With the help of Geoffrey Lee, we know that Mr. Andrew Tridgell, the creator of Samba, would visit Hong Kong during mid-march 2004. HKLUG is glad to invite Andrew to help for 2 seminars. The 2nd seminar was held at March 18th 2004 20:00 to 22:00. And the topic is "OSS development with Samba/rsync project"

During the seminar, Andrew share his experience on Open-Source Software development. Beside Samba, rsync is also another Andrew's famous baby. It has been used by million people to synchronise files and directory across the Internet. Andrew also discuss some problem on open -source software development with us. He stated that they can't sure if Samba support Asian language well because there is no asian in Samba team. (That why Andrew establish SambaHK during this trip) After some discussion, we concluded few reason why few Hong Kong involved in Open Source project:

• The working hour of Hong Kong people is long.
• Chinese is so "polite" that can't accept the discussion style of focusing on the task but not focusing on person of foreigner.
• Chinese don't like to share knowledge.

Undoubtfully, HKLUG is try to share the knowledge of open source software since 7 years ago. And we will try hard and our best to continue and wish to have more and more support.

We had take some photos of that seminar.

Andrew is so kind and also give another seminar on the same day.

• photos
• Words after Samba Talk - by Dom

Agenda

About the Speakers

About Mr. Andrew Tridgell

Andrew Tridgell is creater of Samba and a member of Samba team, he also developed winbind and rsync project. He have written a number of pieces of GPL software over years. He is a researcher at the IBM Almaden Research Center, working remotely from Canberra, Australia. He is currently working on network and distributed filesystems.