Sammy Fung gave a presentation about volunteer participation in Mozilla and open source communities. He discussed the various user groups and communities he has been involved in organizing over the years in Hong Kong and Taiwan. He then described some key events he has helped organize, such as GNOME.Asia 2012 in Hong Kong and annual COSCUP conferences in Taiwan. Fung also talked about his involvement with the Mozilla community, including Firefox parties in Hong Kong and MozCamp Asia 2012 in Singapore. He concluded with information about the Mozilla Rep program and his new role as the first Mozilla Rep in Hong Kong.

1. Volunteer Participation in Mozilla
and Open Source Communities
Sammy Fung
BarCampHK 2013
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2. Sammy Fung
sammy.hk

3. Sammy Fung
● Organizes and Participate local open source
communities actively.
● Previously: Founding Chairman of Hong Kong
Linux User Group.
● Current: Community Coordinator of Open
Source Hong Kong.
● New: Mozilla Rep.

4. User Groups and Communities
● Hong Kong Linux User Group (since 1997).
● Open Source Hong Kong.
● Ubuntu Hong Kong.
● Hong Kong Python User Group.
● Hong Kong Drupal User Group.
● Mozilla Hong Kong Community (NEW!).
● Others.

5. Past & Key Events
● GNOME.Asia 2012, Hong Kong.
● COSCUP (2011, 2012), Taipei.
● MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

6. Past Events
● Software Freedom Day (2009-2012), Hong Kong.
● Firefox 3 and 4 Parties (2008, 2011), Hong Kong.
● GNOME 3 Party (2011), Hong Kong
● Hacking Thursday Hong Kong (Bi-Weekly) and Taipei
(Weekly).
● Monthly Open Source Workshops, Hong Kong.
● BarCampHK! (since 2007).

7. ApacheCon Asia → Hong Kong ???

8. GNOME.Asia 2012
● Apache Foundation was failure to bring ApacheCon
Asia (2009) to Hong Kong.
● Meet with Pockey, GNOME.Asia committee in 2010.
● Invited to submit proposal.
● Failure on 1st bet for GNOME.Asia 2011
● Local GNOME 3 Party (2011)
● Success on 2nd bet for GNOME.Asia 2012
● GNOME.Asia 2013 at Soeul, Korea.

9. GNOME 3 Party (2011), Hong Kong.

10. GNOME.Asia 2012
● Failure of ApacheCon Asia in Hong Kong.
● Meet with Pockey.
● Invited to submit proposal.
● Failure on 1st bet for GNOME.Asia 2011
● Local GNOME 3 Party (2011)
● Success on 2nd bet for GNOME.Asia 2012
● GNOME.Asia 2013 at Soeul, Korea.

11. GNOME.Asia 2012, Hong Kong.

12. GNOME.Asia 2012
● First Asia open source event host in Hong
Kong.
● 20+ oversea speakers, 150 attendees.
● A success event!
● Finance.
● number of attendees.
● Hopes it is NOT the LAST one!

13. GNOME.Asia 2012, Hong Kong.

14. GNOME.Asia 2012
● First Asia open source event host in Hong
Kong.
● 20+ oversea speakers, 150 attendees.
● A success event!
● Finance.
● number of attendees.
● Hopes it is NOT the LAST one!

15. GNOME.Asia 2013, Seoul.

16. GNOME.Asia 2012
● Failure of ApacheCon Asia in Hong Kong.
● Meet with Pockey.
● Invited to submit proposal.
● Failure on 1st bet for GNOME.Asia 2011
● Local GNOME 3 Party (2011)
● Success on 2nd bet for GNOME.Asia 2012
● GNOME.Asia 2013 at Soeul, Korea.

17. COSCUP, Taipei

18. COSCUP in Taipei
● Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and
Developers. (since 2006) (August)
● Largest Annual Open Source Conference in
Taiwan (>1,500)
● Talks and Lightning Talks
● Commercial and Community Booths
● Foreign and Local Speakers.
● Meet with Taiwan friends and Oversea Speakers.

