ZEUUX Free Software Summit 2008
Beijing - Shanghai - Xi'an, China, May 24 - 31, 2008
ZEUUX Free Software Summit 2008 - News Release
[Beijing, China May 15, 2008 ZEUUX Free Software Community] What is Free Software? Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. More precisely, it refers to four kinds of freedom, for the users of the software:
- The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
- The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
- The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help your neighbor (freedom 2).
- The freedom to improve the program, and release your improvements to the public, so that the whole community benefits (freedom 3). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.
Richard Stallman launched the Free Software Movement in 1983. Through the evolution of 25 years, Free Software has achieved great the successes in many fields and has been an essential part of our living and working.
To help China Free Software community or even the whole IT industry to understand what is Free Software, ZEUUX Free Software Community will hold the ZEUUX Free Software Summit 2008 in Beijing, Shanghai and Xi'an from May 24 to May 31, 2008. Speakers attending this summit are Richard Stallman, Ni Guangnan, Leon Huo, Sin-Yaw Wang, Akira Urushibata, Li Xin, Bill Xu and so on. The patrons of the summit are Sun Mirosystem and Intel, and SINA.com. The cooperators are Free Software Foundation, GNU Project, Hoodong.com, HZ Books, Techweb.com.cn, China-Pub.com, CSDN.net, Tsinghua University, Unix-Center.net, ChinaUnix.net and so on.
ZEUUX Free Software Summit is an open conference. It is no need to sign up and anyone can join it without fees. It's pleased for anyone to join the ZEUUX Free Software Summit 2008.
For more details of ZEUUX Free Software Summit 2008, please refer to the website of ZEUUX Free Software Community, http://www.zeuux.org.
Speakers
Richard Stallman
Founder and President of Free Software Foundation and GNU Project, United States National Academy of Engineering membership, ZEUUX Mentor
Richard is a Free Software developer and activist, he is the founder of the GNU Project and the author of the GNU General Public License. He is the principal author of the GNU Compiler Collection and wrote the GNU Symbolic Debugger, GNU Emacs, and various other programs for the GNU operating system. He has received numerous awards, including the Association for Computing Machinery Grace Hopper Award, a MacArthur Foundation fellowship, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's Pioneer award, the Takeda Award for Social/Economic Betterment, as well as several honorary doctorates.
Ni Guangnan
Director-general of Chinese Information Processing Society of China, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering Research fellow of Institute of Computing Technology Chinese Academy of Science, ZEUUX Mentor
Ni Guangnan, Han nationality, was born in 1939 from Zhenhai, Zhejiang Province, China. He graduated from Southeast University and firstly suggested and realized the imagination using in Chinese inputing. Ni Guangnan was the first chief engineerer of the corporation of Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Science, the forerunner of Lenovo Group and led the development of Lenovo Chinese system and Lenovo PC. He received twice the first-grade State Scientific and Technological Progress Prize in 1988 and 1992. Lenovo's Chinese name is from the imagination Chinese system. Ni Guangnan was honored the first Academicians of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and is the counselor of Beijing govement.
Akira Urushibata
1966 Born in Tokyo, Japan. 1971-76 Followed parents to Ohio USA. In Japanese high school foreign language is a most important part of the curriculum. I was already a fluent English speaker, so I decided to study classic Chinese literature. Also at the time the first personal computers were becoming available. During high school, I learned to write BASIC within extreme memory constraints. My pocket computer had only 1.4 kilobytes of RAM.
Free software activities:
1992 Met Richard M. Stallman in Tokyo.
2004- I have been contributing to the Netpbm image processing package.
Languages I like: x86 Assembly, c, awk, Bash Shell
Preferred GNU/Linux Distribution: LFS
Favorite Chinese poets: Wang Zhi Huan, Du Fu
Sin-Yaw Wang
Vice President of Sun Microsystem. Dean of Sun Chinese Academy of Engineering
Before to be the vice president in charge of Sun global engineering institutes, Sin-Yaw Wang was the advanced director in charge of network and security of Solaris and the leader of the releasing committees of Solaris 10. Earlier than joining Sun Microsystem, Sin-Yaw Wang worked for Adaptec.
