Chinese OSS Promotion Union (COPU) has been published an Open Source Newsletter since 2008. It is a monthly newsletter, distributed freefly to all its members and communities every month.  With this newsletter, you will keep informed the latest news of a lot of Open Source industry, products, events internationally and locally. Right now they publish only in Chinese, maybe English will come later (if you want to contribute to make the translation, please feel free to contact us). For those who want to access to it, click here . Big thank you to COPU for their big effort to gather all these information and promote Open Source in China! 

It is with great pleasure that we're reporting the news before everyone else (being involved in the setup helps...) that Software Freedom Day 2010 registration is now OPEN! Now for those wondering what is SFD and how the BLUG is involved let's go back to a bit of history. Organizer and winner of the Best 2007 Event Competition in ... 2007, BLUG has then been involved in 3 events in 2008 in Beijing and 1 in Qingdao with the Qingdao LUG and 86 events in China in 2009 as well as a founding member organization of the SFDChina.org together with COPU. Since, BLUG core members have been on the board of Software Freedom International and shipping all the goodies worldwide, while making funny videos of it. So happy Software Freedom Day event and good preparation to all of you!

After months of preparation and working with COSCUP team (a local co-organizer from Taiwan), COSCUP / GNOME.Asia 2010 is going to be hosted next month on August 14th and 15th in Taipei.  We would like to share with the BLUG members a few updates. Firstly, a total of 90 talks were received before June 25th, 2010, thanks a lot for all the speakers who submitted their talks! Due to the limited time slots, only 60 of them could be accepted. Final schedule will be announced in a week from now. Secondly, the online registration opened on July 5th, 2010, and over a thousand participants registered within the first 85 minutes. That is very impressive! We would say it’s a very good start for the joint event! We’re now looking at ways to accept more people or make the event available also to people who couldn’t get a seat at the conference.

With the help of our former presidents, for this third edition of the GNOME.Asia Summit we are delighted to partner with the organizers of the largest annual community-based Open Source conference in Taiwan, COSCUP (Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and Promoters), we actually met the COSCUP organizers through a Chuanr night! The event will be held on August 14th and 15th at the International Conference Hall, Research Center for Humanities and Social Sciences, Academia Sinica in Taipei (Taiwan). Right now, we are calling for participants! If you are interested to give a talk, please register here! For those potential GNOME speakers, you may also apply for travel subsidy if necessary here! Please help to spread the word around!

Chinese OSS Promotion Union (COPU) has been published an Open Source Newsletter since 2008. It is a monthly newsletter, distributed freefly to all its members and communities every month.  With this newsletter, you will keep informed the latest news of a lot of Open Source industry, products, events internationally and locally. Right now they publish only in Chinese, maybe English will come later (if you want to contribute to make the translation, please feel free to contact us). For those who want to access to it, click here . Big thank you to COPU for their big effort to gather all these information and promote Open Source in China!