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 […]
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 […]
How to watch YouTube video without frying an egg on Linux Laptop ?
The talk starts with a simple question: how to watch YouTube video without frying an egg on Linux Laptop (since video decoding is a CPU-intensive process and produces a lot of heat). Then the speaker briefly introduces the backgrounds/issues/history about video decoding on Linux desktop includes: h264 patents (includes recent Cisco deal), Google VP8 (which […]
