Building a Free Software Community in Asia

Bio:

Brian Cameron graduated from Loyola University in Chicago with a
masters degree in computer science, joined Sun Microsystems in
1999, and has been working on the GNOME desktop for Sun
Microsystems since 2001. He is currently a director of the GNOME
Foundation, is co-maintainer of the GNOME GDM module, Sun's
technical lead for desktop multimedia, involved with Sun's ARC
(Architecture Review Council), and generally helps to make GNOME
work well on the Solaris platform.

Abstract:

Free Software is changing the world, giving people more control
and freedom with their software and data. Free software allows
people around the world greater access to technology at an
affordable cost.

Free software provides opportunities for people to develop real
world experience and work on applications that are widely used
across professional organizations, government institutions,
educational facilities, and so on. Volunteering and getting
involved with a free software project not only builds practical
experience, but helps to foster open and free technology that
benefits people.

Supporting this software is a rich community of users, developers,
graphic and usability designers, QA testers, and businesses. There
are a great many opportunities to expand this community in Asia.

In this talk, the speaker will discuss how open source communities
work, based on his experiences with the GNOME community. He will
provide direction on how to get involved, regardless of your level
of experience, and talk about how businesses can evolve from free
software communities.