an IT-interested student • The founding of SITCON and how we are dealing with the problem • What you could do to make impacts, either as a student or as a club member • Open Data, Open API, and how FLOSS spirit could change your campus (I’ll try to cover this as much as possible in time)
grade to 10th grade • Official course outline requires the coverage of: • the ability to operate and repair computer • image, document, and multimedia processing • the understanding of database and programming languages
mostly occupied by tests • For fortunate ones, actual courses usually cover: • asking 3rd-graders to memorize circuit pieces • copy and pasting pictures from Internet • 90s clip-art borders with Microsoft® Word™ • stuff your PPTs with pop music MP3s
mostly occupied by tests • For fortunate ones, actual courses usually cover: • asking 3rd-graders to memorize circuit pieces • copy and pasting pictures from Internet • 90s clip-art borders with Microsoft® Word™ • stuff your PPTs with pop music MP3s MFHBM
which suffers from decade-old rules and restrictions. • Informatics Olympics and Science Fair are the two only ways that would benefit university applications. • Vocational schools still teach VB6. • Students interested in real-world technologies are virtually separated, discouraged, and isolated.
Taiwan coincidentally aligned in a monthly basis • Tech communities called for volunteers, which many high school clubs and university students joined the effort • Impressed by each others’ projects, the concept of students’ conference gradually matures
share their works and insights; a summit, where clubs and societies can gather and meet new friends; a community, where newcomers may be enlightened through their journey toward IT world
up without knowing each other; more than a hundred students introduced themselves and joined the Facebook group discussion; website launched a day after; logo and mascot proposed on the following day.
To spread and support student communities, • To promote FLOSS technologies and belief, • To impact the education system, saving future students from misery and pain.
meetup • discussion records are publicly available for community members • Quotes and punchlines welcomed • Release early, release often • Bad communications cost