Current Status of Northeast Asia Open Source Software Promotion Forum

Doo-Hyun Kim: School of Internet and Multimedia Engineering, Konkuk University, Seoul 143-701, Korea. (TEL) +82-2-2049-6044 (FAX) +82-2-2049-6044 (E-Mail) doohyun@konkuk.ac.kr (URL) http://konkuk.ac.kr/~doohyun

Abstract

For the purpose of consolidating the cooperation and development of Open Source Software (OSS) in the region of Northeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea(CJK) decided to exchange information of OSS, share each other’s research achievement and jointly commit themselves to the development of OSS-based software such as Linux. The Director Generals of CJK have reached such consensus and signed on the Memorandum at Beijing, Apr. 2004, and agreed upon the 10 cooperation plans such as 1) Create favorable policy environment for the development and utilization of OSS, especially Linux, 2) Cooperate on the standardization of Linux, character set, document exchange format, etc. and strengthen the support of Linux to the language of China, Japan, and Korea, 3) Promote research and development, commercialization and deployment of desktop Linux, server Linux and office software for Linux in China, Japan, and Korea, and so on. In this presentation, the details of the cooperation plans, organization and Working Group activities of CJK OSS Promotion Forum will be introduced

Short Biography

Doo-Hyun Kim: Doo-Hyun Kim is an Assistant Professor in the School of Internet and Multimedia Engineering at Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea. His current research interests are in distributed multimedia middleware, multimedia collaboration, real-time distributed object computing, embedded systems.

Before he joined the faculty of Seoul National University in 2004, he was a Principal Research Staff in the Embedded Software Division, ETRI from 1987 to 2003 and an International Fellow at the SRI International from 1991 to 1993. He received a BS degree from the Department of Computer Engineering, Seoul National University, in 1985; an MS degree from the Department of Computer Science, KAIST, in 1987; and a Ph.D degree from the Department of Computer Science, KAIST, in 2003. He is currently the executive secretary of WG2, Korea OSS Promotion Forum.