New open source blogger onboard ZDNet Asia

Hello, everybody, I was lucky to establish a connection with ZDNet Asia and host its open source blog, opening a door for me to explore new opportunities and discuss issues on open source in Asia.

I'm Peter Cheng, an open source community strategist and evangelist from China, who is enjoying..... Read more »

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OOXML: Triumph or Pyrrhic victory?

"One more such victory will utterly undo me!" said Pyrrhus of Epirus after defeating the Romans at Asculum in 279 BC.

Although won, this battle and a previous one cost him such devastating losses that he was unable to eventually win the war. Today, this is..... Read more »

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Beijing to host 2008 International OpenOffice.org Conference

Thanks to everybody, who followed my appeal to cast votes for hosting the 2008 International OpenOffice.org Conference in Beijing.
I am very happy to tell you now, that we really did it. Please review the result, it's a real landslide victory and another indicator for..... Read more »

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Vote for Beijing to host OpenOffice.org

As I already indicated in my previous blog, Beijing submitted a proposal to host the 2008 International OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2008).

Recently, the OOoCon voting has started. And, well, here's my appeal:

Dear OpenOffice.org developers and users all over Asia, please help Beijing become the..... Read more »

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Beijing eyes International OpenOffice.org Conference

I am glad to tell you that the Beijing OpenOffice.org community will be looking to bring the 2008 International OpenOffice.org Conference (OOoCon 2008) to the Chinese city.

This is really a logical step because in 2007, REDFLAG 2000 and IBM announced that its OOo engineering teams..... Read more »

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True open community spirit

I like the concept of "true community spirit" very much, where persons and organizations, that work on one project help those ones of another project to fix their problems.

Here's one example, that is particularly interesting for Chinese language support on Ubuntu Linux. Novell developers wrote..... Read more »

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The missing blogs--A retrospection, Part 1: Software Freedom Day

Dear Open Source blog readers,

you have probably noticed that I haven't been writing for quite a while. I apologize for the absence.

I will now resume my writing by looking back at what I left out since last September. I am planning to write eight small articles in the next couple..... Read more »

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Linux World China 2007 and Software Freedom Day preview

Last Friday, I attended the Linux World China 2007 conference and exhibition held in the luxury Beijing International Hotel. Instead of giving you a chronological report of the event, I'd just like to share some interesting observations.

First of all, on the sponsors' list was a big surprise: Read more »

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Sleepless nights for Microsoft as IBM joins OpenOffice.org?

Here is some good news. It was announced today that IBM will join the OpenOffice.org community. This is OpenOffice.org's opportunity to compete with Microsoft's big cash cow, and I guess there will be people having sleepless nights in Redmond. If you're wondering what the mood is..... Read more »

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