 14:30-18:00 CityU B5-207

A monthly regular open source / Linux meetup is re-launched for upcoming months (1st Saturdays of each month)!

Agenda:

• 14:45 Build and distribute virtualized development environment using Vagrant (Francis Chong aka @siuying) (25-min Talk)
  
• 15:15 Hash! (Wong Wan Leung aka @wanleung) (25-min Talk)
• 15:45 Difference of opera mini and miniweb app technologies, and its copyright issues (@wanleung) (5-min Lightning Talk)
• 15:55 OLPC XO (Key) Software: Sugar GUI (馬曉駿) (5-min Lightning Talk)
• 16:00 Workshop - Fanless XO School Server for OLPC (OLPC Volunteers)
• 16:00 Free Discussion/Workshop - bring our open source / Linux questions and ideas to workshop to seek for answers, helps, ideas from others.

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/250303505030942/ 或 email 給 webmaster@opensource.hk

Introduction of Open Source Workshop

• bring our open source / Linux questions and ideas to workshop to seek for answers, helps, ideas from others.
• in 5-min lightning talks / 25-min talk, present and share your experience, knowledge to us.
• assist newbies to install Linux on their own laptops, tell and discuss why and how to use open source / Linux to/with newbies
• meet with old friends, making new friends, building your own social network.
• having informal dinner together after workshops and chit-chat!

Hong Kong MeeGo Network - February 2012 Meet-up
Feb 5 (Sun) 15:00-18:00 LG1 Triple O's, LG1, Pacific Place 2, Admiralty

Meet-up on Feb 5: Meet @amanda_lam, @crazyphoneguy, @jjklee & @taike_hk to chat about MeeGo, Tizen, N9/N950, NFC & other gadgets in general!

RSVP: https://www.facebook.com/events/220494981374533/

Hacking Thursday #14
Feb 9 (Thu) 19:30-22:30 TBC

Enquiry: https://www.facebook.com/groups/hacking4hk/

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Upcoming Events

Open Source Workshop #2 (Jan 2012)
Jan 14 (Sat) 14:30-18:00 PolyU M108

A monthly regular open source / Linux meetup is re-launched for upcoming months (1st Saturdays of each month)!

What will we do ?

• bring our open source / Linux questions and ideas to workshop to seek for answers, helps, ideas from others.
• in 5-min lightning talks / 25-min talk, present and share your experience, knowledge to us.
• assist newbies to install Linux on their own laptops, tell and discuss why and how to use open source / Linux to/with newbies
• meet with old friends, making new friends, building your own social network.
• having informal dinner together after workshops and chit-chat!

Suggested topics of the month by participants:

• (14:45) 25 mins - Tuning the JVM for Extreme Low Latency (Sunny Chan / Hong Kong Java User Group)
• (15:15) 25 mins - Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) talk #2 (@wanleung)
• (15:45) 5-min lightening talk - Latest version of Linux Deepin (Sun Xilin).
• (15:55) Workshop - Trial installation of OLPC XO School Server on a fanless MiniATX system. (@wanleung & TK Kang / One Laptop Per Child)
• (15:55) Free Discussion - bring our open source / Linux questions and ideas to workshop to seek for answers, helps, ideas from others.
  

Registration: https://www.facebook.com/events/183641821728552/ or email to webmaster@opensource.hk

Meet John O'Duinn, the Director of Release Engineering of Mozilla
Jan 26 (Thu) 19:30-22:30 Venue:TBC

John O'Duinn, the Director of Release Engineering of Mozilla, will be in Hong Kong. He would like to meet people in Hong Kong who are interested in Mozilla, Firefox, etc.

Ref:
http://oduinn.com/
http://oduinn.com/blog/category/mozilla/

Registration: https://www.facebook.com/events/222500921164809/ or email to webmaster@opensource.hk

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