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Rise! How and why we form a community

Poren Chiang
October 22, 2016

Rise! How and why we form a community

2016/10/22 Keynote @ SITCON x HK 2016, City University of Hong Kong (CityU), Hong Kong.

Released under CC BY-SA 4.0 license, photo by SITCON communities.

Poren Chiang

October 22, 2016
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  1. • Senior Law student at
 National Taiwan University • Organizer

    of SITCON 2017 • Founder of NTU Open Source Community Basically these mean free labors RSChiang a.k.a. RS Photo by Daisuke1230 on Flickr, CC BY-SA 2.0
  2. What this session is about • Issues we face as

    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)
  3. How many of you have IT / Computer Science courses

    in middle school? What is it about?
  4. How many of you have IT / Computer Science courses

    in middle school? What is it about? Does your school encourage indie projects?
  5. Here’s what occurs in Taiwan • Computer courses from 3rd

    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
  6. Here’s what actually occurs in Taiwan • Computer course are

    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
  7. Here’s what actually occurs in Taiwan • Computer course are

    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
  8. • Ministry of Education in Taiwan strongly favors algorithm competitions,

    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.
  9. The origin of SITCON • In 2012, IT conferences in

    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
  10. SITCON is about a stage, where tech wizards could freely

    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
  11. Within two days, twelve students gathered for the first meet

    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.
  12. – joked Rifur, Vice Organizer of SITCON 2013 “We founded

    SITCON community 
 just in case you have no friends
 to eat late-night snacks together while discussing geeky stuff.”
  13. SITCON aims • To encourage indie projects and researches, •

    To spread and support student communities, • To promote FLOSS technologies and belief, • To impact the education system, saving future students from misery and pain.
  14. Grass-root transparency • walk-ins are encouraged for all sorts of

    meetup • discussion records are publicly available for community members • Quotes and punchlines welcomed • Release early, release often • Bad communications cost
  15. Extending influence • SITCON Conference • HackGen Hackathon • SITCON

    Camp • The Open Source Way Workshop • SITCON Hour of Code • Regular meetups
  16. • 岄玖 Taipei (Sunday)× NTUOSC • ໘瑼 Taoyuan (Tuesday) ×

    YZU ITAC • 碝ᒓ Hsinchu (Monday) × NCTU CCCA • 舏礣 Miaoli (Wednesday)× NUU CSIE • 岄Ӿ Taichung (Saturday) • 襇຋ Yunlin (Sunday) • 岄ܖ Tainan (Monday) × NCKU C4Labs • ṛᵜ Kaoshiung (Saturday) • 臺荳 Hualien (Saturday) × SOSCET Regular meetups 1IPUPCZ.JOJTUSZPG'PSFJHO"BJST 5BJXBO