Promoting Open Technology in World's Freest Economy - Hong Kong
summary
Hong Kong frames open tech against a market that prizes quick money, so organizers form a nonprofit, win tax recognition, and run events that scale — 125 at one summit, ~200 at the annual Hong Kong Open Source Conference. They build hands-on hardware: small kittable 3D printers, an Arduino-based Tomica chassis, and four- and six-legged spider robots to teach electronics and gait algorithms. Work with government open data to fix Chinese character fonts for schools and plan to publish all hardware designs soon.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Hong Kong as freest economy
- 3:39Founding Hong Kong Linux user group
- 6:36Open Source Hong Kong begins
- 8:30Creating nonprofit for funding
- 10:15Growing local open source events
- 12:02Government standards for Chinese characters
- 15:00Educational tech with 3D printers
- 17:56Final call for open source conference
- 19:00Q&A on Chinese character standards
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