- Chih-Wei Huang
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Chih-Wei Huang Born November 20, 1970
TaipeiResidence Taipei, Taiwan Nationality Taiwan, R.O.C. Occupation Programmer Website http://cwhuang.info/ Chih-Wei Huang (黃志偉), a free software developer and promoter lives in Taiwan, is famous for his works on the VoIP and internationalization and localization fields in Greater China.[1] The ID he usually used is cwhuang.
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Profile
He got a bachelor's degree in the physics department of National Taiwan University(NTU) in 1993, and a master's degree in the electrical engineering department of NTU in 2000.
He worked as a director in Top Technology Inc., the CTO of Citron Network Inc., and a project manager of Tecom Inc. Now he is a senior researcher of Core Technology Center in ASUSTeck Computer Inc.
He is one of the start members of Software Liberty Association of Taiwan (SLAT), and the first[2] and second[3] members of the SLAT Council.
Free software development
He is known as the starter and contributor of these free software projects:
- Starter and coordinator of Chinese Linux Documentation Project (CLDP)
- He wrote the Linux Chinese HOWTO, and translate HOWTO Index, Linux META-FAQ, Serial HOWTO, DNS HOWTO, Linux Information SHEET, Java-CGI HOWTO, IP Masquerade mini-HOWTO and so on. He developed a utility named SGMLtools Chinese Kits to solve the Chinese processing issues of SGML.[4]
- Second coordinator of Chinese Linux Extensions (CLE)
- He was a developer of CLE since v0.7, and became the coordinator[5] of CLE v0.9. He pushed the Chinese localization for KDE, GNOME, Abiword. He co-worked with Yuan-Chung Cheng, Tung-Han Hsieh to push ARPHIC Inc. to release four Chinese truetype fonts for the free software community under Arphic Public License. He also wrote a book for CLE with others.[6]
- Core Developer of GNU Gatekeeper
- He developed many new features like thread-safed runtime tables, neighbors and authentication modules, full H.323 proxy and the Citron's NAT technology. He wrote the first version of English and Chinese manual for GnuGK.[7] He won the first prize of Open Source Contest Taiwan in 2003.[8]
- He helps to translate the PO files and fixes bugs related to Chinese.
- Bugs report and fix.
- A way to leverage the ASUS Eee PC and the power of the free software community.
- Aimed to provide a complete solution for Android at x86 platform. Eee PC、VirtualBox、QEMU are tested OK.
Interviews
Here are some Chinese interviews of Chih-Wei Huang:
- 2003, Open Source Software Foundry The experiences of free software development from GNU GateKeeper
- He talked about how to develop a VoIP business by open source model.
- 2004, Taiwan.CNET, A special report for seeking the power of free software in Taiwan - An interview of Chih-Wei Huang
- He talked about his free software concepts, the experiences of CLE development, and how to combine free software and business model.
See also
- GNU Gatekeeper Project
References
- ^ Famous Linux contributors in Greater China (中國 Linux 的傑出人物)
- ^ The list of first members of SLAT Council
- ^ The list of second members of SLAT Council
- ^ Chinese Linux Documentation Project
- ^ Taiwan.CNET A special report for seeking the power of free software in Taiwan (尋找台灣自由軟體力量專題報導)
- ^ 中文延伸套件使用指南 for CLE v0.9p1 ISBN 957-30701-0-3
- ^ GnuGK Paper for ICOS 2003
- ^ 2003 中華民國軟體自由協會軟體競賽得獎名單
- ^ KDE SVN account
External links
Categories:- 1970 births
- Free software programmers
- Taiwanese computer programmers
- Living people
- People from Taipei
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