Chih-Wei Huang

Chih-Wei Huang
Born November 20, 1970(1970-11-20)
Taipei
Residence 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:

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]
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]
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:

He talked about how to develop a VoIP business by open source model.
He talked about his free software concepts, the experiences of CLE development, and how to combine free software and business model.

See also

References

  1. ^ Famous Linux contributors in Greater China (中國 Linux 的傑出人物)
  2. ^ The list of first members of SLAT Council
  3. ^ The list of second members of SLAT Council
  4. ^ Chinese Linux Documentation Project
  5. ^ 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)
  6. ^ 中文延伸套件使用指南 for CLE v0.9p1 ISBN 957-30701-0-3
  7. ^ GnuGK Paper for ICOS 2003
  8. ^ 2003 中華民國軟體自由協會軟體競賽得獎名單
  9. ^ KDE SVN account

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