rejon is Jon Phillips.

I am working hard and trying to stay in and on regimen right now knocking off the backlog, killing yer tasks you wondering about, making code, projects, and more before heading off to CNBloggerCon in Guangzhou this weekend!

Here is the synposis of my talk discussion tomorrow night in Beijing, which is more like a discussion over something I’ve been thinking about much and trying to remember exactly why I am doing all this source sharing and contributing. Its not quite so existenstial — ok, maybe it is! Regardless, I want to hang out, meet more people in Beijing, have some drinks, and talk about the following:

Why Share Your Source?: High Priority Free Software and Culture Projects
Why do thousands of people around the world work tirelessly, oftentimes unpaid, hours contributing software and content to the world through free/libre and open source (FLOSS) projects? How is that seconds after Obama is elected, his Wikipedia entry is updated freely by a swarm of volunteers around the world?

This presentation examines the rationale beyond “feel good magic” of why people contribute time freely in the FLOSS and free culture movements. Jon Phillips discusses the reasoning behind contributing to large scale collaborative projects by first discussing his own past and current involvements with Creative Commons, Open Clip Art Library, Open Font Library and Inkscape in order to open up discussion about how and why people contribute to FLOSS and free culture projects. The presentation closes with a discussion about the highest priority free software and cultural projects important for the world and china.

The ultimate goal for the presentation is to have a discussion with all participants in order to examine why we contribute and what we feel the highest priority projects are for ourselves, china and the world.

Time: 7pm
Date: Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Location: Traktirr Russian Restaurant, 5-15 DonZhiMen NeiDaJie,DongZhiMen west of DongZhiMen subway
Phone: 8407-8158
Map: here

I have a love/hate relationship with Linux User Groups as in mostly hate from bad experiences that turned me off from Linux for maybe a good 2 years when I first started grad school back in 2001. Luckily I met Bryce from Inkscape and all the other Inkscapers helped change that bad feeling I got that all Linux people were arrogant.

After speaking at Gnome.Asia (yes, I still updated slides!!!), which the Beijing Linux Users Group setup and ran, I have the utmost respect for these guys and the cool projects they are working on. Trust me, its more than how they get free beer at all their events and stay out all night on most of their meetings — and I will not be swayed from my regimen my friends