Vibes of Open Source Hong Kong 2021/Q1
Open Source Hong Kong is off to a great start in the first quarter of 2021, we liaised with various technical counterparts to bring you the best of open source.
Open Source Hong Kong is off to a great start in the first quarter of 2021, we liaised with various technical counterparts to bring you the best of open source.
Supporting events
FOSSASIA Summit 2021
Open Source Hong Kong is proud to be a partner of FOSSASIA Summit 2021. Join us ONLINE from 13 – 21 March to learn about open technologies and to connect with lead developers and technologists from Free and Open Source software (FOSS) and Open Hardware projects from around the world. Registration is free of charge.
Let Our Data Talk – Collaboration in Open Government Data Ecosystem
The Third Open Data Conference by Open Data Initiative – Hong Kong” (ODI-HK) presents four webinars and fourteen pre-recorded videos on the latest applications of open data, research being conducted on COVID-19, Enterprise 4.0, digital marketing, managing resources to meet diverse user demands and so on. Open Source Hong Kong will present “From Open Data to Open Technology in Hong Kong”.
Conference date 24, 31 March / 14, 15 April 2021, Registration is free of charge.
Other Open Source Events
March 8-19 Mozilla Festival
March 25 Driving Growth and Innovation with NGINX and Rancher
Internal Training: Reinvent the Wheel
In March, we started a series of internal training for programming newbies. The 1st lesson was "HelloWorld'' for Python. These training sessions are not for public and COVID-19 measures are strictly impos
Media Coverage
Mozilla Internet Health Report 2020
Mozilla asked 100+ people to share a healthy and unhealthy moment for the internet around the world in 2020, our president Sammy Fung was one of them.
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Why Hong Kong has become one of the fastest-growing hubs for open source software
This past year, Hong Kong experienced the second highest growth in contributors on open source platform GitHub, following only Nigeria.Hong Kong's number of individual contributors grew by 64.5% in 2020, according to a GitHub report. In 2018 and 2019, Hong Kong took the top spot as the country with the highest percentage growth of open source contributors. In this article, Sammy explained why Hong Kong becomes such a fast-growing hub for open source.
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安心出行｜政府帖文稱因知識產權、資訊保安不開源 業界逐點拆解
Sammy expressed his concern on the misunderstanding of open source, regards to the Leave Home Safe app.
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Call for volunteers
Co-organized by Open Source Hong Kong, Hong Kong Creative Open Technology Association and Hong Kong Linux User Group, Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2021 preparation kicks off. Volunteers and sponsors are vital to the success of our conference, please contact conference@opensource.hk if you are interested to help.