The State of Open Source Communities in Taiwan

Presented at FOSSASIA Summit 2024 on 9 April 2024.

Open Culture Foundation has been a non-profit organization in Taiwan since 2014. We are dedicated to promoting the open source culture, open data, data transparency, internet freedom and digital rights. We work towards fostering a better environment for technical communities and civil society organizations working together.

This session will discuss the state of technical communities in Taiwan, the challenge they face and how to enhance civil society organizations with support from the technical communities. A brief summary of our work and core values in open tech, digital rights and internet freedom. Additionally, we will outline the role we play and our position within the open-source communities in Taiwan.

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Session

FOSSASIA Summit 2024, FOSS, Room 102, 9 Apr, 09:15

About Me

Toomore Chiang Technical Project Lead, Open Culture Foundation (at the time of the talk)

My mission is to make the open source communities and civic society organizations work together.

Contact: [email protected]. PGP key and verification on the contact page.

See also

• Bringing Taiwanese Open Source Communities to FOSDEM 2024 - Open Culture Foundation
• The recap of FOSDEM '24 for the communities - Open Culture Foundation
  1. community_in_TW.pdf: List of Taiwan communities and schedule for conferences held in Taiwan in 2024.
  2. ocf_cores.pdf: Introduction to the Open Culture Foundation and our partners.
  3. projects.pdf: Introduction to foundation's projects.
  4. community.pdf: Introduction to collaborating communities.
• Open Culture Foundation Project Lists
  1. Civic Sense: From Taiwan to the whole world, let's help communities get the data they need to monitor their changing environment. When communities have access to sensors, it's "civic sense".
  2. International Conference Grant Program: We support local contributors to join international conferences, empowering communities and fostering global collaboration.
  3. OSCVPass: OSCVPass is a quick solution for open-source contributors to attend Taiwan's open-source events：COSCUP, MOPCON, g0v summit, PyCon TW a one-time application form.
  4. Open StarTer Village（Board Game）: Worker Placement, Simulating Scenarios, Real-world Projects. Play and learn with Open StarTer Village, an educational board game on transforming the world through open-source technology and project collaboration.
• Open Culture Foundation Community Projects
• International conferences held in Taiwan in 2024.
  • March, 2024
    1. WordCamp Asia @ Taipei
    2. AsiaBSDCon 2024 @ Taipei
  • May, 2024
    1. g0v Summit @ Taipei
    2. GopherDay 2024 @ Taipei
    3. Generative AI Conference 2024
  • August, 2024
    1. COSCUP @ Taipei
    2. DevDays Asia 2024 @ Taipei & Kaohsiung
    3. APrIGF 2024 hosted by TWNIC @ Taipei
  • September, 2024
    1. PyConTW @ Kaohsiung
  • November, 2024
    1. MOPCON @ Kaohsiung