Chih-Wei Huang

Chih-Wei Huang
Chih-Wei Huang
Born	November 20, 1970 (age 53); Taipei, Taiwan
Nationality	Taiwan (ROC)
Occupation	Programmer
Website	cwhuang.info at the Wayback Machine (archived 2009-08-14)

Chih-Wei Huang (黃志偉) is a developer and promoter of free software who lives in Taiwan. He is famous for his work in the VoIP and internationalization and localization fields in Greater China.^[1] The user name he usually uses is cwhuang.^[2]

Profile edit

Huang graduated from National Taiwan University(NTU) in 1993, with a bachelor's degree in physics, 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. Huang currently works as a senior researcher of Core Technology Center in ASUSTeK Computer Inc. He is one of the start members of Software Liberty Association of Taiwan (SLAT), and the first^[3] and second^[4] members of the SLAT Council.

Free software development edit

Chih-Wei Huang is the founder and coordinator of the Chinese Linux Documentation Project (CLDP). He wrote the Linux Chinese HOWTO, and translated the HOWTO Index, Linux Meta-FAQ, Serial HOWTO, DNS HOWTO, Linux Information Sheet, Java-CGI HOWTO, IP Masquerade mini-HOWTO and so on. He developed the SGMLtools Chinese Kits to solve the Chinese processing issues of SGML.^[5]

He is also the second coordinator to the Chinese Linux Extensions (CLE). He has been a developer of CLE since v0.7 and became the coordinator^[6] of CLE v0.9. He pushed Chinese localization in KDE, GNOME and Abiword. He worked alongside Yuan-Chung Cheng and Tung-Han Hsieh to push Arphic Technology to release four Chinese TrueType fonts for the free software community under the Arphic Public License. He also wrote a book for CLE with others.^[7]

As Core Developer of GNU Gatekeeper (from 2001 to 2003), he developed new features like thread-safe runtime tables, neighbors and authentication modules, a full H.323 proxy and Citron's NAT technology. He wrote the first version of the English and Chinese manual for GnuGK.^[8] He won the first prize of Open Source Contest Taiwan in 2003.^[9]

He serves as a committer to KDE and GNOME,^[10] where he helps to translate .po files and fixes bugs related to Chinese. He is a contributor to pyDict, OpenH323, Asterisk, GStreamer etc. He works on a way to leverage the ASUS Eee PC with the power of the free software community^[11]^[vague] and aims to provide a complete solution for Android on x86 platform. The Eee PC, VirtualBox, and QEMU are tested OK.^[12]^{[clarification needed]}

Chih-Wei Huang and Yi Sun started the Android-x86 Open Source Project in 2009. The project aims to bring Android to the x86 platform.

Interviews edit

Here are some Chinese interviews of Chih-Wei Huang:

2003, Open Source Software Foundry The experiences of free software development from GNU GateKeeper

He talked about how to develop a VoIP business by open source model.

2004, Taiwan.CNET, A special report for seeking the power of free software in Taiwan - An interview of Chih-Wei Huang

He talked about his free software concepts, the experiences of CLE development, and how to combine free software and business model.

References edit

^ "中国Linux的杰出人物". blog.csdn.net (in Chinese). 2005-09-29. Retrieved 2024-02-19.
^ "Android-x86 - Porting Android to x86". www.android-x86.org. Retrieved 2016-10-05. Current project maintainer is Chih-Wei Huang (cwhuang@xxxx.org)
^ The list of first members of SLAT Council Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ The list of second members of SLAT Council Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^ Chinese Linux Documentation Project Archived January 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ "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)". Archived from the original on 2008-06-06. Retrieved 2009-02-05.
^ 中文延伸套件使用指南 for CLE^{[permanent dead link]} v0.9p1 ISBN 957-30701-0-3
^ GnuGK Paper for ICOS 2003 Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
^ 2003 中華民國軟體自由協會軟體競賽得獎名單
^ KDE SVN account
^ EeeCommunity @ SourceForge
^ *Android-x86 @ Google code

External links edit

Chinese Linux Documentation Project at the Wayback Machine (archived 2009-01-20)
[ Chinese Linux Extensions Project]
The GNU Gatekeeper
[ The open source movement in Taiwan (台灣的開放源碼運動)]
[ Eee PC, Android, Linux and Open Source - Cwhuang's blog ]
[ Linux @ NTU]

[1] "中国Linux的杰出人物". blog.csdn.net (in Chinese). 2005-09-29. Retrieved 2024-02-19.

[2] "Android-x86 - Porting Android to x86". www.android-x86.org. Retrieved 2016-10-05. Current project maintainer is Chih-Wei Huang (cwhuang@xxxx.org)

[3] The list of first members of SLAT Council Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

[4] The list of second members of SLAT Council Archived July 27, 2011, at the Wayback Machine

[5] Chinese Linux Documentation Project Archived January 20, 2009, at the Wayback Machine

[6] "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)". Archived from the original on 2008-06-06. Retrieved 2009-02-05.

[7] 中文延伸套件使用指南 for CLE^{[permanent dead link]} v0.9p1 ISBN 957-30701-0-3

[8] GnuGK Paper for ICOS 2003 Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine

[9] 2003 中華民國軟體自由協會軟體競賽得獎名單

[10] KDE SVN account

[11] EeeCommunity @ SourceForge

[12] *Android-x86 @ Google code

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