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 will be re-contributing their..... 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 this how-to guide, that..... 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
• The missing blogs--A retrospection, Part 1: Software Freedom Day
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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.