Leon Huo
General Manager, SINA Interactive Community, ZEUUX Mentor
Li Xin
Software engineer of Intel OTC China
Li Xin joined Intel for developping the technology of virtualization in 2004 and is engaging in the development of VMM based on the Intel virtualization technology on IA-32 platform. He is the activist in the open source virtualization projects, Xen and KVM.
Bill Xu
Founder of ZEUUX Free Software Community
Schedule
ZEUUX Free Software Summit - Shanghai - Fudan University
- Time: 14:00 - 18:00, Saturday, 2008-05-24
- Address: Cai Guanshen lecture hall, News College, Handan road 440# Fudan University, Yangpu District, Shanghai
- Map: Go to attend ZEUUX Free Software Summit in Shanghai
- Live Shows
| Time | Speaker | Speaking language | Topic |
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| 13:00 － 14:00 | Entrance | ||
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Zang Binyu | Chinese | Opening speech Pro. Zang Binyu, Vice Dean of Computer Science & Technology Colloege, Dean of Software School in Fudan University. |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Li Xin | Chinese | How Intel drivers virtualization in Open Source Abstract: Intel smelled that virtualization will drive another round revolution of computer system. in 2005, Intel announced precessors with Intel virtualization technoloty support (Intel VT). While on software side, virtualization is still based on paravirt, which needs to modify OS source code, or binary translation. in 2004, Intel successfully added Intel VT support to Xen, a famous open source VMM first developed in Cambridge Univ, OSes, like Windows XP,Linux,FreeBSD can run on Xen without any modification to the source code. Then virtualization era started. |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Akira Urushibata | English | The Oldest Hacker in History: Classic Chinese Philosophy and Free Software Abstract: Free software lets us borrow code and ideas from the work of others. Great innovations are often the result of using code and ideas from a completely different field. The same applies to the discussion of Free Software philosophy. Traditional Chinese philosophy is rich in lessons that can help us understand information technology and guide our work on its development. Download the slide. |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Richard Stallman | English | Free Software in Ethics and Practice Abstract: Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement, which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate to control their own computing activities. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, often erroneously referred to as Linux, specifically to establish these freedoms. This speech will be accessible to all audiences and the public is encouraged to attend. |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Bill Xu | Chinese | Free Software and ZEUUX Community Abstract: It will state the development of Free Software in China and present the missions, duties, development and works in progress of ZEUUX Free Software Community. It is very pleased for more Free Software fans to take part in ZEUX Free Software Community. |
| 17:00 － 18:00 | Discussion | ||
ZEUUX Free Software Summit - Xi'an - Xi'an Jiaotong University - Cancelled!
ZEUUX Free Software Community planned ZEUUX Free Software Summit 2008 on May in the past of 2007 and determined the place and time of this campaign. On May 12, 2008 the devastating earthquake in Wenchuan of Si Chuan province took lots of people's lives...
We originally planned to hold a campaign of ZEUUX Free Software Summit 2008 in Xi'an, but according to the situation there, we think it is unsuited to hold such a big conference. Therefore, we have to cancel the conference in Xi'an. Other campaigns of ZEUUX Free Software Summit 2008 will be proceeding as planned.
Wish the dead people's souls rest in heaven and hope the livings more stronger.
Everything will be better and better.