19. Main Track #1, COSCUP, Taipei

20. COSCUP in Taipei
● Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and
Developers. (since 2006) (August)
● Largest Annual Open Source Conference in
Taiwan (>1,500)
● Talks, Lightning Talks, Workshops and BoFs.
● Commercial and Community Booths
● Foreign and Local Speakers.
● Meet with Taiwan friends and Oversea Speakers.

21. Talks, COSCUP, Taipei.

22. Lightening Talks, COSCUP, Taipei.

23. BoFs, COSCUP, Taipei.

24. COSCUP in Taipei
● Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and
Developers. (since 2006) (August)
● Largest Annual Open Source Conference in
Taiwan (>1,500)
● Talks and Lightning Talks
● Commercial and Community Booths
● Foreign and Local Speakers.
● Meet with Taiwan friends and Oversea Speakers.

25. Commercial Booths, COSCUP, Taipei

26. Community Booths, COSCUP, Taipei

27. COSCUP in Taipei
● Conference for Open Source Coders, Users and
Developers. (since 2006) (August)
● Largest Annual Open Source Conference in
Taiwan (>1,500)
● Talks and Lightning Talks
● Commercial and Community Booths
● Foreign and Local Speakers.
● Meet with Taiwan friends and Oversea Speakers.

28. Mozilla and I
● Firefox 3 Party (2008), Firefox 4 Party (2011) in
Hong Kong.
● MozTW – Mozilla Taiwan Community
● MozCamp Asia 2012
● Becoming first Mozilla Rep in Hong Kong.

29. MozTW – Mozilla Taiwan Community

30. MozTW – Mozilla Taiwan Community

31. Mozilla and I
● Bob Chao (MozTW, COSCUP)
● MozTW – Mozilla Taiwan Community
● Irvin (MozTW)
● MozCamp Asia 2012
● Becoming first Mozilla Rep in Hong Kong.

32. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

33. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

34. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

35. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

36. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

37. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

38. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

39. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

40. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

41. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

42. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

43. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

44. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

45. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

46. Paid-staff Leadership Townhall Session

47. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

48. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

49. Mozilla WebFWD

50. Mozilla WebFWD
●
http://webfwd.org/
●
WebFWD is a open innovation program created by Mozilla.
●
It helps startups which produces open source projects (not necessary
completely open source companies).
●
Mozilla provides mentors, coachs and trainings to startups in the program.
●
Participants can live in anywhere in the world and relocation is not required.
●
They won't invest neither take shares from startups, but they will provide
opportunity for funding (by others) at end of program. Your ideas should be
innovative, and having market potential.

51. MozCamp Asia 2012, Singapore.

52. Mozilla Reps (ReMo)

53. Mozilla Reps (ReMo)

54. Mozilla Reps
● Volunteer, not paid staffs.
● empower and support volunteer Mozillians
who want to become official representatives
of Mozilla in their region/locale
● help Mozillians to organize and/or attend
events, recruit and mentor new contributors,
document and share activities, and support
their local communities better.

55. Mozilla Reps
● 336 Mozilla Reps.
● Taiwan: 7, China: 3, Hong Kong: 1.
● 34 Mentors.
● 9 Council (7 Volunteers + 2 Paid Staffs).
● Application Flow: Fill Form → Interview by
Mentor → Review & Approval by Council.

56. Purposes
● Learn more in the community.
● Look for more contributors, participants.
● Making friends, business partners.
● Don't be quiet. Don't be shame. Show your
head.

57. Q&A and Discussion
● Mr Sammy Fung, Mozilla Rep.
● Dr Haggen So, HKLUG.
● Mr Wan Leung Wong, Hacking Thursday HK.
● Mr Mathieu Bridon, Fedora Ambassador.
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