Pockey Lam spends most of her free time advocating Free Software. Currently she is the Director and Secretary of Software Freedom International. Since 2008, she has been the Committee member of GNOME.Asia striving to promote GNOME (the Free Desktop Project) in Asia.
She is also a board member of SFDChina, China OSS Promotion Union and a founding member of the Beijing GNOME User Group that was established not long after the GNOME.Asia Summit 2008.
Pockey Lam is also a member of Greenboard Open Education Project aiming to promote FOSS and Open Education in schools to make more teachers understand its benefits. She has been giving presentations to teachers in a lot of schools in Beijing and contributing to the Greenboard Open Textbook project actively. She also participates in the localization work for some Free Educational Software like Rur-ple, Tux4Kids and GCompris to make them available for Chinese schools.
Before that, she was the Vice President and then President of Beijing Linux User Group, she has been actively contributing to a lot of international Open Source events like Software Freedom Day 2007 in Tsinghua University and in BUPT University, Linux Developer Symposium 2008, GNOME.Asia Summit and OOoCon 2008. On top of Beijing, she also assisted in establishing LUGs in other cities like Qingdao LUG and Harbin LUG.
She is also a member of College OSS Society which is a platform for Open Source advocates in Universities to meet together and share experience in starting, maintaining and growing their OSS clubs in their Universities. She has been assisting numerous universities to start and improve their Free and Open Source Societies like Tsinghua, BUBT, BUAA, USTB, Harbin HIT, etc.
Striving to attract more women in technology especially FOSS domain, she is the founding member of Techgirls Group since 2007 organizing Girls’ Installfest on a regular basis. Having a life objective to create a better world, she also devotes her free time to help animals in China, She volunteers for environment enrichment in the reptile house in Beijing Zoo and was elected as the best volunteers in 2007.
In order to spend all these time volunteering and making a better world, Pockey Lam works as a consultant in dao² Inc. Before that she was the VP Marketing for Dexxon Gdium Open Source Project. She was also the CEO of Compario China. In 2004, she served as the Vice General Manager of Willsee Co., Ltd., one of the largest manufacturer of corporate and business gifts in South China. In her early career stage, she focused in the marketing and advertising field working in international advertising agencies in Hong Kong.
