Peter Cheng

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By Peter Cheng

A look at China's Linux and open source movement


Archives for April 2007

How Sun promotes OSS in China

Saturday, April 21 2007 02:29 PM

Sun Microsystems hosted the 2007 China Education and Research Conference this past week. It was interesting to know that Sun has been collaborating with China's Ministry of Education for 10 years now. In fact, many Chinese computer science professors and even ministry officials will reminisce that their first computer experience..... Read more »


Can GPL be enforced in China?

Thursday, April 12 2007 02:50 PM

The question of the enforceability of the GPL came into question during a presentation by Taiwen Jiang, the XOOPS maintainer. XOOPS is basically a home grown China, well actually Asian, open source system. Recently, XOOPS has picked up a champion to help them grow their..... Read more »


Google offers curriculum to China's top universities

Thursday, April 05 2007 10:51 PM

At last week's 2007 Software Innovation Summit, Christophe Bisciglia from Google introduced to the attendees Google 101. Google has just recently developed this curriculum which Google staff, namely Christophe, if my understanding is correct, has been working with University of Washington to deliver these courses. Now Google would like to..... Read more »


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Peter Cheng

Peter Cheng



Peter Cheng is a community strategist and open source evangelist, who is based in Beijing, China. In 2003, he initiated the Open Source University program to gather industry experts and help spread open source technology and culture to over 100 universities. In 2007, he organized the Open Source Camp in five Chinese cities, with the aim to enable the open source community to share and exchange ideas and to promote the technology in China. Peter currently runs TargetSource Tech, a company he founded to provide consulting services on enterprise open source software.

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