Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2015

Fee and Registration

RSVP is required. Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2015 is free of charge.

To cover operation and administration costs of conference and the charity organizing this conference, you are suggested to make a donation to organizer on registartion to support us.

What is HKOSCon?

Hong Kong Open Source Conference is an annual international open source conference in Hong Kong. It is aimed to demonstrate the use of open source software technology, open hardware technology and latest development in the world.

Some of the Speakers

Jonathan CORBET
Kernel

Tobias MUELLER
GNOME

François CARTEGNIE
VideoLAN

Irvin Chen
MozTW

small-potato
postgreSQL

Zamir
Fedora

Ivan MA
Hong Kong MySQL User Group

Kajiyama RYUSUKE
Oracle

Licson
SITCON

penk
Terrarium prototyping tool

gfa
openstack

RSChiang
SITCON

tonghuix
Beijing GNU/Linux User Group

電鋸
Hong Kong R User Group

rabimba
Mozilla

bluebat
全字庫開放資料

hupili
Open Innovation Lab

Michael POZHIDAEV
Luwrain

Fubuki Hoshino
Mozilla

taiksontexas
Trash Robotic Router Platform

Leon ANAVI
Tizen

Kenji SHIMONO
Netwalker Laboratory

梁敬文先生
香港聖公會麥理浩夫人中心

Alan Chiang
ES6

ws育慈
SITCON

Colin CHARLES
Tuning Linux for your Database

Daniel CHCOURI
Meteor Hong Kong

lubaochuan
Mediawiki

海豹 & Denny Huang
SITCON

Jack
SITCON

Edison Wong
HKDUG

Themes

Cloud

Virtualisation Technology assists the growth of cloud computing and services. Open cloud computing provides a trust to users, deploying their business applications on cloud services. A wide ranges of open source projects are released in recent years from cloud infrastructure to devops services. At HKOSCon 2015, we would like to demonstrate the development of open cloud, and share knowledge of open source tools for cloud services.

Maker

Open source is the concept to open the design of the software products, and ask others for contribution to extend the creative opportunity of software product applications. Open Maker is the new trend to create creative ideas with open source concepts, using and developing hardware with open source software,and some of them are also open their hardware design. At HKOSCon 2015, we would like to demonstrate the unlimited possibilities of hardware and open source from makers.

Community: Source and Data

Open source development model driven the development of software in last 20 years, starting from free software commuity to re-write UNIX system tools, Linux kernel and distros, embedded systems, web and mobile applications, Android. Open source display the possibilities of crowd collaboration like bazaars by forming a number of developer and user communities, and open data is a recent trends to extend the concept of open source to data access in the world. At HKOSCon 2015, we would like to demonstrate how does open source model driven the development of applications, open data, communities, and society.

Startup

Many global and local startups uses open source software to develop their products and services for web and mobile users. Some of them created their public git repositories to release some open source projects. At HKOSCon 2015, we would like to demonstrate how does startups use and contribute open source software. And demonstrate the importance of open source software in the growth of startup businesses.

Committee and Staffs

Conference committee and teams are formed to organise the conference. For volunteers who are interested to help, please contact us.

List of our conference committee and staffs of HKOSCon 2015 are available.

Staff List »

Call for Volunteers »

History of Conference

Idea of organising a open source conference in Hong Kong by community is started in 2004.

After a success in organising GNOME.Asia Summit 2012 in Hong Kong, open source community organised first community driven open source conference in Hong Kong in 2013.

HKOSCon 2013 at CityU »

HKOSCon 2014 at HKSTP »

Contact Organiser

Hong Kong Creative Open Technology Association (HKCOTA), Hong Kong Linux User Group (HKLUG), Hong Kong Science & Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) and Open Source Hong Kong (OSHK) are organisers of HKOSCon 2015.

HKOSCon 2015 is administrated by Hong Kong Creative Open Technology Association (HKCOTA) which is a non-profit tax-exempted charity organisation in Hong Kong.

For enquiry, please feel freely to email to us.

Contact Organiser »

HKOSCon 2015
Connect Global Open Source Technology
in Hong Kong.

Cloud // Maker // Community // Startup

Fee and Registration

What is HKOSCon?

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Some of the Speakers

Themes

Cloud

Maker

Community: Source and Data

Startup

Committee and Staffs

History of Conference

Contact Organiser

HKOSCon 2015 Connect Global Open Source Technology in Hong Kong.

Cloud // Maker // Community // Startup

Fee and Registration

What is HKOSCon?

Sponsors

Gold Sponsors

Silver Sponsors

Bronze Sponsors

General Sponsors

Design Sponsor

Check-in Sponsor

Patrons

Media Partners

Join us

Some of the Speakers

Themes

Cloud

Maker

Community: Source and Data

Startup

Committee and Staffs

History of Conference

Contact Organiser

HKOSCon 2015
Connect Global Open Source Technology
in Hong Kong.