ZEUUX Free Software Community
- Time: 14:00 - 18:00, Wednesday, 2008-05-28
- Address: Science Museum 101, Xi'an Jiaotong University, No.28, Xianning West Road, Xi'an
- Map: Go to attend ZEUUX Free Software Summit in Xi'an
| Time | Speaker | Speaking language | Topic |
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| 13:00 - 14:00 | Entrance | ||
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Sin-Yaw Wang | Chinese | Open Source at Sun Take the opening speech and state the open source strategy of Sun Microsystem and the contribution to communities. |
| 14:45 - 15:15 | Akira Urushibata | English | The Oldest Hacker in History: Classic Chinese Philosophy and Free Software Abstract: Free software lets us borrow code and ideas from the work of others. Great innovations are often the result of using code and ideas from a completely different field. The same applies to the discussion of Free Software philosophy. Traditional Chinese philosophy is rich in lessons that can help us understand information technology and guide our work on its development. Download the slide. |
| 15:15 - 16:15 | Richard Stallman | English | Free Software in Ethics and Practice Abstract: Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement, which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate to control their own computing activities. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, often erroneously referred to as Linux, specifically to establish these freedoms. This speech will be accessible to all audiences and the public is encouraged to attend. |
| 16:15 - 16:45 | Bill Xu | Chinese | Free Software and ZEUUX Community Abstract: It will state the development of Free Software in China and present the missions, duties, development and works in progress of ZEUUX Free Software Community. It is very pleased for more Free Software fans to take part in ZEUX Free Software Community. |
| 16:45 － 17:45 | Discussion | ||
ZEUUX Free Software Summit - Beijing - Tsinghua Science Park
- Time: 14:00 - 17:30, Friday, 2008-05-30
- Address: Report room of Qidi International Conference Center, second floor of A part, Science and Technology Plaza, Tsinghua Science Park, Beijing
- Map: Go to attend ZEUUX Free Software Summit in Tsinghua Science Park
| Time | Speaker | Speaking language | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13:00 － 14:00 | Entrance | ||
| 14:00 - 14:45 | Sin-Yaw Wang | Chinese | Open Source at Sun Take the opening speech and state the open source strategy of Sun Microsystem and the contribution to communities. |
| 14:45 - 15:45 | Richard Stallman | English | Free Software in Ethics and Practice Abstract: Richard Stallman will speak about the Free Software Movement, which campaigns for freedom so that computer users can cooperate to control their own computing activities. The Free Software Movement developed the GNU operating system, often erroneously referred to as Linux, specifically to establish these freedoms. This speech will be accessible to all audiences and the public is encouraged to attend. |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Bill Xu | Chinese | Free Software and ZEUUX Community Abstract: It will state the development of Free Software in China and present the missions, duties, development and works in progress of ZEUUX Free Software Community. It is very pleased for more Free Software fans to take part in ZEUX Free Software Community. |
| 16:15 － 17:15 | Discussion | ||
ZEUUX Free Software Summit - Beijing - Tsinghua University
- Time: 14:00 - 18:00, Saturday, 2008-05-31
- Address: Back hall of main building, Tsinghua University
- Map: Go to attend ZEUUX Free Software Summit in Tsinghua University
| Time | Speaker | Speaking language | Topic |
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| 13:00 － 14:00 | Entrance | ||
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Ni Guangnan | Chinese | What can we study from Free Software? |
| 14:15 - 15:00 | Sin-Yaw Wang | Chinese | Open Source at Sun Take the opening speech and state the open source strategy of Sun Microsystem and the contribution to communities. |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Leon Huo | Chinese | Free Software and SINA.com |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Richard Stallman | English | The Danger of Software Patents |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Bill Xu | Chinese | Free Software and ZEUUX Community Abstract: It will state the development of Free Software in China and present the missions, duties, development and works in progress of ZEUUX Free Software Community. It is very pleased for more Free Software fans to take part in ZEUX Free Software Community. |
| 17:00 － 18:00 | Discussion | ||
Summit Notice
- ZEUUX Free Software Community is the organizer of ZEUUX Free Software Summit and the website of this conference is http://www.zeuux.org.
- ZEUUX Free Software Summit is an open conference. It is no need to sign up and anyone can join it free.
- The information concerning about ZEUUX Free Software Summit will change, and we suggest you to subscribe the zeuux-announce mailing list to get latest news and zeuux-universe mailing list for discussion.
- Purchase ZEUUX Free Software T-shirts to support Chinese Free Software Community. Moreover, attending meeting with GNU GPL V3 T-shirt of ZEUUX will have chance to obtain the signature from Richard Stallman.
- The guy attending ZEUUX Free Software Summit will get a ZEUUX Free Software Book.
- If you want to be the patron or the cooperator of the ZEUUX Free Software Summit 2008, please contact assistant@zeuux.org.
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