September 20th, 2008 Beijing

About SFD

Beijing page at SFD site

Introduction 2007

SFD 2007 Official Website

1. Photos at BLUG: http://www.beijinglug.org/en/index.php?option=com_rsgallery2&Itemid=45&catid=46

2. More photos at Haokanbu: http://www.haokanbu.com/story/113892/

3. Links about the whole event: http://www.haokanbu.com/event/1476

4. Topics summary

Title: Beijing Software Freedom Day 2008
Theme: Open Source for fun!
Date: 20th September 2008
Venue: Thoughtworks Beijing office (confirmed)
Map: Google.cn
Time: 13:00 (Registration start at 12:30), ending by 18:00
Organizers: Beijing LUG, Beijing Open Party
Official Language: Chinese & English
Capability: 120 people

Objective: to spread out the FUN of participating, contributing and using Open Source Software and let more people enjoy the same FUN.

Participants: Universities students and other people interesting in open source software

It’s an un-conference event. There will be presentations, panel discussions and workshops about simple coding, Linux, web design, open source CMS, collaboration software, project collaboration, services needed or offering, potential or existing job opportunities, and you may try to group yourself into other attendees. If you have any topics or suggestions please contact Elly at Gmail (ID: elly.liu.cn), we’ll make a list to help you. If you don’t have any specific aims, feel free to come and enjoy!

12:30-13:00 Registration+Submit Topics (if more)

13:00-13:45 Social Time：Interview Video+Game Time

13:45-14:00 Intro：event story+speaker/sponsor intro

14:00-14:20 Topics Scrum+Track Setup

14:20-15:00 Topics Track01

15:00-15:40 Topics Track02

15:40-16:00 Coffee Break+Surprise Time（gifts for participators and somebody）

16:00-16:40 Topics Track03

16:40-17:30 Topics Track04

17:30-18:00 Free discussion + CodeCamp

Speaker 1. Dr. Chen Wei from CSIP

Topic: how to choose the right OSS license

Speaker 2. Martin Bähr from BLUG

presentation - one laptop per child - introduction and demo +1

Speaker 3. Gao Ang from OSGeo China (formed by Chinese Active Users of Open Source

Geospatial Software, hosted by National Remote Sensing Center of China

and Chinese Academy of Science)

Topic: Open Source Software stack on Geography Information System (GIS)

Speakers 4. barcode from BLUG Quodcoper group

Topic: Arduino as a role model for Free Software and Open Hardware success. There will be 2 computers at the entrance of the open area

(probably there and if the place is changed, will update) which show some demos. Come and find it!

Speaker 5. Video show & special report

2-3 topics will be presented - this session maybe changed

to a video shows in the game room

Speaker 6. Robin Guo from the OpenSolaris community

Topic: Next Generation File System—ZFS(下一代文件系统—-ZFS)

Speaker 7. Snow Zhang (Xue) from ...

Topic: How does Github make it easier for us to participate in open source projects and how fun it is.
A summary will be ready by Sept 17th

Speaker 8. Jacob who has give us a wonderful intro on Drupal in July

http://www.beijinglug.org/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=246&Itemid=7

Description: An overview of the Drupal opensource project, its contributed modules and its community.

We’ll discuss the core project, show example sites built with Drupal, demonstrate contributed

modules, overview Drupal’s security model and highlight Drupal’s strong community. We’ll also

touch on Drupal’s growing economy.

Speaker 9. Jacky Wang from Google

Topic: OpenSocial

Speaker 10.

1. Ray from Novell: “What do you think of open source, and is it fit for your future career”

2. Julien from Theta Networks “The intranet: the easiest way to bring open source in your

company/organization” – talking about wiki, groupware, file servers and cool / fun stuff in your company

3. Qiang from PerlChina: “opensource translation, is it necessary, how to get started, the fun and not-so-fun part”

4. Emily from SUN : “what do we get from the Open World and how do we contribute back”

Registration open now and you may contact Elly at Gmail (ID: elly.liu.cn) for sponsorship, speaking and co-organizing the event:

Organizers: Beijing Linux User Group (BLUG), Beijing OpenParty Event announcement in Chinese, China OSS Promotion Union (COPU) and National Software and Integrated Circuit Public Service Platform (CSIP)

Volunteers registration

BLUG

SFD 2008 Dongzhimen station:

• Elly
• eMbee (Martin)
• Ollo
• Chris
• Hosen
• ChowMing
• Julien
• Ray Wang
• James Li (Qiang)
• Emily Chen
• Pockey

SFD 2008 Beiyou Station:

• Anthony Fok
• Alex Lau
• Pockey
• Funda Wang
• Keith

Open Party

• Cleverpig (Dan)
• Nancy
• Donkey?
• Li Yu

Thoughtworks

• Tin
• Limo
• Qian Anchuan

Volunteers will arrive at 11:00AM at the Thoughtworks office.

1. Slides:

Background graphic: pls use SFD image or the poster at http://beijing-open-party.org.

Pls use the last page for sponsors/communities logos and links :)

2. Venue:

Most of the discussions will be in the open area, most of the topics will be in the conference rooms

3. Sign in:

Pls sign in at the reception desk of Thoughtworks.

4. Pls do not leave cups and trash in the conference rooms

5. The volunteers will remind us when the topic begins and 5 minutes before it ends.