Strong Line-up of Industry Speakers for the OS Summit Asia 2007

Hong Kong S.A.R

The inaugural five-day OS Summit Asia 2007 conference is the first time Hong Kong and China have played host to such a large open source community gathering.

With open source software (OSS) rapidly growing in popularity in the region, this community summit, the first joint conference between The Apache Software Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation, is expected to be a vibrant event, encouraging a lively exchange of ideas between all those involved in OSS, including developers, vendors and users.

Key speakers include:

Li Gong: The Open Source Spirit and the Future of China's Internet

Li Gong is Chairman and CEO of Mozilla Online Ltd, a China-based subsidiary of the Mozilla Corporation. He has worked as Managing Director of MSN Technologies, the China unit of the worldwide business group MSN at Microsoft, Chief Java Security Architect of Sun Microsystems and founding Co-President of Mozilla China Foundation. Li was named one of the 2003 China New Economy People by China Internet Weekly and Sina, and received the China Open Source Movement Leadership Award in 2003 given by CCID and the China Software Industry Association.

Dafan Yang: Data Tools Platform (DTP) enablement training

Dafan Yang is a software engineer at Sybase's research and development centre in Shanghai. Dafan has worked for more than two years on the Database Development Tooling project, a core part of Sybase's Eclipse-based WorkSpace(R) product. He has previously spoken at EclipseCon 2007 about the Eclipse DTP (Data Tools Platform).

Brian Behlendorf: 10 Things You Might Not Know About Open Source

Brian Behlendorf is a founding member of the Apache Software Foundation. Brian also was a founder of CollabNet Inc where he served as CTO and still acts as a board member and advisor. Brian is on the board of the Mozilla Foundation.

Qiu-xia Zhang: Make Your Own EMF Persistence

Qiu-xia Zhang is a software engineer on the PowerDesigner Shanghai team at Sybase. She participates in the development and testing of O/R mapping including Hibernate, ADO.Net, and PowerDesigner Java API based on EMF.

Jeff McAffer: Eclipse, Equinox and OSGi

Jeff McAffer leads the Eclipse Equinox OSGi, RCP and Orbit teams and is a senior technical staff member with IBM Rational. He is one of the architects of the Eclipse Platform and a co-author of publication The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (Addison-Wesley).

Brett Porter: Apache Maven Best Practices

Brett Porter is a member of the Apache Software Foundation, serving on various project management committees including Apache Maven since 2003. He is the vice president of engineering and co-founder of DevZuz, and is co-author of the book "Better Builds with Maven".

Mike Milinkovich: The Eclipse Open Innovation Network

Mike Milinkovich is the executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. In the past, he has held key management positions with Oracle, WebGain, The Object People, and Object Technology International Inc.

J Aaron Farr: Open Source in China Keynote Panel

J Aaron Farr currently serves on the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) board of directors and as the ASF's treasurer. He has contributed to the Avalon, Excalibur, Incubator and Labs projects. After developing J2EE and Eclipse RCP software for Sony Electronics and Siemens, he founded The Jade Tower Corporation.

Jervis Liu and Johnson Ma: Distributed Agile Development

Jervis Liu is an active proponent of the Apache CXF project. Johnson Ma performs the same role for the Eclipse STP project. They both work at the IONA Technologies' research and development centre in Beijing.

Zak Greant: The Age of Literate Machines: A Visionary Look at Open Source

Zak Greant is a technical evangelist, author and programmer. He is founder and chief strategist of Foo Associates.

Paul Fremantle: Quickstart Apache Synapse: Adding service mediation to your network

Paul Fremantle is vice president of technical sales at WSO2, where he works on open source projects for Apache, including the Apache Synapse and Incubator projects. He has contributed to Apache since the first Apache SOAP project.

Greg Stein: Why Google Likes the Apache License

Greg Stein is the Uber Tech Lead/Manager at Google, working on their open source efforts and is chairman of the Apache Software Foundation. Prior to that, Stein was a director of engineering at CollabNet, a development manager at Microsoft and co-founder of eShop, which was acquired by Microsoft.

About OS Summit Asia

OS Summit Asia is produced by OS Summit LLC and supported by The Apache Software Foundation and the Eclipse Foundation. It is Asia's first event dedicated to the "Open Source Community in Action". OS Summit Asia 2007 will be held in Hong Kong's Cyberport IT development zone on November 26th - 30th 2007. More details at www.ossummit.com Follow OS Summit Asia at www.twitter.com/ossummit.

Apache Software Foundation

The Apache Software Foundation provides organizational, legal, and financial support for a broad range of Open Source software projects. The Foundation provides an established framework for intellectual property and financial contributions that simultaneously limits contributors potential legal exposure. Through a collaborative and meritocratic development process, Apache projects deliver enterprise-grade, freely available software products that attract large communities of users.

www.apache.org

Eclipse Foundation

Eclipse is an Open Source community, whose projects are focused on building an open development platform comprised of extensible frameworks, tools and runtimes for building, deploying and managing software across the lifecycle. The Eclipse Foundation is a not-for-profit, member supported corporation that hosts the Eclipse projects and helps cultivate both an Open Source community and an ecosystem of complementary products and services. The foundation was formed in 2001 by a group of industry leaders including IBM, Borland, Red Hat and SuSe.
www.eclipse.org

Source: Business Wire (Business Wire India)

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