OSDC Taiwan

I spent this last weekend in Taipei, Taiwan attending the Open Source Developers Conference there. By rough count I estimate there were 200 some people attending. The conference included two tracks of sessions for two days. Perl talks took the majority of slots with presentations by Audrey Tang” (developer of pugs ), Ingy döt Net (developer of kwiki ), and clkao (author of svk ) to name a few. Seth Spitzer from Mozilla talked about Firefox 3.0, and I spoke about open source communities and the Apache Incubator.

Taiwan has an impressive open source community. Perl is strongly represented. The OSDC Taiwan event intentionally followed the YAPC::Asia in Tokoyo. The Mozilla Taiwan community is also very active. And I found out from Ping Yeh (co-founder of the Taipei Open Source Users Group ) that there’s a strong FreeBSD community in Hsinchu.

All in all, I had a great time and met some great people. It’s just too bad I could only stay for the weekend. It’s always nice to go back to Taiwan.