Welcome to part 2 of my early post written in October 2009 which is mainly about the school selection, the preparation work and training. During the school summer holiday, we went back to Wende School a few times and discussed with the headmaster about the computer room decoration and set up. We look at things [...]
Archive > October 2009
Software Freedom Day – Beijing TsingHua University
Same as every year, Beijing Linux User Group supported a lot of Software Freedom Day events in Beijing in 2009. Except this year, we helped 7 Universities! Our BLUG member and long time contributor Daniel made a video of the event hosted in Tsing Hua University! In order to cope with the theme “Getting Things [...]
Beijing Normal University FOSS Club Launched!
The first time I met Bauer Yung, a Computer Science student from Beijing Normal University was at a Beijing Linux User Group meeting a few months ago he was attracted by the concept of Open Source. As the leader of College Open Source Society I encouraged him to start a FOSS Club in his college. [...]
2009 GNOME.Asia Summit Call for Participants
As part of the organizing members for the first GNOME.Asia Summit in 2008 in Beijing, we had been calling for the next organizing community to host the second Asia Summit for months since early 2009. Knowing that my friend, Mario, would be moving to Vietnam, he proposed that the second GNOME.Asia Summit could be in [...]
Wende School Trial – Part 1
Introduced by the LEAD organization in early 2009, we have been going to numerous Migrant Workers’ Children Schools especially in ChaoYang district to give training to teachers and headmasters about computers, Open Source and Open Education in schools. For most of them, it’s the first time for them to hear about Open Source and Open [...]
