Historically, Hong Kong Linux users have suffered from a very poor input experience with the Cangjie and Quick input methods. A year and a half ago, we decided to fix that. In this talk, we will quick present our work, make a demonstration, and ask for user feedback. Come and help us make sure that […]
Author: Sammy Fung
Sammy is the President and Founder of Open Source Hong Kong. He is also the founder of the Open Platform Society. In 2022, He become a board member of the GNOME Foundation and a fellow member of the Python Software Foundation.
Demonstration of output-filters for Input-Method
In an Input-Method framework, output-filters are required, besides various input-manners and input-engines, to provide a better user-experience. Speaker: Mr Wei-Lun Chao (bluebat) (Taiwan) Mr Wei-Lun Chao (bluebat) has worked as Development Team Lead or Project Manager for open source projects related to Linux system integration. He is also involved in translations for free software by […]
Open Source visualization and presentation with R
In an Input-Method framework, output-filters are required, besides various input-manners and input-engines, to provide a better user-experience. Speaker: Mr Wei-Lun Chao (bluebat) (Taiwan) Mr Wei-Lun Chao (bluebat) has worked as Development Team Lead or Project Manager for open source projects related to Linux system integration. He is also involved in translations for free software by […]
Panda – a new way of programming
How will we be programming in the future? Why is programming so inaccessible to many people? I’ll give a short problem description (slides) and then live demo where we write some simple programs. The idea is that if you can say in one or two sentences what you want to program (in detail) and another […]
Learn R through Public Data Hacking: Introduction to Practical Data Science
Public data are everywhere but can you make use of them? This course aims to bring you the essential techniques such as data acquisition, data manipulation and data visualization to make sense out of the public data. The tool of choice is R. Why? We are the Hong Kong R User Group, that’s why. Speaker: […]
