Mart just started to talk extensibility and customizability of GNOME 3 at monthly open source workshop hosted by opensource.hk and Hong Kong Linux User Group.

Open Source Workshop #17 – Open Hardware

Raspberry Pi is introduced by Wan Leung, he tells 20 participants the history and application of Raspberry Pi. He also bring Camara module for Raspberry Pi. New formed organization – Hong Kong Creative Open Technology Association is presented by Haggen, and its first event Hong Kong Open Source Conference 2014 is introduced by Sammy. New website of Mozilla Hong Kong is just launched by Sammy, source code of its website and blog are available at GitHub and welcome for contributions. Haggen demostrated initial version of Firefox Chinese (HK) l10n project which is also available on GitHub as well. 

Applications of Arduino is demostrated with voice recognition and control from smartphone through bluetooth and other applications.

Discussions on application of RPi, Arduino and Mozilla are carried after lightning talks and deomstrations.

Open Source Workshop #17 (2014.02)

Open Source x Hardware is the theme of Open Source Workshop #17 with 20 participants.

Date: 8 February 2014 (Saturday)
Time: 2:00-5:30pm
Venue: Classroom Y5-306, 5/F Academic 1, City Univerisity of Hong Kong, Kowloon Tong.

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.

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